Criss (album)
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October 1993 |
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July 1993 |
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| Label (s) | Tony Nicole Tony Records | |||
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Title (number) |
5 |
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19:14 |
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Ditto Godwin, Peter Criss |
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Studio (s) |
Track 24 recording studio |
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Criss is the title of the first release of the hard rock band of the same name, founded by the American drummer Peter Criss . It was an EP that contained five tracks.
background
After his commercially unsuccessful solo albums , which he released in 1980 and 1982 after his separation from Kiss , Peter Criss had tried several other projects to regain a musical foothold. These projects included “The Alliance” (1984–1985, with Stan Penridge), “Balls Of Fire” (1986) and “The Tree” / “The Keep” (1989–1991, with Mark St. John ), but with none of them got to a publication. Together with the musicians Mark Montague (bass), Kirk Miller (lead guitar) and Mike Stone (vocals) he then founded "Criss".
The band recorded the tracks planned for the album in July 1993, which were released on the EP in October 1993. The limited and numbered edition was distributed by mail order, and the cover showed the drummer with half his face made up in Kiss make-up.
The title The Cat deals with the nine lives of the cat, but is clearly related to Peter Criss' life story, because he uses episodes of his life in the individual stanzas and presents himself as the cat he embodied in Kiss.
The band also re- recorded the song Beth , which gave Kiss the first big radio hit in 1976.
reception
The album achieved no commercial success and received no awards. The reviewer Jan Jaedike wrote in the German magazine Rock Hard :
“ On the self-titled mini-album, which was also released in a strictly limited & signed edition and on the cover of which Peter shows himself in half-make-up, it is enough for four new songs, two of which the drummer sings himself. In addition, he couldn't resist a 'Beth' version intoned with an acoustic guitar. [...] As far as the new material is concerned, no blasts like 'Baby Driver' or 'Dirty Livin' by Mr Criss 1994 were to be expected anyway , but I doubt whether the rather average, ballad-heavy hard rock that he cobbled together with his rather young backing band will last. At most, 'Show Me' could still pass as a mediocre song by his former employer in an emergency. "
Track list
- 4:37 - The Cat (Criss, Montague, Miller, Stone)
- 4:05 - Show Me (Montague, Stone, Criss, Bardowell)
- 4:37 - Good Times (Criss, Miller, Montague)
- 3:09 - What You're Doin ' (Criss, Montague, Stone, Miller)
- 2:09 - Beth (Criss, Ezrin, Penridge)
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Knortz: American superstition of the present: A contribution to folklore , Leipzig: T. Gerstenberg 1913, p. 64; Gerhart Waeger: The cat has nine lives written down foolish expressions, sayings and proverbs. commented, Bern 1976.
- ↑ Dale Sherman: Black Diamond 2 - The Illustrated Collector's Guide to Kiss. Collectors Guide Publishing Inc., 1997, ISBN 1-896522-36-X
- ↑ Rock Hard; Issue 83 (1993)