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Double cd in digipak cover. Limited 100 copies
The Animalize tour was the most successful that Kiss had done since the original line-up. It had an exciting stage show and the band had found a line-up that could deliver better live than the band had done in years. Eric Carr could play things that Peter Criss couldn’t and Mark St John had been replaced by Bruce Kulick. Just months after the ending of that tour this line-up released their first studio album, the gold selling album Asylum. And before the year was over the band were already back on the road for the 91 show long Asylum tour. The Walking Around The World album features a shwo from University of Illinois Pavillion on the 17th of January 1986 as well as material from their show at Madison Square Garden in New York on the 16th of December 1985. If you managed to find shows from the 1985 part of the tour then you will get a chance to hear the track Wont Get Fooled Again as that track was then dropped for the restart of the tour after the Christmas break. For the 1986 shows the band brought W.A.S.P. with them as an opening act. Kiss and Wasp together seemed like a nightmare for Tipper Gore and a wet dream for heavy metal lovers. However the critics werent that impressed not atleast then ones that saw the Illinois show. One critic wrote the following in Chicago Sun Times the day after the show; W.A.S.P., of course, was a main target of Tipper Gore and the Washington Wives, who brought the band’s previously unknown Animal (F–k Like a Beast) to the attention of the musical mainstream. KISS was somehow ignored by the Wives. If I were the band, I’d sue for equal recognition. ‘I’ve been reading a lot in the newspapers about me and my boys here,’ sneered W.A.S.P.’s Blackie Lawless. ‘They say we are sexual perverts. They say we’re every parent’s worst nightmare.’ Actually, both bands proved pretty harmless. Where W.A.S.P.’s performances once included raw meat and the drinking of blood, the band now excites the audience by throwing posters into the crowd. Despite songs with titles like “Sex Crime,” “Wild Child” and “Love Machine,” these guys aren’t perverts, they’re merchandisers. As for KISS — or do you say Kiss? — It seems to have turned up the aggression once members off their makeup. Where the band’s performance once had a cartoonish appeal, its music has since degenerated into lowest-common-denominator metal clichés. And it seems that the louder KISS shouts, the fewer ears it reaches. Although its label insists that the band’s records still sell in the millions, its show at the Pavilion didn’t draw enough fans to open the balcony. Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley are the only original members left in the band. Whatever original ideas they had left long ago”
Track list:
1. Detroit Rock City-Chicago 1986
2. Fits Like A Glove-Chicago 1986
3. Cold Gin-Chicago 1986
4. Uh! All Night-Chicago 1986
5. Under The Gun-Chicago 1986
6. Guitar Solo-Bruce Kulick-Chicago 1986
7. I Still Love You-Chicago 1986
8. Bass Solo-Gene Simmons-Chicago 1986
9. I Love It Loud-Chicago 1986
10. Guitar Solo-Paul Stanley-Chicago 1986
11. Tears Are Falling-Chicago 1986
12. Drum Solo-Eric Carr-Chicago 1986
13. War Machine-Chicago 1986
14. Love Gun-Chicago 1986
15. Rock And Roll All Nite-Chicago 1986
16. Heaven’s On Fire-Chicago 1986
17. Lick It Up-Chicago 1986
18. Cold Gin-Madison 1985
19. Guitar Solo-Paul Stanley-Madison Square Garden 1985
20. Uh! All Night–Madison Square Garden 1985
21. Drum Solo-Eric Carr-Madison Square Garden 1985
22. War Mcahine-Madison Square Garden 1985
23. I Still Love You-Madison Square Garden 1985
24. Under The Gun-Madison Square Garden 1985
25. Guitar Solo-Bruce Kulick-Madison Square Garden 1985
26. Bass Solo-Gene Simmons-Madison Square Garden 1985
27. I Love It Loud-Madison Square Garden 1985
28. Rock And Roll All Nite-Madison Square Garden 1985
29. Heaven’s On Fire-Madison Square Garden 1985
30. Won’t Get Fooled Again-Madison Square Garden 1985