BOOMER BAND BATTLE - - - KISS VS Deep Purple

Who Wins this Battle of the 70's Bands

  • Kiss

    Votes: 8 30.8%

  • Deep Purple

    Votes: 18 69.2%
  • Total voters
    26
  • Poll closed .
Jethro Rocker said:
I guess no RnR All Nite in Detroit Rock City for you, Dr. Love. Nope.
So Hush you Lazy beggar you and start Space Truckin like a Highway Star. :p
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Haha, nope. I think the songs are cheesy, I can't stand Paul's voice and Gene is a total ass'ole. I always thought Ace was cool/funny, I wish the original band was still intact, but I doubt it would change my opinion if it was.
 
I agree with all the detractors of Kiss and I even brought up Deep Purple to begin with. But I also said this earlier, maybe in a dream )whatever) KISS was huge factor in my life when I was a pup. Even if it wasn’t about the music. As the man said “ you asked for it and you got it, the hottest band in the world KISS. “
 
I recall as a preeteen kid listening to fm radio on a visit to the city through my cool uncles' coily cord headphones...late at night... alone in a dark livingroom. ...
DJ needs a smoke break so he mounts up Child in Time for me...


My. mind. = blown. He never announced the band or the title so I was left wondering for years what I had heard until it was playing in a record store I was in.
My first KISS experience is having "Christine Sixteen" on a K-tel compilation, and I quite liked it but it never caused me to dig deeper.


I like to zag when others zig... and though I am not too familiar with KISS history and lore, I believe they are more the base embodiment of blue collar rock, and have inspired triple the band formations and denim vest patches Deep Purple have... and that's a key metric for me in this particular matchup.

It's hard to vote against that first riff we all learn ... and i feel a dislike for almost all the personalities in KISS, but at least they seemed to have some. I begrudgingly vote KISS
 
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First off, I like Deep Purple. I like Deep Purple more than Kiss. To me, their songs were more interesting, they were more thoughtful, and I think Richie Blackmore's guitar work was at a higher level than Ace Frehley's. And, they created the most iconic guitar riff of rock music: Smoke On The Water.

Though I don't consider them to be heavy metal, they are often credited with laying the groundwork for it. So, as a band they formed the foundation that would benefit others, such as Kiss.

However, they do not have nearly the notoriety as Kiss, due to (I think, obviously) the larger-than-life onstage persona created by Kiss - what with the makeup, costumes, pyrotechnics, etc.

The period in question is 1968-1980. Deep Purple was most famous during the early part of that period. Kiss was more popular during about the later half. As noted, Kiss also created an extreme persona that far exceeded that of Deep Purple.

So, in some situations, one band excels; but, in other situations, the other band excels.

Understandably, this is not an easy call, but I'm going to have to give the nod to Deep Purple.
 
smitty_p said:
To follow up on my earlier post, I may be the weird guy here, but the makeup and costumes which Kiss used to the extreme don't bother me. That did not influence my decision away from them.
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I thought it was cool, personally. They were giving the audience a show and bringing theatrics, like Alice Cooper did. Though they don't use makeup; AC/DC , Iron Maiden and even Judas Priest and Motorhead to a degree, all followed KISS's approach of big stage show theatrics with large props to entertain the audience. And that's cool to me: beats seeing a bunch of dudes on stage standing like statues and playing their music like it was on the album. What's the point in seeing it live then?
 
Clockworkmike said:
I thought it was cool, personally. They were giving the audience a show and bringing theatrics, like Alice Cooper did. Though they don't use makeup; AC/DC , Iron Maiden and even Judas Priest and Motorhead to a degree, all followed KISS's approach of big stage show theatrics with large props to entertain the audience. And that's cool to me: beats seeing a bunch of dudes on stage standing like statues and playing their music like it was on the album. What's the point in seeing it live then?
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True.

I recall a couple years ago when I was with my old band, we did an open mic night. I tend to be somewhat animated when I play and would go out into the crowd to play a solo, or even stand on a table to play some parts. Of course, it gets a crowd excited. To me, I was just trying to play the role of the ostentatious guitar player.

During a break in the open mic, the leader from another band and I started talking. She kind of expressed a little disappointment that her electric guitar player didn't move around more. He did what you're describing: just kind of stood there. She wasn't there with her whole band, so I never saw him, but she described the situation to me.

That's when I learned that I can't expect a crowd to be excited if the band doesn't show excitement.
 
smitty_p said:
True.

I recall a couple years ago when I was with my old band, we did an open mic night. I tend to be somewhat animated when I play and would go out into the crowd to play a solo, or even stand on a table to play some parts. Of course, it gets a crowd excited. To me, I was just trying to play the role of the ostentatious guitar player.

During a break in the open mic, the leader from another band and I started talking. She kind of expressed a little disappointment that her electric guitar player didn't move around more. He did what you're describing: just kind of stood there. She wasn't there with her whole band, so I never saw him, but she described the situation to me.

That's when I learned that I can't expect a crowd to be excited if the band doesn't show excitement.
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Precisely! There's nothing wrong with being animated on stage and showing some excitement. It SHOULD be exciting for both the band AND the audience. I've actually watched opening acts who the crowd didn't know, come out and go off the rails and win the audience over just by the energy, which is cool to see. Happened just a few months ago actually, in Pittsburgh at PPG Arena: a Mongolian band named The Hu came out and no one could understand the language but the energy and movement had the crowd cheering before the end and standing for them.
 
Clockworkmike said:
...a Mongolian band named The Hu came out and no one could understand the language but the energy and movement had the crowd cheering before the end and standing for them.
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The Hu! Ha, that's funny. I get it!

But, yeah, Kiss's makeup, costumes, stage show, etc., didn't make me want to vote against them. Quite the opposite, it made it harder for me not to vote for them.
 
TVvoodoo said:
I recall as a preeteen kid listening to fm radio on a visit to the city through my cool uncles' coily cord headphones...late at night... alone in a dark livingroom. ...
DJ needs a smoke break so he mounts up Child in Time for me...


My. mind. = blown. He never announced the band or the title so I was left wondering for years what I had heard until it was playing in a record store I was in.
My first KISS experience is having "Christine Sixteen" on a K-tel compilation, and I quite liked it but it never caused me to dig deeper.

However, I like to zag when others zig... and though I am not too familiar with KISS history and lore, I believe they are more the base embodiment of blue collar rock, and have inspired triple the band formations and denim vest patches Deep Purple have... and that's a key metric for me in this particular matchup.

It's hard to vote against that first riff we all learn ... and i feel a dislike for almost all the personalities in KISS, but at least they seemed to have some. I begrudgingly vote KISS
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Now you see that right there would have been a worthy advisory for Rob Halford. Ian Gillian just wailed. No match. The major difference is 2 guitars for JP.
That’s a helluva song.
 
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