Rock and Roll Over
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Rock and Roll Over was the 1976 released, the fifth studio album of the American hard rock band Kiss and their overall sixth release on the label Casablanca Records .
History of origin
After the previous album Destroyer, produced by Bob Ezrin , had been the group's most commercially successful studio album to date , Eddie Kramer took the place at the mixer again for Rock and Roll Over . Destroyer was produced in a very radio-oriented way, while Kramer tried to get closer to the rough live sound of the band with Rock and Roll Over .
The recordings took place between September 13 and October 4, 1976 at the Star Theater in Nanuet ( New York ), a venue for concerts with 1,000 seats, and Kramer used the space that was available to him: the members of the band were usually placed on the lowerable platform that had been lowered. The amplifiers were then positioned in the direction of the aisles going out from there in order to be able to pick up a natural reverb . In addition, individual musicians in the group were accommodated in different rooms depending on the sound needs and connected to the control room via video. This went so far that drum recordings took place in a toilet room.
Recording microphones were distributed throughout the theater, and sound recordings were even made in row 30, which is far from the stage. Due to the strict separation of the recording areas, a completely pure sound track could be recorded for each instrument, which did not record any background noise from other instruments, although the members of the group played live during the recording, i.e. simultaneously.
Rock and Roll Over was the first and only Kiss studio album recorded with the original line-up, in which lead guitarist Ace Frehley was not involved in the songwriting of the published tracks. However, a title had been planned for him, in which he would make his debut as lead singer : Queen for a Day - but when the vocals were to be recorded, Frehley waived. Queen for a Day was therefore retained as an instrumental on the master tapes , but the song was not released.
The song Hard Luck Woman was written by Paul Stanley , who wished Rod Stewart would be interested in singing it. In the end, the group exploited the song themselves and let Peter Criss take over the vocals.
Cover & equipment
The album cover was drawn by Michael Doret , who also drew the cover for Sonic Boom in 2009 . The inner shell was completely black and showed a diamond-shaped Kiss logo. In addition to the record , it contained a questionnaire from the Kiss Army (the group's fan club), a sheet with offers for T-shirts, belt buckles and other merchandise , as well as a large square sticker with the cover motif, which was removable in sections so that individual items Elements of the motif could be glued on in different places.
publication
Rock and Roll Over was released in the US on November 1, 1976, and ten days later in Germany. As singles were Hard Luck Woman (December) and later Calling Dr. Love (March 1977), both of which reached the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 - but with the help of tricks common at the time: Casablanca Records used Payola to influence the design of the charts in order to achieve the effect that the band after the chart success of the Single Beth also had the substance to deliver more hits.
Track list
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- 3:04 I Want You (vocals: Paul Stanley; text and music: Paul Stanley)
- 2:56 Take Me (vocals: Paul Stanley; lyrics and music: Paul Stanley, Sean Delaney )
- 3:44 Calling Dr. Love (vocals: Gene Simmons; text and music: Gene Simmons)
- 3:27 Ladies Room (vocals: Gene Simmons; text and music: Gene Simmons)
- 3:40 Baby Driver (vocals: Peter Criss; text and music: Peter Criss, Stan Penridge)
- 3:47 Love 'Em and Leave' Em (vocals: Gene Simmons; text and music: Gene Simmons)
- 3:18 Mr. Speed (vocals: Paul Stanley; text and music: Paul Stanley, Sean Delaney )
- 2:34 See you in Your Dreams (vocals: Gene Simmons; text and music: Gene Simmons )
- 3:34 Hard Luck Woman (vocals: Peter Criss; lyrics and music: Paul Stanley)
- 3:14 Makin 'Love (vocals: Paul Stanley; lyrics and music: Paul Stanley, Sean Delaney)
literature
- Julian Gill: The Kiss Album Focus - Kings of the Night Time World, 1972-1982 . 3. Edition. KissFaq.com, 2008, ISBN 978-0-9722253-7-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Curt Gooch, Jeff Suhs: Kiss Alive Forever - A Complete Touring History . 1st edition. Billboard Books, 2002, ISBN 0-8230-8322-5 .
- ^ A b Dale Sherman: Black Diamond - The Unauthorized Biography of Kiss . Collectors Guide Publishing, 1997, ISBN 1-896522-35-1 .
- ^ A b David Leaf, Ken Sharp: Kiss: Behind the Mask . Warner Books, New York 2003, ISBN 0-446-53073-5 .
- ↑ Dale Sherman: Black Diamond 2 - The Illustrated Collector's Guide to Kiss . Collector's Guide Publishing, 1997, ISBN 1-896522-36-X .
- ↑ Larry Harris: And Party Every Day - The Inside Story of Casablanca Records . Backbeat Books / Hal Leonard, 2009, ISBN 978-0-87930-982-4 .
- ↑ Charts DE Charts US