Lauderdale, FL started the contests on May 10 and they began to spread. Local radio station, WCFL and Warner Bros./Casablanca Records were in on the promotion.Īccording to the website, radio station WHSE in Ft. It all started as part of a nationwide promotion for the first album by KISS that was given the same name. ╰➤・◦・◦・◦ ➵ ‘The Great KISS-OFF At Woodfield Mall’ Quotes take from the book Kiss “Behind the Mask” But we did it, we really did it.made our dream come true❞ I was so amazed that we were in a studio and signed to a real record contract even though it was a nobody contract at the time. ❝I’d give it five stars because it was our first album. We knew those songs backwards and forwards❞ I think we put 110 percent into that record. It was one of our best records because it had that spontaneity that that tough kind of sound. It was kind of an extension of the first demos we did. ❝We recorded the first Kiss album at Bell sound in New York. And I think unfortunatly, starting with the first album, that was never achieved with Kiss❞ Looking back on it, some bands have had the good fortune of being in the studio with technicians and a creative team that would capture their sound. ❝Recording the first album was the culmination of everything Id worked for up to that point. But only a true KISS-nerd will notice that Ace is sporting the same silver spray-painted hair that he had on KISS’ debut album cover. And you know it is bringing the house down night after night.Most KISS fans will appreciate the awesomeness of this photo from 1974. Even so, “I Was Made For Lovin’ You” is a highlight of the show as one of its pre-encore finale numbers. About 75 percent of the songs are those from 1977 and before. Dubbed “The Final Tour Ever,” the virtually sold out #EndOfTheWorldTour which kicked off in January of this year is, on average, making well over a million dollars in revenue per performance. They were just a step too far for Kiss, and solid signifiers of the group’s downturn.įorty years later and none of that stigma, disco or otherwise, has had an effect on ticket sales for Kiss’ current tour. The thing is, “Sure Know Something” and “I Was Made For Lovin’ You” are absolutely irresistible smashes. Soften up the chorus on the already too twinkly “Sure Know Something” and it could be a great Olivia Newton John song. While all of Dynasty is super glossy, thanks to Poncia, it is when Stanley is on vocals that the album is at its most disco. He takes the lead on the cover of the Rolling Stones’ “2,000 Man,” “Hard Times” and album closer, “Save Your Love,” where he finally sounds a smidge more confident. Interestingly, Gene Simmons only plays bass on three of the songs, two of which he sings, “Charisma” and “X-Ray Eyes.” In a change of pace, perhaps bolstered by the success of “New York Groove” from his solo album, Frehley steps up to the mike with his, for the most part, charm-free vocals more than before. Fig is heard on all but one of the songs, the Criss-vocalized “Dirty Livin’.” That, along with purported erratic behavior on Criss’ part had Ace Frehley’s wingman drummer Anton Fig sitting in the drummer’s stool in the studio. Another mistake, particularly and comically, for Criss, who was told to stay off the album by Poncia as his drumming had suffered due to hand injuries from a recent car accident. It is the number one Kiss song streamed on Spotify, by 65 million streams more than the group’s second most streamed song, 1975’s “Rock and Roll All Nite.”ĭespite the embarrassment of the solo releases strongly signaling to keep out of this territory, Kiss chose Vini Poncia (Melissa Manchester, Leo Sayer), the producer of Peter Criss’ solo album, to helm Dynasty. Too many visits to Studio 54 by Paul Stanley resulted in the dancefloor candy, “I Was Made For Lovin’ You.” A shock to hardcore Kiss fans and a far cry from vomiting blood and pyrotechnics, yet to this day it is the group’s most popular song according to the public at large. The album with synthesizers and 126 BPM drum machines at the heart of its engine. It was proliferation of product would require members of the Kiss Army to give up all of their rations in exchange for five albums in the span of six months-which they didn’t do. This quadruple failure came hot on the heels of Double Platinum, the greatest hits compilation released just months prior. There are many things that went wrong leading up to Dynasty, not the least of which is the release of the individual members’ dismal solo albums the year prior. The seventh album from Kiss, Dynasty, is, ironically, the album that marks the end of the dynasty Kiss created in its first five years.
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