Asylum (Kiss album)
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September 16, 1985 |
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June / July 1985 |
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10 |
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38:50 |
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Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons |
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Asylum is the thirteenth studio album by the group Kiss and the first on which guitarist Bruce Kulick has worked as a member of the group.
History of origin
Since 1982, Kiss had repeatedly had the problem of having to compensate for the departure of their original lead guitarist Ace Frehley : His direct successor, Vinnie Vincent , was fired on March 17, 1984 because he found it difficult to fit into the group and the guidelines of Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons reluctantly or not at all. The album Animalize was recorded with Mark St. John on guitar, who fell ill with Reiter's disease during rehearsals for the following tour . Bruce Kulick helped out and played in place of St. John's during all concerts on the European tour. On the following US tour , St. John managed to complete two concerts before he had to do without again. He was released on December 7, 1984. The unpredictable development of his illness was ultimately decisive for the decision to take this step. Bruce Kulick officially became the band's guitarist on December 8, 1984 and ended the Animalize tour with her, which ran until March 29, 1985.
Animalize had brought back success for Kiss: the album hit the Top 20 on the Billboard 200 , the single Heaven's On Fire had hit the radio and MTV , the line-up with Bruce Kulick had stabilized, and the audience numbers were compared to Lick It Up tour grown by 20%.
Simmons and Stanley took on the task of producing the album . As with the previous album, outside songwriters were brought in, including Desmond Child, who had already written the hit I Was Made for Lovin 'You with Paul Stanley and also worked on Heaven's On Fire .
- Cover
It was Paul Stanley who edited the cover: He assigned colors to the band members, with his and Simmons color corresponding to the background color of their 1978 solo albums; Simmon's lips were red, Stanley's were purple. Kulick's lips were given a shade of blue (corresponding to Frehley's solo album background), drummer Eric Carr was assigned the color green, analogous to Peter Criss.
Simmons wrote Any Way You Slice It with Howard Rice, who later wrote New Attitude for Patti LaBelle . Love's a Deadly Weapon is a title that was created in 1980 while songwriting for the successor to Unmasked in Ace Frehley's studio and was discarded in favor of the title for Music from the Elder .
- publication
Asylum was published on September 16, 1985; Tears Are Falling was released as a single , reaching number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 . A video clip was also released for the single, and video clips were shot for two other songs: Who Wants To Be Lonely and Uh! All night .
Track list
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- King Of The Mountain (vocals: Paul Stanley; text and music: Paul Stanley, Bruce Kulick, Desmond Child) - 4:17
- Any Way You Slice It (vocals: Gene Simmons; text and music: Gene Simmons, Howard Rice) - 4:02
- Who Wants To Be Lonely (vocals: Paul Stanley; text and music: Paul Stanley, Desmond Child, Jean Beauvoir) - 4:01
- Trial By Fire (vocals: Gene Simmons; text and music: Gene Simmons, Bruce Kulick) - 3:25
- I'm Alive (vocals: Paul Stanley; lyrics and music: Paul Stanley, Bruce Kulick, Desmond Child) - 3:43
- Love's A Deadly Weapon (vocals: Gene Simmons; lyrics and music: Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Rod Swenson, Wes Beech) - 3:29
- Tears Are Falling (vocals: Paul Stanley; text and music: Paul Stanley) - 3:55
- Secretly Cruel (vocals: Gene Simmons; text and music: Gene Simmons) - 3:41
- Radar For Love (vocals: Paul Stanley; text and music: Paul Stanley, Desmond Child) - 4:02
- Uh! All Night (vocals: Paul Stanley; text and music: Paul Stanley, Desmond Child, Jean Beauvoir) - 4:02
tour
The tour to Asylum began on 29 November 1985 in Little Rock ( Arkansas ) and ended after 91 shows on April 12, 1986 in Pittsburgh ( Pennsylvania ). Overall, the group used three differently designed stages, the first of which was only used for eight concerts. The stage surface was made of plastic so that light could shine through from below, but this also made it smooth and therefore had to be replaced soon. This stage also included a twelve-meter-high, illuminated Kiss logo that required its own generator, a three-part black lifting device for the drums (drum riser) and four steep, lightning-shaped stairs.
On December 11, 1985, the second stage variant was used for the first time in Richmond, Ohio: the huge logo remained, as did the stairs, but Eric Carr's drum riser was now silver and was placed between the ramps that were already used at the Animalize Touring had been used.
The third stage finally had its premiere on February 2, 1986 in Tucson (Arizona): amplifier walls were set up to the left and right of the drums and rounded on the outside towards the audience. The stairs were no longer used, and neither were the ramps, so that the group saved money with the less spectacular set-up because fewer trucks were needed for transport.
literature
- Julian Gill: The Kiss Album Focus - Hell or High Water, 1983-1996 . 4th edition. KissFaq.com, 2005, ISBN 978-0-9822537-0-0 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c David Leaf, Ken Sharp: Kiss: Behind the Mask . Warner Books, New York 2003, ISBN 0-446-53073-5 .
- ^ Dale Sherman: Black Diamond - The Unauthorized Biography of Kiss . Collectors Guide Publishing, 1997, ISBN 1-896522-35-1 .
- ^ A b c d Curt Gooch, Jeff Suhs: Kiss Alive Forever - A Complete Touring History . 1st edition. Billboard Books, 2002, ISBN 0-8230-8322-5 .
- ↑ Charts DE Charts UK Charts US