Nope. Outside of KISS posters, the first comic book, and inserts I didn't really have much KISS swag. The one thing I did have for many years was an Ace Frehley guitar pick. I didn't catch it, but a friend of my cousin did and he gave it to her and her to me. I used to imagine that Ace's fngers had touched it. It was priceless to me. I have no idea where it is now! Whoops!
I've been a big Kiss fan for over 20 years, but I own zero merch apart from a retro Dynasty era t shirt. The only Kiss products that I've ever bought are albums and VHS/DVD releases. Is this unusual? It feels like I should at least have a Kiss Kasket or something....
I just skipped ahead, and listened to the final two tracks on this album. I didn't remember either song, at all! One of them was so disposable, I literally forgot it the moment it stopped playing. The other one shocked the hell outta me. It sounds so much like another great American rock & roll band, and I'm shocked I had totally forgotten about it!
I believe Animalize was the time the Casablanca label was on some of the foreign releases Kiss - Animalize
I honestly wanted a KISS Kasket, right up til I remembered I made arrangements for Cremation! Do you think they have a KISS Urn? OK I was not serious please do not respond. No urns please! Bad joke
Why am I not surprised? Speaking of the KISS Kasket, Dimebag Darrell was buried in one... “Dimebag” Darrell Was Buried In A Kiss Kasket With Eddie Van Halen’s Bumblebee Guitar
Your comments on The Elder echo my thoughts; I was inspired by this thread to fully listen to it for the first time and thought a whole album in the style of the more heavier/metal tunes on that release would have been awesome. Indeed they are heavier with a certain style and sound that Kiss never really explored again. Some great hard rock offerings on The Elder, and unique for Kiss. I may have even become a fan again if they continued down that road at that time.
I was just blasting "God of Thunder" on Ozzy's Boneyard coming home from work. I'm really looking forward to Destroyer.
Another Paul song I love dearly. In fact Psycho Circus is a phenomenon (can't think of another record like that) - garbage from start to...well almost finish where it ends with 2 fantastic tunes - Dreaming and A Journey of 1000 Years. Both also sound a bit like Music from the Elder outtakes which is of course the finest thing you can say about any piece of music.
Another thing that surprised me while I was reading the Unmasked Discussion - how come everybody commented on a reggae stylings of the bridge yet nobody noticed that Gene delivers the most McCartney-ish lines ever? I mean "Lonely people looking for someone, lonely people going their way...". And it wasn't the first time in history. Listen to Paul singing Molly and tell me it doesn't sound like a RAM or Wild Life outtake!
And speaking of Wicked Lester - how come KISS never recorded What Happens in the Darkness? It has a Number One hit written all over it!
That's a good catch. I was going to comment on this tune having similarities to Elder material, and in my opinion it's not just Paul's voice (but it's that too) . I wouldn't say that the song wholesale sounds like an Elder leftover, but it rather sounds to me like it might have been some Elder leftovers that were reworked to make a hair metal anthem.
Yeah, I'm another. Like npgchris, I had a bunch. A couple different KISS, Zep, Aerosmith, Rush, Queen, Nugent . . . Um, I can't remember them all at the moment. But I wore one of those belt buckles every day for awhile though. Oh--I just remembered that I also had some instrument buckles that were monochromatic bronze. A snare drum, a guitar, etc. I also had an Oreo cookie necklace. I was sportin'.