KISS Alive III "30th Anniversary" by Bruce Kulick
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2024
- May 18th 1993 is the 30th Anniversary of KISS Alive III. The third live disc from the band is unique because it's the first of the non make up era. Following in the tradition of Alive! and Alive II, acclaimed engineer and producer Eddie Kramer captured the band in three midwest cities on mobile recording trucks. Footage and recordings are from the KISS Revenge tour during the Thanksgiving weekend of '93. Detroit, Cleveland and Indianapolis shows were recorded and Detroit was also filmed for release on the long form video called KISS Konfidential also covered in my story.
I share songs, stories and memories of the events used to promote the release, as well as my guitars and one very special guitar pedal called the Uni-Vibe.
Directed by Bruce Kulick and Andrew Sgambati
Edited by Andrew Sgambati
Thumbnail design by Sharni Quittenton
Very special thanks to KISS
Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Eric Singer, and Tommy Thayer
Special thanks to:
Lisa Lane Kulick
Michael Edwards
Jack Sawyers
Matt Masciandaro
ESP Guitars
Eddie Kramer
Mark Abbattista
Larry Mazer
Levine/Schnieder PR
Nicolas Auckland
Julian Gill
JPL Productions
Reality Check TV
MTV
Guitar Center Hollywood
Personally, this is my favorite of KISS’ live albums.
Best setlist, that's for sure.
Mine too!
It’s so good! Kulick/Singer combo is my favorite
Same!
Mine as well!
Bruce Kulick, you were the best lead guitarist KISS ever heard hands down
One of my favorite versions of Kiss . Bruce you are sorely missed! I love the makeup version of the band , but this was my era. I’m so disappointed that I never got to see the band with this lineup or with the late great Eric Carr!!
I concur Curly. Lol
I got to see Eric carr on his last tour back in 1990 on MSG NYC
I was disappointed with alieve 3 where was tears are falling ,all hells breaking loose and bunch other kiss non make up hits
Besides the last reunion this was the last good era of the band
I was blessed to catch the Creature tour and almost everyone going forward.
Vinny was good but Bruce was solid every time and no fluff!!!
Eric Carr was fantastic as was/ is Eric Singer
FANTASTIC album! This was MY “Alive,” as I had attended my first KISS concert in October of 1992 on that same tour. Nothing in KISStory sounds quite as polished and heavy as that era does! Thanks, Bruce!
Bethlehem Pennsylvania & Binghamton NY 🎸🎶🎤💋
Hey … you did the PodKISST podcast! That was one of the very first podcasts I listened to back in the day.
Thanks for the memories and keeping the KISS spirit alive!
This was the high of the non-makup years, boy did it rock.
AWESOME BRUCE!!!!! This is the BEST era of KISS!!!!!!!
KISS Alive III is a killer album. Really like the fact that this one is starting with "Creatures of the night" as the opening track. Unfortunately, there are also many great songs from the 80s missing. Anyway. Great album. Great memories. 🤘🤘
For my 17 year old son Kiss Alive III and Revenge are his favorite records, hands down, not even close.
Madrid loves you Bruce!!!
Alive III was a surprisingly great album, better than Alive II IMO. Always loved Bruce's time with the group, tasteful playing and tones.
Other than Ace, Bruce is the best guitarist that KISS ever had.
Thanks for including the entirety of Star Spangled Banner, that version still gives me the chills!!!!
A lot of people will disagree with this... But having seen Kiss on the revenge tour... And then again on alive worldwide 96... I have to say... The revenge tour was far superior as far as both the band... And the show if I'm being honest. For all the crap that gets tossed around about that tour... I thought it was amazing. They were absolutely on fire 🔥
i loved the KISS KULICK YRS !!!
Best ERA the band ever had. They were absolutely perfect at this time. This is something that only happens once. I was lucky enough to see kiss in 1975 and haven't missed the tour since, but there is no other tour that could top this. With the addition of Eric singer these guys were unbelievable. How cool would it be for all three of the shows that were recorded to be released in one great box set. Both audio and video. This was the greatest kiss era ever.
I just recently got into Kiss. I’ve read all their books and worked my way through their discography and I didn’t start getting really captured by songs until Creatures and then the no-makeup era stuff. Really really awesome and what I was hoping for in my mind going into this Kiss adventure
Bruce is a great guitarplayer and a good soul
Loved this!
Amazing video!! My favorite ALIVE for sure! I can’t believe it’s been 30 years!!!
ALIVE III was the best sounding and put together
One of the best Albums from kiss ever...❤😊
Great stuff, Bruce! Thank you for sharing with everybody! KISS fans are always willing for more. ☺️
I was at the Indy show. It was fantastic!
awesome!
My Fave non-makeup era. Band was on fire. The peak musically.
That is a great album! Thank you for sharing your memories of it Bruce!!
Great era Mr: Bruce Kulick
Thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!
Uno de los mejores album de Kiss. Para yo obtener el cd me tuve que meter una semana al seminario para sacerdotes y si aguantaba me lo regalaban. A sido un exelente regalo 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Awesome 👍 you are
hi Bruce we miss you a big part of Kisstory BIG fan
Amazing album. I wish it would have been a double album. Was bummed that tunes from Asylum and Crazy Nights weren’t added. In addition when I saw you guys in Knoxville I seem to remember I Want You and War Machine being performed and would have been awesome additions.
Our set list was much larger, but it was a single CD release.
@@kulicknet I hope that one day an extended version gets released with some of the other songs included. The band was so solid with you and either of the Erics.
It's still one of my favorite albums! I remember the summer of 93, playing that cassette every day, all day long!
My first KISS show being in Fayetteville NC in '92 at the Cumberland County Civic Center.the statue was very wobbly that nite, Eric looked nervous 😁 still the best show ive ever experienced.Alive III was the icing on the cake for us.felt custom made for us and our experience✌ still have the program
Awesome work Bruce! I became a fan of KISS in the mid 90’s in my early teens. My first alive album was KISS ALIVE III. Absolutely loved that album. I loved the energy I could feel through that album. I absolutely love the Revenge era. You guys were perfect together. Carnival of Souls was a great album too. I’d honestly love to see this lineup happen again.
Same here! 🙋♂️
Been a fan since 1974 and I was at the Detroit show for the recording of this!! So much great material and plenty that wasn't included on the final release. The band was on fire and other than Alive I, this was by far the strongest era of the band! Happy Birthday Alive III!
Great video! So important to the die-hard fans
STELLAR!!!! , The best ALIVE in my opinion!!! Such great times and KISS was so tight in their musicianship!!! BRUCE KULICK #1. Thank you for sharing.
Paul completely shined during the unmasked years
Love Alive III ❤
Greetings from Argentina ♡
This was awesome! Thanks Bruce! May 5th 1992 Trocadaro, Philadelphia (support act ) Shooting Gallery and KISS.
This era of Kiss should have had more years.
The band in top form, and sadly didn’t tour in 93 and few but memorable shows in 94 and 95.
The band was a beast during this era! 🔥. Awesome video. Thank you for sharing. Take care.
KISSes from Deutschland, ty Bruce for sharing this with us!!!
Wonderful ❤😊
Awesome video Bruce. I met you just the one time, when you and Eric came to visit us in Australia (as the Reunion Tour) was beginning. My memory of that experience (Coogee Bay Hotel, Sydney) is still vivid. Despite not being in Kiss you were so humble & easy to speak with. Thank you for not just being a kick ass rock and roll 🎸 star, but for being a wonderful person. This era of the band was my favourite for many reasons. Best songs, band sounded great. Happy 30th Kiss Alive III Anniversary 🎉
Bruce did an excellent job narrating this Documentary!!
Wow, thank you!
@kulicknet your welcome Bruce 🙏 and this coming from a retired Police captain who attended at least 37 Kiss concerts. They should have never let you go!! God Bless, Bruce!!
What kind of amp did u use for this?@@kulicknet
COOL!!!
I remember when this came out, I was living in Cairn, QLD, Australia. So cool to get the CD! Then the VHS for Konfidential?
Revenge Era clothing was the best non make up stuff, in my humble opinion.
Didn't know that about Take It Off. Cool
Easily the best, tightest, polished and rockin' era of the band's playing. Thank you Bruce, for this amazing tribute to that period in rock. Everyone would love to see some more HD restored video from this tour.
Great... I love it... Congratulations Bruce... Excellent history...!!!
Thanks for great music 🎶
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Awesome video!
Very cool video Bruce … I remember watching arsenio that was my sophomore year of high school 🤘🤘🤘
Grest line up!!!!
Personally, my favorite KISS live album, and the best era of the group too.
I think I can definitely get behind that!
Thank you Bruce Very cool, this was kiss at its best, non makeup . I met you and Eric the year before this and you were so kind, you had your hands full of stuff and you set it all down to pose for a picture with me, I couldn't believe it. thank you so much, John Z
Thanks Bruce!
Seriously, musically, it all came fully together on the Revenge tour. I was fortunate to see you guys twice in the Chicago area and caught a lot of the other shows on cassette. It was fire and man, I hope you guys get to perform again after the makeup incarnate stops. Though I know Paul's voice will be the challenge, I'm sure he'll rise to it. 🤘🏼😉
Love it!
Thanks for Share, regards from MeXiCo !!!
Another awesome video, Bruce!! This lineup was the first I was in Brasil at Monsters of Rock! It rules! 🤟
Definitely a great Album. Track 1, side 1, “Creatures of the Night” my favorite KISS song is this live version.
Awesome!!!!
What a great video! You and Andrew did such a great job. Thanks for sharing this with the fans! KISS Alive III is definitely my favorite 🔥
I was 11 years old when I got into KISS, and AliveIII came out. This is PEAK KISS.
Every KISS fan knows that Bruce is the BEST lead guitarist in Kisstory!
Great video, Bruce! Wow, 30 yrs.. I was 12 when this came out and listened to it, religiously with my Sony Walkman on the school bus. This album is as good or better than Alive or Alive II.
I like this album a lot. It tends to get dismissed relative to the first Alive, but it was a good album.
I was lucky enough to attend the Auburn Hills show!
You are the best!!!!
You rock Bruce! Can’t believe it’s been 30 years! My roommates and other friends were at the Indy show!
KISS was on fire during their Arsenio performances. Incredibly tight and inspired performances.
I'd love to hear Bruce do a podcast or audiobook on his music career
My favorite of KISS's live albums...
Thank you Bruce, you are the best.
On Alive III yall showed yallz azzs off!!! Slap yo momma rock at its finest. My brotha, what you brought to KISS as a guitarist will FOREVER be appreciated by this fan. Thank you Maestro Kulick...Thank you
Gracias por este video Bruce es genial ,saludos desde España, 🇪🇦🤟❤
Bruce Kulick ........... PERÚ !
This is STILL my favorite KISS ALIVE album, and in my top 3 all time favorite live albums! It STILL ROCKS!!! I!! LOVE!! IT!! LOUD!!!
30th anniversary? Jesus, I feel old.
Time for a Revenge era tour! You guys were clicking on all cylinders before it came to a halt for the reunion. Miss that version of the band.
I remember buying this day it dropped. Saw the tour at Brendan Byrne Arena. I have that signed band pic too!
I still have my VHS tape with the Arsenio Hall episode on it! I've always considered Alive III as my first KISS concert, because I got to enjoy it by myself, turned all the way up, and front to back!🤘🏾🎼🎸🔥
I was at the Cleveland show for Alive III. It was my 1st KISS concert and a day I will always remember.
Revenge and alive III my all time favorite era! I grew up watching kiss X-treme close up and Konfidental! 😊
Love you Bruce! I saw you 4 times with Kiss from 1985-1993, and you were always great!
My favorite album.
This is the KISS Live album I listen to the most. The set variety and quality of the recording is the band at it’s very best. Of course, this is my favorite KISS lineup, too.
One of the best live Albums from Kiss, I can remember that I've been waiting for a Kiss live Album for a long time, and then ALIVE III came, I'm still thrilled to this day, but unfortunately the show isn't complete.
My dad introduced me to KISS through the Unplugged MTV special! This same time I ended up listening to my dad's copy of Alive III and fell in love with the album! I had heard ALIVE I and ALIVE II and didn't delve deeper into those until much later. The musicianship on ALIVE III just hit me harder! You and Eric Singer slayed on these shows!
Just like on May 19, 1992, the release date May 18, 1993, I waited in my car outside Springfield Mall for the stores to open up. Bought both the cassette (for car) and CD (discman) and instantly played the whole album in the car, top volume.
Such a rocking great time.
Favorite live album with my favorite KISS closer song, Star Spangled Banner. The original KISS song. You can hit us with all you got...we don't break!
My first time getting to meet you was at the Alive 3 meeting in Chicago. Such a fun event.
This album and video was on every day, and watch it with my band after and before rehearsals every time we got together.
IMO, Alive III is the most underrated and BADASS of KISS Alive Series.
Very good live of kiss 👍💖🗼
I remember going to the Channel in Boston with Eric Singer and my dear departed brother Mike Bruton when they were in Boston promoting Alive 3
Perfection...the Bethlehem show from this tour is on UA-cam, and when I found it I thought I'd watch a few songs....then I looked up and it was over, watched the whole thing. Thanks for putting this clip together.
Hell yes, Bruce!!! Terrific job on this. Can’t believe it’s been 30 years. Miss the no make KISS
Alive III was my first Kiss álbum when I was 17, Cause I discovered Kiss from my dad's Alive Vinyl. When I listened I beggined to understand the Kiss sound. But, Todat I'm m 39 and I can say frim the bottom of my heart that the formation Of Alive 3 was the best off all kisstory. You were a Wall of sound. I really miss that. Bruce, You were for my the best Kiss at Guitars, even that Ace. i hope someday Alive 3 will be full 2023 remixed and restored to have the justice and respect as it deserv. Grettigns from Argentina!!
love it when you make these!
Without Ace and Peter Re/ Union Tour Kiss would not be here today. All Respect to Bruce
This is a great edit! Thank you Andrew!
I met Bruce way back when alive 3 was just released at a small music store in Columbus, Ohio called Lang music. He rocked some guitar there. I was was just a teenager star struck! I’ll never forget that. I miss how great Kiss is/was at that time with Bruce and Eric.