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Kiss -No Beast So Fierce cd

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Cd with printed innersleeve and a 4-page booklet

The tour to support Love Gun, dubbed the Can-Am tour was a two month jaunt that found the band playing an extensive Canadian tour with the American portion being made up of West Coast dates and a quick trip through Texas to finish it off. 1977 was the band’s most successful year to date, their new wax opus, Love Gun, had been shipped Platinum upon its release and the tour in its support would feature near capacity attendances in every city they played. Recordings from the tour are largely focused on the American leg, most of the California dates were captured by enterprising audience members, yet perhaps the best of the lot would be the pro shot video from the bands two shows in Houston, Texas. Most Kiss fans have many of these recordings in one form or another in their collection. The No Beast So Fierce album features two new recordings to the Kiss collecting community, they are both long hoarded soundboard fragments from the two last dates of the Love Gun tour in Fort Worth, Texas. I do not know how they got out, from what I read someone leaked them to the world via a famous torrent site, their comment was “Suck it, bootleggers”. Nonetheless the music made it out to be enjoyed by the masses. First off the recordings are excellent, but not without issues. They are not complete, the show that makes up the bulk of the this title is from the final night in Fort Worth, yes the back cover on this cd is wrong. The recording is excellent, well balanced with just a small amount of tape hiss and suffers from some slight distortion that gives the sound a haze, this does begin to phase up to Calling. Dr Love. There is a segment missing, the end of Calling Dr. Love fades out so Shout It Out Loud, Gene’s solo and God Of Thunder are all missing. The first half minute of Rock And Roll All Nite is missing as well, again it fades is, making for an easier listening experience. Curious the phasing lessens for the encores, there is still some residual distortion present, but don’t let this scare you, this is still a great recording that sounds good loud. The bands performance is great, sure it’s the end of the tour and the playing is a bit loose and a few vocals are ragged, but it reeks of energy and passion, Peter’s voice sounds tired during Beth and Black Diamond. The fragment from the first night, September 4, is identical to the previous nights recording that thankfully is distortion free, in their effort to get these two fragments on a single disc, we lost about 4:30 consisting of Peter’s drum solo and the conclusion of God Of Thunder. There is an interesting version of Black Diamond where Paul sings leads for some unknown reason, must have been an equipment issue as Peter’s vocals do not sound tired like the last night. The 4 page booklet and printed innersleeve comes adorned with posed and live shots of the band with 70’s style borders that reminded me of the old Kiss cards. There is an insert with a center picture very similar to the inside gatefold of Alive II and a picture of a ticket stub for the first night.

Track list:
1. I Stole Your Love-Fort Worth Texas 5th of September 1977
2. Take Me-Fort Worth Texas 5th of September 1977
3. Ladies Room-Fort Worth Texas 5th of September 1977
4. Firehouse-Fort Worth Texas 5th of September 1977
5. Love Gun-Fort Worth Texas 5th of September 1977
6. Hooligan-Fort Worth Texas 5th of September 1977
7. Makin Love-Fort Worth Texas 5th of September 1977
8. Christine Sixteen-Fort Worth Texas 5th of September 1977
9. Shock Me-Fort Worth Texas 5th of September 1977
10. Ace Solo-Fort Worth Texas 5th of September 1977
11. I Want You-Fort Worth Texas 5th of September 1977
12. Calling Dr. Love-Fort Worth Texas 5th of September 1977
13. Rock And Roll All Nite-Fort Worth Texas 5th of September 1977
14. Detroit Rock City-Fort Worth Texas 5th of September 1977
15. Beth-Fort Worth Texas 5th of September 1977
16. Black Diamond-Fort Worth Texas 5th of September 1977
17. Rock And Roll All Nite-Fort Worth Texas 4th of September 1977
18. Detroit Rock City-Fort Worth Texas 4th of September 1977
19. Beth-Fort Worth Texas 4th of September 1977
20. Black Diamond-Fort Worth Texas 4th of September 1977

Additional information

Label

Eat A Peach Records

Catalogue Number

EAT 174

Release Year

2017