KISSology: The Ultimate Kiss Collection, Vol. 1: 1974-1977
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Actor: KISSBrand: KiSS
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Best of, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Enhanced, Live, NTSC, Restored
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 379 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: VH1 Classics
Movie Reviews of KISSology: The Ultimate Kiss Collection, Vol. 1: 1974-1977
Movie Review: What?: - No "Rocket Ride"?
Summary: 4 Stars
10 DVD discs and not a single version of 'Rocket Ride" - This is why I only gave it 4 stars:
And I now own all of the box sets I cannot believe that 'Rocket Ride' is not included on any of them especially after Ace Frehley was such an influence on them and that they decided to honor him and Peter Criss in such ways but I noticed in the liner notes by Paul Stanley said that Criss basically tried his darndest to make everyone feel miserable during the final tour. I don't really know if that is true or not but Simmons and Stanley are after all 'marketing geniuses' and could have just said this in order to sell more copies.
"Rocket Ride" is a song by the American hard rock band Kiss originally featured on their 1977 album Alive II. A studio recording written by Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley and Sean Delaney, it was the first Kiss single to feature Frehley on lead vocals, and peaked at #39 on the American Billboard Hot 100 [1], making it the band's seventh US Top 40 hit.
"Rocket Ride" proved to be the only studio track of the five recorded for Alive II that Frehley would perform on, as Bob Kulick was brought into perform on some of the other tracks. Ace noted in the booklet for the Kiss Box Set, released in 2001, that this was the first vocal performance that he was satisfied with.
Ace Frehley's 2008 tour in support of his unnamed unreleased album is named after this song, The Rocket Ride Tour
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Summary of KISSology: The Ultimate Kiss Collection, Vol. 1: 1974-1977
As KISSology - Vol. 1 (1974-1977) announces loudly, all the chutzpah and bombast that made KISS so huge--the fire-breathing, the blood-dripping, the kabuki-mask make-up and platform shoes, the synchronized head-bobs--were in place from the very beginning. KISS's 1974 concert in San Francisco is virtually identical to their 1977 concerts in Japan and Houston, at the peak of their popularity. For hardcore fans, this opportunity to bask in the nuances of five performances of "Black Diamond" and six performances of "Firehouse" is essential viewing, but for the less committed the pleasures of KISSology lie in the bizarre collisions pop culture is heir to: Gene Simmons, in full costume, declaring himself "evil incarnate" on The Mike Douglas Show; Margaret Hamilton, done up in her Wizard of Oz Wicked Witch of the West garb, introducing KISS to the ever-cackling Paul Lynde on Lynde's 1976 Halloween special (the footage from this special doesn't include the tender ballad "Beth", undoubtedly due to the estrangement of drummer Peter Criss, who sang the band's highest charting U.S. single); and the truly surreal incident where KISS went to Cadillac, Michigan, and had breakfast with the entire city council wearing full KISS makeup before the band made a spectacular exit by helicopter. Rock & roll is full of strange phenomena, but KISS is one of the most inexplicable: An adolescent fever dream of superheroic hedonism that somehow achieved world-wide stardom and kept its career alive for over 30 years. KISS started as a deliberate cartoon, became a bad joke, and have re-emerged as a fond memory, still cranking out pyrotechnic spectacle. Three volumes of KISSology is probably excessive, but why stop the excess now? --Bret FetzerNo Description Available
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: KISS
Title: VOL. 1-KISSOLOGY-1974-77
Street Release Date: 10/31/2006
Genre: ROCK/POP
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