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KISS in latest issue of Classic Rock MagazineFrom: Classic Rock Magazine by Greg Prato I'm a writer who recently interviewed Anthrax's Charlie Benante for Classic Rock Magazine, and in the Summer 2005 issue (w/ Thin Lizzy on the cover), he recommends KISS: Alive for the 'Every Home Should Have One' column. Here it is as a jpeg. Thanks, Greg Prato "The first time I ever heard KISS' Alive!, I was at a party at a friend's house. The only thing I'd head prior to that as far as KISS was concerned was Dressed To Kill. I was already a fan because of that, but when Alive! came out, it was a totally different thing." "The thing that I remember most about it was just staring at the package - it opened out to a gatefold, and there was a huge booklet in it. I remember staring at it and being like, 'What the hell?!' Because you would listen to the record and you would visualise in your own mind how it was. You had all these different things." "I remember early on, when I first heard KISS, I used to think that PAUL STANLEY's voice was GENE SIMMONS' voice. It was very weird when I saw them on a TV show called The Midnight Special, and I was like, 'Wait a minute... he's not supposed to be singing that!'" "I don't think I could say that any of [the songs] was my least favorite, because I loved every single one on that record. I remember just playing it continuously, over and over again. I loved the way side one would kick in - it was like the introduction was the beginning of the show. Then you get to the middle portions - sides two and three - and adie four was the big ending; I'll never forget listening to Black Diamond and being like, 'What the hell is going on? The explosions and everything. [The tracklist] is a little out of sequence - actually it's not even a live show; they totally re-recorded it. But who cares? It fooled me back then." I loved [PETER CRISS'] drumming on Alive!. I think he was one of the biggest influences as far as having a huge drum kit goes. It was like, 'Look at all these drums. What is he doing with all these?' Because at the time, you havd like the 'five-piece-kit drummers out there, like John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) and Joey Kramer (Aerosmith). After Peter, Neil Peart (Rush) had the big kit also." "The end of '76 was when I saw them for the first time - Alive! prepared me. I was like, 'Dude this is fucking crazy!' I just couldn't believe it. Everything was going on. I couldn't focus on just one thing. It was just an assault on my senses. Because most of the bands at the time really didn't put on that type of a show the way KISS were doing; it was more or less getting up on stage and playing. It wasn't, y'know...KISS" "KISS made me realize that this is what I'm going to do with my life. And the mindset just stayed with me; it never left. Before that, I wasn't really taking it as seriously as 'I'm going to make a living doing this.'" "I absolutely still listen to Alive! I listen to it sometimes right before we play - it pumps me up. It puts me in a different state of mind." |
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