I bought the solo albums on release and was definitely into them in 1978, but I hadn’t gone back until this week.
Gonna go out on a limb and say that if they’d been curated into a double album - “The KISS Projects” - the KISS “White Album” - it likely would have been regarded as an ambitious and suitable sequel to “Love Gun” - rather than the thin-broth, four-LP money grab that it was.
Surmising that there aren't that many Deadheads who also had a forrthright KISS moment in their youth. I'm guessing it's like being into Taylor Swift and Bob Weir's Wolfpack in 2024.
@4CPcomics I just kinda missed the whole KISS thing yeah though most of my friends were into them 🤷 I listened to a lot of hard rock, early metal etc but certain bands just never clicked for me - Alice Cooper, AC/DC come to mind
@mrcompletely I think we all had our musical moments of adolescent true love, before we found our reliable paths and aesthetics. You mostly can't hate the indefensible bands you once loved, because they're woven into the fabric of your life and almost certainly had merit on some basis.
@mrcompletely Early Alice Cooper, early Blue Oyster Cult, Aerosmith through "Rocks," and AC/DC through "Highway to Hell" all remain as crucial to my endorsement of that era as anything else.
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