The Cat 3 Posted March 16, 2018 Author Share Posted March 16, 2018 15 March 1976. 42 years ago today. Goodness me, where does time go? KISS Destroyer An album that truly, honestly and without exaggeration changed my life. I was a lad of just 13 years old when I walked into Fay's Drugstore in Shop City and bought that record with my own money that I earned from my paper route. I went home and played it over and over while drawing the KISS logo over and over until I had "perfected" it. I went downstairs and showed me mum, who (God bless her) put it on the refrigerator. Neither of us knew what a transforming experience was about to take place. Now, I always loved rock and roll music from a young age... ...Me mum's "The Early Beatles" album, my sister's 45s, Alice Cooper and the radio saw sure to that. There was something different going on here. This was not mum's music. Not my sister's or uncle's rock and roll hand me downs. This was a first, of many I might add... ...this band was all mine. Followed by Rush, Cheap Trick, Ramones and countless others. The perfect storm of simplicity and intensity along with the visual spectacle that just blew me away. As if that wasn't enough for my little brain to absorb, later that year I saw my very first rock concert. You guessed it, KISS! They played the War Memorial in Syracuse in December of 1976. I recall being driven there by my friend's and fellow KISS freak's dad. Walking into the arena where I had seen Disney on Ice, Barnum and Bailey Circus and the Harlem Globetrotters was familiar, but yet not. My body and mind was charged with the exhilaration of a combination of fear and anticipation of what was about to happen. The sights of the older kids, especially the girls with the cool looking guys, that sweet smell in the air with the bluish haze settling on the arena, the frisbees flying about, etc., etc. The lights went down and I was somewhat afraid until the opening band, Uriah Heep, hit the stage. That was it. I was, and am, forever hooked. Then KISS comes on and all bets were off. I sang every song at the top of my lungs. I was red faced, sweaty, worn out, happy and most likely, high as a kite. From that day until this one I have been a rock and roller. I didn't dress the same, didn't think the same, didn't act the same... ...a die was cast and there was no way to go back. Intense? So much so that years later I would refer to my birthday as 15 March 1976. I may have been born thirteen years earlier but that was the day I came alive. All from a little rock and roll record that lasted all of 34 minutes long. But what a life changing 34 minutes it was. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 Here's Paul Stanley with his son checking out guitars at Norman's Rare Guitars. Just for you, Lucas! :cheers: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHHEAD666 Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 I was hoping to read some real news that Ace was back in KISS so Tommy can go record a new BLACK N BLUE record. Oh well! Just picked up my Ace ticket!!! Berkeley baby!!! ROCK SOLDIERS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHHEAD666 Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 ACE is dying to go back to KISS. I love Tommy and Eric. FUCKK GENE AND PAUL! THEY BLEW IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat 3 Posted October 17, 2018 Author Share Posted October 17, 2018 Ironic that the first post of this thread has the photo that it does. 14 October (which just passed 3 days ago) marks the 41st anniversary of the release of Alive II. I can't remember how I knew the exact release day of that album at the time, perhaps Circus or Creem magazine, but I had been counting down the days. I was 14 and it was a Friday and a couple of my friends and I skipped school and went to this department store (Ames) right at opening. The guy unlocking the door couldn't have gotten that door opened fast enough. We brushed past him and ran to the record department like there were a thousand people behind us. "Oh my God, there it is!", I thought to myself. So we start walking back to my friend, John's house, to listen to this new found treasure. I see my two of my other friends, one of which was an on and off girlfriend at the time. I take my copy, blow my friends off and go to Annemarie's (whose mom was working)to listen to the album and to get high with her and her best friend Peggy. We had great fun putting the temporary tattoos all over each other. Damn, that is a killer little memory. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Ironic that the first post of this thread has the photo that it does. 14 October (which just passed 3 days ago) marks the 41st anniversary of the release of Alive II. I can't remember how I knew the exact release day of that album at the time, perhaps Circus or Creem magazine, but I had been counting down the days. I was 14 and it was a Friday and a couple of my friends and I skipped school and went to this department store (Ames) right at opening. The guy unlocking the door couldn't have gotten that door opened fast enough. We brushed past him and ran to the record department like there were a thousand people behind us. "Oh my God, there it is!", I thought to myself. So we start walking back to my friend, John's house, to listen to this new found treasure. I see my two of my other friends, one of which was an on and off girlfriend at the time. I take my copy, blow my friends off and go to Annemarie's (whose mom was working)to listen to the album and to get high with her and her best friend Peggy. We had great fun putting the temporary tattoos all over each other. Damn, that is a killer little memory. Cat, your post reads like my own type of experience and how the memories still hold vivid ... I must have gotten my Alive II the following day -- Saturday -- I distinctly remember it because on Satudays the family would go bowling, and that particular Saturday on the way the Echo Lanes ( RIP) in Union, NJ I asked my Dad to make a stop so I could get the album ..... I could barely concentrate when we got to the bowling alley .. I distinctly remember because my cousins, aunt and uncle were meeting us there - it was going to be a great night .. My aunt ( related by marriage, she married my Mom's brother ) was a total fox and I always loved seeing her ..... That was one of the best nights at a time when there were a lot of great ones .. As we were leaving the alley, I stopped and started to go into the lounge/bar area where a live band was playing -- I remember someone grabbed me to prevent me from going in, and just as the band finished a song, I summoned everything I had in my 10 year old lungs to yell out KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS !!!! I could not wait to get home that night to play the album .... Because it was late by the time we got home, it was probably one of the million times I was like "no, no, one more song, just one more" damn damn damn, good times 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 (edited) Gene and Paul philosophizing on the groupie scene via the Oprah Show, circa 1987: Edited May 2, 2019 by goose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek19 Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 (edited) As what I've said on, and in another thread about Kiss, I've liked their make up, and original line up of Paul, Gene, Ace, and Peter, and their music from "Kiss (1974)" to "Creatures of the Night (1982)", with "Psycho Circus (1998)". When it was their no make up, and not the original line up from "Lick It Up (1983)" to "Carnival of Souls: the Final Sessions (1997)", I haven't, and didn't like them. I haven't, and don't like "Sonic Boom (2009)", and "Monster (2012)", too. To me, they weren't, and haven't been the same. With some of the things Paul, and Gene, said including animosity, and hostility towards Ace, and Peter, it hasn't, and didn't help, too. Even if Ace, and Peter, did make some mistakes, for them, they both seemed to have made up. At the time, and if I was able to in the mid 70s, I would've seen them in concert in person, but I wasn't old enough, and was too young. When it was for their "Alive/Worldwide 96/97 Tour", I saw them, and the original line up, so would've, and maybe, did make up for it. My favorite Kiss member is, and has always been Ace. Edited August 2, 2019 by Derek19 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted November 6, 2019 Share Posted November 6, 2019 KISS on Tom Snyder's show circa Dynasty. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steevo Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 As what I've said on, and in another thread about Kiss, I've liked their make up, and original line up of Paul, Gene, Ace, and Peter, and their music from "Kiss (1974)" to "Creatures of the Night (1982)", with "Psycho Circus (1998)". When it was their no make up, and not the original line up from "Lick It Up (1983)" to "Carnival of Souls: the Final Sessions (1997)", I haven't, and didn't like them. I haven't, and don't like "Sonic Boom (2009)", and "Monster (2012)", too. To me, they weren't, and haven't been the same. With some of the things Paul, and Gene, said including animosity, and hostility towards Ace, and Peter, it hasn't, and didn't help, too. Even if Ace, and Peter, did make some mistakes, for them, they both seemed to have made up. At the time, and if I was able to in the mid 70s, I would've seen them in concert in person, but I wasn't old enough, and was too young. When it was for their "Alive/Worldwide 96/97 Tour", I saw them, and the original line up, so would've, and maybe, did make up for it. My favorite Kiss member is, and has always been Ace. Pretty much in full agreement, although the last album I will defend will be Unmasked, otherwise I couldn't care less. That '97 reunion tour was amazing to witness, they put on a great show and a killer setlist, no complaints here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RUSHHEAD666 Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 Hahaha! I can't wait for March 6th!!! KISS IN OAKLAND!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todem Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 Hahaha! I can't wait for March 6th!!! KISS IN OAKLAND!!! We saw them down here in Sunrise Florida and they did not disappoint!!! Great set list, great show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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