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"Anomaly" Track Listing Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:07:36 AM
A Library of Congress copyright registration indicates Ace's "Anomaly" album will have the following track-listing:
1. Outer Space
2. Foxy & Free
3. Sister
4. Too Many Faces
5. It’s A Great Life
6. Skels
7. A Little Below The Angels
8. Fox On The Run (Sweet Cover)
9. Change The World
10. Pain In the Neck
11. Genghis Khan
12. Fractured Quantum
Additionally, the description states, "Hard Rock musical sound recordings performed by Paul Frehley, publicly known as "Ace Frehley" of Kiss, produced and recorded in Westchester County, New York from 2007-2009 and mixed by Marti Frederiksen for release in the United States."
TMZ gives a crap Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:07:36 AM
Kiss in box... Wednesday, March 04, 2009 8:15:04 AM
For those interested with unsanctioned "public domain" releases, Petal will be issuing "Kiss in a box" on 4/7/2009. The 4-DVD collection includes the "Satanik Kreatures: Interviews," "Asylum of Death: Interviews," "Krazy Killer," and "Hell's Guardians" releases in one $14.95 set. As unsanctioned "public domain" releases the band have nothing whatsoever to do with the material which is generally interview or other non-music publically shot material that some find questionable.
Authorized Bootleg coming? Wednesday, March 04, 2009 4:35:41 AM
Some sites are reporting the Universal will be releasing an "Authorized Bootleg" from Kiss on May 26, noting a show at Nashville's Municipal Auditorium from 1998. While Universal is apparently planning hard-rock/metal releases as part of their "Authorized Bootleg" series (Cinderlla being another act with a live archive set due), the details for any Kiss release are not fully known. What is known is that Kiss didn't perform at Nashville's Municipal Auditorium in 1998. The did play the Nashville Arena on Jan. 2, 1999, the final date of the US "Psycho Circus" tour. The last time they played that venue was on November 6, 1992. Eddie Kramer attended he show in preparation for the "Alive III" recordings later that month, taking notes about the set, and it was likely recorded for reference. The set included:
Creatures Of The Night
Deuce
I Just Wanna
Unholy
Heaven's On Fire
Parasite
Domino
Watchin' You
Hotter Than Hell
Firehouse
I Want You
Forever
War Machine
Rock And Roll All Nite
Lick It Up
I Love It Loud
Take It Off
Cold Gin
Detroit Rock City
Shout It Out Loud
God Gave Rock And Roll To You II
Love Gun
Star Spangled Banner
However, according to the ever-useful "Kiss Alive Forever," the band also performed there in 1975 (Alive), 76 (Destroyer), 79, 83 (Creatures), 84 (Lick It Up), 85 (Animalize and Asluym tours), and 1988 (Crazy Nights), so any of those shows would make useful additions as official releases. It should be noted that the 1/11/84 show was definately recorded since it was broadcast on King Biscuit Flower Hour at the time in edited form. That show can be heard online at Wolfgang's Vault, but included:
Creatures Of The Night
Detroit Rock City
Cold Gin
Fits Like A Glove
Firehouse
Gimme More
War Machine
Bass Solo
I Love It Loud
I Still Love You
Drum Solo
Young And Wasted
Love Gun
All Hell's Breakin' Loose
Black Diamond
Lick It Up
Rock And Roll All Nite
KissFAQ knows which he'd rather see released!
Gene Simmons Box Set This Year? Tuesday, March 03, 2009 6:05:31 AM
In response to a question on his website about his box set, Gene replied: "I've always written 'outside' stuff, but KISS is KISS. And that means the outside stuff winds up on solo albums, or I keep it in the drawer. This year, I plan on releasing 'ALTER EGO", a box set of unreleased songs...about 150 of em. You'll hear more 'outside' stuff." Maybe...
Ace Frehley teaser: Pain In The Neck Monday, March 02, 2009 8:02:22 PM
Ace has shared a peek at one of his new "Anomaly" solo album tracks, "Pain In The Neck."
Kiss heading into studio Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:47:27 PM
Paul was on "Happy Hour" on Fox Business where he stated, "We're actually in the studio coming this week, and we'll be doing our first album in ten years and it will very much be a throw back to what we did in the begining. We just finished 30 shows in Europe. The biggest most successful tour we've ever done. "KISS ALIVE 35;" doing the live album...Live! Played to about 400,000 people."
