This is not what it is purported to be... Even "Alive" and "Alive II" were overhauled in the studio after the fact to make them more commercially viable... The four "unreleased" songs on this album were NOT recorded during the time period of "Alive" or "Alive II". There are two choices of where they came from... Either they were recorded during the original sessions for those albums and then completely revamped or simply newly recorded and had crowd noise added to them. There is nothing about these songs that is vintage or was done before 1995. The most telling clue of this is the vocal sound and style of both Gene and Paul. Any KISS fan knows the sounds of their voices through the years and the sounds on these songs are definitely current (1997). They are not vintage. The inflection, phrasing and timbre of both Paul's and Gene's voices is very current, not vintage at all. Another telling example is the style of Gene's bass playing. These songs are polluted with current Gene bass stylings as opposed to his vintage bass playing. I do know that there are live versions of these songs in the vault... I'm not so sure that these are versions of those... Either these are vintage live recordings from that era that have been completely overhauled in the studio or they are completely new recordings that have had crowd noise added to them to make them sound live... Either way, it isn't genuine...
This is not what it is purported to be... Even "Alive" and "Alive II" were overhauled in the studio after the fact to make them more commercially viable... The four "unreleased" songs on this album were NOT recorded during the time period of "Alive" or "Alive II". There are two choices of where they came from... Either they were recorded during the original sessions for those albums and then completely revamped or simply newly recorded and had crowd noise added to them. There is nothing about these songs that is vintage or was done before 1995. The most telling clue of this is the vocal sound and style of both Gene and Paul. Any KISS fan knows the sounds of their voices through the years and the sounds on these songs are definitely current (1997). They are not vintage. The inflection, phrasing and timbre of both Paul's and Gene's voices is very current, not vintage at all. Another telling example is the style of Gene's bass playing. These songs are polluted with current Gene bass stylings as opposed to his vintage bass playing. I do know that there are live versions of these songs in the vault... I'm not so sure that these are versions of those... Either these are vintage live recordings from that era that have been completely overhauled in the studio or they are completely new recordings that have had crowd noise added to them to make them sound live... Either way, it isn't genuine...