Just listened to this album for the first time in my entire life...

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welcome to the fold

See, that’s where it’s a bit weird. I’m not really in the fold.

But, I do think Kiss is a misunderstood band. As someone who never heard a single album of theirs all the way through until a few days ago, I’m really interested in giving them a fair listen.

What I’ve learned so far goes back to my earlier statement.

They are America’s Rock Band.
 
Kiss album.

This thread is pretty much a Kiss exploration.

Well...after Destroyer they went to crap for me. The Love Gun album was what turned us all against them in my circle of friends back in the day.

If you want to explore earlier stuff I would suggest Dressed to Kill

...as for Americas Rock Band I'd lean way more towards Aerosmith!
 
...as for Americas Rock Band I'd lean way more towards Aerosmith!

Fair enough.

No real argument from me. These are just my impressions.

But, Kiss seems (or used to seem) more of a larger-than-life entity.

That’s not necessarily the “right” measure, I suppose. It’s just how I was looking at things.
 
So let me ask... (and anyone may answer...)

What was the appeal of Kiss to you, when you were a kid?

IT was Rock n Roll, Smitty.

I mean, Once I was injected by the likes of Deep Purple at like 9 years old in a barber's chair, Beatles in 6th grade, Grand Funk around the Same time, then Van Halen, Nugent, Alice, Stones, Zep, Judas, Rush, Leppard, so of course the bombast of KISS had a place as well.
 
Agreed -- I was also a huge Aero-head-- and "Walk this Way" was the first "real" song I learned on guitar (can still play it to this day) --

BUT -- KISS for me-- was a more "die hard" FAN level-- I mean -- I had KISS action figures and lunch boxes in elementary (ELEMENTARY) school---
they were the GATE WAY band to ---- Sabbath--- Aerosmith Stones-- Queen-- METALLICA -- et all.
 
anyone here remember these??????
Came in the ALIVE 2 album I believe??????

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