(October 27, 2016 at 2:53 pm)Crossless1 Wrote:(October 27, 2016 at 2:39 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: 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.
You should get on YouTube and find their Wnterland concert from January 1975. They could throw down without overdubs, as that concert shows. They hadn't hit big, they were clearly hungry, and they were pretty much on fire that night. Set list drawn from the first two albums.
