This Gene Simmons can rock your world and save your life

EVERETT — For $50,000, the real Gene Simmons will come to your house and party with your friends.

Or you can get this Gene Simmons impersonator for $200 — and he can save your life.

What’s up with that?

It’s the alter ego of Jack Murrin III, 47, a longtime Everett firefighter-medic with short hair and a wide smile. Off the job, he’s a blood-spitting rendition of the ’70s KISS frontman known for demonic antics.

Murrin rocks the look with a spiked vest atop his exposed washboard abs, bat arm wings and a blingy codpiece. A black crimped wig frames his painted face and he’s got a serpent tongue that rivals the “Demon” himself.

It started as a Halloween costume seven years ago … and kept going.

He dresses up as Gene Simmons for contests, parties, concerts and to officiate at weddings.

“I have fun doing it and it makes people laugh,” Murrin said. “Other than that, I’m just a regular guy.”

Yeah, right. Regular guys spend an hour putting on makeup then stomp around in 12-inch silver dragon boots?

“I typically don’t just put on the costume and then strut around town,” Murrin said. “But any reason to put on a costume is a good reason for me.”

Jack of all trades

Gene Simmons is a notorious self-promoter who has plastered the KISS name on everything from pacifiers to caskets. He’s currently peddling “The Vault,” a box set of his solo material for $2,000 — and for 50 grand more he’ll make a house call.

Murrin has placed a for-hire ad a few times on Craigslist. That’s it.

Unlike Simmons, Murrin said he’s shy in real life. “When I have the costume on it is easy to talk to people,” he said.

He has been married to his Marysville High School sweetheart, Karen, for 27 years. They raised their children, Alisha, 25, and Jack IV, 22, in Arlington before a downsizing move to north Everett a year ago.