Key Takeaways
- Kiss anniversary: The band celebrates the 50th anniversary of their iconic album Alive!.
- Box set details: The collection features 88 unreleased live tracks and is available for pre-order.
- Concert recordings: It includes two full concerts from 1975, showcasing performances in Davenport and Wildwood.
- Audio enhancements: All audio has been newly remixed by Eddie Kramer from original multi-tracks.
Kiss will celebrate the 50th anniversary of their star-making 1975 double live album Alive! with a massive box set containing 88 previously unreleased live tracks.
The collection is currently available for pre-order with a Nov. 21 ship date exclusively at the band’s official website, in 4CD+ Blu-ray and 8LP+ Blu-ray formats, along with a wide variety of new Alive!-themed merchandise.
You can see the complete track list below.
The set contains two full concerts from the band’s 1975 tour: July 23 in Wildwood, New Jersey and the second show the band performed on July 20, 1975, at Davenport, Iowa’s RKO Orpheum Theatre.
Five tracks from an afternoon rehearsal in Davenport and six from the band’s June 21 show in Cleveland are also included. All of the audio has been newly remixed by Eddie Kramer from the original multi-tracks.
This is the second box set Kiss has announced in less than a month, following the Oct. 16 release of one dedicated to their 1975 studio album Dressed to Kill. That set includes two full concerts from the Dressed to Kill tour. The first took place at Detroit’s Cobo Arena on May 16, 1975, and the second was the first show the band performed on July 20, 1975, at Davenport, Iowa’s RKO Orpheum Theatre. (The Alive! set contains the second)
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Alive! was released on Sept. 10, 1975, after Kiss’ first three studio albums had failed to connect with the record-buying public. The lack of record sales, despite an ever-increasing and rabid live following, had helped push their record label to the brink of bankruptcy.
Luckily, Alive! was a smash hit, catapulting Kiss to arena headliner status and kicking off a run of platinum studio albums and sold-out tours that wouldn’t cease until the band started messing around with disco.
The band has been open about the fact that the album was significantly enhanced in the studio. “We had to create that album from the live shows with overdubbed guitar because of the fact that Kiss puts on a great show with much leaping about,” producer Eddie Kramer told Mars Music. “Obviously, guitars will not stay in tune and accuracy goes right out the window. So, you fix what’s not right.”
Kiss ‘Alive! 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Track List (CD edition)
ALIVE! (REMASTERED)
CD ONE:
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
LIVE IN DAVENPORT, IOWA – RKO ORPHEUM THEATRE – JULY 20, 1975 – SECOND SHOW*
CD TWO:
1. Deuce
2. Strutter
3. Got To Choose
4. Hotter Than Hell
5. Firehouse
6. She
7. Ace Frehley Guitar Solo
8. Nothin’ To Lose
9. C’mon And Love Me
10. 100,000 years
11. Peter Criss Drum Solo / 100,000 Years
12. Black Diamond
13. Cold Gin
14. Let Me Go, Rock ‘N Roll
LIVE IN WILDWOOD, NEW JERSEY – WILDWOOD CONVENTION HALL – JULY 23, 1975*
CD THREE:
