80's Kiss anyone ?

[Electronicoil]

Too bad the dumbed down audience is just standing there like stone sentinels while KISS plays some the the most creative songs they ever wrote.

I'm sure it's for some TV show. The audience isn't really there to see KISS.

 

[sumairetsu]

I'm sure it's for some TV show. The audience isn't really there to see KISS.

It is. This footage is from the failed ABC show, Fridays, a late night comedy variety show. This one of the few performances the band did in support of (Music From) The Elder, and one of the very few LIVE performances of that material.

I think the band made a big mistake in not including any material from that album on Alive IV, especially with the orchestra there.

 

[Mxgonzo]

I video taped that show that night. They played The Oath, World without Heros and I. I had it for years and then my damn brother taped over it. I could have Killed him.

 

[Trans-Siberian Outcast]

You know, now that you guys mention it, the World Without Heroes video I remembered was from that episode of Fridays (the birth of Cosmo Kramer!). We actually stopped in the middle of a Double Tvarsky and Kool-Aid party to watch it on tv. I didn't recognize it last night, but reading your posts opened the dusty old hinges on that door. Most excellent reviving some old memories!

NP: Everygrey - Monday Morning Apocolypse

 

[Cold Gin]

I find "Crazy Nights" and "Asylum" to be their most consistant releases with good songs throughout. If ya'll don't agree, then it simply means I am right and the rest of the fucking world is fucking wrong.
Bryant

I completely disagree, but I like the quote, so I won´t argue

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

I'm spun out that there is footage of them lip synching to Charisma in The Elder era!!!! Its loading up now, IM EXCITED!! Thanx SOOO much for posting that!!!!!

I have the performance on video of The Oath, I and A World Without Heroes from Fridays. They literally are the *only* live performances of The Elder EVER... Apart from the Melbourne "Kiss In Your Face" show in 2004 where they played a verse of "I" and about 15 seconds of "The Oath" then ditched them and went into something else...

 

[sixxswine]

 

[Wheezer]

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Dude! That's not nice. I almost hacked up my Cheerios!

 

[sumairetsu]

Dude! That's not nice. I almost hacked up my Cheerios!

What!? You mean you've never seen Gene lick Ace Frehley's neck?

 

[Wheezer]

What!? You mean you've never seen Gene lick Ace Frehley's neck?

No! But now, thanks to you, I've got that nasty image bouncing around in my skull! Sometimes it sucks to have a pretty good imagination.

 

[KMADD]

Damn he had that picture on before lol.

 

[Electronicoil]

Ladies, does this turn you on?

Because if it were two girls ........... well, you know ........

 

[sumairetsu]

No! But now, thanks to you, I've got that nasty image bouncing around in my skull! Sometimes it sucks to have a pretty good imagination.

I don't have to imagine it. If you've ever seen the band play in the 1970's or during the reunion tours with the original members, you've seen it.

 

[Wheezer]

I don't have to imagine it. If you've ever seen the band play in the 1970's or during the reunion tours with the original members, you've seen it.

Ohhhh! So it was a recalled memory rather than imagination then. I'll prolly have to go into therapy over this.

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

If I was to make a mix CD of all my favourites KISS songs it would probably look something like this:

Creatures Of The Night
A Million To One
Heaven's On Fire
Thrills In The Night
King of the Mountain
Who Wants To Be Lonely
Tears Are Falling
Uh! All Night
I'll Fight Hell To Hold You
Turn On The Night
Reason To Live
(You Make Me) Rock Hard
Time Traveller
Hide Your Heart
Rise To It
You Love Me To Hate You
Forever
Love Gun

All Stanley, all 80s (except Love Gun), and all non-makeup (except Love Gun & Creatures). So its pretty obvious what my favourite era is and who my favourite singer/writer in the band is...

Of course it could easily change, there are so many songs I love. Already I'm looking back up at it thinking "Where are Crazy Crazy Nights, King Of Hearts, I Still Love You, Exciter, I've Had Enough, Tough Love, Is That You.." but again all Stanley and all either non-makeup or 80s.

 

[rokk]

I'm spun out that there is footage of them lip synching to Charisma in The Elder era!!!! Its loading up now, IM EXCITED!! Thanx SOOO much for posting that!!!!!

No problem! I enjoyed it myself even though the video is a little crappy.

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

It was awesome I loved it!!

 

[thefoxbox]

Kiss is one of the best hair metal bands ever who set foot on the stage. Kiss led the world of music with a twist of makeup and the long tongue of Gene Simmons who I have to say is one of the greatest bass guitar players on the planet.

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

Yeah I gotta say, one very underrated aspect of KISS is Gene's bass playing in the early years. Not so much in the '80s (partly because most of the bass on the 80s albums was played by Paul, Bruce and Jean Beauvior), but on the early Kiss albums, Gene's bass lines are almost genious and completely drive the songs. Awesome bass writing. Songs like Goin' Blind, Strutter, Love Gun, Detroit Rock City, 100,000 Years, hell most of the early Kiss songs - awesome bass lines!

Also I think its fair to say that Kiss by *far* had the biggest impact on inventing 80s "hair metal". Obviously bands like Alice Cooper, Van Halen, New York Dolls, Aerosmith and AC/DC had a massive influence too and hair metal kinda grew out of a mix of all that put together, but KISS was really the blueprint for it and had it all from the start - big stageshows, heavy makep, big hair, spandex & leather, theatrics, 3 minute sleaze anthems with big choruses, the fist in the air singalongs, big "air guitar" riffs, also one of the first hard rock bands to move away from a blues influenced sound & format (and have much more straight to the point songwriting with Beatles style chord progressions), etc. Where the other 70s bands who influenced the hair metal scene may have had a couple of the elements of hair metal each (which created when you put them all together), Kiss had pretty much all of them.

 

[Cold Gin]

If I was to make a mix CD of all my favourites KISS songs it would probably look something like this:

Creatures Of The Night
A Million To One
Heaven's On Fire
Thrills In The Night
King of the Mountain
Who Wants To Be Lonely
Tears Are Falling
Uh! All Night
I'll Fight Hell To Hold You
Turn On The Night
Reason To Live
(You Make Me) Rock Hard
Time Traveller
Hide Your Heart
Rise To It
You Love Me To Hate You
Forever
Love Gun

All Stanley, all 80s (except Love Gun), and all non-makeup (except Love Gun & Creatures). So its pretty obvious what my favourite era is and who my favourite singer/writer in the band is...

What do you think about I´m a Legend tonight and especially Nowhere to Run ? Wouldn´t they perfectly fit to your CD ? 80s, Stanley, great songs (masked however).