KISS - "Turn On The Night" (franKENstein Remix and Video Redux)

Several people have requested that I remix something from the Crazy Nights album and at least one suggested this song. I thought it would be a good one to do since there is an official video for it.
I decided to have a little fun and rather than do a straight remix, I decided to play around with the arrangement a bit. I've added a bass intro and a chorus breakdown after the solo. I also added a build up to a hard ending instead of the fade. I took Bruce's "fade out" solo and instead joined it with his main solo to extend it using a half-time drum beat under the main part. I also made quite a few changes to the drum parts to accent the vocal grooves a bit more. I'm not sure if Eric was on this or if Paul used a drum machine, but I'd like to think Eric would have put a lot more fills in instead of the fairly straight-ahead patterns used on the album. I added a bit of grit (not much, just a bit for "color") to the bass guitar and blended the original guitars with tracks that were run through an amp modeler for more of a mid-range tone since they are a bit bright on the album. Per usual, the drums were re-sampled using the album track for the main "body" with cymbals, snare and kick enhanced using custom samples. The fills were also all replaced using toms from Dynasty.
I also left keyboards out completely. I didn't feel like they were really necessary and only made the main riff sound even more like JBJ's "She Don't Know Me" than it already does wink (a lot of "Panama" in that pre-chorus bridge as well). I also changed up the guitar rhythm parts in the verses to make them a little less RATT-like and a more straight-forward.
Although I was a much bigger makeup-era fan, I did follow the band all the way up to the Reunion-era and do like some of the mid-late '80s material. This is a good, catchy pop song and the video is pretty much a time-capsule of the MTV "hair-metal" era at its peak.
Speaking of the video, since this remix was quite a bit longer than the original video version, I borrowed a lot of the "Crazy, Crazy Nights" video to fill in the rest of the song (upscaled from the 480p version I grabbed from iTunes). Together, these videos give a great overview of that tour and stage show. I also moved shots around to match Eric's drumming better.
If you guys like the sound of this, I could always do a version with the original arrangement. I know some fans hate changes to the original material, but like I always say these are done by a huge fan as a creative outlet and not for the purists among us.
Enjoy!