It's always great to hear people's personal KISStories, especially from the '70s! Great job!

My KISS infatuation ended in 1978. Saw the Love Gun tour with ACDC opening for them and that just ushered in a whole new - more mature 🤣 musical exploration. That and the Sex Pistols and Van Halen. But I was a KISS junkie from the moment I heard ALIVE in 75 when I was 11. Thanks for sharing your memoriablia.

@farrellmcnulty909

Жыл бұрын

I moved on after a while, too At 12, I was into KISS - at 16, back into the Beatles and Led Zeppelin where I belong 😄. THEN, God help the neighbors because I stumbled onto the Dead Kennedys and Sex Pistols. My stereo became a very scary place for my family in those days

I got Destroyer on vinyl and a cheesy record player for Christmas for my 6th birthday. That started my journey. I had the Destroyer puzzle also. KISS meets the Phantom of the Park was holy back then

I still love KISS. Love Gun came out and I wasnt allowed to buy it. So, as an 11 year old Rock and Roll rebel, I snuck up to Goldmans and bought it I snuck it in and hid it successfully. Then on my birthday I received from my grandparents the same album. 😂. But the new one included the Comic printed in real KISS blood!!!

My favorite Kiss album is Hotter Than Hell. My favorite era in Kisstory is the Pre Destroyer era

I am not a Kiss fan by any stretch of the imagination but I have been having an absolute blast going back and watching many of your vids I missed the first time around Robert. You are about the only person on KZread I can stomach when it comes to talking vinyl. You're doing a great job, thanks for the entertainment and information!

@RobertFithen

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!! I appreciate that.

I go in and out with KISS - sometimes yeah, sometimes not in the mood...One thing I'll say is I've always loved the song "Got to Choose". I heard the ALIVE version first and when I heard the Hotter than Hell version, the intro was played slower and "grungier" and I just loved it. The acoustic version on Unplugged is really nice, too. Got to Choose is one of their best.

@honiideslysses12

Жыл бұрын

Who's your baby, man? lol

@farrellmcnulty909

Жыл бұрын

@@honiideslysses12 😄😄😄😄

That's a cool video i have been a Kiss fan since 2009 i have been listening to Kiss and it delivered the goods and on top of it i listened to their demo songs Rain keeps falling is my favorite demo song from Kiss that i listened to since 2014 Ace Frehley is my favorite member from Kiss which it inspired me to play guitar

my first kiss album was Dressed to Kill. It was mom and me, brother and 3 sisters at a navy exchange buying groceries. they had a record store inside me and my brother went looking. I went straight for it staring at me. took it to mom to see if we could buy with our money. she said no. we said yes. we bought it without her knowing somehow managed to sneak it out to the car and into the house. that was late 70's. still have that record and all the other ones and a whole lot of kiss stuff probably like you as well.

I make my wife play that Kiss on Tour board game with me once a year. Yup colorforms only stuck once. That KISS suit is amazing. Kiss ruled the late 70s. I played with my dolls so much.

Mine was Rock And Roll All Over and Love Gun, but my first one i ever got of my own was Alive II when i was 5 or 6. And some bizarre thing happened. I was outside with friends playing records on the front porch. And somehow, i went to flip the album, or change it, but it totally slipped out of my hands and somehow fell between the gap between the house and the stairs. Since they were those big block cement stairs. It was gone, forever. Ive often wondered if they ever pulled the stairs out in the past 42 years and saw it, and wondered how in the hell it got there. Once they dropped the makeup i kinda gave up on them. But it never stopped me from listening to the old albums. Destroyer was a game changer for me. I think i was 8 maybe? Seemed like my uncle and one aunt was more into them then my parents. But so was some of my friends in school. So it was awesome when i was able to tape them at their house, or they lent me their records. I was always a music person in school, and maybe 3 or 4 others. We would even trade mix tapes. Kinda wish I still had them all. That was awesome that you showed all that old photos of yourself.

@RobertFithen

Жыл бұрын

I did something similar when I was a kid with a Blondie record.

Some excellent memories. 😍😎😍

I actually love Peter Criss’s solo album when I got older.

Thanks for sharing your stories and pictures. KISS debut is my fave LP as well. Keep rocking!

Great Show I Have Been A Kiss Fan From Detroit Since January 1975 Cheerz! I`m 58

The only KISS I have left is my ticket stub from KISS's 1st North American concert in 1974, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and my KISS Army membership kit from 1975. When Ace and Peter left, so did I as a teenager then.

Although I don’t listen to the music you listen to, I love the passion you have for music. Keep up the good work!

Oh man this is great! We have a lot in common!! I was 7 when I got my first Kiss LP it was also Double Platinum. I also Had that felt poster, the board game, & the Ace version of the puzzle. I've never seen that little Kiss suit!!!!!! That thing is rare af!!! From 7-10 I bought all the LP's new so got all those goodies that came with the LPs. What else? Kiss garbage can, the 6ft poster, more puzzles, t-shirts, I'm sure there was more!! Thanks for the trip down memory lane.....

@RobertFithen

Жыл бұрын

I got most of the studio albums used so I never got a lot of the extras like the love gun.

That's really cool that you have that footage and photos of all that. I had the colorforms, and another thing that was a use once, rub on transfer thing, that were these cardboard display things. My best Christmas ever was when Santa brought me Gene Simmons solo AND a Gene Simmons Mego. I didn't keep my albums in good shape like you did, most of my originals are trashed, but fortunately I've been able to replace them. Great collection!

Dude, awesome time capsule! Got KISS’ Hotter Than Hell and AC/DC Highway To Hell Christmas’79 courtesy of grandma and grandpa!

A card carrying member of the KISS ARMY!!! Great video! ⚡️⚡️

Hello from Bolivia, nice to watch your kisstory. I am a Hugh Kiss fan, I started to hear the band in 1977.😊 Rock on all nite and all day.

Oh no...not having Paul's solo album is a crime! One of my all time favorite albums of all time

Great video. I was pretty much in the same boat. I discovered Kiss in 76, when I was 10. My first concert ever was Kiss, Dynasty tour, 1979. I always thought it out be cool to start the show with Kissin Time.

Wow what a great vidoe ...you brought out some great memories for me I will ALWAYS LOVE KISS.......

Ha! We are the same age! My dad had just bought KISS Alive! 2 in 78' I just starred at the gatefold cover for hours. Later in 82 I saw them live w/Eric Carr & Vinnie Vincent for Creatures Of The Night & again in 85 as I had a cool Uncle. Nice collection.

@RobertFithen

4 ай бұрын

I only saw them once on the first reunion tour. I had no such cool uncles. lol

Appreciate u sharing the childhood stories! Thanks for all!

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! So glad to still have that film and photos.

cool child stories Robert, I wish I have discovered kiss on an early age too. They were a perfect band for kids :)

I won that blacklight poster at a carnival in hawaii back in the seventies where I grew up. My favorite also.

Fun to watch, so cool how you added pictures and video from your childhood!

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm just so glad I still those photos.

@08:25 - The first issues of "Double Platinum" had red velvet letters instead of the printed ones. Unfortunately after some time, they'd peel off. It was my second KISS album. My first one was Alive II. Loved them both.

This is one of the best videos ever.

@RobertFithen

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@TheWinston7777

Жыл бұрын

@@RobertFithen The way you put in all that footage and pictures from your past that pertained to the subject was great. A Sex Pistols video should be next. It would be shorter but just as fun

In retrospect it's kinda fitting that Unmasked, the first Kiss album you weren't interested in, was also the first on which Peter Criss didn't play anything - all the drum parts were performed by Anton Fig, the great drummer on that first Ace Frehley solo album!

Sir, you are doing a good job of going through the Kiss album collection.

Ooh wow, I had that outfit also, but the shirt was different. mine was long sleeve with the KISS logo all over it.

Ow brother u take me back i loved being hated for being kiss fan i was exactly the same at the same time always enjoy your vids peace and love lloydy

I used to go to thrift stores and hunt down kiss albums people got rid of. I found the double fold triple first three albums the one with the explosion on the front very rare. had everything that it was supposed to come with got it for 5 bucks. then found Dynasty with poster in mint condition in it and Unmasked with mint poster in it as well. I miss going to record stores.

@RobertFithen

9 ай бұрын

A couple weeks ago, I found an Unmasked poster inside a Rolling Stones album, so now I have that.

Great video! We are the same age lol! I into kiss in 1977! My older brother was into them so I just got into it! Love the vids and pics it’s like watching my childhood lol!

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! That's great to hear. I was hoping some people would see it and relate to their own experience.

A great collection

@RobertFithen

3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Very cool collection Robert. I got most of my KISS records in the early eighties, and they were all boring UK represses with NO posters, stickers or anything. It was only when I started watching VC videos that I discovered that the original US pressings came with all the goodies - I couldn't believe it. Actually, the one album I do have that has a set of stickers is 'The Best of the Solo Albums'. The first time I ever saw the artwork for the first three albums was inside the gatefold for Alive. I was in town with my parents and they bought it for me for my forthcoming birthday but wouldn't let me look at it. We went to the swimming pool on the way home and I remember furtively taking a peek at the inside of the gatefold when I was getting changed in one of the cubicles where my father had foolishly positioned his shopping bag. It's bizarre how these memories stay with you. Loved the old movie footage of you at Christmas and the photos.

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!! Yeah, I am glad I still have all those photos, etc. I didn't get a lot of the goodies either since many of mine were used.

That KISS suit is sooo cool never have seen that before and i'm a KISS fan since 1979.

Great video! Love Gun, Dynasty and Unmasked are some of my favorites!

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I would put "Love Gun" in my top 5. "Dynasty" will always be special to me, because it's the one KISS studio album I got when it was a new release. Maybe even the week it came out.

Hay brother new to this channel and love it when I was a kid ABBA or kiss no brainer for so much fun I still have there first album on 180 gram and C live a few times always great fun my main music is hardcore punk the complete opposite to kiss but I still love them even if only for nostalgic reasons I no this is year old peace and love lloydy

To your point about taking the best from the solo albums w some other songs ,I always wondered what if kiss never gave us those 5 studio songs on Alive Il and there wasn’t 4 solo albums and instead gave us a 1978 kiss album that was a follow up to Love Gun and before Dynasty? I try to imagine and model it from the typical amount of kiss songs using all 4 members. And if it was called Kiss Killers instead of that comp. So here it is Kiss Killers Side 1 1. All American Man 2. Rip it out 3. Radioactive 4. Move on 5. Tossin' and Turnin' Side 2 1. It's Alright 2. Rocket Ride 3. Larger Than Life 4. N.Y. Groove 5. Tonight you belong to me

Really cool. My fave song is 2000 Man. Fave record Rock n Roll Over. Wasn t into em when I was young.

Thanks for the video. I was also 6 years old when I stated hearing KISS albums. I was 6 in 79 so 1 year later than you 😎🎶🎸👍

Oh Dude, im not a Kiss Fan but i do Dig the vintage video's of you in your Kiss adventures. Especially the clip will you playing air guitar and spinning around then you finally fall down, that's classic. I am a subscriber and I do watch a videos quite often. This may be my first comment but I think your videos are super cool, you're the kind of guy I'd love to hang out with

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! That air guitar part used to be a highlight of family Super 8 home movie night.

Cool to have all those childhood photos and home videos.

Love this! But man, you're missing out without Paul's solo album. Easily, the most "Kiss" sounding of the 4 albums!

I don't know why, but every person I know, including mysellf, came to know Kiss during childhood. I didn't come to know my favourite band, AC/DC, until I was fifteen. I love "Alive!" as my top Kiss album. BTW, the 2114 reissue has the booklet.

@RobertFithen

Жыл бұрын

I was hoping the "Love Gun" re-issue would have the paper gun, but it didn't.

@mark_beastpriest5539

Жыл бұрын

@@RobertFithen Politically motivated. Banning guns, don't teach kids to play with guns....society has gone nuts.

@RobertFithen

Жыл бұрын

I didn't even think of that.

So cool that you shared memories from your childhood and with videos and picture! mr. Finglish (Bäd English Recs)

That’s so cool you have the stuff from when you were a kid. I lost all my shit years ago.

@RobertFithen

Жыл бұрын

I only still have the albums and a few other things. I wish I still had the guitar, the puzzle, the game, etc.

Awesome video ❤

I'm a KISS Fan too!

I have the CRC Double Platinum 8 track also. Won it on a bid on ebay.

they had the Gene solo album on sale at GC Murphys up until 1983

Every birthday or Christmas I got a kiss album

We started around the same age!!!

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

It was a great time to be into Kiss!

kiss alive ii was the first rock record that was mine.

They never played Kiss on the radio in the 70s. I do remember that. My first 45 was Christine sixteen/shock me. When I was a little kid i only bought 45s. All I could afford. I got destroyer from cousins around 1979. It didn't have a cover with it.

Dude, that Kids Kiss Suit is worth a LOT OF MONEY!!!!!! AND you have the PANTS TOO!! Dare i say it, if you are looking to sell it you are talking around $40-50,000 bucks. I went to a private Kiss auction in New York back in 1997 and they had that same suit w pants. Winning bid was $14,000 (14 something, i can't remember exact) It's 100% a Kiss Holy Grail of collecting. P.S. In NYC back in 78 i'm pretty sure you could buy this suit in Macy's, Gimbels or Korvettes.

@RobertFithen

Жыл бұрын

That's great to hear! I'm not sure where they bought mine.

Dude.. I thought you were going to rip the seams right open on that Double Platinum LP. You manhadled it!! Scary shit lol

My first and only KISS 8-track was Rock and Roll Over. I put on the headphones and cycled through that all day long playing Megamania on Atari. The tape eventually snapped and I guess my mom threw it away.

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

"Rock and Roll Over" and over and over.... I also had "Love Gun" on 8-track but that one was tossed out long ago.

@douglascraig9917

2 жыл бұрын

My mom thought KISS was satanic. She took my records; said she threw them away... but I found them hidden away several months later. Stole 'em back. LOL

great channel Rob🤘🏻….nice score on the “satanic” albums

I'm a bit older than you so was never a KISS fan but enjoyed the video. I'll say it cuz no one else has said the reason you got those free records is because the mom heard that KISS stood for "Kids in Satan's Service".

Was never into kiss though I received criss album for Xmas then bought rock all over soon after found out later frehleys solo was the best of the four was collecting and listening to sweet nazareth and grand funk at that time just couldn't get excited about kiss entertaining video

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I think it was a right place and time thing for me.

10:33 OMG that is so ADORABLE! Did you put that makeup on yourself, or did your mom do it? If it was your mom, you simply must tell her that she did a wonderful job of it! Also, kudos to you for taking the time to add in these home movies and photos. They totally make the video complete!

@RobertFithen

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I think it was my mom and sister.

The first kiss album is the best

@farrellmcnulty909

Жыл бұрын

I prefer the debut album version of Black Diamond - best I'd ever heard. The ALIVE version was okay and the Double Platinum remix is all right, too, but the debut version is the best.

As some have said..I lost interest in Kiss in 1980..with so much more harder rock around that was much better..but thinking of the amount of albums they put out in 5-6 years is amazing..

Hotter Than Hell is probably my favorite album and Rock & Roll Over my least favorite of the 70's stuff, but Rock & Roll Over has a great cover, I've never scene one of those suits

Kiss is a great rock band. One of the best shows give ever seen. But unfortunately they are never taken seriously because of genes constant marketing. It appealed to young boys like we were in the 70s.

2 videos in a week! 🤘😁

I have grown to like Paul's solo album. Took me years.

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

I don't really know much of it except some of the songs that were in KISS Meets the Phantom.

@WizardofFuzz

Жыл бұрын

@@RobertFithen Tonight You Belong to Me and Take Away (Together as One) are amazing. The rest is boring.

I was 5 in 74 and my next door neighbor had the debut album and I went batshit !!!

17:30 - I really like Destroyer Resurrected, but do I love it? I've been considering getting Resurrected on vinyl, but I don't like the prices, when I want to get something else, too.

Any photos of you at Christmas 78 79 getting and opening these kiss lps?

I wonder if anyone shown you what you get by sending in for the army -it’s was a portfolio with four 8 by ten picture and a two page discography four postcard size pictures that had strips with they’re signatures that stand up each post card there was a very large poster of just that logo that’s red ,orange and black and a three inch round button of the standard logo and a join army certificate hope that lets you see a bit

@RobertFithen

Жыл бұрын

I always wondered what it was.

I was a huge Kiss fan as a child. Later realising that they're pretty awful people was painful 😅 The songs are still awesome, tho.

A Beatles history video next?

It's interesting that Kiss were heavily influenced by Slade, and they named 'Alive' after 'Slade Alive'.

Cool video man👍🔥 at what point did you get reacquainted with KISS? Cool ol' pictures

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!! Probably right after high school. Then again when they remastered the cd's the first time. Then again with the first back in makeup tour. Then again..... lol

I had Dressed to Kill 8 track 1975.

You orient the inner sleeve the same way I do. Open end up so the open end of the inner sleeve is not exposed to air. At least that was my reasoning. Plus the record could not slip out if the album was held upside down. I am curious about your promotional copies of the KISS singles. Did Casablanca issue the promo copies in real vinyl like Columbia did? I always found it interesting that Columbia issued a lot of real vinyl promo copies to radio stations (so they sounded great on the radio), while the public had to pay to get crappy plastic (or whatever crap they used) pressings. The plastic crap would cue burn, while the vinyl would withstand years of cueing.

@clydecrashcup2708

2 жыл бұрын

I have promo copies of "Beth"/"Detroit Rock City", "Hard Luck Woman" and "Christine Sixteen"; all are pressed on vinyl. My stock copy of "I Was Made For Lovin' You" is also pressed on vinyl. Sadly, the Casablanca and Columbia/Epic styrene records were among the nastiest in terms of quality.

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

The "Shout It Out Loud" promo is vinyl, while the "I Was Made For Loving You" promo is styrene like the retail single. I think it's all about the pressing plant. I'm not sure about Casablanca, but that's how Atlantic is. Atlantic singles are all vinyl except the ones pressed at Monarch, those are styrene.

What's your favorite KISS song?

@RobertFithen

Жыл бұрын

100,000 Years

Hi is the kiss album from 2012 worth anything they are red vinyl records nz

@RobertFithen

Жыл бұрын

If it's the debut just called "Kiss", from what I was able to find, the red vinyl from the 2010's is a bootleg and worth around $30-$35.

Did you ever get the kiss makeup kit from the jc penney Christmas catalog. That's the only connection I have with kiss. And guess what, I never gotbtge makeup kit. Ha

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

I think it was from K-Mart. It was pretty popular.

@scottboedy5299

2 жыл бұрын

@@RobertFithen I'm a dummy becsuse I failed to watch the video all the way through. If I has watched all the way to the end I would have seen the kiss your face kit. Shame on me.

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

Its' quite alright. lol

Grew up in the seventies playing all the albums with all four original members. I also lost interest because “disco, pop, and concept album KISS” disgusted my young testosterone filled brain. When they came out with “Creatures Of The Night” though, that album blew me away. After three clusterfuck albums, they made one last kick-ass rock album!

I actually love Kissing Time. Does that make me a degenerate?

Iron Man Underoos!

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

I had Auqaman.

@Chrisdrumz

2 жыл бұрын

@@RobertFithen You apparently had the Iron Man ones as well🤘11:46

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

@@Chrisdrumz Great eye! I don't even remember that shirt.

Growing out the facial hair? 👀

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

Just lazy lol

You really hate that kissing time. Lol. They must have started putting on when kiss released the originals in 1976. Which was a compilation of their first three albums ( which I have). Kinda like Rush archives.

P s brother i was the same u could be telling my kiss story i do remember wot made me stop listening it was led Zeppelin witch i find very boring now peace and love lloydy

Take care when you take out of the cover ..it's vinyl...

I've never understood how people say stuff like oh.. I was 3 years old when I got into KISS etc. Maybe at 8 or 9 one can identify with melody. Lyrically, I think you have to be even older to get the (sexual) meaning of the songs. I turned 15 when the first album came out..saw them twice in concert within a year. So, they were dark, scary and freaking parents out. A few years later, little kids are into KISS like it's the circus. I always take the "little kids into KISS" thing with a grain of salt.

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

I am not sure what you are trying to say, but obviously at 6/ 7 years old, I did not get some of lyrical content or even know what some of the words were. Most likely, I was into the costumes, themes, and hard rock sound. As for the take it with a grain of salt, are you saying I am lying or something? I literally show photos in the video.

Unmasked was a good time to get away from Kiss. Although I think creatures of the night was their best album.

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

I finally got around to hearing "Creatures of the Night in the late 80's. I was nicely surprised how heavy it was.

What happened to turn you off KISS,,, Puberty...

@RobertFithen

Жыл бұрын

Probably, but I was only 8 years old. I think it might have been seeing "KISS Meets the Phantom".

Great show I know you were only 8 but maybe you out grew them got burned out I was like that then burnout with the Monkees as a kid 2 to 3 years you thought they were cool cause of the outer spacy comic book outfits.im older than you but kiss aliveis a classic 80s .Mtv kiss area ruined them and Beth to me there not a love song group

@RobertFithen

2 жыл бұрын

Probably just a child's fickle attention as for me. I was into the Monkees around this time in my life, too. It was because of the TV show reruns.

The debut KISS album, doesn't sound like it has balls, but except for a couple of fillers, (Kissing Time, Love Theme From Kiss, Let Me know) the album is full of solid masterpieces still sung today that identify the band. However, their next 2 studio albums, Hotter Than Hell, and Dressed To Kill, sound like shit. They sound as if the tape was played out of azimuth alignment, and the drums and bass were practically castrated. Terrible production throughout, and this is why their records didn't sell despite selling out stadiums, until Eddir Kramer was hired for the Alive album, that gave them the sound everyone expected to hear.