You wanted the best, get ready to get even more best: Kiss announced a major 50th anniversary reissue their classic Alive! contains approximately 90 unreleased tracks.
Alive! The band's 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition, out November 21, includes the band's 1975 live album, newly remastered from the original tapes, plus two more complete and unreleased July 1975 concerts—at Davenport, the RKO Orpheum Theater in Iowa, and the Wildwood, a convention hall in New Jersey—plus a rehearsal for the Iowa concert and several live recordings from concert at Cleveland Music Hall in June. 1975.
“For the Super Deluxe box sets, Eddie Kramer completed new mixes of these specific concerts, revisiting the original multi-track analog tapes and maintaining the integrity of the performances without overdubs,” the press release states. Alive! previously landed in Number six on Rolling StoneList of the 50 Greatest Live Albums of All Time.
Ahead of the re-release, Kiss shared an unreleased recording of “C'mon And Love Me” from a concert in Davenport, Iowa:
The Davenport and Wildwood shows also featured tracks dedicated to “Ace Frehley Guitar solo” in the spotlight deceased guitaristworking on the Dressed to Kill Tour.
In addition to all the unreleased music, Alive! Super Deluxe editions contain reproductions of ephemera from the era, including a “reissue Alive! 1975 press kit, photos, tour program, T-shirt, backstage pass, ticket stubs, posters, lenticular album cover, four reversible coasters, four guitar picks, bumper sticker, Alive! cut-out two-way mobile and much more.”
Limited to just 1,000 copies, it comes with an archival hardcover book documenting the Dressed to Kill Tour and Gotham Rock City News Volume 4 newspaper, which contains an in-depth interview with Kramer covering most of the songs.
Alive! reissue, available for pre-order at the Kiss Store.Available in a variety of formats including 4CD/1Blu-ray, 8LP/1Blu-Ray, Deluxe Picture Disc Vinyl, Premium Color Vinyl and more.
Kiss Alive! Super Deluxe 4CD + 50th Anniversary Blu-Ray Track Listing:
ALIVE! (UPDATED)
FIRST CD:
1. Two
2. Racks
3. You have to choose
4. Hotter than hell
5. Fire station
6. Nothing to lose
7. Come on and love me
8. Parasite
9. She
10. I'm watching you
11. 100,000 years.
12. Black Diamond
13. Rock bottom
14. Cold gin
15. Rock 'n' roll all night
16. Let me go, rock and roll
CONFIGURATION IN DAVENPORT, IOWA – RKO ORPHEUM THEATER – JULY 20, 1975 – SECOND SHOW*
SECOND CD:
1. Two
2. Racks
3. You have to choose
4. Hotter than hell
5. Fire station
6. She
7. Ace Frehley solo guitar
8. Nothing to lose
9. Come on 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 and roll
WILDWOOD CONFERENCE, NEW JERSEY – WILDWOOD CONFERENCE ROOM – JULY 23, 1975*
THREE COMPACT DISCS:
1. Two
2. Racks
3. You have to choose
4. Hotter than hell
5. Fire station
6. She
7. Ace Frehley solo guitar
8. Nothing to lose
9. Come on and love me
10. 100,000 years
11. Peter Criss, drum solo / 100,000 years
12. Parasite
13. Black Diamond
14. Cold gin
15. Let me go, rock and roll
BONUS LIVE
FOUR CD:
REHEARSAL – DAVENPORT, IOWA CONCERN – RKO ORPHEUM THEATER – JULY 20, 1975*
1. KISS Jam
2. Room service
3. Strange ways
4. Rock bottom
5. I'm watching you
CONCERN CLEVELAND, OHIO – CLEVELAND MUSIC HALL – JUNE 21, 1975*
6. She
7. Ace Frehley solo guitar
8. Nothing to lose
9. Come on and love me
10. 100,000 years.
11. Peter Criss, drum solo / 100,000 years
AUDIO BLU-RAY – LIVE!:
DISC FIVE:
[Dolby Atmos* / Dolby True HD 5.1* / 192kHz 24-bit & 96kHz 24-bit PCM Stereo]
1. Two
2. Racks
3. You have to choose
4. Hotter than hell
5. Fire station
6. Nothing to lose
7. Come on and love me
8. Parasite
9. She
10. I'm watching you
11. 100,000 years.
12. Black Diamond
13. Rock bottom
14. Cold gin
15. Rock 'n' roll all night
16. Let me go, rock and roll
*Previously unpublished
