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Love Gun

Paul Stanley

Paul had an insanely long rap leading into "Love Gun" toying with the crowd trying to get them going: "Melbourne! Melbourne, people! Now you know when we were here last time I never ever ever thought that we were going to come back. But you make it hard to stay away. That's all the people up front. They're like next door neighbors. The people in the back, you're part of the neighborhood too. How you doin' back there people? Now you know on all these special kinds of nights it's great to be up here, but I'll tell ya, I go to concerts. I've been down there. It's great being up here. But I've worked my whole life to be here, now off course I find I'd rather be out there part of the night. I want to come out there and see you and you know I can. Now of course you know I would never ever ever come to your country and be an uninvited guest. So, if you want me to come out there let me hear you. Alright, that sounds... That sounds good. But you know we're a modern rock 'n roll band so we have technology."

He continued, "We have a sound meter so we can measure how loud you are. If you get the meter to go all the way over, I come out there. If you don't get the meter to go all the way over, I'll stay up here. You know what I'm hoping for, right? So we got the meter up there. Melbourne, make some noise! Good for the first try. The first try. Everybody needs to warm up. I know you want to warm up. You're going, 'hey we did it, we did it on the first try.' If you can do that on the first try you've gotta try pinning that needle all the way over. I'm gonna count to three: One... OK, wait catch your breath. One... Two... Three... What did you lose your stamina? This time you've got to do it, three-strikes you're out. So, one... Two... Three... OK, I wasn't sure, but I'm gonna come out there!" At the end of "Love Gun" Tommy broke a guitar string which seems apparent at 3:18 on the recording when the solo changes key. That it was essentially left alone for the album and seems demonstrative of how minimal any work on the recording was for release.