Creatures Of The Night

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Kiss – The Ritz on Fire (August 12, 1988, The Ritz, New York City. A radio broadcast – Crazy Nights Tour) Brazil - Viva Latino! - Talent Seeks". Billboard. Vol.97, no.4. January 26, 1985. p.VL-24 . Retrieved September 24, 2021– via World Radio History. Creatures of the Night was certified gold by the RIAA on May 9, 1994. [27] It was certified gold in Brazil in 1983 for sales of 100,000 copies. [32]

Josephes, Jason. "Kiss: Creatures of the Night". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on February 19, 2003 . Retrieved August 8, 2011. They also included a replica tour book which is great because this is one of the tour books I am missing from my collection as it is quite pricey. I am not going to show every picture as we have enough so far…what is cool about the book is of course the tank, but it is the fact this was the band’s 10th Anniversary Tour. After all that had gone on with the band, it is hard to believe at this point it was only 10 years. THE REST: Larkin, Colin (2006). Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol.4 (4ed.). Muze. p.875. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4. Very much so. We were about as down as we could be, and the only way out was up. So, the idea that we had nobody to answer to in terms of what kind of album we made…it felt exhilarating. It felt freeing and very creatively life-affirming. To write those kinds of songs felt really genuine because it was a part of us that we had missed for so long and didn’t even realize it. Like I said, before we started the album, it was kind of like waking up from a coma; you’re fuzzy-headed and thinking, “What the hell happened?” So, we knew what we wanted to do, and we were determined to do it.Lendt, C. K. (1997). Kiss and Sell: The Making of a Supergroup. New York City, New York: Billboard Books. ISBN 978-0-82-307604-8.

Little did the fans know that during the recording sessions for “Dynasty” and the follow-up record, 1980’s “Unmasked,” that drummer Peter Criss was not showing up to recording sessions and that session musicians were recording Criss’s drum takes which resulted in guitarist Paul Stanley, bassist Gene Simmions and guitarist Ace Frehley to fire Criss prior to the European leg of the Unmasked tour. On Friday, Nov. 18, the “hottest band in the world,” Kiss remastered and re-released their 1982 record titled “Creatures of the Night” for the 40th anniversary. What is neat about the anniversary edition is, like the 45th-anniversary edition for “Destroyer,” is that they added original demos, Penny Lane demos, and Gene Simmons demos to the record so fans can get a sense of what some of the Kiss songs sounded like at the very beginning before they made it to the final cut or before they got reworked into other songs. Kiss – The Hottest Show On Earth (Bootleg Series) – Album Review (THE HOTTEST SHOW ON EARTH TOUR 2010) To my recollection, this is the first live material that Kiss has officially released with Eric Carr on drums so it’s great that fans can finally get to hear him play monstrous beats on the drums, I’m now hoping for an “Off The Soundboard” record with Eric on it… maybe Australia 1980?

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The Blu-Ray Audio disc is the album remastered in surround sound as well as Dolby Atmos. I did get Surround Sound for Christmas and so I put this in and I will be honest, I wasn’t impressed with the surround sound effect of the album. Don’t get me wrong, it sounded great, the drums were huge, but it didn’t feel as immersive as other 5.1 mixes that I have. I was a little disappointed. I thought the Destroyer album’s 5.1 was so much better. What is very cool about this is some of the added songs that were added to the greatest hits records released during the era. Sharp, Ken (2022). "Press Conference Launch". The Monster Is Unleashed. Santa Monica: Universal Music Enterprises. p.35.

One of the really fun things on this set is those tour sound effects: the tank, the turbine, the siren, the bells, and the flames. Can you explain how some of those things fit into the show at the time? Neil Bogart, entertainment executive, dead at 39". The New York Times. May 9, 1982. p.32 . Retrieved March 29, 2022. Popoff, Martin (November 1, 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p.187. ISBN 978-1-89-495931-5.

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The single “I Love It Loud” has been performed on nearly every subsequent KISS tour, while “War Machine,” the ballad “I Still Love You,” and the title song also featured heavily in their live sets for a number of years. Also of note is “Killer,” which featured the group’s first songwriting collaboration with their soon-to-be-guitarist Vinnie Vincent. Creatures Of The Night received accolades in magazines such as Kerrang! and Guitar Player – which both placed the album in their top five end of year chart for 1982 – and has attained Gold Album status (sales of 500,000+). Offiziellecharts.de – Kiss – Creatures of the Night" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 2 April 2019.

Ultratop.be – Kiss – Creatures of the Night" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved November 27, 2022.Valentino, Thomas (October 1989). "Eric Carr Interview". KISS Asylum.com . Retrieved March 30, 2022. Before we get started, I would like to say that since this is an anniversary release with too many songs to do an overall ranking, like the Guns N’ Roses review, there will be no rating, just a review. Stage Drawings – One of these is a neat doodle of the stage concept from Gene with several notes in the margins.