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KISS Fire "Love Gun" Once More

October 13, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Kiss - Love GunKISS is firing up its Love Gun once again.  The sixth studio album from the hard-rocking band featuring Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and Peter Criss, Love Gun will arrive in a newly-remastered 2-CD or digital edition on October 28 adding rare and previously unreleased material to the classic, platinum-selling album.  The 1977 album, with its cover artwork from artist Ken Kelly, is notable as the first to feature lead vocals performances from Ace Frehley and all four original band members, and the last studio album with the complete original line-up. Since its initial release, Love Gun has since gone on to sell more than four million copies worldwide and reached a No. 4 Peak on the Billboard albums chart.

The upcoming release from Casablanca/Mercury/UMe includes the complete original 10-track album as produced by Eddie Kramer in a fresh remaster on the first disc, while the second CD features rare and previously unreleased material.  These extras include demo recordings of “Plaster Caster,” the song inspired by Cynthia Plaster Caster, the groupie famous for taking casts of famous rockers’ private parts, the group’s raucous reworking of Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry and Phil Spector’s Crystals hit “Then He (She) Kissed Me,” and “I Know Who You Are,” the opening lines of which evolved into the song “Living in Sin.”  The “teaching demo” of “Love Gun” offers insight into Paul Stanley’s creative process, as he’s heard talking through the song’s chord progression; a “finished” demo is also presented.  One previously issued demo, “Reputation,” was included earlier this year on the KISS 40 collection.

The second disc is rounded out by a 1977 interview with Gene Simmons plus three previously unavailable live performances from the band’s December 20, 1977 gig at the Capitol Centre in Maryland: “Love Gun,” “Christine Sixteen” and “Shock Me.”  This new reissue also includes liner notes rewritten by Joe Elliott of KISS’ current touring mates, Def Leppard.

After the jump, we have the complete track listing plus pre-order links!

The remastered deluxe edition of Love Gun will be available on October 28 and can be ordered at the links below!

KISS, Love Gun: Deluxe Edition (Casablanca/Mercury/UMe, 2014) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Disc 1: Original LP (released as Casablanca NBLP-7057, 1977)

  1. I Stole Your Love
  2. Christine Sixteen
  3. Got Love For Sale
  4. Shock Me
  5. Tomorrow and Tonight
  6. Love Gun
  7. Hooligan
  8. Almost Human
  9. Plaster Caster
  10. Then She Kissed Me

Disc 2: Bonus material (previously unreleased except where noted)

  1. Much Too Soon (Demo)
  2. Plaster Caster (Demo)
  3. Reputation (Demo) (from KISS 40 - Mercury/UMe B0020453-02, 2014)
  4. Love Gun (Teaching Demo)
  5. Love Gun (Demo)
  6. Gene Simmons Interview, 1977
  7. Tomorrow and Tonight (Demo)
  8. I Know Who You Are (Demo)
  9. Love Gun (Live @ The Capitol Centre, Largo, MD - 12/20/1977)
  10. Christine Sixteen (Live @ The Capitol Centre, Largo, MD - 12/20/1977)
  11. Shock Me (Live @ The Capitol Centre, Largo, MD - 12/20/1977)

Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: KISS

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. J Wags says

    October 13, 2014 at 1:39 pm

    No Christine Sixteen with Van Halen?

    Reply
    • mikeladano says

      October 14, 2014 at 5:00 pm

      I don't think Gene's ever going to release that.

      Reply
  2. Jroug says

    October 15, 2014 at 7:23 am

    More substantial than I'd have guessed but aren't those Largo tracks from one of the Kissology volumes? Kind of a stretch to call them unreleased.

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