Dressed to Kill (Album)
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10 |
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30:07 |
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Neil Bogart , Kiss |
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Dressed to Kill is the third studio album by the American hard rock band Kiss , released in 1975 on Casablanca Records .
History of origin
initial situation
Kiss went on tour after the release of Hotter Than Hell and had already recorded Anything for My Baby and Rock and Roll all Nite at Larrabie Sound Studio in Los Angeles during two "free" days on January 24th and 25th, 1975 . At that time the new album was still operating under the working title "Kiss at Midnight".
Recordings
The band interrupted the tour after the concert in Santa Monica ( California ) on February 1, 1975 to record the next album at Electric Lady Studios in New York City . Due to the rapid succession of touring and recording the band (the group went into the studio just three months after the release of Hotter Than Hell ), there had been little time to write new pieces.
For this reason, two tracks were used that came from the time of "Wicked Lester", the band from which Kiss emerged, namely Love her all I can and She . The "Hotter Than Hell Tour" was continued on February 20, 1975 and included three more concerts (February 20, 21 and 22, 1975) - then the production of Dressed to Kill continued in New York until February 25 and completed. Rehearsals for the Dressed to Kill tour, which began on March 19, 1975 in Northampton ( Pennsylvania ), began at the beginning of March .
The album was Casablanca Records boss Neil Bogart produced , giving a result of a business conflict with Kiss' was a management: Bogart had a relationship with Bill Aucoins started management partner, Joyce Biawitz, and was informed by her about a meeting that Aucoin , had the members of the group and the producer of the first two Kiss albums, Kenny Kerner and Richie Wise held Biawitz to discuss an offer from the record company Atlantic Records to speak that wanted to take over the production team, the management and Kiss. At this point, Casablanca Records owed Kiss to pay the contractually agreed portion of all Kiss records sold to date, and the band's management was forced to look into alternatives.
Bogart fired Kerner and Wise after learning of the meeting and cut the group's tour expenses, forcing Aucoin to pay those expenses out of his own pocket - which he did. The conflict was resolved when Aucoin took over Biawitz 'stake in the joint company Rock Steady for $ 50,000 and agreed to Bogart to take over the production of the new album. This arrangement resolved Biawitz's conflict of interest in particular; at the same time, Aucoin was able to strengthen its position and Bogart was able to realize his ideas regarding the needs of the music market.
Bogart believed that what the market obviously needs now are fast, happy albums that can make people forget their worries. This attitude resulted in rock and roll all nite . The title was designed as a hymn from the start : Bogart tried to superimpose as many audio tracks as possible to make the song sound as if the chorus was being sung by a large crowd. When that didn't work, he got all available people from the studio environment to him and let them sing and clap. On the recording, therefore, alongside other members of the kiss-are Entourage also Peter Criss ' then wife Lydia Criss and road manager to hear JR Smalling.
Cover
The cover of Dressed to Kill was photographed by Bob Gruen . It shows the suit-clad, yet masked members of the group on the street. The suits were borrowed from the photographer; Gene Simmons wears clogs with his much too small suit that belonged to the photographer's wife at the time.
The cover photo was taken during a break from a photo series for Creem magazine . The comic- inspired series shows group members dressed in suits as they discover John Denver is giving a concert. To save the world, they change into a phone booth and cover the John Denver posters with the dates of their own concerts, so that the audience ultimately goes to a Kiss concert.
publication
The album was released on March 19, 1975. The two tracks C'mon and Love Me and Rock and Roll All Nite were released as singles, but initially did not achieve high sales. First the live album Alive! , which was released in the fall of the same year, gave the band the breakthrough, and in retrospect, the album and singles sold better. Dressed to Kill reached number 32 and thus the Top 40 on the Billboard Charts ; it was ranked 39th in the charts of the magazine “Cashbox”.
Track list
| page | Track | Song title | length | author | Main chant |
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| 1 | 1 | Room service | 2:59 | Stanley | Stanley |
| 2 | Two timers | 2:47 | Simmons | Simmons | |
| 3 | Ladies in waiting | 2:35 | Simmons | Simmons | |
| 4th | Getaway | 2:43 | Frehley | Criss | |
| 5 | Rock bottom | 3:54 | Frehley, Stanley | Stanley | |
| 2 | 6th | C'mon and Love Me | 2:57 | Stanley | Stanley |
| 7th | Anything for my baby | 2:35 | Stanley | Stanley | |
| 8th | She | 4:08 | Stephen Coronel, Simmons | Simmons | |
| 9 | Love Her All I Can | 2:40 | Stanley | Stanley | |
| 10 | Rock and Roll All Nite | 2:49 | Simmons, Stanley | Simmons |
Awards
In 1977 the album achieved gold status from the RIAA .
expenditure
- Casablanca NBLP-7016 (March 19, 1975): First record release
- Mercury 824 148-2 M-1 (July 1987): First CD edition
- Mercury 314 532 3762 (July 15, 1997): Remastered CD
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e f g Curt Gooch, Jeff Suhs: Kiss Alive Forever - A Complete Touring History ; Billboard Books 2002, first edition; ISBN 0-8230-8322-5
- ^ A b Dale Sherman: Black Diamond - The Unauthorized Biography of Kiss ; Collectors Guide Publishing Inc., 1997, ISBN 1-896522-35-1
- ↑ a b c d David Leaf, Ken Sharp: Kiss: Behind the Mask ; Warner Books, New York, 2003. ISBN 0-446-53073-5
- ↑ Larry Harris: And Party Every Day - The Inside Story of Casablanca Records ; Backbeat Books / Hal Leonard 2009, ISBN 978-0-87930-982-4
- ^ Kiss: Beyond the Makeup ; Documentation from the Behind the Music series , VH1, 2001
- ^ Billboard Magazine, February 15, 1975