I didn’t know I needed a 2 and a half hour video essay of a catboy vtuber going over the history of my favorite band. But here it is. And I’m here for it.
I don’t even like (or dislike) KISS and I found this fascinating - such an in-depth study of a downward spiral, well put together, great clips and quotes and a studied, well spoken narrative. This is the stuff that makes TH-cam awesome
I just loved the fact that Ace's solo album was a huge hit. But that's what happens when your other band mates 'control freaks' choke a key core member of Kiss. Gene & Paul's biggest mistakes was constantly choosing their own songs for final cut on Kiss songs. Ace often lifts up other classic rock songs. His version of Do Ya by ELO is amazing. The way Paul just ignores Ace's solo album to me says it all.
I'm just being pedantic here, don't mind me - ELO was a spinoff band of The Move, who recorded Do Ya before re-recording it as ELO. Do Ya is actually a Move cover, Ace was a Move fan. Check em out!! 👍🏻
And who owns all the songs to that solo album KISS INC because Ace sold everything back songs makeup its all in the Kiss INC trademark catalog .Also brags how he QUIT twice then always wants back in when broke and bankrupt.
The thing you are all overlooking is, Paul and Gene were terrible delusional narcissistic greedy jealous assholes!!! Peter and Ace were amazing and the real talent and heart and soul of the original lineup, and treated like stepchildren!!! Disgusting!!! Team Peter and Ace always
Excellent work, Catboy. Another reminder that Ace's solo album was not only the best of the bunch by a mile, but still holds up to this day as a ferocious, blistering, hook-laden hard rock album that still sounds fresh and exciting 44 years later.
Very true. I still listen to the album in its entirety every now and then on Spotify and it's still fresh and exciting. Had a debate a few weeks ago with a couple of Gene fans as to whose solo album was the best. Being Gene fans, of course they HATE Ace so they rated his as the WORST of the bunch. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I find most of Gene's LAUGHABLY bad. I mean..." When You Wish Upon A Star"...r u friggin kidding me lol
wtf!!! shame on you, youtube! after all the kiss footage and content i've consumed - what took you so long to recommend this to me!! aarrrgg!!!! this is great. as a 53 year old teenager i can't tell you how much i enjoyed this. some facts this old kiss fan never knew, and some amazing pics i've never seen. this was fantastic - thanks for doing it! can't wait to dig more into what you've done.
Yeah i agree as a ex- Kiss fan that actually seen these guys back in 1976 live this vid was very well done. By 78 i was getting fed up with them. once i heard Dynasty i was no longer a fan. good thing because the very next record was even worse! 🤣
I agree, definitely well worth the time. This guy did a great job on his research. And he does a good job of walking the line between being a fan and a critic.
This is an awesome documentary. I'm a lifelong KISS Freak. I got to see them in 1979 just months before Peter left the band. Thank You for making this video. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest. Take care and God Bless You!
Of all the Kiss related videos I've viewed on this Tube of You, I find that this one video of yours has managed to be the only one to hold my attention for more than an hour... this thing held me captive throughout the entire 2+ hours... I even went back to the part about Ace's solo album and to the BTS portion of "...Phantom of the Park". Great compilation of facts and opinions. Great voice and delivery. Color me entertained. From a Kiss fan from way back, I applaud you and I feverishly await part two and three.
Nice job. Very interesting and insightful doc. Gene Simmons' solo album is a masterpiece in the context of when it was recorded and released. I still listen to it regularly. One of my favorite KISS albums. I also liked The Elder so...a lot after really rediscovering and giving it several spins decades after it's infamous creation. Looking forward to continuing to listen to your very professional documentary. Thanks for the effort.
Been a kiss fan for 4 years. They were the band that really got me into music. I haven't finished the video yet, but I like it a lot so far. You should go into depth on the movie Detroit Rock City in one of the next two parts! I haven't seen many people talk about it and it's in my top 5 favorite films. keep up the great work man! 🤘🤘🤘
@@Mr.Timwell that's so cool KISS is your gateway band. I've seen a few TH-camrs around your age say the same thing. I was born in '71 but KISS wasn't a band to me when I was a kid they were more like superheroes. When Quiet Riot came out with Metal Health that's what opend the door for me but Motley Crue blew the hinges off! KISS was there always and I liked some stuff (I distinctly remember the creatures album cover) I really got back into KISS when REVENGE came out and was really looking forward to the next album then KISS UNPLUGGED happened and the rest is KISSTORY! Although I do like CARNIVAL OF SOULS more than most it seems. I saw KISS for the first time on the reunion tour in Orlando Florida then at the first farewell tour back to back nights Orlando and Tampa I put Peter's makeup on at Tampa! 🤘🤘
@@chrisbooth478 that's epic as hell man. I wish I saw the original 4 play. I did see them twice, once in my town in 2019, and in 2021 in DETROIT ROCK CITY itself! I also caught Ace Frehley at the last second play a few songs as he opened for Alice Cooper, also in Detroit. Although 2021 wasn't a good year, those two concerts made me a bit better. Keep rockin Kiss soldier 😎🤘
@@Mr.Timwell that's awesome that Kiss still have younger fans finding them ! I got into them in 1980 as a 5 year old Aussie kid , Kiss as you probably know by now we're HUGE in Australia in 1980. It was Beatle -mania for my generation. Good music will always rise up and be celebrated regardless of when it came out.
KISS are my favorite band and I've been a lifelong fan since I listened to God of Thunder on the Halloween (2007) soundtrack. I loved your video and it helped fill in some holes I had in regards to some parts of KISStory. I've subbed to your channel. Thank you, kind stranger.
I learned a lot and laughed a lot, thanks for all the hard work. Looking forward to the next installment. (Why can't 2 hour+ movies breeze by this quickly & enjoyably? 🤔)
I saw them in high school when they toured for Hot in the Shade. They had this cool sphinx thing on stage. The opening acts were Slaughter and a forgotten band called Little Ceaser . Even without makeup they still put on a good show
Great job man. Hearing you speak and flesh out all these details brings me back (as I’m sure it does for the majority of listeners) to being a kid when all this was happening with such a different perspective. I don’t know what it is about this band but they’re a guilty pleasure. They sure knew how to capitalize on their commercial success….and Paul and Gene are still doing it. Not to sound pretentious, but keeping my attention was only possible because of the great job you do. I love classic rock, so keep them coming. Be great if you could do one about Judas Priest.
The blood that was supposed to be printed in the first issue of the KISS comic didnt end up there! There was some delay in printing and the blood-ink ended up in an issue of Sports Illustrated if I remember correctly 😂
good luck in grad school mate im 56 playing gtrs for 36 years this brings back fond memories ive met the band nice dudes when it came to ace i was speechless awesome guitarist alive came exit stage left came ct at budokhan came 3 heavy bangers right there mate i know 56 isnt to old to love music lmfdao stay safe much love ace rules
The second time I made a mistake watching one of these 2+ hour deep dives at 2am. May as well make a cup of hot tea- I’m gonna be up for a while…. These are SO GOOD.
This is one of the most comprehensive Kiss retrospects I've seen, I'm an OG Kiss fan and seen just about everything, super good and entertaining, your sense of humor is top notch, the Peter Criss solo spot especially, I did subscribe and like and all that shit, u set the bar high, keep it up, Rock On!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘🤘
Enjoyed the Frehley solo album review. It's just really, really great!! 237th thumbs up from me. Peace out from the Southern Tip of Vancouver Island, B.C. CANADA
Two and a half hour's it's going to take a while but I will watch it. So far I'm very impressed, the cat boy thing had me scratching my head then you put him in Peter's makeup so that was cool. 👍👍🤘🤘✌
Very interesting video... thanks for making this. I was about 10 at that time. I had become a Kiss fan when my older sisters gave me their Alive album. My friends and I were big Kiss fans, but I do remember the increasing disappointment with their music around 1978+. My best friend and I bought the solo albums (he bought Ace's and I bought Gene's). We didn't really like them all that much and never bought Paul's or Peter's. I can also remember a friend was really unhappy with Double Platinum as it was just re-releases so I never bought that one. We were confused and embarrassed by the Kiss movie, we didn't mind Dynasty but were disappointed in Unmasked. Unmasked was the last Kiss album I ever bought and moved on to metal and British new wave in the early 80s. I still love Kiss's early stuff. Anyway, thanks for video... going to watch the rest now. Edit: people might find this amusing but four albums I distinctly remember owning and listening to a lot at this time was Kiss - Alive, Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan, Boney M - Nightflight to Venus, and Village People - Macho Man. LOL The 70s had such great music!
Double Platinum was the first album I ever purchased new. It had all been used and barters before that. Still happy with the purchase. Really looking forward to episodes 2 and 3.
I was 10 in 1978 and I was a hard core GIRL Kiss Fan.. My mum did my Peter Criss make up one Halloween and she did a great job!. I was in the KISS Army. I had a floor to ceiling poster of their 1976 Bicentennial poster with them dressed up as Revolutionary soldiers. Who remembers that one!??? I guess I was a freak.
Had that Kiss guitar when I was 3, there's a picture somewhere I'd love to find. They were like Marvel superheroes then. I liked Kiss, but I also liked Batman and Star Wars. They were in that category for the little kids like me. I knew they were a band but I had no concept of their music at all, not till I was a teenager.
Finally, I watched this great essay in full. I gotta say, now when Kiss is over and on the eve of upcoming hologram thing the plot about animatronics in Kiss Meets Phantom feels meta
Dude both of this episode & the return of KISS videos, are awesome great job. If you can do more kiss related work, that be great. Keep up the good work. P. S. Even episodes of priest or maiden or even the early glam/dolls,Cooper ect. Video would be cool. Hope all is well.
Actually, the I Love it Loud video was played on MTV a lot for a few weeks. I saw it. Creators didn’t sell well, but the news was spreading that Kiss were heavy again and had a good album. I remember people talking about it.
@@reziorenji Yes. And people were a bit hesitant after the last three years. I didn’t buy COTN. Someone loaned it to me. So, while people were listening, and seeing the video, I don’t recall too many people buying the album. But there was a definite buzz that KISS was “kiss again”. That’s partly why Lick it Up did so well. Obviously taking off the makeup was a big part of that, but the awareness of COTN being a great album helped set that up. If it weren’t for COTN I wouldn’t have noticed that KISS took off the makeup.
Makeup and marketing go only so far. Yet: they packaged a slick product, recruited a loyal Army, worked a Kabuki drag, sold themselves for comics and merchandise. A middle-class success story. I never knew anyone in my circle of eclectic rockers who took them seriously. They did crank the amps up, though. Video doc is tops.
That whole Knights In Satan's Service thing. Gah! My father was a preacher, so I wasn't allowed to listening to KISS, or buy their records, or go and see them when they came to Australia. I had an older friend, who lived up the street, and he had their albums, and he got dressed up as Peter Criss and went and saw them. I'd never been so jealous before in my life! I did get to see them, years later, with Ace, the first time they did a last tour, so that was cool. The funny thing was that I was allowed to listen to Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, which shows you how silly the whole devil worship thing was...
The Dolls are the greatest rock and roll band to have ever graced this earth. Jerry Nolan. Johnny Thunders. David Johansen. Syl Sylvain. Even Arthur Kane. Pure excellence.
I was born in 84 and didn't really get into music until 96-97 and then really started once i started playing bass. .my parents were big kiss fans, and i hated classic rock but again once I started my journey into bass my dad told me to listen to Paul McCartney, Gene Simmons, John Paul Jones and Geddy Lee. Past few years taking deep dives myself into my favorite artists i have found that kiss's music from the 1st 3 records is really good vut the guys are children always he said she said BS LOL, I am glad that Peter seems to just stay out of the spotlight.. Would be nice if the guys could get along and truly accept each other and what they accomplished together... The drama ruins it
Ace was the only genuine gritty true to his guns rocker in the band. His solo album proves that. Just sad that Kiss didn't move towards a heavier sound from 78 onwards and instead steered towards a lighter sound. Ace did not want that but he has no choice.
I always dug their first album cover make-up and clothes. I think it would’ve been cool even if they had done that in 78 just as a cool wtf look. I love aces silver hair 🤘🏻
I completed part one. Just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work on this, this was fascinating, informative, very well researched, and explains a lot of what went on in a direct way. Thoughts? Well, continuing on with Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons OWNING their mistakes, and responsibility for what followed, I rant on. AND THAT'S WHERE THEY FELL. And the drug they're both in denial they're addicted to, MONEY, is what compelled them to take an image that could be seen as silly (if not for Gene trying to be evil incarnate), be SMART enough to turn that into PERSONAS, ICONS, EFFIGIES, symbolising different "earthly and interdimensional aspects", and BRANDING that to a degree that their merchandising alone was a cashcow that would not stop shitting. They made SO MUCH MONEY from merchandising. More than from their song publishing. Their songs were SECONDARY to that branding. And all of a sudden they wanted to be seen as serious musicians in clown makeup. Ace Frehley and Peter Criss have no such agendas. They know eggsacklee what they look like, how they're dressed. They have no illusions about it. And they are fine with it. But serious about it??? You must be joking. How can you be serious about this. I can't even stand up straight sometimes in 7 inch high heels on stage. I fall down ffs!!!! Serious? About this?? This is a gig, man. This is an act. But I LOVE MUSIC SO MUCH I'll do ANYTHING to play it, and have that be what I do THE REST OF MY LIFE. That's how much I love this guitar, these drums, this whole thing. That's who PETER CRISS and ACE FREHLEY ARE. They are not pretending to be anything else but themselves. Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley on the otherhand, want to be seen as ARTISTS. And they are fooling themselves thinking they are. You can be a musician or a painter, and not be an ARTIST. You can be creative as all hell, and still not do a damn thing that says it's ART. ART got born in the caves, when the hunters came back from surviving another day, and the spiritual leader of the tribe painted on the cave walls what those hunters encountered, so that EVERYONE could go on the hunt with them. EVERYONE. This is a SHARED EXPERIENCE. You women, you children, you elderly, you wounded, you cannot go with these men where they go. You have seen that some do not come back. I am taking you there on this cave wall, with this dirt, that charcoal, my spit, or the fat of the animal our hunters brought back with them, AND I AM TAKING YOU THERE SO YOU MAY HUNT WITH THEM. AND YOU WILL LEARN WHAT IT MEANS TO SURVIVE EVERY DAY. YOU WILL KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO BE HUMAN. THIS IS ART. THIS IS WHAT ART DOES. IT TAKES YOU THERE. Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons have no clue what Art is. None. They know what success means. They know what POWER means. They know what MONEY gets. But they have NO CLUE what Art is. And they learned this from John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Art?? When your aim is to be as successful as possible, and have a swimming pool by the time you're 25, you have NO CLAIM TO BEING AN ARTIST. You are a businessman, with a tool to be used to build your palace. And whether you hang ART there on its walls, or go to your underground gallery on the weekends, YOUR CLAIMS to being an ARTIST are nil. Because you are not doing it to bring the EXPERIENCE to the tribe. You are only helping them ESCAPE the experience they're meant to be living. And you're doing it taking as much money out of their pockets as you can, because you're selling them dreams. Ace Frehley and Peter Criss. George Harrison and Ringo Starr. THESE ARE ARTISTS. THESE ARE THE TALENT MAKING THE BUSINESSMAN, THE PSEUDO-CREATOR SOUND GOOD. These are the GENUINE PEOPLE. These are YOU. The REGULAR guy and gal. They are YOU. And YOU are THEM. As soon as a Gene Simmons or a Paul Stanley wants YOU to take THEM seriously, is when YOU are going to start laughing your ass off at THEM for even thinking they can be taken seriously. AND THAT'S WHO KILLED KISS'S RUN OF SUCCESS IN 1978. Not Ace. Not Peter. They were being REAL. You took them SERIOUSLY. And maybe Peter let you down a bit, but that dude was struggling being a member of KISS, and he got lost in who the hell he was anymore. Success and Fame are not for human beings. We're not made for it. And it gets to some of them who just have a little more contact with their soul. If the soul exists. But I think it definitely does. And Peter Criss sings with SOUL. That man could be Motown if he wanted to be. So don't be so harsh on Peter. I know Paul and Gene want you to be so you have sympathy for their behaviour and actions, grabbing your money as fast as they could, while they could. But don't you forget what they do to get your sympathy. They put down the ARTIST. As if that has nothing to do with Rock and Roll. And Vini Poncia is a record labels Hangman. That dude will kill your career faster than you can say Ringo. He shows up sneakily, on a song or two of your album. The next thing you know, his name is on everything, and you watch your record sales plummet, album after album, but you keep working with him. For some insane reason. He's grinding your career to a standstill. He's helping you create albums you'll be ashamed you made, or have to defend constantly. I learned at a very early age, that if you see Vini Poncia's name on your album, The Executioner has arrived.
2:11:33 : I hate to nitpick but you were talking about Aces’ stunt double at the posted time but that was NOT the stunt double. In fact, his stunt double looked NOTHING like Ace in spite of his color. Great video! Well done and well made!
I was 8 years-old in 1978, and a *huge* Kiss-fan. Actually, the solo-albums were the beginning of me growing-out of being so in-love with the band. Ace’s album was great, but the others were one-listens.
I was about 12 when I heard that Ace was leaving Kiss. I was so distraught, I called the police in Wilton CT and asked them to go to Ace’s house and ask him to call me because I was apparently going to help fix that?! I fell asleep next to the phone, on the kitchen floor, waiting. When I was about 22, I saw Ace play at a small club in Detroit. He was drunk and kissed me! Twelve year old me was giddy. Lol
Honestly.. I want to eventually see a BIOPIC of Kiss... Eventhough it might be a trainwreck.. I would totally go and see them make a Biopic... I mean.. who is going to play the band.. etc.. I can't believe it hasn't happened already...
In sean delaney’s defense with firehouse, Kiss had this weird habit of putting similar songs next to each other on live albums(fh->hth, She->watchin you), and it made sense to have a little more differentiating firehouse and hotter than hell, especially since hotter is definitely the superior song compositionally. Everytime i hear watchin you on alive i cringe a bit because She is just heavier, and watchin you doesnt get a chance to shine on its own. So i get why sean raised the pitch a bit
I love that in the 1970s when making this film, the screenwriters were like what is a good evil bad guy name? Lets go FRENCH, Dr. Devereaux! The name is so evil as it wastes your time by having a useless "x" in it.
Excellent review. Are you going to review any of the Kiss autobiographies? I thought Peter's was the most hilarious and down to earth especially the story with the woman who dressed up just like him! Looking forward to the next 2 episodes. 👍
24:00 speaking of mixing , Am I the only one that wonders why "Killer" on COTN sounds so thin compared to the rest of that album? This vid is really fkng good so far TY
I heard Strutter ‘78 first, so it didn’t bother me - I really like it and still do. I like both versions. I didn’t even realize it was supposed to be “Disco” unlike IWMFLY which I heard years earlier when I was a kid.
As a KISS aficionado, you should know that Ace’s last name is pronounced (fray-lee) not (free-lee). That’s Paul’s pronunciation on Alive II “Ace Frehley, lead guitar!”
I don't get the whole catboy-avatar thing (probably because I'm old), but this is some of the best KISS content I've seen anywhere. The writing is well-researched and clever, without trying to be TOO clever, and the footage and editing are outstanding.
Your parents probably didn't understand why Peter Criss painted himself up as The Catman, that's pretty safe to assume right?? Same concept here maybe.I'm with you on the overall sentiment (and probably age!) though.
I am now 62 years old. We used to do Kiss concerts in abandoned buildings. I was Gene because I could blow flames using a butane lighter. It may sound lame but they would go about 6 feet high. We saw Kiss in Sudbury Ontario about this time. Cheap Trick opened for them. This was around the time of Cheap Trick's first album. No bubblegum rock back then. Pretty damn good show.
Really. I just looked up the Love Gun tour dates to see when the Sudbury date was. Is that you’re home town? I would have been too young but I can only imagine what the concert would have like. Man I would have loved it, was a huge Cheap trick fan too. Glad to hear you thought it was a good show. What was the attendance like? For some reason it’s not listed. Cheers.
@@stevejohnston8543 I'm from North Bay. One of our fathers drove us to Sudbury. We waited at the doors hours before they opened as it was general admission. We stood in front of Ace. There were about 5,000 people in attendance. It was at Sudbury arena where they shoot "Shoresy".
@@MickLoud999 Funny I’m not sure I knew Kiss was coming at the time. I remember really wishing someone would take me to see Cheap Trick, I loved them. Thanks, figured the Elgin street barn would have been packed. I know the building only too well. Been watching hockey there for around forty years. There’s a game tonight 👍🏒 My first concert was Triumph, April Wine. Then Sabbath, Maiden and Metallica to name the notable shows. I could laugh, thé Metallica show wasn’t even that well attended. Only us metal heads were over the moon. Love to go back and look at the tour dates and think, man that was awhile ago. Time for is relative though, 10 even twenty years for me just doesn’t seem that removed for me. In the grand scheme of things it is but a speck of time. Anyway I’ve been jamming Kiss songs. I have this grin on my face the whole time while cranking my Marshall and playing my starburst (like the spaceman). Really don’t find any of them hard to play at all and I found Ace’s style fun to imitate, like his bending technique and vibrato. He may not have been technical but he had his own style for sure. As far as the songs, I think they’re undeniably good, catchy rock numbers that are so much fun to play. Its like what’s next and just play along without the more lengthy process of learning more complex stuff. 70’s Kiss was cool but they kind of lost me after that. Didn’t care for them in the eighties at all, it was more hard edged rock for me by then. Anyway it’s nice to look back with nostalgia to a time when all was right with them and keep that immortalized in my mind.
@@stevejohnston8543 Yeah we used to spend are fair bit of time in Sudbury. My grandmother lived there and my grandfather died in a mining accident in the 60s. I also had cousins and friends of the family but we drifted apart these years. My friend had a band in Toronto and put an ad looking for people with a "Northern Ontario" mentality. A couple of brothers from an Italian community used to be called Gatcho (probably spelled that wrong). I think it's out near Copper Cliff. They actually joined his band though. When we saw Kiss Cheap Trick was unknown to us. We all bought their first album though. That was, in my estimation their best. It was RAW!! Songs about pedos and serial killers!! It's funny that I watched a documentary about Sudbury last night. It was about the mining industry. I didn't know Thomas Edison tried to mine nickel there. Pretty interesting stuff.
I did NOT want this to end. You always think there’s nothing left to learn about original KISS. I’ve been scooping out every little KISS crevice I could find since I was a kid. You did fantastic! This is so good.
Ditto! Pretty good voice imitations! And the somewhat morose cartoon cat bit is funny because it's true! So many of us teenage KISS fans back then were hoping for much better sounds from the solo albums,.and likewise disappointed with Double Platinum and other not so great KISS things of that era.
@@pierce_13 It's amazing how some of KISS's best songs have been totally ignored by the band. They have several "deep cuts" that I KNOW would be MASSIVE hits.
@@deelux5519 "Rocket Ride" was another song that should be better known. Ace should have kept it for his solo album instead of letting them bury it on side 4 of Alive II.
I saw it 5 times at the cinema in Australia. It was KISS in the Attack of the Phantoms. Before it they would show the 2 videos from Dynasty which was brand new at the time. They were great to see on the big screen.
I remember this in Australia as well. I Was Made for Loving You and Sure Know Something were shown before the movie. I am pretty sure me and a few school mates went to see it more than once.
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I didn’t know I needed a 2 and a half hour video essay of a catboy vtuber going over the history of my favorite band. But here it is. And I’m here for it.
I don’t even like (or dislike) KISS and I found this fascinating - such an in-depth study of a downward spiral, well put together, great clips and quotes and a studied, well spoken narrative. This is the stuff that makes TH-cam awesome
Peter criss drug habit ruined him
@@peterhuemmer1560how insightful, would've never guessed
@@wyattlightning6681😂 I can't.......
I just loved the fact that Ace's solo album was a huge hit. But that's what happens when your other band mates 'control freaks' choke a key core member of Kiss. Gene & Paul's biggest mistakes was constantly choosing their own songs for final cut on Kiss songs. Ace often lifts up other classic rock songs. His version of Do Ya by ELO is amazing. The way Paul just ignores Ace's solo album to me says it all.
Well said
I'm just being pedantic here, don't mind me - ELO was a spinoff band of The Move, who recorded Do Ya before re-recording it as ELO. Do Ya is actually a Move cover, Ace was a Move fan. Check em out!! 👍🏻
And who owns all the songs to that solo album KISS INC because Ace sold everything back songs makeup its all in the Kiss INC trademark catalog .Also brags how he QUIT twice then always wants back in when broke and bankrupt.
I like how Gene and Paul both offered to help Ace do his album, both believing he would never follow through with it. Then look what happened lol
The thing you are all overlooking is, Paul and Gene were terrible delusional narcissistic greedy jealous assholes!!! Peter and Ace were amazing and the real talent and heart and soul of the original lineup, and treated like stepchildren!!! Disgusting!!! Team Peter and Ace always
Excellent work, Catboy. Another reminder that Ace's solo album was not only the best of the bunch by a mile, but still holds up to this day as a ferocious, blistering, hook-laden hard rock album that still sounds fresh and exciting 44 years later.
Very true. I still listen to the album in its entirety every now and then on Spotify and it's still fresh and exciting. Had a debate a few weeks ago with a couple of Gene fans as to whose solo album was the best. Being Gene fans, of course they HATE Ace so they rated his as the WORST of the bunch. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I find most of Gene's LAUGHABLY bad. I mean..." When You Wish Upon A Star"...r u friggin kidding me lol
@@kjnodwell Gene's solo album is shit
Paul 8.5
Peter 7.0
Ace 6.5
Gene 2.0
Aces has always been my favorite and is in my Top 5 KISS albums
@@quiricomazarin476No No No. You got it ALL WRONG!!
ACE 9.0
Paul 7.5
Gene 4.0
Peter 2.0
wtf!!! shame on you, youtube! after all the kiss footage and content i've consumed - what took you so long to recommend this to me!! aarrrgg!!!!
this is great. as a 53 year old teenager i can't tell you how much i enjoyed this. some facts this old kiss fan never knew, and some amazing pics i've never seen. this was fantastic - thanks for doing it! can't wait to dig more into what you've done.
Said it before and I’ll say it again, I couldn’t agree with you more. Epic job!
This was a 11 out of 10 video. Well worth the lengthy running time. Amazing job!
Yeah i agree as a ex- Kiss fan that actually seen these guys back in 1976 live this vid was very well done.
By 78 i was getting fed up with them. once i heard Dynasty i was no longer a fan. good thing because the very next record was even worse! 🤣
I agree, definitely well worth the time. This guy did a great job on his research. And he does a good job of walking the line between being a fan and a critic.
This is an awesome documentary. I'm a lifelong KISS Freak. I got to see them in 1979 just months before Peter left the band. Thank You for making this video. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest. Take care and God Bless You!
Well researched, edited, informative and funny af. I love this!!! Please do every single year of Kiss career.
Your impressions of every Kiss member when reading their quotes is spot on.
Some of the most well-researched stuff for sure. BRAVO!! Your videos are excellent.
Of all the Kiss related videos I've viewed on this Tube of You, I find that this one video of yours has managed to be the only one to hold my attention for more than an hour... this thing held me captive throughout the entire 2+ hours... I even went back to the part about Ace's solo album and to the BTS portion of "...Phantom of the Park". Great compilation of facts and opinions. Great voice and delivery.
Color me entertained. From a Kiss fan from way back, I applaud you and I feverishly await part two and three.
Watched all three chapters over the past 24 hrs. Thanks for a colossal amount of entertainment and education!
Kiss is my all time favorite band. I thought the movie was awesome when I saw it but I was only a kid at the time
I agree, now that we are all older, it was frickin terrible and cheesy!!! Lol
Fantastic! Really enjoyed this!! Looking forward to parts 2 & 3!!!🤘
Nice job. Very interesting and insightful doc. Gene Simmons' solo album is a masterpiece in the context of when it was recorded and released. I still listen to it regularly. One of my favorite KISS albums. I also liked The Elder so...a lot after really rediscovering and giving it several spins decades after it's infamous creation. Looking forward to continuing to listen to your very professional documentary. Thanks for the effort.
Been a kiss fan for 4 years. They were the band that really got me into music. I haven't finished the video yet, but I like it a lot so far. You should go into depth on the movie Detroit Rock City in one of the next two parts! I haven't seen many people talk about it and it's in my top 5 favorite films. keep up the great work man! 🤘🤘🤘
4 years or 40?
I love DETROIT ROCK CITY also terribly underrated! 🤘🤘
@@chrisbooth478 I wish it was 40. I wish I could tell you that. I feel like a 70s kid stuck in a 2010s kid body [born in 2003]. KISS army for life 🎸😪🤘
@@Mr.Timwell that's so cool KISS is your gateway band. I've seen a few TH-camrs around your age say the same thing. I was born in '71 but KISS wasn't a band to me when I was a kid they were more like superheroes. When Quiet Riot came out with Metal Health that's what opend the door for me but Motley Crue blew the hinges off! KISS was there always and I liked some stuff (I distinctly remember the creatures album cover) I really got back into KISS when REVENGE came out and was really looking forward to the next album then KISS UNPLUGGED happened and the rest is KISSTORY! Although I do like CARNIVAL OF SOULS more than most it seems. I saw KISS for the first time on the reunion tour in Orlando Florida then at the first farewell tour back to back nights Orlando and Tampa I put Peter's makeup on at Tampa! 🤘🤘
@@chrisbooth478 that's epic as hell man. I wish I saw the original 4 play. I did see them twice, once in my town in 2019, and in 2021 in DETROIT ROCK CITY itself! I also caught Ace Frehley at the last second play a few songs as he opened for Alice Cooper, also in Detroit. Although 2021 wasn't a good year, those two concerts made me a bit better. Keep rockin Kiss soldier 😎🤘
@@Mr.Timwell that's awesome that Kiss still have younger fans finding them !
I got into them in 1980 as a 5 year old Aussie kid , Kiss as you probably know by now we're HUGE in Australia in 1980.
It was Beatle -mania for my generation.
Good music will always rise up and be celebrated regardless of when it came out.
KISS are my favorite band and I've been a lifelong fan since I listened to God of Thunder on the Halloween (2007) soundtrack. I loved your video and it helped fill in some holes I had in regards to some parts of KISStory. I've subbed to your channel. Thank you, kind stranger.
I learned a lot and laughed a lot, thanks for all the hard work. Looking forward to the next installment. (Why can't 2 hour+ movies breeze by this quickly & enjoyably? 🤔)
I saw them in high school when they toured for Hot in the Shade. They had this cool sphinx thing on stage. The opening acts were Slaughter and a forgotten band called Little Ceaser . Even without makeup they still put on a good show
Great content..nice job on the breakdown of various tracks.. background music done well...and the editing solid..great video bro
Great job man. Hearing you speak and flesh out all these details brings me back (as I’m sure it does for the majority of listeners) to being a kid when all this was happening with such a different perspective. I don’t know what it is about this band but they’re a guilty pleasure. They sure knew how to capitalize on their commercial success….and Paul and Gene are still doing it. Not to sound pretentious, but keeping my attention was only possible because of the great job you do. I love classic rock, so keep them coming. Be great if you could do one about Judas Priest.
The blood that was supposed to be printed in the first issue of the KISS comic didnt end up there! There was some delay in printing and the blood-ink ended up in an issue of Sports Illustrated if I remember correctly 😂
good luck in grad school mate im 56 playing gtrs for 36 years this brings back fond memories ive met the band nice dudes when it came to ace i was speechless awesome guitarist alive came exit stage left came ct at budokhan came 3 heavy bangers right there mate i know 56 isnt to old to love music lmfdao stay safe much love ace rules
What a great video! Gene's solo album is such a bizarre Ego project 😂
Amazing work, well studied, incredibly detailed.....but the cat man with the dead eyes is kinda creepy. Keep up the amazing work.
This is fantastic, when will we be able to see episode two and three?? Great work!!
You'll wanna subscribe - part two coming in the next few weeks :D
Great job! This was incredible. I can’t wait to get into parts 1 and 2!
The second time I made a mistake watching one of these 2+ hour deep dives at 2am. May as well make a cup of hot tea- I’m gonna be up for a while…. These are SO GOOD.
Best KISS history video I ever seen and I seen a lot.
This video was amazing. That Paul impersonation 🤣
This is one of the most comprehensive Kiss retrospects I've seen, I'm an OG Kiss fan and seen just about everything, super good and entertaining, your sense of humor is top notch, the Peter Criss solo spot especially, I did subscribe and like and all that shit, u set the bar high, keep it up, Rock On!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘🤘
The narration is fantastic.
Enjoyed the Frehley solo album review. It's just really, really great!! 237th thumbs up from me. Peace out from the Southern Tip of Vancouver Island, B.C. CANADA
Thanks again Rezi🤘 these have so much re-watchability
Two and a half hour's it's going to take a while but I will watch it. So far I'm very impressed, the cat boy thing had me scratching my head then you put him in Peter's makeup so that was cool. 👍👍🤘🤘✌
Very interesting video... thanks for making this. I was about 10 at that time. I had become a Kiss fan when my older sisters gave me their Alive album. My friends and I were big Kiss fans, but I do remember the increasing disappointment with their music around 1978+. My best friend and I bought the solo albums (he bought Ace's and I bought Gene's). We didn't really like them all that much and never bought Paul's or Peter's. I can also remember a friend was really unhappy with Double Platinum as it was just re-releases so I never bought that one. We were confused and embarrassed by the Kiss movie, we didn't mind Dynasty but were disappointed in Unmasked. Unmasked was the last Kiss album I ever bought and moved on to metal and British new wave in the early 80s. I still love Kiss's early stuff. Anyway, thanks for video... going to watch the rest now.
Edit: people might find this amusing but four albums I distinctly remember owning and listening to a lot at this time was Kiss - Alive, Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan, Boney M - Nightflight to Venus, and Village People - Macho Man. LOL The 70s had such great music!
Double Platinum was the first album I ever purchased new. It had all been used and barters before that.
Still happy with the purchase.
Really looking forward to episodes 2 and 3.
I was 10 in 1978 and I was a hard core GIRL Kiss Fan.. My mum did my Peter Criss make up one Halloween and she did a great job!. I was in the KISS Army. I had a floor to ceiling poster of their 1976 Bicentennial poster with them dressed up as Revolutionary soldiers. Who remembers that one!??? I guess I was a freak.
Girl here,I was Paul for Halloween in 1977. Another girl and 2 guys were the others. Had that poster too!!
Had that Kiss guitar when I was 3, there's a picture somewhere I'd love to find. They were like Marvel superheroes then. I liked Kiss, but I also liked Batman and Star Wars. They were in that category for the little kids like me. I knew they were a band but I had no concept of their music at all, not till I was a teenager.
I loved Peter's solo album , it was killer
I really enjoyed this and laughed out loud many times.
Great video from a number of sources. Enjoying it.
I don't even like KISS but I loved this epic video. Great job!
@Rezi Orenji Ch. Thank you for this Deep Dive. I love the way you did this documentary. Good job man!
Finally, I watched this great essay in full. I gotta say, now when Kiss is over and on the eve of upcoming hologram thing the plot about animatronics in Kiss Meets Phantom feels meta
Dude both of this episode & the return of KISS videos, are awesome great job. If you can do more kiss related work, that be great. Keep up the good work. P. S. Even episodes of priest or maiden or even the early glam/dolls,Cooper ect. Video would be cool. Hope all is well.
Nice work man🔥really enjoyed this
Actually, the I Love it Loud video was played on MTV a lot for a few weeks. I saw it. Creators didn’t sell well, but the news was spreading that Kiss were heavy again and had a good album. I remember people talking about it.
That's really curious! I wonder why not as many people bit, then - maybe by that point they'd just moved onto hotter acts of the day 🤷♂
@@reziorenji Yes. And people were a bit hesitant after the last three years. I didn’t buy COTN. Someone loaned it to me. So, while people were listening, and seeing the video, I don’t recall too many people buying the album. But there was a definite buzz that KISS was “kiss again”. That’s partly why Lick it Up did so well. Obviously taking off the makeup was a big part of that, but the awareness of COTN being a great album helped set that up. If it weren’t for COTN I wouldn’t have noticed that KISS took off the makeup.
Loved the Catnip intermission great style.
Kiss was my first concert quite a few years back.
Makeup and marketing go only so far.
Yet: they packaged a slick product, recruited a loyal Army, worked a Kabuki drag, sold themselves for comics and merchandise.
A middle-class success story.
I never knew anyone in my circle of eclectic rockers who took them seriously.
They did crank the amps up, though.
Video doc is tops.
Still the BEST & BIGGEST BAND OF THE 70s !!!
You’re a man of culture, I’m a Kiss nut that likes vtubers, I never thought these two interests would intersect.
That whole Knights In Satan's Service thing. Gah! My father was a preacher, so I wasn't allowed to listening to KISS, or buy their records, or go and see them when they came to Australia. I had an older friend, who lived up the street, and he had their albums, and he got dressed up as Peter Criss and went and saw them. I'd never been so jealous before in my life! I did get to see them, years later, with Ace, the first time they did a last tour, so that was cool.
The funny thing was that I was allowed to listen to Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, which shows you how silly the whole devil worship thing was...
Absolutely fantastic! BRAVO! Thank you for making this!
The Dolls are the greatest rock and roll band to have ever graced this earth. Jerry Nolan. Johnny Thunders. David Johansen. Syl Sylvain. Even Arthur Kane. Pure excellence.
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I'm an old Kiss fan from the 70s. I think you did a great job, even when I disagreed with you.
I was born in 84 and didn't really get into music until 96-97 and then really started once i started playing bass. .my parents were big kiss fans, and i hated classic rock but again once I started my journey into bass my dad told me to listen to Paul McCartney, Gene Simmons, John Paul Jones and Geddy Lee.
Past few years taking deep dives myself into my favorite artists i have found that kiss's music from the 1st 3 records is really good vut the guys are children always he said she said BS LOL, I am glad that Peter seems to just stay out of the spotlight..
Would be nice if the guys could get along and truly accept each other and what they accomplished together...
The drama ruins it
this is soo goood
I really enjoy your content, but your sophisticated VoiceOver is the Cherry on the Pie Sir ! Both Episodes are simply delicious.
Ace was the only genuine gritty true to his guns rocker in the band. His solo album proves that. Just sad that Kiss didn't move towards a heavier sound from 78 onwards and instead steered towards a lighter sound. Ace did not want that but he has no choice.
I always dug their first album cover make-up and clothes. I think it would’ve been cool even if they had done that in 78 just as a cool wtf look. I love aces silver hair 🤘🏻
I’m only 10 minutes in and the fact that this only has just under 200 thousand views is not right
I completed part one. Just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work on this, this was fascinating, informative, very well researched, and explains a lot of what went on in a direct way.
Thoughts?
Well, continuing on with Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons OWNING their mistakes, and responsibility for what followed, I rant on.
AND THAT'S WHERE THEY FELL. And the drug they're both in denial they're addicted to, MONEY, is what compelled them to take an image that could be seen as silly (if not for Gene trying to be evil incarnate), be SMART enough to turn that into PERSONAS, ICONS, EFFIGIES, symbolising different "earthly and interdimensional aspects", and BRANDING that to a degree that their merchandising alone was a cashcow that would not stop shitting. They made SO MUCH MONEY from merchandising. More than from their song publishing. Their songs were SECONDARY to that branding.
And all of a sudden they wanted to be seen as serious musicians in clown makeup.
Ace Frehley and Peter Criss have no such agendas. They know eggsacklee what they look like, how they're dressed. They have no illusions about it. And they are fine with it. But serious about it??? You must be joking. How can you be serious about this. I can't even stand up straight sometimes in 7 inch high heels on stage. I fall down ffs!!!! Serious? About this?? This is a gig, man. This is an act. But I LOVE MUSIC SO MUCH I'll do ANYTHING to play it, and have that be what I do THE REST OF MY LIFE. That's how much I love this guitar, these drums, this whole thing. That's who PETER CRISS and ACE FREHLEY ARE. They are not pretending to be anything else but themselves.
Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley on the otherhand, want to be seen as ARTISTS. And they are fooling themselves thinking they are. You can be a musician or a painter, and not be an ARTIST. You can be creative as all hell, and still not do a damn thing that says it's ART.
ART got born in the caves, when the hunters came back from surviving another day, and the spiritual leader of the tribe painted on the cave walls what those hunters encountered, so that EVERYONE could go on the hunt with them. EVERYONE. This is a SHARED EXPERIENCE. You women, you children, you elderly, you wounded, you cannot go with these men where they go. You have seen that some do not come back. I am taking you there on this cave wall, with this dirt, that charcoal, my spit, or the fat of the animal our hunters brought back with them, AND I AM TAKING YOU THERE SO YOU MAY HUNT WITH THEM. AND YOU WILL LEARN WHAT IT MEANS TO SURVIVE EVERY DAY. YOU WILL KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO BE HUMAN.
THIS IS ART. THIS IS WHAT ART DOES. IT TAKES YOU THERE.
Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons have no clue what Art is. None. They know what success means. They know what POWER means. They know what MONEY gets. But they have NO CLUE what Art is. And they learned this from John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Art?? When your aim is to be as successful as possible, and have a swimming pool by the time you're 25, you have NO CLAIM TO BEING AN ARTIST. You are a businessman, with a tool to be used to build your palace. And whether you hang ART there on its walls, or go to your underground gallery on the weekends, YOUR CLAIMS to being an ARTIST are nil.
Because you are not doing it to bring the EXPERIENCE to the tribe. You are only helping them ESCAPE the experience they're meant to be living. And you're doing it taking as much money out of their pockets as you can, because you're selling them dreams.
Ace Frehley and Peter Criss. George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
THESE ARE ARTISTS. THESE ARE THE TALENT MAKING THE BUSINESSMAN, THE PSEUDO-CREATOR SOUND GOOD.
These are the GENUINE PEOPLE. These are YOU. The REGULAR guy and gal.
They are YOU. And YOU are THEM. As soon as a Gene Simmons or a Paul Stanley wants YOU to take THEM seriously, is when YOU are going to start laughing your ass off at THEM for even thinking they can be taken seriously.
AND THAT'S WHO KILLED KISS'S RUN OF SUCCESS IN 1978. Not Ace. Not Peter. They were being REAL. You took them SERIOUSLY. And maybe Peter let you down a bit, but that dude was struggling being a member of KISS, and he got lost in who the hell he was anymore. Success and Fame are not for human beings. We're not made for it. And it gets to some of them who just have a little more contact with their soul. If the soul exists. But I think it definitely does. And Peter Criss sings with SOUL. That man could be Motown if he wanted to be. So don't be so harsh on Peter. I know Paul and Gene want you to be so you have sympathy for their behaviour and actions, grabbing your money as fast as they could, while they could. But don't you forget what they do to get your sympathy.
They put down the ARTIST. As if that has nothing to do with Rock and Roll.
And Vini Poncia is a record labels Hangman. That dude will kill your career faster than you can say Ringo. He shows up sneakily, on a song or two of your album. The next thing you know, his name is on everything, and you watch your record sales plummet, album after album, but you keep working with him. For some insane reason. He's grinding your career to a standstill. He's helping you create albums you'll be ashamed you made, or have to defend constantly. I learned at a very early age, that if you see Vini Poncia's name on your album, The Executioner has arrived.
I’ve already watched this three times. Holy shit this is incredible.
2:11:33 : I hate to nitpick but you were talking about Aces’ stunt double at the posted time but that was NOT the stunt double. In fact, his stunt double looked NOTHING like Ace in spite of his color.
Great video! Well done and well made!
Cant wait to Hear your album to come out...
I was 8 years-old in 1978, and a *huge* Kiss-fan.
Actually, the solo-albums were the beginning of me growing-out of being so in-love with the band. Ace’s album was great, but the others were one-listens.
Same with me. Same age and yeah had Ace's and was pretty much done.
I was about 12 when I heard that Ace was leaving Kiss. I was so distraught, I called the police in Wilton CT and asked them to go to Ace’s house and ask him to call me because I was apparently going to help fix that?! I fell asleep next to the phone, on the kitchen floor, waiting. When I was about 22, I saw Ace play at a small club in Detroit. He was drunk and kissed me! Twelve year old me was giddy. Lol
A perfect video for any KISS fan. Sub’d.
Great job
Honestly.. I want to eventually see a BIOPIC of Kiss... Eventhough it might be a trainwreck.. I would totally go and see them make a Biopic... I mean.. who is going to play the band.. etc.. I can't believe it hasn't happened already...
I was Peter the last time I saw them play as the original lineup! 🐱🤘🤘
"KISS Peter Criss" sounds like unlicensed music used in episodes of "CHiPs".
Nice lol it really does Now you said that!!
Those four solo albums are to Kiss, what Mardi Gras was to Credence Clearwater Revival. However Kiss would survive unlike CCR.
I’ve always loved Ace’s solo album!!
In sean delaney’s defense with firehouse, Kiss had this weird habit of putting similar songs next to each other on live albums(fh->hth, She->watchin you), and it made sense to have a little more differentiating firehouse and hotter than hell, especially since hotter is definitely the superior song compositionally. Everytime i hear watchin you on alive i cringe a bit because She is just heavier, and watchin you doesnt get a chance to shine on its own. So i get why sean raised the pitch a bit
I love that in the 1970s when making this film, the screenwriters were like what is a good evil bad guy name? Lets go FRENCH, Dr. Devereaux! The name is so evil as it wastes your time by having a useless "x" in it.
To this day I've never bought Peter's solo lp. I heard parts of it, and I was done with him. I did not care that they fired him. He didn't fit anymore
If I could give this 1,000 likes I would. WOW! I learned a lot about Kiss I did t know. Thanks!
Cant wait for the Part two!!
Excellent review. Are you going to review any of the Kiss autobiographies? I thought Peter's was the most hilarious and down to earth especially the story with the woman who dressed up just like him! Looking forward to the next 2 episodes. 👍
24:00 speaking of mixing , Am I the only one that wonders why "Killer" on COTN sounds so thin compared to the rest of that album?
This vid is really fkng good so far TY
I heard Strutter ‘78 first, so it didn’t bother me - I really like it and still do. I like both versions. I didn’t even realize it was supposed to be “Disco” unlike IWMFLY which I heard years earlier when I was a kid.
Fantastic work !!
buying these things for 1.99 in the 1979 bargain bin was a good time
🎭 Awesome
As a KISS aficionado, you should know that Ace’s last name is pronounced (fray-lee) not (free-lee). That’s Paul’s pronunciation on Alive II “Ace Frehley, lead guitar!”
The "Renaissance poet" is actually a Beefeater. They work at the Tower of London.
Really interesting information. Nice job! Unfortunately for KISS, it was just too much saturation. Less is more in many ways.
Ironically, each of them in VG to mint condition rakes in a pretty penny these days, even the reissues that came out a few years ago.
Had been a kiss fan back in the early years for when i heard the destroyer album for the first time but i still listen to kiss this year lol
this whole series is better than any official KISS documentary could ever hope to be
Yeah no input from the two control freaks.
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It's too bad there's so much footage of the silly catboy animation. I could care less about that shit.
Agreed. Cat guy narrator and all.
🤘🏼😎🤘🏼
@@youmayberighteven though its about a band featuring a different Catboy. Lol
I don't get the whole catboy-avatar thing (probably because I'm old), but this is some of the best KISS content I've seen anywhere. The writing is well-researched and clever, without trying to be TOO clever, and the footage and editing are outstanding.
Agreed, and well said.
I was about to type the same thing! Excellent content.
Your parents probably didn't understand why Peter Criss painted himself up as The Catman, that's pretty safe to assume right?? Same concept here maybe.I'm with you on the overall sentiment (and probably age!) though.
Honestly, I was thinking the exact same thing also 😂
I am now 62 years old. We used to do Kiss concerts in abandoned buildings. I was Gene because I could blow flames using a butane lighter. It may sound lame but they would go about 6 feet high. We saw Kiss in Sudbury Ontario about this time. Cheap Trick opened for them. This was around the time of Cheap Trick's first album. No bubblegum rock back then. Pretty damn good show.
Really. I just looked up the Love Gun tour dates to see when the Sudbury date was. Is that you’re home town? I would have been too young but I can only imagine what the concert would have like. Man I would have loved it, was a huge Cheap trick fan too. Glad to hear you thought it was a good show. What was the attendance like? For some reason it’s not listed. Cheers.
@@stevejohnston8543 I'm from North Bay. One of our fathers drove us to Sudbury. We waited at the doors hours before they opened as it was general admission. We stood in front of Ace. There were about 5,000 people in attendance. It was at Sudbury arena where they shoot "Shoresy".
@@MickLoud999 Funny I’m not sure I knew Kiss was coming at the time. I remember really wishing someone would take me to see Cheap Trick, I loved them. Thanks, figured the Elgin street barn would have been packed. I know the building only too well. Been watching hockey there for around forty years. There’s a game tonight 👍🏒 My first concert was Triumph, April Wine. Then Sabbath, Maiden and Metallica to name the notable shows. I could laugh, thé Metallica show wasn’t even that well attended. Only us metal heads were over the moon. Love to go back and look at the tour dates and think, man that was awhile ago. Time for is relative though, 10 even twenty years for me just doesn’t seem that removed for me. In the grand scheme of things it is but a speck of time.
Anyway I’ve been jamming Kiss songs. I have this grin on my face the whole time while cranking my Marshall and playing my starburst (like the spaceman). Really don’t find any of them hard to play at all and I found Ace’s style fun to imitate, like his bending technique and vibrato. He may not have been technical but he had his own style for sure. As far as the songs, I think they’re undeniably good, catchy rock numbers that are so much fun to play. Its like what’s next and just play along without the more lengthy process of learning more complex stuff. 70’s Kiss was cool but they kind of lost me after that. Didn’t care for them in the eighties at all, it was more hard edged rock for me by then. Anyway it’s nice to look back with nostalgia to a time when all was right with them and keep that immortalized in my mind.
@@stevejohnston8543 Yeah we used to spend are fair bit of time in Sudbury. My grandmother lived there and my grandfather died in a mining accident in the 60s. I also had cousins and friends of the family but we drifted apart these years. My friend had a band in Toronto and put an ad looking for people with a "Northern Ontario" mentality. A couple of brothers from an Italian community used to be called Gatcho (probably spelled that wrong). I think it's out near Copper Cliff. They actually joined his band though. When we saw Kiss Cheap Trick was unknown to us. We all bought their first album though. That was, in my estimation their best. It was RAW!! Songs about pedos and serial killers!! It's funny that I watched a documentary about Sudbury last night. It was about the mining industry. I didn't know Thomas Edison tried to mine nickel there. Pretty interesting stuff.
My first kiss concert was dynasty. I’m 11 years younger than you. There was nothing like a kiss concert.
I did NOT want this to end. You always think there’s nothing left to learn about original KISS. I’ve been scooping out every little KISS crevice I could find since I was a kid. You did fantastic! This is so good.
That was fantastic! So detailed and full of things I'd never heard. Your voice acting impressions of the band are so good!
Ditto! Pretty good voice imitations!
And the somewhat morose cartoon cat bit is funny because it's true! So many of us teenage KISS fans back then were hoping for much better sounds from the solo albums,.and likewise disappointed with Double Platinum and other not so great KISS things of that era.
100% agreed
Yes they are
For real. Those impressions are spot on. He sounds just like those guys 🤣
"I can't stop the rain" from Peter's solo record is a 5-star classic.....Anyone I play that song for can't believe it wasn't a #1 hit.
That song is a forgotten classic.
@@pierce_13 It's amazing how some of KISS's best songs have been totally ignored by the band. They have several "deep cuts" that I KNOW would be MASSIVE hits.
@@deelux5519 "Rocket Ride" was another song that should be better known. Ace should have kept it for his solo album instead of letting them bury it on side 4 of Alive II.
I love Peter's whole album.🙂
it is the best song on the album. He's not trying to be anything or sound any particular way, he's just doing a nice vocal on a good song.
Dude, I lived this, I was at the record store (record town) to buy all 4 solo albums on the release day. You are spot on.
I saw it 5 times at the cinema in Australia. It was KISS in the Attack of the Phantoms. Before it they would show the 2 videos from Dynasty which was brand new at the time. They were great to see on the big screen.
I remember this in Australia as well. I Was Made for Loving You and Sure Know Something were shown before the movie. I am pretty sure me and a few school mates went to see it more than once.