@@terrylandess6072 The other one is Thin Lizzy's "Live And Dangerous", but I must tell you: I've never given the Foghat album a proper listening. I will correct that.
This is awesome...I bought it a few months after it came out! Rode my bike up to K-mart...bought it, snuck it in the house under my jacket! My parents did not want me listening to it at the time. I think I was 12 or 13 haha.. I totally agree, still the best Live album of all time. My #2 is Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous & #3. Humble Pie Rockin the Fillmore...great video dude!
Great video... I once asked Ace why Eddie Kramer didn’t produce the first three KISS albums after he had recorded their original demos... his answer? Money ... Neil Bogart didn’t want to pay Eddies asking price and that is why Neil got his buddies, Kerner and Wise, to produce the first two KISS albums while Neil took over production of Dressed To Kill.
Imagine being those kids going home all happy they got a picture taken of them and their poster and enjoyed a awesome kiss show....and then months later going to buy the Alive album when it comes out in stores and you turn it over......
A lot of things I didn’t know about this live album! I celebrated this anniversary last night! I truly hadn’t heard the album since middle school so it was nice to return to! Loved the fancy intro for this one!
To fully get it, you'd have to be in that golden age range, between 10-13 when this album hit. I was 10. My sister who was 13 got the album for Christmas, listened to it a few times and filed it away. Wasn't even aware it existed for a few weeks, but at some point my eyes caught that album cover and it was like a magnet. Would listen every day after school on a shitty turntable combo. I can vividly recall how the album and pull out bookle smelled. That new Kiss album smell. Who's with me on that?
I was looking forward to this analysis vid for a while. Definitely did not disappoint. I’ve never actually listened to this live album before but now I really want to. You nailed this. Nice job. CHEAP TRICK’S AT BUDOKAN WOOOO.
Remember discovering this album for the first time at my local Kmart. my mouth was wide open and my jaws dropped I must have stared at it for 15 minutes. had to go find my mom dragged her back and talked her into buying it for me taking it home and listening to it and again staring at the album front back and inside imagining myself being in that crowd it's the best rock live album ever and I don't think there should be an argument about it.
DAMN! That was some intro!! I don't blame bands for going back in and dubbing over some tracks. It's hard to get a great recording from such high energy acts. It seems there are few live albums that are untouched! I know Wings Over America get's heat for the same thing, they mostly went back and added more backing vocals due to lack of mic power. So funny those two kids from the back cover came back with the poster! Love it!! Haha! Amazing video, Dylan!! KILLER!! YES!!
Dylan, I really enjoyed your presentation and analysis of "KISS ALIVE!" And happy 45th anniversary to the album!! Your in depth knowledge is admirable, and Thank You for sharing it with us!! 👍🤟☮
What a killer review, as a fellow KISS fanatic I really appreciated the enthusiasm you had for this review, easily one the top 3 live albums of all time , it’s my personal favorite but there are other great ones as well. , i was actually thinking of doing a similar video, but you did such s good job i will probably focus on the initial 3 albums and their greatness, 👍🤘🤘
Hello Dylan ! Lot of info I had little , or no , knowledge of. Especially about Casablanca’s finacial state upon this release. As a live album afficionado , I agree that this was a trendsetter for future live albums. You know that live albums are my favourites because of the ”in-the-moment” factor , (my selfinvented live-music term) and this one is on the top shelf along with ”Alive II” , ”Band of Gypsys” , Led Zepp’s ”How the west was won” , Floyd’s ”Pulse” , Queen- ”Live at Wembley” and ”Made in Japan” by Deep Purple. + once again , I wholeheartedly recommend you the Pink Floyd bootleg ”U-N-I-T-E-D” from their 2005 reunion at the O2 arena in London. Good recording/sound quality and an absolutely breathtaking performance. I think you would love it too. Now I’ll take your advice and put on ”Alive” to celebrate. Cheers , bro !!
Great video, Dylan! Loved hearing the backstory and your thoughts on this album. You, Frank and other Kiss Army members helped me discover this great band! I’m forever grateful 🤘 Take care!
KISS Alive! is THE album I've listened to more than any other. I was 11 years old in 1975 when I was introduced to it and quickly became OBSESSED with it. Over the ensuing decades, it's received regular play.....barely a month goes by when I don't pull it out for a complete run-through. I have to declare it my "Desert Island Disc"....and that's no small declaration. My life became complete when, in the 8th row center at the Philadelphia Wachovia Center in 1996 on the Second Coming tour they opened with "Deuce". My sister and I threw our arms around each other, and I also hugged several complete strangers during the song....!! KISS Alive! FOREVER.....!!! 😃
Gday watched both ur reviews of Alive &Alive 11, excellent ! Down here in Australia we missed out on most of the album extras, nothing in Alive and only the booklet in Alive 11, nothing extra in Love Gun either, started my collection in 76 so the are the old copies, great info
Had a 69 4 door nova. I put a big stock 6×9 in the dash with a 1 inch realistc dome tweeter .that was on the left channel of craig pullout fm power play. In the back dash I had 2 pioneer 6 inch door speakers in open back boxes that was on the right channel. That Alive 8 track you could balance it just right and yiu were right there on deck.
Hi Dylan I'm playing my brand new 2014 us pressing right now just arrived from amazon UK .....and I'm blown away by the sound quality. ..a deffent improvement on my old original pressing I'm gonna be seeking out all the other kiss remasters. Cheers. ..and I will keep the kiss alive record spinning 🤘
I was 13 years old my cousin was a girl and was about 17, her boyfriend bought the record for her but she didn’t like it, her and her friends use to smoke pot downstairs in her bedroom and we were always bugging her running in and out while she was trying to hide the fact that her and friends were downstairs getting high, “HEY do you want this album”? she said., I don’t like it and if you stop bothering me you can have it! I took one look and never turned back! I was instantly hooked now at the age of 60 I’m still listening to the hottest band in the land thank you cuz
I was a junior in high school when this released. Drummer in school band but a bassist in the jazz band allowed me access to some of the better musicians in the area. Fun times. Important album? Well, yes, but unless you were close to my age it's kinda funny watching the youth today try to deep dive into our youth . . . . it was different than you think.
Every band embellished their live albums back then. Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, etc. It was common practice to just straight up record songs in the studio and add audience noise later. As far as classic live albums go this one is actually relatively authentic.
I have a double cd of the full kiss concert I saw at the download festival at Donington in 2008. It is completely unaltered. All of the mistakes are present, a completely honest recording. It was the Kiss Alive 35 tour. The set list features all of Alive, except Watchin' You and Firehouse, plus shout it out loud, love gun, Detroit rock city, I love it loud and lick it up
Great review ! Paul Stanley FINALLY told the truth about Alive 1. In early 2019 Stanley said that he was a closet, albeit huge Deep Purple fan. Paul had noticed that Purple had a good, not great, sound on vinyl. However, when Deep Purple released the greatest live album ever, Made in Japan, he was amazed. Songs like Child in Time and especially Smoke on the Water, literally . . . 'came alive'. NOTE - the live version of Smoke on the Water is out of this world. The vinyl version of Smoke is lame. KISS had the exact same problem as Deep Purple i.e. studio vinyl did not truly capture the power and essence of the band. KISS Alive I was released. It caught everyone by surprise, saved both Casablanca & KiSS and sold millions of copies a la Made in Japan. POSTSCRIPT- Deep Purple sold 68 million albums from 1968 - 76. They only sold 13 million albums in the USA. Purple sold a combined amount of 6.5 million albums after releasing the mighty Machine Head and a few months later, the immortal Made in Japan !
You forgot to mention the Slade Alive! from 1972 where Gene said they got the inspiration for the name of the live album. Gene said Slade were a big influence on KISS
There was a t-shirt I had with the Kiss Alive cover on it however it was not included with the lp here in Canada, I purchased it at a department store (Robinson's) around November 75, they were out of dark blue so I ended up taking yellow (which I didn't like), the shirt didn't last long as usual as it shrunk plus I was growing at the age of 14. Those were the days, so exciting with all the great heavy rock music, Kiss, Zep, Cooper, Johnny Winter, Foghat, Edgar Winter Group, Sabbath, Budgie, Nazareth, Aerosmith, Rush etc etc.
Officially, Riaa Alive was given gold status in December 1975 - $1 million in sales. But the label or labels has never upgraded the album - the best conservative numbers I can find is around 4 million copies has been sold. Given the double sales for double albums - I guess you could count it as 2× 4 million and claim 8 million. Using the formula, you might slated sales upward to 9 million or 9.5 million. Either way, it would or shall have been listed as one of the biggest selling live albums of all time. Some other notable live albums that the newer generations have overlooked are Woodstock (1970) Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From the Road (1977) Foghat - Live (1977). All sold extremely well in their day, but this channel may not be the place to focus on these albums: which is why I haven't list big selling country album or Elvis Presley - Aloha Hawaii Via Satellite which was perhaps the highest selling live album until KISS Alive came out in 1975.
I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade but that back photo was taken at a Styx concert at Madison Square Garden. Those teens were paid $50 to hold that KISS poster. Look at the size of the arena and crowd. In 1975, there was no way KISS would have played in an arena that large and there is no way they could have sold that many tickets. Look at the audience (it's slightly older). At KISS concerts, the crowd would have been slightly younger and many concertgoers would have been wearing KISS makeup. Notice in that photo, no one is wearing makeup. As for where I got my information from, it was either Peter's, Ace's, or Paul's biography. I read all three.
More important than Let it Be...Not really a live album. More important than The Wall Live 80-81....record sold way than the live album. More important than Nirvana Unplugged...Not better, not More important, however unplugged is a lot of covers and has a reduced audience. Can't think of another album, except maybe The Who Live in Leeds. So you might be right, Alive could be the most important live album.
I would guess Ace's solos were also live. I can't see him having the patience to re record all of the solos and they do sound like his live tone. Paul's rhythm guitar was probably most affected from him jumping around etc...
I’m a classic rock junkie but always found it hard to take KISS seriously. I dig a lot of the early material although many of the lyrics really make me cringe, as do some of the cheesy repetitive choruses. The fanatical attitude towards this band is also a bit of a mystery to me lol
Its been done to death but good to see the anniversary 50 yrs coming up next year maybe Gene Paul Ace and Peter if all still capable will do ...Barely Alive 50 and sort of kicking Tour 😊..This guy really NOSE what hes saying WTH is going on there👃👀i couldnt watch him without getting distracted molie molie molieeee style ooof🤔
Can only say there already were live albums before Kiss did it. And many of them sold. Also into the 70s, as from the 30s or earlier, playing 'live', in studio was the norm. For me, I wasn't buying Kiss as being significant and was already beginning to pass them up until 2 friends pulled me into Listening, to them. And, on former topic, people were watching, on T.V, which was a big deal, live rock shows, at least a couple years before Kiss did this. GrandFunk, AliceCooper, BlackOakArkansas(?( who?)), and many others. And yes people 'bootlegged', used old style tape recorder to record, directly off TV( awful quality). Kiss, yah yah, Kiss..mmm..yah?.. Any way (case,..how.., hoot.., whatever). It was part of childhood at the end of Baby Boomer generation, along with watching news reels of war news from Vietnam ( much of bombs, patrols, and terrible things recorded 'live', action(💔)). Usual teeter-totter of teen years of the time emotional bits).
KISS Alive! is the measuring rod against all successive live albums. However an earlier live album is Derick And The Dominoes Live At The Fillmore East. With Eric Clapton on guitar, it is a great album as well.
Sorry but the truly great live albums came before KISS ‘Alive!’, not after lol- Live at Leeds, Made in Japan, Allman Bros, Live/Dead, Stones, Hendrix etc. ‘Alive!’ and the success of others that followed cashed in on the new style of ‘stadium rock’. Frampton Comes Alive- one of the highest selling albums of all time yet only a few memorable songs lol
Best KISS album ever? Definitely. Best live rock album ever? Hmmm.... no. The most historically important live rock album of all time is Live at Leeds by The Who. It precedes all the albums you mentioned in your video. Not particularly a favorite one of mine, but its utmost significance and game-changing nature in the live rock genre is undeniable and second to none. At Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers Band would be an appropriate second, although is more Blues Rock. Kiss Alive? Probably in the top 5 with Get Yer Ya-Yas and Frampton, but definitely not at the top of the list.
Not that I disagree with you as those are important records (and I own/love them as well) and I certainly wouldn’t say Kiss Alive is my favourite live album ever, but I respect its place in history and what I think what he is trying to say was the impact that Alive! had, and that live records became more and more common afterwards (at least in the commercial aspect). Great album and Alive! 2 is good as well 😃
But it's not a live album. They recorded the songs in an mall. Peter played drums in a men's room. Honestly! An audience track was looped over the final product to give the feel of a live experience. This has been admitted not only by all 4 members of KISS, but production staff and other record executives as well. Still, it gives you a feeling of being right in the middle of it. ****
Oh good grief. Kiss Alive is not an important album of any sort. Rush, Frampton, Springsteen, and or course Queen - all are much better performed and produced LIVE recordings. But love the channel and opinions. Regards
@@edgarbower8089 No, actually all the guys in Rush stated that Kiss was the hardest working band. Hard work doesn't equal good music. I was listening to Kiss from the age of 12 (1975) till around the disco album (Dynasty). The backbone to any great band - is the drummer. And by Gene's own admission - Peter Criss was not very talented. Not a great endorsement for your band. Kiss is a band for young teens. But I grew up - discovered NY dolls, Sex Pistols, Clash, Springsteen, Dylan, Floyd, etc. Again. Opinions matter. Yours is important and relative. But remember - "HOT, HOT. HOTTER THAN HELL!" LOL
I find it hard to respect any band who seem to spend more time looking for yet more things that they can put their logo on then claim it as official KISS merchandise be it shoes, socks, back packs, lunch boxes, lighters, cologne, perfume, condoms, sex toys, underwear, stationary etc, etc, etc than they seem to care about their music. All of which is designed to cynically squeeze a few extra bucks from their easily exploitable fan base. As for their music, I doubt if they can even spell 'musical integrity'. When disco was popular they decided to go disco. When hair spray power chord pop was fashionable, they ditched their make up and became a Bon Jovi clone. When grunge became popular they decided to work on a grunge album ( remember carnival of souls anybody?) before ditching it when they got offered a hundred million dollars to put the make up back on and take the original line up on tour. Nothing more than a bunch of money grabbing, incredibly mediocre disingenuous musical prostitutes. God I hate kiss!!
@@Mark.H3721 Are you saying Gene Simmons only cares about the financial aspects of the band? I just cannot believe that Gene Simmons - the great bassist, singer, songwriter, would sellout the integrity of Kiss. Sarcasm is high in this comment. 😊 I do have a question. Did Gene blow fire from his ass or mouth? Could never tell the difference between the two.
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"Alive!" is one of my top two live rock albums. Words aren't enough to describe what I felt the first time I heard it. Thank you for this video!
Same here...
I hope Foghat live is the other. Like Kiss, the live versions add something the studio ones were lacking.
@@terrylandess6072 The other one is Thin Lizzy's "Live And Dangerous", but I must tell you: I've never given the Foghat album a proper listening. I will correct that.
@@NothingLikeVinyl I just listened to Foghat Live again yesterday, it’s a great party record. So uplifting. I like Kiss Alive better though.
They both stink
This is awesome...I bought it a few months after it came out! Rode my bike up to K-mart...bought it, snuck it in the house under my jacket! My parents did not want me listening to it at the time. I think I was 12 or 13 haha..
I totally agree, still the best Live album of all time. My #2 is Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous & #3. Humble Pie Rockin the Fillmore...great video dude!
Subscribed. You had me at "Celebrate the most important live album. Ever." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🏼🤘🏼
Great video... I once asked Ace why Eddie Kramer didn’t produce the first three KISS albums after he had recorded their original demos... his answer?
Money ... Neil Bogart didn’t want to pay Eddies asking price and that is why Neil got his buddies, Kerner and Wise, to produce the first two KISS albums while Neil took over production of Dressed To Kill.
Imagine being those kids going home all happy they got a picture taken of them and their poster and enjoyed a awesome kiss show....and then months later going to buy the Alive album when it comes out in stores and you turn it over......
A lot of things I didn’t know about this live album! I celebrated this anniversary last night! I truly hadn’t heard the album since middle school so it was nice to return to! Loved the fancy intro for this one!
To fully get it, you'd have to be in that golden age range, between 10-13 when this album hit. I was 10. My sister who was 13 got the album for Christmas, listened to it a few times and filed it away. Wasn't even aware it existed for a few weeks, but at some point my eyes caught that album cover and it was like a magnet. Would listen every day after school on a shitty turntable combo. I can vividly recall how the album and pull out bookle smelled. That new Kiss album smell. Who's with me on that?
Oh hell yes! That smell
Yes! The smell of that album is something I still recall, it was part of the experience!
The new KISS album smell. I'm SOOOO gonna miss that smell
I was 13, also. I'm living in Davenport, Iowa. Two songs were recorded there at the RKO Orpheum Theater -
You nailed it, every bit of it
This is a great live album. Thank you for your content.
Thank YOU for the comment!
I was looking forward to this analysis vid for a while. Definitely did not disappoint. I’ve never actually listened to this live album before but now I really want to. You nailed this. Nice job. CHEAP TRICK’S AT BUDOKAN WOOOO.
Remember discovering this album for the first time at my local Kmart. my mouth was wide open and my jaws dropped I must have stared at it for 15 minutes. had to go find my mom dragged her back and talked her into buying it for me taking it home and listening to it and again staring at the album front back and inside imagining myself being in that crowd it's the best rock live album ever and I don't think there should be an argument about it.
DAMN! That was some intro!! I don't blame bands for going back in and dubbing over some tracks. It's hard to get a great recording from such high energy acts. It seems there are few live albums that are untouched! I know Wings Over America get's heat for the same thing, they mostly went back and added more backing vocals due to lack of mic power. So funny those two kids from the back cover came back with the poster! Love it!! Haha! Amazing video, Dylan!! KILLER!! YES!!
Dylan, I really enjoyed your presentation and analysis of "KISS ALIVE!" And happy 45th anniversary to the album!! Your in depth knowledge is admirable, and Thank You for sharing it with us!! 👍🤟☮
What a killer review, as a fellow KISS fanatic I really appreciated the enthusiasm you had for this review, easily one the top 3 live albums of all time , it’s my personal favorite but there are other great ones as well. , i was actually thinking of doing a similar video, but you did such s good job i will probably focus on the initial 3 albums and their greatness, 👍🤘🤘
Another incredible video from you! Love this album!
Hello Dylan ! Lot of info I had little , or no , knowledge of. Especially about Casablanca’s finacial state upon this release. As a live album afficionado , I agree that this was a trendsetter for future live albums. You know that live albums are my favourites because of the ”in-the-moment” factor , (my selfinvented live-music term) and this one is on the top shelf along with ”Alive II” , ”Band of Gypsys” , Led Zepp’s ”How the west was won” , Floyd’s ”Pulse” , Queen- ”Live at Wembley” and ”Made in Japan” by Deep Purple.
+ once again , I wholeheartedly recommend you the Pink Floyd bootleg ”U-N-I-T-E-D” from their 2005 reunion at the O2 arena in London. Good recording/sound quality and an absolutely breathtaking performance. I think you would love it too. Now I’ll take your advice and put on ”Alive” to celebrate. Cheers , bro !!
Dylan you are a musical encyclopedia! KISS Alive is a phenomenal live album! This was such an incredible video celebrating the 45th anniversary!
Great video, Dylan! Loved hearing the backstory and your thoughts on this album. You, Frank and other Kiss Army members helped me discover this great band! I’m forever grateful 🤘 Take care!
Fantastic live album. Love the version of Rock and Roll All Nite on this record. So good. But the whole album is phenomenal👍
I love this double LP. One of the all time best live LPs in rock n roll history
Nice Video on the Kiss Alive Vinyl.I hope to see more of your explanation on other albums and also mentioning the better album pressing Thanks
KISS Alive! is THE album I've listened to more than any other. I was 11 years old in 1975 when I was introduced to it and quickly became OBSESSED with it. Over the ensuing decades, it's received regular play.....barely a month goes by when I don't pull it out for a complete run-through. I have to declare it my "Desert Island Disc"....and that's no small declaration. My life became complete when, in the 8th row center at the Philadelphia Wachovia Center in 1996 on the Second Coming tour they opened with "Deuce". My sister and I threw our arms around each other, and I also hugged several complete strangers during the song....!! KISS Alive! FOREVER.....!!! 😃
Awesome overview Dylan! A true game changer! - Joel
Great review brother, as a die hard kiss fan I can say that without a doubt !
Gday watched both ur reviews of Alive &Alive 11, excellent ! Down here in Australia we missed out on most of the album extras, nothing in Alive and only the booklet in Alive 11, nothing extra in Love Gun either, started my collection in 76 so the are the old copies, great info
Very nice review. Thanks
Alive! Is the best of all time!
Great video!!!
Excellent analogy ! My opening door to rock was Alive in “75 !
Eu tenho, aqui no Brasil o primeiro álbum Kiss Alive! Casablanca Records, USA. cópia. Feliz Aniversário Kiss Alive! 👏👏🎂🍻🎉🎉🎉 🇧🇷
Had a 69 4 door nova. I put a big stock 6×9 in the dash with a 1 inch realistc dome tweeter .that was on the left channel of craig pullout fm power play. In the back dash I had 2 pioneer 6 inch door speakers in open back boxes that was on the right channel. That Alive 8 track you could balance it just right and yiu were right there on deck.
Bein live and havin the stereo front to back.
Great video, kid! The most important album in the history of KISS! I have the 2008 back in black! It sounds ok, not bad, not great, but ok!
100,000 Years on this album is still just pure rock 'n roll fun & excitement !! Still my go-to when I want a jolt...
🚬😎👍
Damn straight!!
Hi Dylan
I'm playing my brand new 2014 us pressing right now just arrived from amazon UK .....and I'm blown away by the sound quality. ..a deffent improvement on my old original pressing I'm gonna be seeking out all the other kiss remasters.
Cheers. ..and I will keep the kiss alive record spinning 🤘
So glad you are enjoying your 2014 pressing. It’s absolutely awesome!
@@TheRecordSpinner thank you Dylan
Very well. Good work
Love from Sweden 💖
These were live shows. In new jersey, wildwood new jersey.
I enjoyed the video man, dont really like kiss too much but this was good
It was ground breaking when it came out and it just keeps getting better!!!🤟
I think All the Worlds a Stage is definitely in the mix since it came out at the same time and features the songs from their first 3 albums.
THE GOAT OF LIVE ALBUMS !!!
Please prove.... Deep Purple Made in Japan
I was 13 years old my cousin was a girl and was about 17, her boyfriend bought the record for her but she didn’t like it, her and her friends use to smoke pot downstairs in her bedroom and we were always bugging her running in and out while she was trying to hide the fact that her and friends were downstairs getting high, “HEY do you want this album”? she said., I don’t like it and if you stop bothering me you can have it! I took one look and never turned back! I was instantly hooked now at the age of 60 I’m still listening to the hottest band in the land thank you cuz
Still one of my all time top 5 live albums. Awesome.
My dad gave me that album when I was 12 years old back in 1976 or so.
Best dad of the year award goes to him!
all my life since I was 5 yo in 1976 and my dad gave me that record, I thought those were girls holding up that sign on the back cover
I was a junior in high school when this released. Drummer in school band but a bassist in the jazz band allowed me access to some of the better musicians in the area. Fun times. Important album? Well, yes, but unless you were close to my age it's kinda funny watching the youth today try to deep dive into our youth . . . . it was different than you think.
Every band embellished their live albums back then. Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, etc. It was common practice to just straight up record songs in the studio and add audience noise later. As far as classic live albums go this one is actually relatively authentic.
❤KISS ❤ because of "Alive !" since 1975 and there is no better Livealbum ever! THISIS ❤KISS ❤Masterpiece!
Dressed to kill is awesome 👍
Peter was the only one that played truly live! Just think about that
👍👍👍👍
That's correct.
Great review of THE greatest album of all time. I shit you not.
I love KISS Alive!!
I grew up with love gun double platnum and dynasty on 8 track
I have a double cd of the full kiss concert I saw at the download festival at Donington in 2008. It is completely unaltered. All of the mistakes are present, a completely honest recording. It was the Kiss Alive 35 tour. The set list features all of Alive, except Watchin' You and Firehouse, plus shout it out loud, love gun, Detroit rock city, I love it loud and lick it up
My favorite KISS album...an absolute mother effer
Great review !
Paul Stanley FINALLY told the truth about Alive 1.
In early 2019 Stanley said that he was a closet, albeit huge Deep Purple fan.
Paul had noticed that Purple had a good, not great, sound on vinyl. However, when Deep Purple released the greatest live album ever, Made in Japan, he was amazed. Songs like Child in Time and especially Smoke on the Water, literally . . . 'came alive'.
NOTE - the live version of Smoke on the Water is out of this world. The vinyl version of Smoke is lame.
KISS had the exact same problem as Deep Purple
i.e. studio vinyl did not truly capture the power and essence of the band.
KISS Alive I was released.
It caught everyone by surprise, saved both Casablanca & KiSS and sold millions of copies a la Made in Japan.
POSTSCRIPT- Deep Purple sold 68 million albums from 1968 - 76. They only sold 13 million albums in the USA.
Purple sold a combined amount of 6.5 million albums after releasing the mighty Machine Head and a few months later, the immortal Made in Japan !
You forgot to mention the Slade Alive! from 1972 where Gene said they got the inspiration for the name of the live album. Gene said Slade were a big influence on KISS
from the first dubbed cannons the entire album apart from Peters drums is an studio overdub
Kiss Alive, Frampton Comes Alive and Head East Live were literally mandatory records to have for every teenager my age in the Midwest back in the 70s.
Best live album. Ever...
Kiss alive 1 & 2 and Thin Lizzy live and dangerous are my top 3 live albums.
Really, best “Live Album”……
I could swear that there was a t-shirt included when I bought my copy of Alive way back when! Can anyone confirm this or tell me I’m dreaming??
There was a t-shirt I had with the Kiss Alive cover on it however it was not included with the lp here in Canada, I purchased it at a department store (Robinson's) around November 75, they were out of dark blue so I ended up taking yellow (which I didn't like), the shirt didn't last long as usual as it shrunk plus I was growing at the age of 14. Those were the days, so exciting with all the great heavy rock music, Kiss, Zep, Cooper, Johnny Winter, Foghat, Edgar Winter Group, Sabbath, Budgie, Nazareth, Aerosmith, Rush etc etc.
Officially, Riaa Alive was given gold status in December 1975 - $1 million in sales. But the label or labels has never upgraded the album - the best conservative numbers I can find is around 4 million copies has been sold. Given the double sales for double albums - I guess you could count it as 2× 4 million and claim 8 million. Using the formula, you might slated sales upward to 9 million or 9.5 million. Either way, it would or shall have been listed as one of the biggest selling live albums of all time.
Some other notable live albums that the newer generations have overlooked are Woodstock (1970) Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From the Road (1977) Foghat - Live (1977). All sold extremely well in their day, but this channel may not be the place to focus on these albums: which is why I haven't list big selling country album or Elvis Presley - Aloha Hawaii Via Satellite which was perhaps the highest selling live album until KISS Alive came out in 1975.
Forty eight years later
The album is a test of time.
Werent Band of Gypsys and Made in Japan raw live recordings?
Yes they were
The rock band THE GODZ from Columbus Ohio was also under Casablanca records and opened for KiSS
I’ve heard of that name before, I’ll have to check them out.
Under The Table. Great track!
The Mother of all KISS albums.
I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade but that back photo was taken at a Styx concert at Madison Square Garden. Those teens were paid $50 to hold that KISS poster. Look at the size of the arena and crowd. In 1975, there was no way KISS would have played in an arena that large and there is no way they could have sold that many tickets. Look at the audience (it's slightly older). At KISS concerts, the crowd would have been slightly younger and many concertgoers would have been wearing KISS makeup. Notice in that photo, no one is wearing makeup. As for where I got my information from, it was either Peter's, Ace's, or Paul's biography. I read all three.
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I'm not a fan of KISS, but you always do a knockout job of presenting in your videos. Keep up the good work!
"KISS Alive the Most Great Live for the Story of the Music"
More important than Let it Be...Not really a live album. More important than The Wall Live 80-81....record sold way than the live album. More important than Nirvana Unplugged...Not better, not More important, however unplugged is a lot of covers and has a reduced audience. Can't think of another album, except maybe The Who Live in Leeds. So you might be right, Alive could be the most important live album.
ANY mention of great Live albums that leaves out the WHO live at Leeds is downright Criminal . serious oversight , my Friend .
Live at Leeds is a phenomenal record!
There was a story going around when I was a kid that some of Kiss Alive was faked to sound live.🤔🤨
I have the original album
Yeah Eddie Kramer invented a fake live album with KiSS and it became a Masterpiece
Got that right!
Not an easy feat.
Fin Costello did alot of rock photography in the seventies but gets little recognition.
I would guess Ace's solos were also live. I can't see him having the patience to re record all of the solos and they do sound like his live tone. Paul's rhythm guitar was probably most affected from him jumping around etc...
As a guitarist, I can tell you that a lot of aces solos were slightly different everytime I've seen and heard him live.
Peter's solo is a jazz one, not hard rock.
I’m a classic rock junkie but always found it hard to take KISS seriously. I dig a lot of the early material although many of the lyrics really make me cringe, as do some of the cheesy repetitive choruses. The fanatical attitude towards this band is also a bit of a mystery to me lol
Kiss put live albums on the map...look at cheap trick, frampton, the song remains the same were all released after kiss alive in 75
Its been done to death but good to see the anniversary 50 yrs coming up next year maybe Gene Paul Ace and Peter if all still capable will do ...Barely Alive 50 and sort of kicking Tour 😊..This guy really NOSE what hes saying WTH is going on there👃👀i couldnt watch him without getting distracted molie molie molieeee style ooof🤔
Some might say Framptom Comes Alive. KISS Alive (as we know) ain’t very live. I love KISS ALIVE but it has it’s to be put in perspective.
Can only say there already were live albums before Kiss did it. And many of them sold. Also into the 70s, as from the 30s or earlier, playing 'live', in studio was the norm.
For me, I wasn't buying Kiss as being significant and was already beginning to pass them up until 2 friends pulled me into Listening, to them.
And, on former topic, people were watching, on T.V, which was a big deal, live rock shows, at least a couple years before Kiss did this.
GrandFunk, AliceCooper, BlackOakArkansas(?( who?)), and many others. And yes people 'bootlegged', used old style tape recorder to record, directly off TV( awful quality). Kiss, yah yah, Kiss..mmm..yah?..
Any way (case,..how.., hoot.., whatever). It was part of childhood at the end of Baby Boomer generation, along with watching news reels of war news from Vietnam ( much of bombs, patrols, and terrible things recorded 'live', action(💔)). Usual teeter-totter of teen years of the time emotional bits).
Did anybody ever tell you you look like Michael Sweet
I can somewhat see it 😂
KISS Alive! is the measuring rod against all successive live albums. However an earlier live album is Derick And The Dominoes Live At The Fillmore East. With Eric Clapton on guitar, it is a great album as well.
Sorry but the truly great live albums came before KISS ‘Alive!’, not after lol- Live at Leeds, Made in Japan, Allman Bros, Live/Dead, Stones, Hendrix etc. ‘Alive!’ and the success of others that followed cashed in on the new style of ‘stadium rock’. Frampton Comes Alive- one of the highest selling albums of all time yet only a few memorable songs lol
Best KISS album ever? Definitely.
Best live rock album ever? Hmmm.... no.
The most historically important live rock album of all time is Live at Leeds by The Who. It precedes all the albums you mentioned in your video. Not particularly a favorite one of mine, but its utmost significance and game-changing nature in the live rock genre is undeniable and second to none. At Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers Band would be an appropriate second, although is more Blues Rock.
Kiss Alive? Probably in the top 5 with Get Yer Ya-Yas and Frampton, but definitely not at the top of the list.
Not that I disagree with you as those are important records (and I own/love them as well) and I certainly wouldn’t say Kiss Alive is my favourite live album ever, but I respect its place in history and what I think what he is trying to say was the impact that Alive! had, and that live records became more and more common afterwards (at least in the commercial aspect). Great album and Alive! 2 is good as well 😃
But it's not a live album. They recorded the songs in an mall.
Peter played drums in a men's room. Honestly!
An audience track was looped over the final product to give the feel of a live experience.
This has been admitted not only by all 4 members of KISS, but production staff and other record executives as well.
Still, it gives you a feeling of being right in the middle of it. ****
you're clueless.. drums are all live. the rest is re done in a studio
too bad its all fake
So is Santa Claus. But people love him 😊😊. Peace !
Oh good grief. Kiss Alive is not an important album of any sort.
Rush, Frampton, Springsteen, and or course Queen - all are much better performed and produced LIVE recordings.
But love the channel and opinions.
Regards
Brent G, oh good grief, just YOUR opinion dude. Even the guys in RUSH said it had a tremendous impact on them.
@@edgarbower8089 No, actually all the guys in Rush stated that Kiss was the hardest working band.
Hard work doesn't equal good music.
I was listening to Kiss from the age of 12 (1975) till around the disco album (Dynasty).
The backbone to any great band - is the drummer. And by Gene's own admission - Peter Criss was not very talented. Not a great endorsement for your band.
Kiss is a band for young teens. But I grew up - discovered NY dolls, Sex Pistols, Clash, Springsteen, Dylan, Floyd, etc.
Again. Opinions matter. Yours is important and relative.
But remember - "HOT, HOT. HOTTER THAN HELL!"
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I find it hard to respect any band who seem to spend more time looking for yet more things that they can put their logo on then claim it as official KISS merchandise be it shoes, socks, back packs, lunch boxes, lighters, cologne, perfume, condoms, sex toys, underwear, stationary etc, etc, etc than they seem to care about their music. All of which is designed to cynically squeeze a few extra bucks from their easily exploitable fan base. As for their music, I doubt if they can even spell 'musical integrity'. When disco was popular they decided to go disco. When hair spray power chord pop was fashionable, they ditched their make up and became a Bon Jovi clone. When grunge became popular they decided to work on a grunge album ( remember carnival of souls anybody?) before ditching it when they got offered a hundred million dollars to put the make up back on and take the original line up on tour. Nothing more than a bunch of money grabbing, incredibly mediocre disingenuous musical prostitutes. God I hate kiss!!
@@Mark.H3721 Are you saying Gene Simmons only cares about the financial aspects of the band?
I just cannot believe that Gene Simmons - the great bassist, singer, songwriter, would sellout the integrity of Kiss.
Sarcasm is high in this comment. 😊
I do have a question. Did Gene blow fire from his ass or mouth? Could never tell the difference between the two.
Milestone in rock music.