Gene Simmons: 'I’m on the Side of Don Sterling'

Kiss vocalist-bassist Gene Simmons voiced his support of controversial Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, whose private, racist comments got him banned from the NBA for life earlier this year, in a Wall Street Journal interview. Additionally, he said he was on "Mel Gibson's side," when it came to getting flack for making questionable comments in private conversation. Although he did call Sterling "heinous," Simmons said that the difference between the Clippers owner and others who have made racist rants in private is that Sterling was caught.

"Everybody [says] jokes that are off- color, or when they're drunk...He was......