The very reason for the existence of this blog.
Friday, August 21, 2026
1980s Albums Where The Remaster Was Ruined — And The One Number That Proves It. [doc]
The very reason for the existence of this blog.
Sunday, July 26, 2026
From Chile: DECESSUS
©2020/2026 Decessus
℗2026 Hipper Than Hell Records
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Tuesday, July 14, 2026
KISS - Creatures Of The Night Media Collection (Restored & Remastered 2026)
01 - PM Magazine: KISS Returns to America
02 - Eyewitness News: Mardi Gras 1983
03 - Entertainment Tonight: Controversy with KISS
04 - Nightside Specialist: Protesting KISS
05 - CBS Nightwatch: The KISS... of Death?
06 - Radio Video Interview
07 - Radio Video Performance
08 - Brazilian TV: Live In Rio
09 - News Clip: God Of Thunder
10 - TV News Clip from Brazil: Interview
11 - Freeze Frame: Interview
12 - USA' Night Flight: Interview (Part One)
01 - MTV News: Interview
02 - Spanish TV: Lipsync Performance
03 - Italian TV Special "Discoring": Lipsync Performance
04 - German 3Sat TV Special: Lipsync Performance
05 - Top Pop - Holland: Lipsync Performance
06 - Top Pop - Holland: Behind The Scenes
07 - USA' Night Flight: Interview (Part Two)
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
KISS - "Destroyer Over Anaheim" (Anaheim Stadium 1976) (Restored & Remastered 2026)[V2]
Recorded Friday, August 20, 1976
Venue: Anaheim Stadium
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Openers: Flo & Eddy, Montrose, Bob Seger and Ted Nugent
More info:
01 - Detroit Rock City
02 - King of the Night Time World
03 - Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll
04 - Strutter
05 - Hotter Than Hell
06 - Nothin' to Lose
07 - Cold Gin
08 - Guitar Solo
09 - Shout It Out Loud
10 - Do You Love Me
11 - Bass Solo
12 - God of Thunder
13 - Drum Solo
14 - Rock and Roll All Nite
15 - Deuce
16 - Firehouse
17 - Black Diamond
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KISS - 2006 - ALIVE! The Millenium Concert (Sonic Restoration 2025) [ complete album stream ]
Alive! The Millennium Concert is a live album by the American hard rock band Kiss. It was released on November 21, 2006, as part of the Kiss Alive! 1975–2000 box set.
It was recorded on December 31, 1999, at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia and included songs that had never before been performed by the original lineup ("Heaven's on Fire", "I Love It Loud" and "Lick It Up").
Based on the excellent reimagined and expanded album image by Mick E. Gee. in 2010 now for the first time ever with extended dynamics and recreated transients which makes it for a more 3D natural sounding listening experience, which also causes less listening fatique, so you can turn it up louder if you want.
Mick's original liner notes: "This is the official release. HOWEVER, I changed the tempo of each track to varying degrees without changing the pitch. In most cases this can leave some noise artifacts. In this case they are non-existant, or at the very least almost completely unnoticable. As you all know the Millenium disc is a very slow and sluggish performance. I think I've adjusted each track to a tempo which makes this disc a ton more enjoyable. 2,000 mann and god of thunder are included and mixed in with the other tracks. I switched the left and right channels on shout it out loud because it had ace's guitar in the left side whereas he is on the right side on every other track. It is now more uniform."
Newly XDR* remastered album.
*Xtended Dynamic Range
01 - Psycho Circus
02 - Shout It Out Loud
03 - Deuce
04 - Heaven's On Fire
05 - Into The Void
06 - Firehouse
07 - Do You Love Me
08 - Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll
09 - I Love It Loud
10 - Lick It Up
11 - 2,000 Man
12 - God Of Thunder
13 - 100,000 Years
14 - Love Gun
15 - Black Diamond
16 - Detroit Rock City
17 - Beth
18 - Rock And Roll All Nite
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Sunday, July 5, 2026
KISS - Detroit, Cobo Hall, January 29th 1977 (Restored & Remastered 2026)
Recorded at Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI, January 29th, 1977
Details:
Promoter: Belkin Productions
Other act(s): Uriah Heep
Attendance: (11,597 capacity)
01 - Detroit Rock City
02 - Take Me
03 - Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll
04 - Ladies Room
05 - Firehouse
06 - Makin' Love
07 - I Want You
08 - Cold Gin
09 - Ace Frehley Solo
10 - Do You Love Me
11 - Nothin' To Lose
12 - Gene Simmons Solo
13 - God Of Thunder
14 - Peter Criss Solo
15 - God Of Thunder (continued)
15 - Rock And Roll All Nite
Notes (from ):
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Jeanette Frehley flew in and joined Ace for this show.
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Professionally filmed to a standard that in the opinion of the author exceeds the previous year's shows, Cobo '77 is sourced from a 3/4" master tape that surfaced on E-bay in June 2006. That tape was snapped up by a European collector for a bargain $5,000, though the seller, lacking any integrity, immediately started selling DVD copies to others. Once that occurred a free-for-all took place with traders making the video available in as many places as possible for free and reporting the auctions to the E-bay police to get them shutdown.
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Most stunning of the "Rock And Roll Over" tour archive is this incomplete video from the band's final and hastily added third show (Paul references it as the last of the shows during the introduction to "Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll"). - It is fitting, perhaps, that this Detroit show is available to collectors, though somewhat sad that the lesser MSG show was featured as a bonus for the KISSology Volume 1 DVD in terms of wider distribution. While incomplete, it is a stunning pro-shot video. Starting with backstage footage of the band heading to the stage (presumably shown on the venue screens), "Detroit Rock City" is joined in progress. The encores are also missing. What is known is that the video for "Beth," from one of the three Cobo shows, was used during the February 10, 1977 broadcast of "The People's Choice" awards show.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2026
PLASMATICS - "Pier 62!" (Restored & Remastered 2026)
Surely KISS fans must know about PLASMATICS, or even enjoy them casually.
For those who don't know...
What were the Plasmatics in 15 minutes.
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©1999 Plasmatics Media, Inc.
℗2026 Hipper Than Hell Records
Recorded Sept. 12th, 1980 at Pier 62, NYC, New York
01 - N.Y. Police Crowd Control Officer [00:00:18]
02 - Helicopter Arrival [00:04:28]
03 - Intro: Plasma Jam [00:05:21]
04 - Squirm [00:06:52]
05 - Tight Black Pants [00:09:04]
06 - Nothing [00:10:50]
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Richie Stotts describing it to journalist Joel Gausten from his blog...
“We got a permit from New York City to film a movie, and we were gonna
do it on the Pier. We built a stage out there. A real freakin’ stage. It
was five feet high and made of plywood, which cost a lot of money. Then
we built all phony stage amps and stuff. Even the guitars we played
were not really real. Then we went to the studio and recorded the songs
we were gonna play. The recorded them without the vocals, because Wendy
was gonna sing live. Then we had to get a PA system out there to play
the music. Then we had a ramp going off the stage, and behind the stage
was the end of the pier and the Hudson River.
In the meantime, we didn’t tell New York City that we put posters all
around saying that there was going to be a free concert by the
Plasmatics. Then we invited Chuck Scarborough and those characters from
ABC, NBC, CBS to come down. We did a press release.
So we built the stage a couple days before. I built part of that stage,
hammering the freakin’ shit in. We built a drum riser, got a cheap drum
set, threw it up there. The plan was for us to do the songs, and Wendy
would go to the front of the pier, get in the Cadillac, drive the car at
us and go up the ramp. Then we’d jump off the stage, everything would
explode and the car would hit this barrier in the back. It was a real
Cadillac, and we wanted to use that for our next show. We buy these
cars, and then we’d drive them to the show and blow them up.
Later on, we got a great pyro guy named ‘Pyro Pete,’ but before him we
had a guy named Rob. We didn’t know much about pyro, but Swenson thought
Rob was taking care of it. And all Rob did was have 10-gallon tanks cut
in half under the stage, and he just poured gasoline in them. This was
not what we expected. If the fire department had seen that, it would
have been all off. There was a tiff before the show, because we were all
nervous.
It was wild, because so many people came. My parents actually came to
this thing. We rented a helicopter, so we’d come down in the helicopter.
We came down and it looked like Woodstock. It was just jam-packed. The
police department was there; the fire department was there. It was
really exciting, and really exciting because we didn’t really have to
worry about playing because it was already taped. (laughs)
We went down there, and we played these songs and it was great. Wendy
goes and gets the car, drives the car up the stage, jumps out and
everybody’s fine. The car goes up the ramp, but doesn’t go up the ramp
the way we thought it would. The whole stage blew up, the gasoline tanks
worked…but the car just kept going and went right into the river.
The whole thing was great!”
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