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So, I've always loved "Hotter Than Hell". In fact it's in my top 5 KISS albums and it's not No. 5!
But, as I heard many, many of us complain, I too did have a slight
problem with the way it has always sounded, in various degrees, and this
is that it's horribly distorted. I've always connected the sound of the
album with an image of over-heating amps and the rattling of metal,
everything that was in the studio while it was recorded and everything
of metal did ring and buzz, and was recorded with the instruments. Not
good.
So, in an attempt to get rid of all that I deconstructed the best high
resolution sound image I had and make it as wide and dynamic as possible
with a reversed compression technique (sonic decompression). Then I
filtered as delicately as possible quite some excessive noise and EQ'd
it so that the good distortion is there, as raw as it should be, and
most of the nasty distortion on guitars and snare mostly would be gone.
And I added some low end, because it is a kind of thin, squashed
production to begin with. And, as the final touch I mastered it to my
optimum headroom benchmark, DR12.
I'm totally happy with the results, and wanted to share it with you, the
KISS fan that is here for a reason, otherwise you would not have read
this all, right?! Enjoy!
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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)
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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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Newly UDR* remastered video album.
*Ultimate Dynamic Range
01 - We Will Rock You (Slow) / A Day At The Races (Intro)
02 - We Will Rock You (Fast)
03 - Brighton Rock
04 - Somebody To Love
05 - Death On Two Legs
06 - Killer Queen
07 - Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
08 - I'm In Love With My Car
09 - Get Down Make Love
10 - The Millionaire Waltz
11 - You're My Best Friend
12 - Liar
13 - Love Of My Life
14 - '39
15 - My Melancholy Blues
16 - White Man
17 - The Prophet's Song
18 - Guitar Solo
19 - Now I'm Here
20 - Stone Cold Crazy
21 - Bohemian Rhapsody
22 - Keep Yourself Alive
23 - Tie Your Mother Down
24 - We Will Rock You
25 - We Are The Champions
26 - Sheer Heart Attack
27 - Jailhouse Rock
28 - God Save The Queen
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For me personally the 1978 "ALIVE II" tour of Japan is the pinnacle of
what we could enjoy from the original 4 before they split up. This show
presented here is one of my all-time favorite audience recording of the
band. Sadly the version out there is brick-walled and compressed to a
pulp which causes listening fatique. I reintroduced peaks and valleys in
the sound, recreate the transients and the soundstaging, re-EQ'ed the
whole so it would sound as good as possible and it sounds like you were
actually there in the audience. This recording became one of the best
(Audience Recordings) out there IMO, if not only for the amazing
performances and the wild participation of the audience.
Enjoy!
Recorded March 29th, 1978 at Budokan, Tokyo, Japan.
Promoter: Udo Artists
Other act(s): Bow Wow
Reported audience: 11,000 **SOLD-OUT
Recorded by Mr. Peach
01 - Announcement
02 - Monitor Check
03 - Introduction
04 - I Stole Your Love
05 - King Of The Night Time World
06 - Ladies Room
07 - Firehouse
08 - Love Gun
09 - Let Me Go, Rock And Roll
10 - Makin' Love
11 - Christine Sixteen
12 - Shock Me
13 - Guitar Solo
14 - I Want You
15 - Calling Dr. Love
16 - Shout It Out Loud
17 - Bass Solo
18 - God Of Thunder
19 - Drum Solo
20 - God Of Thunder (continued)
21 - Rock And Roll All Nite
encores:
22 - Detroit Rock City
23 - Beth
24 - Black Diamond
25 - Announcement
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Recorded live at Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 18th, 1983
01 - Creatures Of The Night [00:00:00]
02 - Cold Gin [00:03:59]
03 - Calling Dr. Love [00:07:49]
04 - Firehouse [00:10:55]
05 - I Love It Loud [00:14:26]
06 - War Machine [00:17:34]
07 - Black Diamond [00:21:14]
08 - Band Profile, Interview [00:24:36]
09 - Drumsolo Eric Carr [00:28:06]
10 - Rock And Roll All Nite [00:30:04]
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Recorded live at The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, April 25th 1992
Picture is not great, some songs are cut half-through, but the concert is awesome.
01 - Introduction [00:00:00]
02 - Love Gun [00:01:01]
03 - Deuce [00:04:56]
04 - Heaven's On Fire / Shout It Out Loud [00:08:19]
05 - Calling Dr. Love [00:12:58]
06 - I Was Made For Lovin' You [00:15:31]
07 - Unholy [00:19:24]
08 - Take It Off [00:24:09]
09 - Lick It Up [00:27:10]
10 - I Love It Loud [00:31:44]
11 - Cold Gin [00:35:02]
12 - Detroit Rock City [00:40:54]
13 - I Want You [00:45:53]
14 - God Gave Rock And Roll To You II [00:49:38]
15 - Rock And Roll All Nite [00:49:38]
16 - Interview [01:00:14]
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Recorded At The Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, MI, USA, November 27th 1992
(Apparently this seems to be the Eric Singer monitor feed)
01 - Creatures Of The Night
02 - Deuce
03 - I Just Wanna
04 - Unholy
05 - Parasite
06 - Heaven's On Fire
07 - Domino
08 - Watchin' You
09 - Hotter Than Hell
10 - Firehouse
11 - I Want You
12 - Forever
13 - War Machine
14 - Rock And Roll All Nite
15 - Lick it Up
16 - Take It Off
17 - Strutter
18 - I Love It Loud
19 - Detroit Rock City
20 - Shout It Out Loud
21 - God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You II
22 - Love Gun
23 - Star Spangled Banner
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