Kiss - "Alive!" Ultimate Album.wmv

VH1 special on "Alive!" with band interviews.

[@m0b33r4]

This album is a thousand times better if you've seen this concert. It's forty years later for me and I STILL get the same excitement I felt at the concert I was at in 1976. There will NEVER BE a BETTER "Live" Album made like this one that still holds a magical rock & roll spell over us true KISS Fans. By the way....I like most genres of music from Soul/Funk/R&B to Heavy Metal, Country, Blues, and I appreciate all other forms of music.

[@wallacesheckells9280]

I still get goosebumps when I listen to this on my original vinyl.

[@kd2mill]

Hey, I had it on vinyl, 8-Track, Cassette, CD, Remastered CD, DVD...can't get enough of it.

[@joemanhas8098]

The ultimate rock band of all time... 25+ gold albums, 100,000 million+ Albums sales, 3000+ concerts... what have they not done?

[@arieldario7504]

Absolutely

[@nkbguy2193]

Music has been in my blood since birth and when I got my fist cassette player for my birthday from my parents it came with to cassette tapes. Kiss alive and Kiss destroyer. Over 40 years later and Kiss alive is on my phone and I still listen to it!!

[@madcrabber1113]

First album that I ever bought and with my own money that I saved from working as a laborer for my fathers construction company. I was ten when I bought it in 1976 & I still have it and it still sounds great :-)

[@johnoliver189]

+Mike Davitt me too! was the first rock album i ever bought!!!

[@mikedavitt7604]

+John Oliver I think we were in a huge group !

[@unktupelo]

Same here, but I dropped my allowance money on the 8-track!

[@johnoliver189]

unktupelo uh..huh..that's right!!

[@smokesletsgo2374]

you were a laborer when you were 10?

[@jeffcosner6047]

Kiss Alive! was the album I heard that blew my mind! The effect they desired they achieved. It worked on me for sure. I was a bright eyed 7 year old kid now given a reason to learn how to play guitar. Eddie Kramer did a superior job mixing and producing the record. It's to this day the most energetic live record ever. After Alive! everyone had to make a live record thinking it would work for them as well. 1976 saw Peter Frampton Frampton Comes Alive. Biggest record he ever had. After that record, he pretty much bombed out. I listened and memorized Kiss Alive!. It was the first album I ever heard from them and it was all I needed. I was a huge Kiss fan. I honestly never thought Alive ll ever matched up. I was too young to go to a concert but Alive! made me envision and feel the experience.

[@TheBoinger5150]

This was the 1st "record" I ever bought in my life, and I was 12 yrs old. It took me 18 yrs to see the original line up at the 1st show of the reunion tour in Detroit MI at Tiger Stadium on June 28th 1996 and 2 day's after my 30th birthday. This was and still is the very best concert I have ever seen in my life and there is NO comparison. I went fucking crazy down there and almost climbed the fence and jumped down on the field. And talk about exhaustion afterwards and drained of energy. I will never forget it. I am now 48 yrs old and still get out this double CD and listen to it and get chills down my spine and get tears.

[@80sHairNation]

My guess is, it has nothing to do with the "best" in the terms of what you are thinking. I have some of the same sentiment as the original poster did....but it's not the best because they are masters or sound incredible. It's the whole package of them, their shows, the simplicity of their songs and finally - some nostalgia. It was the first of it's kind, in a different era and it worked beautifully.

[@anthony_mosca]

Garegh62 who has a better concert than kiss?

[@topangachronic9463]

having Fred Durst comment on kiss is about as viable as having Courtney Love comment on Zeppelin

[@thedude4672]

This documentary must have been made during the 2 minutes that Fred Douchebag was relevant in pop culture.

[@jfrey1]

Fart Burst isn't worthy of sniffing the armpit of Ace Frehley's roadie. Fuck that waste of space.

[@MannyPedregon]

BEST LIVE ALBUM EVER !

[@jaysee3941]

I remember seeing this album at the store (I think it was a grocery store...back in the 70's, they sold all kinds of stuff) and I thought the cover was the coolest thing I had ever seen. I was only 10, but my friends big brother had the album and the music was just as good as the cover...I had never heard rock that hard before and I loved it. The enhanced crowd sounds made it even more powerful...even though I kinda figured it was augmented. The other album he had was ZZ TOP "Fandango" (which, btw, had one live side) and I loved that one, too...although not as much a "Alive".

[@memyopinionsche6610]

Love KISS ALIVE. and don't if it's not live per se. It still ROCKS!!

[@yodoe4582]

Many many kiss shows in our backyard with that album. Smoke bombs ago go.

[@zkhott1]

Get over it people. This is not the Eagles standing still staring at their instruments as they play each note precisely. KISS are entertainers putting on a show that is about the visuals AND the great music. Anyone who has seen KISS live know they can play and sing.

[@AngelofAnguish]

+zkhott1 LIKEWISE! THIS is WHY I DON'T GO to concerts, today! In my opinion, the '70s AND '80s WERE, and ALWAYS WILL BE, the years of the "concert spectacle!"

[@waltermirren7957]

+zkhott1 Even the Eagles (another one of my favourite bands) live album was overdubbed. As was Frampton Comes Alive, Double Live Gonzo, Cheap Trick at Budoken - even James Taylor. The ONLY one I am not sure of is Love You Live by The Rolling Stones. I have heard the board tapes and there is really no fucking difference. I guess because The Stones have no fucks to give. Even the April Wine album (they opened for the Stones at the ELMO) was "tweaked".

[@brotothewilliams9890]

@Garegh62 creatures of the night was one of the best albums from the 80s could have fit in the 70s kiss years

[@davefulford8890]

I used to open my bedroom windows, turn the speakers around and blast it out into the street so everyone could enjoy it as much as me lol. It was 1985 and I was 13 years old. My mum couldn't understand why I loved an old glam band from the early 70's but Alive was superb!

[@chrisjones8977]

I did the same exact thing!! The neighbors thought I was crazy but I fk’n loved it. KISS RULES!!!!

[@psychodelicrock12]

Kiss should have been filmed performing all songs for ALIVE during the photo shoot and filming for the vhs promotion of their most successful album. The perfect example of such footage would be from 28:40 during the COME ON AND LOVE ME song when Ace's black Gibson Deluxe, Paul black Gibson Firebird, and Gene's Gibson bass guitar.

[@jeffbear3075]

The album was called "ALIVE" because that was how it made you feel after listening to it.Not just because it was live.The crowd was there.Live.Who cares what Fred Durst or anyone else thinks? Energy.Power.Attitude.Passion.Period.One of the ONLY bands in the 70's to tour and sell the way they did.Period.Geddy Lee states"they were the hardest working guys we'd ever seen."

[@thedude4672]

Gene and Paul sure do love their self-aggrandizing hyperbole, don't they?

[@LesPaul3399]

As much as I loved this album as a kiss fan, back in the day I always preferred Alive 2. I loved them both don't get me wrong, but I just always preferred the songs on alive 2. songs like Detroit rock city, makin love, shock me, I stole your love, I want you... I love the early stuff trust me, but these songs were ones written in their prime.... 1976, 1977.... destroyer, rock n roll over, and love gun, in my opinion, are just better albums than the first 3. And as a Kiss fan to hear those songs live on Alive 2 was just pure magic. Ace just ripps the solos on makin love, shock me, love gun, I stole your love.... his best work in my opinion.

[@glenbellefonte9620]

Alive! is better than Alive II, I will agree...

[@irishgrl]

Nice to see all the love from fellow rockers from all ends of the spectrum. KISS has sold out consistently for over 40 years. How many other bands can say that? 'Nuff said.

[@guitarcleveland]

I don't care whatsoever that the KISS Alive was overdubbed. That album fucking rules.

[@pauldunlea6745]

1st kiss album I heard. A friend of mine recorded side 1 and side 4 on cassette tape for me when I was 12 years old. It was his elder brothers album. Looking back it made complete sense to record a live compilation album of there 1st 3 albums which I beleive were the best in '' Kisstory ''

[@louisborselio8608]

"I used to rock and roll all night and party everyday. Now I'm lucky if I can do it once a week" Homer Simpson

[@m.b.boyack2228]

4:20. David Bowie "David Live at the Tower Philadelphia" Live Double Album released October 29, 1974. KISS "Alive" Live Double Album released September 10, 1975.

[@azzamzamzam1822]

"KISS is the Best Rock Band Live of the 70' S"

[@carlintorres8485]

Muy muy bueno!!!

[@jamesbutterson426]

my first concert.

[@rubbersole79]

When it came out, I remember wanting to party with the two girls on the inside jacket picture, holding up the KISS sign. That album really did represent a great live show.

[@rubbersole79]

***** I still woulda partied with 'em. Nothing more electric than your first big live show as a kid in the seventies. Back when "they" kind of looked the other way....

[@themalt-tonesbandnorthof8m593]

WELL, This was good.

[@matthewwilson283]

This album waa the album I would always put on when I was putting a backyard summer party together

[@psychodelicrock12]

This was filmed during the Australian concert with the orchestra in 2003.

[@waltermirren7957]

THAT WAS SO FUCKING GOOD! (all caps on purpose)

[@KillswitchEngage2010]

~All The Visitations To Communities. etc. ..Was Left Un-Told, By So Many T.V. & Radio ``STATIONS!?``

[@johnfrancese245]

Kiss first four Album and live record wasn't live is one of the Greatest band ever.

[@pjones8404]

Sorry Paul...Deep Purple did it. There isn't one overdub on Made in Japan...that is what ultimate talent sounds like. However...Kiss Alive is still the ultimate expression of attitude and power. NOTHING will ever top that..and I don't care for one second what they did or didn't do live or not..it's still all them..and when I put the record on to this day..I don't care for one second about anything except having my internal organs overloaded with pure energy!! THAT is the heart and soul of the greatest live album of all-time!!

[@COBWEBOWNZYA]

Metallica live in seattle in 1989 is in my opinion the ultimate expression of attitude and power.

[@screamrad218]

COBWEBOWNZYA That i can agree on. That was just too raw!

[@brotothewilliams9890]

U ignored the fact that you can't hit a high note moving around

[@enroseunwolvenrose6105]

in the 70's i can only think of two that made it after Kiss and that would be Peter Frampton & Uncle Ted Nedgent with his alubm double live gonzo

[@psychodelicrock12]

+Enroseun Wolvenrose How about LITTLE FEAT'S WAITING FOR COLUMBUS?

[@Wayneogston]

+Enroseun Wolvenrose Framptons live was a good one. Ted Nugents i dont recall but i will look

[@alexanders562]

+Wayne Ogston Gonzo is Ted sounding right, one of my favorite albums, live or otherwise

[@thedude4672]

You can think of only two? You really need to expand your music knowledge, dude.

[@mcjsrn]

Aerosmith's Bootleg live album was good.

[@rosemaryviolette710]

the bast

[@Lee-iv4nc]

It was a Magical Album and changed the music industry

[@thedude4672]

It made KISS more popular, but it definitely did not change the music industry. Quit drinking Gene's koolaid. He's the Donald Trump of music.

[@DannyPepprs]

I was in elementary school im 54 now , when I got Alive , LONG LIVE KISS. I dont know why they have snubbed Cadillac , and never have been back

[@dagnasty6037]

Deep Purple released Made in Japan (another great live record) several years before KISS ALIVE! - Alive is probably my favorite KISS record but to say this was 'unheard of' at the time is not accurate.

[@joomomma9463]

1972 made in japan

[@peterkuchenbrod5696]

Not to mention the Who's Live At Leeds.

[@GreenManalichi]

Great album as well...I wore mine out, but I think they're referring to a "double disc" album vs only one disc

[@thedude4672]

Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East, Yessongs by Yes, Van Morrison's It's Too Late to Stop Now, Velvet Underground's 1969 Live with Lou Reed, Hawkwind's Space Ritual, Rory Gallagher's Irish Tour 1974, Grateful Dead's Live/Dead ... just to name a few.

[@brotothewilliams9890]

Ufo had a great live album

[@codeblue8922]

About 30mins in where the narrator is talking about rock n roll all nite. “The song was originally released back in 1975” IT WAS THE SAME YEAR!!!

[@louisborselio8608]

I've been listening to the soundboard recordings. It still would have been an awesome album without the touch ups.

[@jamesrockford2626]

Ace is top 10

[@VIDEOMAKER-vx7oc]

ALIVE FOREVER .....

[@BubblesBubbles]

Too much time is spent justifying the 'overdubbed' sections. I wouldn't have wanted a double LP full of mistakes. They made the album much better and history seems to approve.

[@haydenjacobs9178]

Bubbles Bubbles Exactly like I would rather have a perfect 75 percent live record that has no mistakes than a 100 percent live record that sounds like shot

[@psychodelicrock12]

Please bring back KISS BEYOND THE MAKEUP special.

[@psychodelicrock12]

This should have been a triple live album to include more songs like, for example, ROOM SERVICE, GET AWAY, LADIES IN WAITING, STRANGE WAYS. Plus, the last two songs, ROCK AND ROLL ALL NIGHT & LET ME GO ROCK AND ROCK should have been performed as a non stop medley.

[@SmithCommaBenjamin]

KISS is always talked about as being ahead of their time in the showmanship of live performance. Alice Cooper had been doing it for year prior.

[@vaceshocker6972]

But not like kiss

[@ghostdancer2302]

I always thought it was interesting that Gene's bass is playing at the end of Firehouse while he was supposed to be walking out with the torch to breathe fire. Yes, there were overdubs on this album but it wasn't completely re-done like Alive II. The band and record company were broke and they had to release a live album because they couldn't afford to put them back in the studio. Kiss' studio albums weren't selling but people were coming to their concerts. It made perfect sense to release a live album.

[@damionchrist]

Haven't you ever heard of hammer ons and pull offs, maybe your not a musician?!? Yeah, this VH1 show pretty much explains why KISS made the Alive album in detail, thanks.

[@ghostdancer2302]

+DamionChrist Yes I have but I never noticed he did that with his left hand and held the torch with his right, oddly enough. Guess I was always paying attention to the torch. My bad I guess.

[@LL-rd5tn]

Kiss is the original prefab boy band

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

21:36 is that "Detroit" I think I have it on VHS and its on KISSTORY

[@louisborselio8608]

All this talk of the redubs and overdubs because the recordings were messed up when they easily could have made a live album from the Winterland show, The midnight special, ABC in concert, and some other source.

[@chrisbrizuela146]

who ever is pissed because they added audience noise why not be pissed that they re recorded some of the stuff in the studio? why are you so surprised that they did that?

[@steveclem]

Alive 2 is tame compared to Alive 1.

[@Wayneogston]

+steveclem Agree. But Ladies room is awesome and Shout it out loud. lol

[@topangachronic9463]

steveclem comparing alive 1 and Alive II is like comparing Apollo 11 to Apollo 23

[@scottweaver1897]

Protection

[@enroseunwolvenrose6105]

i have and it is something ya just have too do for your self

[@Albert40productions]

where can i find ac/dc's ultimate album video?

[@psychodelicrock12]

Bring back KISS BEYOND THE MAKEUP

[@enroseunwolvenrose6105]

yeah they did what they did but it drags ya back when y a were there live

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

42:23 I HAVE BEEN TO HIS GRAVESITE!!!

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

18:39 what show was that detroit ? houston?

[@Wayneogston]

Actually! Paul McCartney and Wings made a triple live album so to suggest they were pioneers is a bit egotistical. I love Kiss and im a massive fan but they did tamper with it as well. I have seen Kiss live about 5 times and even in 2008 at the Melbourne grand Prix i think it was an amazing performance considering the day was a 43c temperature. But i think the egos get a little bit out of control in this doco. Kiss were larger than life and Hotter than hell. But dont brag too much boys. lol

[@QuietMan1965]

+Wayne Ogston The Wings triple live album was released in December 1976. Kiss Alive was released in September 1975. So technically they were sort of pioneers as far as double live albums go. I'm not sure if there were any double (or triple) live albums out before September 1975.

[@Peatman]

Yes' triple live Yessongs came out in May 1973.

[@QuietMan1965]

Peatman Well there ya go.

[@markg0410]

4:52 "Fashion has always been our enemy" - Gene Simmons. Google 'Kiss' and 'John Varvatos'.

[@louisborselio8608]

Is it me or does everyone sound like they'e talking with a lisp? Is there a deliberate audio distortion for copyright reasons?

[@TheRootsMan]

At 0:37 the narrator of this video claims that "Alive became the first LIVE masterpiece of rock" ~ This is a FLAT OUT LIE because a statement such as that blatantly demonstrates a total disregard for "DEEP PURPLE MADE IN JAPAN" which pre-dates "KISS ALIVE" by three full years.

[@termsofusepolice]

The narrator's claim is a joke. And Made In Japan was late to the party. The "first live masterpiece of rock" was clearly the Who's Live At Leeds which came out in 1970.

[@thedude4672]

Allman Bros Live at Fillmore East.

[@georgeprice7922]

@@termsofusepolice BUT you could barely hear the audience on the original Leeds album (because live albums hadn't really been done before is my guess).

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

28:52 what show is that?

[@mikemercer6442]

I guess Fred Durst never made a mistake on stage? Give me a break.

[@MrBassmaster72]

Fred's just mad cause his band is no longer around.

[@azrael193]

......Fred Durst was a mistake on stage....I never saw a band and in particular a singer literally get erased in what seemed to be over night......

[@jfrey1]

Fuck that talentless shit stain.

[@thecoderofyoutube]

That bloke saying the songs weren't good in the early days is talking shit. Cold Gin, Firehouse, Strutter, 100,000 Years, Deuce, Black Diamond. All off the first album, all still in the set 40-odd years later. Get a grip, mate.

[@ezeva]

Wonder why Ace wasn't a part of the interview ???

[@psychodelicrock12]

+Erik Roberson He must have left KISS before this took place.

[@alexanderwyatt9748]

+Erik Roberson This came out right after Alive 4. Ace unfortunately was out of the group and Tommy Thayer had started his tenure. Ace was not at a good place during this point in his life. He did put on the Space-Ace costume for a few min for the brief few words he gave.

[@chrisjones8977]

He was drunk!!

[@dickhickey909]

it is kiss ALIVE , not kiss LIVE :)

[@enroseunwolvenrose6105]

I hvae always loved Kiss but on there fare well tour Uncle Ted blew them out of the water.

[@youtubeviewer7030]

not really the first live album first deep purple then slade

[@kristoferbatdorf2873]

KZbin Viewer yeah they got the name alive from the slade live album called alive

[@youtubeviewer7030]

@@kristoferbatdorf2873 correct

[@vdelrio999]

Very hard to listen to a(n) (always mostly) Gene and Paul interview as they all too frequently speak (and write lyrics) in clichés and lots of metaphors, analogies, and similes. i.e. Face the Music, "meat and potatoes", "Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat", "James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous", "spit in the face", "only in America", etc...

[@azrael193]

...I personally loved the music...from the first album to around the time of the "Unmasked" album...they were just a guitar heavy rhythm oriented rock band with catchy hooks.....granted the wellspring of subject matter they drew from (especially the first three albums) was limited to, well...getting laid...period....They seem to be primarily known now because of their merchandising and their spectacular live show and not so much their music and thats too bad!

[@madmikemadmike2175]

ITS NOT LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@gerberbernstein7360]

Paul's plastic surgery is really showing through his makeup in these interviews.

[@ggreene7411]

Kiss were a great band but gene and Paul ruined the band and it's legacy !!!!!!

[@AngelofAnguish]

+G Greene To this day, I ask myself, "What ARE Gene and Paul trying to prove by continuing to make more music and touring with Tommy and Eric?"

[@ggreene7411]

My friend I don't know maybe they are bored

[@eightballjelly]

Alive 2 is much better

[@damionchrist]

They are completely different from each other and both great in their own way?!? Side 4 of Alive II is SO fucking stupid though, except Rocket Ride.

[@Dan.50]

There is NO such thing as a totally "live" record.

[@thedude4672]

Yes, there are. Dire Straits' Alchemy has no overdubs. Pretty Sure that Deep Purple's Made in Japan is all live.

[@TheGuul667]

Hands down THE most overrated band in the history of music. All debauchery, degeneracy, arrogance and pathological narcissism. Very little substance. "A bad joke", indeed. All these cheating clowns have ever REALLY been.

[@thecoderofyoutube]

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