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Kiss Celebrate ‘Alive!’ 50th Anniversary with Colossal Box Set

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Kiss fans, get ready to cream your goddamn pants. Their fourth record (and first live record) Alive! is officially a senior citizen, celebrating its 50th this year. It’s considered to be one of the best live albums of all time, but if you’re a Kiss fan I imagine you already know that. To celebrate, the band is bitch-slapping us with a… get ready for it… Super Deluxe 180-gram 8-LP + Blu-ray Audio boxset boasting 120 total tracks including 88 unreleased tracks. That’s a whole hell of a lot.

The first two LPs will feature a newly remastered (by Bernie Grundman) version of the original record, while LPs 3–6 will feature two full-lengths concerts from their “Dressed to Kill” tour in 1975—RKO Orpheum Theatre in Davenport, Iowa on July 20, Second Show and Wildwood Convention Hall in Wildwood, New Jersey on July 23—newly mixed by producer and engineer Eddie Kramer. He also mixed the bonus tracks on LP 7 & 8 as well as the Blu-ray audio disc.

The Super Deluxe is packed with a bunch of other cool shit, including:

  • 100-page hardcover book with extensive liner notes by Ken Sharp featuring new interviews from Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and many notable Alive!-era Kiss team members plus tons of unreleased photos and rare imagery.
  • Alive! 1975 press kit featuring
  • Press Release
  • Four Black & White Glossy Photos 7.5″x10″
  • Marketing Slick Sheet
  • Alive! Tour Program
  • Alive! Back Cover Fan Banner Poster
  • Album Cover Lenticular
  • T-shirt Iron-on
  • Four Live Color Glossy Photos
  • Peter Criss Drum Head Litho
  • Wildwood Concert Poster 20″x28″
  • Cleveland Concert Mini-Poster 10″x17″
  • Cobo Arena Concert Main Floor Ticket Stub
  • Wildwood Concert Ticket Stub
  • Cleveland Concert Ticket Stub
  • Cobo Arena Concert Backstage Pass
  • New Year’s Eve – Nassau Backstage Pass
  • Four Double-Sided Coasters
  • Four Guitar Picks
  • Bumper Sticker 8″x2.5″
  • Alive! Die-Cut Double-Sided Mobile
  • Gotham Rock City News Volume 4 Newspaper – Track-by-Track interview with Eddie Kramer of nearly all tracks appearing on the collection

Alive! (Remastered) tracklist:

LP One – Side A:

  1. Deuce
  2. Strutter
  3. Got To Choose
  4. Hotter Than Hell
  5. Firehouse

LP One – Side B:

  1. Nothin’ To Lose
  2. C’mon And Love Me
  3. Parasite
  4. She

LP Two – Side C:

  1. Watchin’ You
  2. 100,000 Years
  3. Black Diamond

LP Two – Side D:

  1. Rock Bottom
  2. Cold Gin
  3. Rock And Roll All Nite
  4. Let Me Go, Rock ‘N Roll

Live In Davenport, Iowa – RKO Orpheum Theatre – July 20, 1975 – Second Show*

LP Three – Side E:

  1. Deuce
  2. Strutter
  3. Got To Choose
  4. Hotter Than Hell

LP Three – Side F:

  1. Firehouse
  2. She
  3. Ace Frehley Guitar Solo
  4. Nothin’ To Lose

LP Four – Side G:

  1. C’mon And Love Me
  2. 100,000 Years
  3. Peter Criss Drum Solo / 100,000 Years

LP Four – Side H:

  1. Black Diamond
  2. Cold Gin
  3. Let Me Go, Rock ‘N Roll

Live In Wildwood, New Jersey – Wildwood Convention Hall – July 23, 1975*

LP Five – Side I:

  1. Deuce
  2. Strutter
  3. Got To Choose
  4. Hotter Than Hell
  5. Firehouse

LP Five – Side J:

  1. She
  2. Ace Frehley Guitar Solo
  3. Nothin’ To Lose
  4. C’mon And Love Me

LP Six – Side K:

  1. 100,000 Years
  2. Peter Criss Drum Solo / 100,000 Years
  3. Parasite

LP Six – Side L:

  1. Black Diamond
  2. Cold Gin
  3. Let Me Go, Rock ‘N Roll

Bonus Live

Rehearsals – Live In Davenport, Iowa – RKO Orpheum Theatre – July 20, 1975*

LP Seven – Side M:

  1. KISS Jam
  2. Room Service
  3. Strange Ways
  4. Rock Bottom
  5. Watchin’ You

Live In Cleveland, Ohio – Cleveland Music Hall – June 21, 1975*

LP Seven – Side N:

  1. She
  2. Ace Frehley Guitar Solo
  3. Nothin’ To Lose

LP Eight – Side O:

  1. C’mon And Love Me
  2. 100,000 Years
  3. Peter Criss Drum Solo / 100,000 Years

Blu-ray Audio – Alive!

Disc Five:

[Dolby Atmos* / Dolby True HD 5.1* / 192kHz 24-bit & 96kHz 24-bit PCM Stereo]

  1. Deuce
  2. Strutter
  3. Got To Choose
  4. Hotter Than Hell
  5. Firehouse
  6. Nothin’ To Lose
  7. C’mon And Love Me
  8. Parasite
  9. She
  10. Watchin’ You
  11. 100,000 Years
  12. Black Diamond
  13. Rock Bottom
  14. Cold Gin
  15. Rock And Roll All Nite
  16. Let Me Go, Rock ‘N Roll

*Previously unreleased

I’m damn near overwhelmed by all they’re giving us with this, but it’s a good overwhelm. Check out more Alive! merch by going here.

Kiss Celebrate ‘Alive!’ 50th Anniversary with Colossal Box Set
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