Kiss – Love Gun – 1977 Hmm….what’s a “Love Gun”? I remember the year 1977 vividly. Summering in ShipBottom, NJ. Seeing Star Wars a dozen times. And reading, in some magazine, the ad for the new Kiss album.BANG!KissLove Gun.Never forgot it.I also never heard the record.Let’s liveblog. 1. I Stole Continue Reading

Kiss – Rock and Roll Over – 1976 Rock and Roll Over is the first Kiss album so far that sounds like 70s rock. Smells like the front stoop of a roller rink. It’s the first time I’ve listened to Ace Frehley’s guitar and thought, “Shit, that guy can shred!”.It’s Continue Reading

Kiss – Destroyer – 1975 After the success of Alive! Kiss went into the studio with Bob Ezrin, formerly Alice Cooper’s producer, and what came out was easily the weirdest album of theirs so far. Their “Night at the Opera”, for lack of a better description.Destroyer starts off with the Continue Reading