KISS (VERY RARE) IT'S NOT SMOKE

KISS (VERY RARE) IT'S NOT SMOKE

[@preacher1965]

WOW... Born in "65" and those vintage pix took me back. (Ahh the 70's... as I grow older it saddens me) What an UNbelievable time KISS must of had, all the fame/attention yet anonymity thanx to the make-up. Back when albums were mailed to your house for a penny (TIME LIFE) my neighbor gave me KISS ALIVE II... I was 11 and I was hooked. Take me back

[@67maverick]

I'm 49 and I heard Destroyer in 1976 and I was hooked. You're totally right about there fame and anonymity. No one that wasn't born then can understand it. How they could walk the streets without being recognized. Wouldn't work today with all mobile phones with camera.

[@toddmitchell6362]

im 50 i discovered kiss in 75 and first saw them live dec77 when i was 11

[@preacher1965]

Glide Consulting I also forgot the tattoos that came with their albums.

[@67maverick]

Glide Consulting 👍

[@mikejesh5790]

Johnny Perez What's up all you Kiss folks out there! I am 50 & I too went nuts when Ace, Gene, Peter & Paul got hold of me! First album I ever got was Alive 2 & I literally wore it out! I remember one time I showed my Grandmother the back of the album cover she looked at it and said " Ugh they are beasts " Ya know what? She was right!!! Keep on rockin folks!

[@LesPendens1]

As a KISS fan since 1975, I am embarrassed to admit that I had never heard this song before. Thanks for posting!

[@stephenfisher7412]

Your not alone lol

[@qqrk1372]

Why the Hell didn't they do MORE songs like this??? More Ace cutting loose on guitar too!

[@PassengersMusic777]

This could have been on par with their greatest hits. The riff and guitar runs are so distinct early raw Kiss. Very much a gem of 70s classic rock 🎸

[@jendel42750]

Actually, it sounds like a cross between "Mr. Speed" and "Christine Sixteen."

[@heiraction883]

+Charles Elliott there's a turnaround that's similar to 'room service' in there too. but yeah, good observation.

[@THECLARENCES]

Agreed!

[@giuseppedimarco4212]

Charles Elliott it's a cool tune

[@HugO-zd5cs]

Rolling stones

[@mrlocuslazer8044]

True lol.

[@djwak59]

I have NEVER heard this !! It’s an awesome tune. The vintage KISS photos were amazing. It looked like they were having so much fun at that time. On top of the world. IMO, the early KISS will always be the BEST ! Thanks for the memories you guys !

[@melanycouch9749]

Ironically, this is one of my favorite KISS songs...The song is so simple...but just oozes a rock n' roll sexual-coolness that is hypnotic.

[@DevilFish69]

0:23 You know. I've never seen a picture of Ace without his makeup from that time period. 1:11 Peter too.

[@ricomarcetti6040]

I love this tune, Ace was amazing! Great song, love KISS!

[@Maxvicious2]

I normally would talk sh*t about "picture video " , BUT THIS ONE KICKS ASS , AWESOME COLLECTION OF VINTAGE ASS KISS , thanks man

[@jendel42750]

Paul, Gene, and Peter: "Real cool, Ace! How'dja make ya hair silver?" Ace: "I spray-painted it. AAAACK!"

[@onceonlyaz]

Spray paint curly!

[@6672rock]

I like this song -- good chord changes and catchy vocal melodies. The band could've really worked up this tune for an official album release if they wanted to, and I'll bet the fans would totally dig it.

[@dwightfartschrute]

This is incredible. The Holy Grail of lost KISS demos with a ton of rare, rare photos. Awesome. Awesome. Thank you.

[@Lemmy905]

Love all the old pics .

[@stephantenbrink]

Sounds like i'm listening to the Rolling Stones ! Happy sounding song.

[@gman620]

Reminds me of the Stones too. To my ears it sounds like the song was built around a classic Keith Richards chord riff.

[@KENNYKISS69]

Ihave been a Kiss fan a long time and i never heard this song sounds early raw music. Great sound.

[@danieln9591]

es una joyita este tema!!!!! excelente!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mpc3po]

probably one of the best KISS songs ever RIGHT HERE...

[@penpvanloon]

As. A kiss fan this is also my first time that i hear this song It s a good song Gr patricia

[@slugtoe]

They should have put this on Love Gun. it would have fit in.

[@SwitchFoot2007]

As a kid growing up in the 70's I am really glad I was not exposed to their true ID's. Seeing KISS without their makeup would have ruined it for me. They wouldn't be KISS anymore.

[@jendel42750]

Ace reminds me a lot of a neighbor of ours back in Belle Harbor. His name was Billy Corning. They're both native New Yorkers. They're around the same age. They're both part American Indian. They enjoy a similar sense of humor. Best of all, though, they both abide by the same hang-loose, rock-and-roll attitude! Long live them both!

[@LoveThatPhantom]

Oh my god I love this song. Why did this song not make any of the albums? Or for that matter, at least the box set that already had a bunch of unreleased songs on it. Please KISS put this on an album.

[@Billy-Box]

I really liked that picture with the cards - Gene as "king", Paul as "queen"; Peter as the "joker" and Ace as Ace of spades. Excellent.

[@michaellamneck2116]

That picture at 3:10, wow! You can really see the New York Dolls influence on Stanley, cool video and song.

[@jeffrailey]

The Smoke is great! With or without their warpaint, and bombs, and pyro, KISS music rocks! Detroit Rock City, Strutter, Black Diamond, Love Gun, God of Thunder, Rock And Roll All Night, Shout It Out Loud, Beth, Deuce, etc., have stood the test of time and always will! KISS ROCKS!

[@57highland]

You forgot Cold Gin ....

[@jeffrailey]

Cold Gin is great. So is Nothin' To Lose, 100,000 Years, She, Magic Touch, Strange Ways, Shock Me, etc. Yes, Lindsey, KISS music is great and classic hard rock! Personally, my favorite KISS classic is Detroit Rock City.

[@podoz]

Jeff Railey you forgot their best songs..... i was made for loving you.... shandi.... she's so european...... ok ok you can stop laughing now, yes i'm joking!!!!

[@jeffrailey]

podoz lol. :)

[@MrSpaceace9]

Yerblues 87, this is absolutely amazing! I am 43 yrs old and a huge Kiss fan. this is sooo great. I am very disappointed in myself. I have never heard this song. I have every album and have been into Kiss since I was about 10. again, great great great job here!

[@billtrepkowski527]

Took a while, but I finally got some answers about this. My source is working on a book covering 1973-1983, and he got his information right from their old tour manager, JR Smalling. This was recorded at Magna Graphic Studios in August 1975. It's Paul, Gene, and Ace playing on this, with JR on drums.

[@billtrepkowski527]

Did you even read my comment? Or do you have a severe short-term memory problem?

[@kissed61]

Really? it doesn't sound like that era.Work on Destroyer began a few months later.

[@67maverick]

Thanks for info. I think it sounds like a mix of Dressed to kill och Rock n roll over period.

[@toddmitchell6362]

hey bill i saw kiss in 77 i was 11 acdc opened with bon

[@billtrepkowski527]

kissed61 "Don'cha Hesitate" is from the same period, around the time "Alive!" came out, and it's not much different from this. Remember, "Destroyer" sounds different because of Ezrin. This song and "Don'cha Hesitate" were demoed before he had any influence over the material they were presenting to him.

[@zmerk11]

Is this an early version of Mr. Speed? Maybe. Very similar indeed. Funny I thought I knew everything Kiss.... Go figure, there is always something to learn. Really great pics/video thanks for posting, a nice treat!

[@dbird8886]

zmerk11 Just 15 mins ago I found out Killers had new content.

[@Warchief01]

Some cool pictures on here.

[@saskatuner]

What a Fantastic song . Why wasn't this on Love Gun . Would have been a Top Ten song on the radio.

[@paslay123]

Great song.. How could this not make it on to a Kiss album is beyond me..

[@WolfHeavyMetal]

This is a really GREAT song !! WHY didn't they ever put this on an ALBUM ??

[@Vetster350]

Awsome Awsome Awsome This song is Great...Clip is Amazing...Always great to see some KISS footage that I've not seen before...just shows the Absolute Power these guys had back in the day...Imagine it...AWSOME...Ohh to be there...You are a Legend for uploadind this...THANX

[@67maverick]

This is a really good rock n roll song. This early songs is great. I guess it from 1973-75.

[@LexionCombine]

Haven't heard this, in forever. Great pics, and tbhanks for the pics of Bob.

[@WolfProjects]

They really need to release this one! Got harmonies, great backbeat and of course, signature Ace !

[@SpaceDrehley]

As our heroes, and all of us get older, let's remember those great times, the passion and loyalty for our favorite band, the R and R, and the sheer fun of it all. This is a very cool slide show, bringing back SO many memories. Thank you YERBLUES87 !

[@yngvejacobsen9010]

this song has that rolling stones feel to it, very cool groove on this!

[@misfit2022]

I hear a few things in here. At the start I hear Mr Speed at lower register and later around the 30 secs Shout it out Loud. I say Mr Speed because as a drummer it is one of my favourite riffs off all time and this use to annoy many guitarists who could play Jimi Hendrix etc and it may be simple but it for me it is the perfect riff.

[@stevencrockett1340]

KICK ASS AWESOME LIBRARY OF MUSIC. YOU ROCK ⚡⚡⚡🔥🔥🔥

[@JD73RD]

Kool song! Kool pics! Totally sounds like 75 or 76 era KISS! The best times!

[@vikingmike8139]

Very rockin' song! Thanks for posting this, it's a great late night song to enjoy with a cold beer.

[@bbqeatinbuckeye]

Never heard this one. Pretty cool with sort of 'Brown Sugar' stones like riff. Thanks for posting it and ROCK ON!

[@leadluc]

THANK'S TO YOU...KISS MEMBER (;-))...TO POSTING THESE PICTURES !!!...

[@mrbizmarky1]

Man I've been a kiss fan all my life and never heard this song. Great song and great job on the video. Love the old school stuff. Thanks.

[@jaybirdk74]

If you're talking about the same box set I purchased in mid 2002, I don't have it. They did include several demos (and "Mad Dog" was more to my personal preference than "Flaming Youth [ look 'em both up, if you don't already know them ]). I wish they had, though- thanks to KZbin, I'm stumbling across a WEALTH of unreleased Kiss demos! As a longtime Kiss fan (and I'm 38),I'm a-lovin' it Peace, fellow KISS (and Gibson) fan!

[@jcollins1305]

What an excellent song!Great pics too! Makes you feel like you are there with the band in the early days.

[@calebproductions5970]

Best thing they've done! Killer chorus! This and really acrobat have that raw kiss sound. Now their a joke!

[@stevedunch581]

Intheevening 123 *they're

[@MatChew75]

Absolutely agree

[@TribalSooz]

Y'know what y'all hear is good ol' rock'n'roll! Those riffs don't die and are interchangeable! And that's o.k. It's already a improv on a blue's riff anyway but not everyone will recognize that. There are only soooo many notes really. Think about it! This is beautiful! A perfect song!

[@TNO73]

Pretty good tune. Catchy chorus. It owuld be interesting to see them release this in some form.

[@rowdydrummer1]

i really like the pics man good job and great song...i wish it wood have been released

[@hangover71]

Great Pics..!!

[@lozarok]

Cheers M8, Same deal as the other guys here KISS forever & have never heard it

[@nancyICUnurse]

WOW!!! GREAT JOB!!! I've heard this YEARS ago, but it's so cool to hear again, especially with the vintage pics! THANKS!!!!! Nancylovesace

[@myway43]

Cool tune!

[@nancyICUnurse]

NICE!! KISS is just MAGIC! AND....Ace is always so flipping HOTTT!!!!!!

[@iamgerhardrodax]

This song kicks asses better than all the songs Kiss released from 1985 to present day.

[@tommy4162661670]

Really catchy tune that sticks in your head,,,, KISS has so many albums of music, even paul says he cannot really remember a lot of the old songs that where not hits..fuck man the dude is only human.

[@skulhed666]

great compilation and photos thanks Julian

[@ZeeboLaywicker]

this rocks! thank you for posting!!! looove the 70s!!!!

[@pars4245]

AWESOME STUFF !! Never heard that song ! Some rare pictures too. What a treat !

[@seventiesization]

I loved the original KISS. It's the only KISS. In spite of all the issues they had, when they got together it was magic. And nothing else mattered.

[@GERARDO1343]

Songs like this one made them famous but then they forgot their roots 😎

[@davidmarkbaker6746]

Nice job Julian with the video...loved the old KISS pics!

[@bohocircus]

I watch this video almost every day for about a year, over and over... And each time I thank YERBLUES87 with all my heart!

[@OVER1970DGDR]

wow great video...thanx from san francisco ca !!

[@jacobswistack9077]

Cool. I hear Mr Speed and Shout it out loud all over this song.

[@flamencopeko]

Great tune. Very remindant of another Kiss song? Thanks.

[@44Liriodendron]

Very interesting. Huge old Kiss fan and I had never seen most of the photos. Some would have made great posters. I have never heard that song either and again, I thought i knew them all.

[@PBANDSNOW]

Yer Blues, you are AWESOME. I can't express in words just how much I love you for this.

[@PolishTank79]

man. i thought i had knew everything about these guys......GREAT song...why isnt it on RARO??? great pictures!!! GREAT JOB!!

[@StarfieldRailway]

I can't believe this song didn't make any of the albums. It's a great one.

[@johnnypnyb]

cool video!!! Great song, to bad it didnt make it to a record! Best from Late night with Johnny P Show

[@macdaddymandalorian7305]

original kiss is the peoples band

[@cyclops1092]

Thank you for this upload they were my heroes as a child

[@leolionheart3259]

Fantastic!!!

[@bgj150]

i never heard this one.!!!! but i love it.....great song!!!

[@albertogutierrez8653]

My all time favorite band.

[@oldage1970]

You turned on the original VIBE that KISS had !!! This is KISS !!!!!

[@dgnxx1]

That was really great YERBLUES87 enjoyed it very much

[@auth2011]

How cool! Loved the pics! So young!!! Thanks for the post

[@leonardoquintero7722]

Muy buena esta cancion; simple, sencilla y directa, el Kiss de los primeros años. Buen swing..!!!!

[@RichieD088]

Awesome!!..peace

[@Storyraymond]

A lot of those images or images from those sessions hang on my wall in the early eighties:) I love Kiss from this area:) Good times:)

[@chilblainewinters7611]

1:23 When did Paul have time to grow that full beard? They were so busy in the early days.

[@rudolfschenker]

Chilblaine Winters Holy shit...I’ve seen this photo quite a few times but it never ever struck me that that’s Paul. This is incredible. My only guess is that this was during a time when they’d had a month or two off, and this was probably a business meeting dinner, maybe to discuss the next album or tour. Because yeah, that’s a solid months’s growth of a beard. Actually, this is probably sometime around the Double Platinum/solo albums era, when maybe their touring and press schedules weren’t quite so grueling.

[@seventiesization]

Recorded in 1975 and was supposed to be on the Dressed To Kll lp, but got cut. Shame. This is one of their better songs..

[@mooch514]

fantastic

[@NightWarriorAlive]

OMG, this should have been on a KISS album! Groovy tune! Rock and Roll Over, Love Gun, even Sonic Boom.

[@BobNSuch]

This does sound like something that might have been recorded for Dressed To Kill or maybe Destroyer... I was thinking Mr Speed as well...which was demoed during the Dressed sessions originally. Anyway...it is a great tune....and the video u made is top notch!!!!!

[@seventiesization]

He's entitled to his opinion, no matter how ignorant it is.

[@clubninjarock]

I'm 39 and.....oh wait, nobody cares.....This was the classic rock n' roll sound of early KISS. How did this not get on the box set? It's better than every "extra" on there.

[@67maverick]

0:23 Paul and Ace at their prime. Looks so vital och full of life. Which we could go back.

[@goliathandwasp]

this song makes me want to grab my gibson LES PAUL AND MARSHALL AMP and learn this song cool video thanks for posting it

[@rmartin7558]

Metal, schmetal. KISS has always been just a great li'l dirty rock and roll band.

[@MrGordonLiddy]

2:27, Gene hiding behind Ace cause he's not in costume. That's a cool shot. Maybe he thought that half-beard would fool everyone.

[@81Badger81]

This is a great collection with tons of rare and intimate pics, good on ya Yerblues.

[@rafaelbaraldo6611]

KISSTONES !!!

[@shitfunn]

Awsome song they should have put it on an LP

[@anthonycaldwell9492]

Never heard this before. Where have I been? It's cool!