(October 27, 2016 at 2:39 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(October 27, 2016 at 2:10 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: In '76-'77 I bought Kiss Destroyer and thought it was the shit. I was ten. The Kiss infatuation didn't survive much past 5th grade, but my taste didn't really improve until I hit high school and came under the wing of this burned out hippie who owned the local record shop that practically became my second home and who schooled me on some really good stuff. However, I must say that I still don't understand his fascination with The Grateful Dead's "Truckin'".
I should also credit my high school band teacher, who gave me my first real taste of jazz. Thanks, Mr. Piehl.
But some things never go away, no matter how embarrassing they may be. I must confess: if I'm driving alone and "Rock and Roll All Night" comes on, I'll crank it up. Judge me if you will.
Oh, I went through a Kiss phase. I still think Alive! is a solid album.
Yeah, it really is. Their early stuff was good meat and potatoes rock.
I was rather crestfallen as a kid when I learned the extent to which they resorted to studio overdubs to clean up and 'correct' the actual performance recordings. To hear Alive! without that knowledge is to think they were a really good live band, instead of a decent bar band with a catchy gimmick.
