"Excuse me Monsieur Eightball, who told you to get me high?"
Is it official?
As official as they get.
Is it really live?
This has been the subject of debate, even amongst the parties directly involved.
Gene Simmons, the man who claim he "invented breathing and shoes," according to the late, great Ronnie Dio, is one of these parties, so there's likely a hefty amount of bullshit being shovelled
Gene says only obvious mistakes were overdubbed, while producer Eddie Kramer has stated that only Ace's guitar was live and the rest tracked in studio.
May 16 at Cobo Arena, Detroit, (Rock City) June 21 at Music Hall, Cleveland, Ohio (Greater Regional District of Rock)
June 20; two nearly sold-out shows at the Orpheum Theatre in Davenport, Iowa (Independent Municipality of Rock) and July 23 at TheConvention Center in Wildwood, NJ, (Metropolitan County of Rock)
What are the details?
Allegedly record, if it was recorded live, during the "Dressed To Kill," tour March-July 1975 in????Perhaps more than any record, except "Frampton Comes Alive," this is a live record that defined the artist completely. The live versions have much more energy than the more sterile sounding studio records. "Deuce," "Parasite," "Firehouse," and "Cold Gin," benefit especially from the live treatment. Paul Stanley's soliloquy at the beginning of "Cold Gin; ("I heard some of you out there live to drink vodka and arrange juice..." is legendary and, of course the definitive, hit-single version of "Rock 'n' Roll All Nite," comes from this record. A few of the hokier (in my opinion) doo-wop flavoured numbers, "Got to Choose," "Nothin' To Loose," are here, but no real crap.
Whether it's an actual live recording or not, it's the sound of Kiss at their peak, the bloated dinosaurs, back when they were a real lean, mean rock band.
Above all, "Alive!" is Ace Frehley's finest hour. It's become popular to slag the spaceman, and in retrospect, he's a lot less likely to have become a guitar hero if his guitar didn't shoot rockets out of it, but if you're looking for a greasy bar-rock primer, this is it. Ace adds his slightly wasted, sloppy swagger to the handful of Jimmy Page licks in his arsenal and squeezes every note from his Les Paul with his patented bluesy vibrato in a way perhaps only Angus Young could rival.
Gene says only obvious mistakes were overdubbed, while producer Eddie Kramer has stated that only Ace's guitar was live and the rest tracked in studio.
May 16 at Cobo Arena, Detroit, (Rock City) June 21 at Music Hall, Cleveland, Ohio (Greater Regional District of Rock)
June 20; two nearly sold-out shows at the Orpheum Theatre in Davenport, Iowa (Independent Municipality of Rock) and July 23 at TheConvention Center in Wildwood, NJ, (Metropolitan County of Rock)
What are the details?
Allegedly record, if it was recorded live, during the "Dressed To Kill," tour March-July 1975 in????Perhaps more than any record, except "Frampton Comes Alive," this is a live record that defined the artist completely. The live versions have much more energy than the more sterile sounding studio records. "Deuce," "Parasite," "Firehouse," and "Cold Gin," benefit especially from the live treatment. Paul Stanley's soliloquy at the beginning of "Cold Gin; ("I heard some of you out there live to drink vodka and arrange juice..." is legendary and, of course the definitive, hit-single version of "Rock 'n' Roll All Nite," comes from this record. A few of the hokier (in my opinion) doo-wop flavoured numbers, "Got to Choose," "Nothin' To Loose," are here, but no real crap.
Whether it's an actual live recording or not, it's the sound of Kiss at their peak, the bloated dinosaurs, back when they were a real lean, mean rock band.
Above all, "Alive!" is Ace Frehley's finest hour. It's become popular to slag the spaceman, and in retrospect, he's a lot less likely to have become a guitar hero if his guitar didn't shoot rockets out of it, but if you're looking for a greasy bar-rock primer, this is it. Ace adds his slightly wasted, sloppy swagger to the handful of Jimmy Page licks in his arsenal and squeezes every note from his Les Paul with his patented bluesy vibrato in a way perhaps only Angus Young could rival.
I hereby officially proclaim this to be the best Kiss recording
The Set:
1. "Deuce"
2. "Strutter"
3. "Got to Choose"
4. "Hotter Than Hell"
5. "Firehouse"
6. "Nothin' to Lose"
7. "C'mon and Love Me"
8. "Parasite"
9. "She"
10. "Watchin' You"
11. "100,000 Years"
12. "Black Diamond"
13. "Rock Bottom"
14. "Cold Gin"
15. "Rock and Roll All Nite"
16. "Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll"
