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KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
KISSology Volume 1 1974-1977
Live in Las Vegas
KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (2005, Cheezy Flicks): 96 minutes. This is their infamous 1978 TV movie. The concert performances are awesome with stage theatrics even better than what you'd see in many of their other filmed concerts. The rest of the movie? Eh. If you have some extra dollars and can find this, I'd suggest it for the KISS fan. It's a part of KISS history, for sure, but more of a novelty than anything else.
KISSology Volume 1 1974-1977 (2006, VH1 Classic Records): RECOMMENDED! Approximately 6.5 hours. This is a cool two-disc set. It features rare concert footage and classic TV appearances. And it's the "real" line-up of KISS with Simmons/Stanley/Criss/Frehley. My only complaint is that some of the concert footage doesn't really dazzle us with crystal clear picture quality. I know it's supposed to be remastered, but some of it still looks grainy. I do think, though, that this set is a must-have for people who follow early KISS. Since there are so many songs on this set, it's easier and more relevant to list the programs.
Program Listing:
"Acrobat"- Long Beach Auditorium (Long Beach, California, 2/17/74)
"ABC's In Concert" (3/29/74)
"The Mike Douglas Show" (4/29/74)
"Winterland" (San Francisco, California, 1/31/75)
"The Midnight Special" (4/1/75)
"KISS Alive! Promo Clips" (1975)
"Documentary: Cadillac, Michigan" (October 9-10, 1975)
"Cobo Hall" (Detroit, Michigan, 1/26/76)
"So It Goes" (8/21/76)
"The Paul Lynde Halloween Special" (10/29/76)
"Budokan Hall" (Tokyo, Japan, 4/2/77)
"Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" (5/28/77)
"The Summit" (Houston, Texas, 9/2/77)
Bonus Materials:
Audio Commentary by Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley
"Acrobat"- Long Beach Auditorium (Long Beach, California, 2/17/74)
"ABC's In Concert" (3/29/74)
"The Mike Douglas Show" (4/29/74)
"Winterland" (San Francisco, California, 1/31/75)
"The Midnight Special" (4/1/75)
"KISS Alive! Promo Clips" (1975)
"Documentary: Cadillac, Michigan" (October 9-10, 1975)
"Cobo Hall" (Detroit, Michigan, 1/26/76)
"So It Goes" (8/21/76)
"The Paul Lynde Halloween Special" (10/29/76)
"Budokan Hall" (Tokyo, Japan, 4/2/77)
"Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" (5/28/77)
"The Summit" (Houston, Texas, 9/2/77)
Bonus Materials:
Audio Commentary by Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley
Live in Las
Vegas (2005, Pixelon): CUSTOMER BE WARY! This is an
awesome concert...all 15 minutes of it. Don't trust the 100
minute time length given on the back cover...they combined that time
with the extras! Who does that? If you can get this DVD for
ten dollars or less it's a good deal, but don't pay the twenty plus
dollars I've seen charged at a lot of places. To beat it all,
most of the extras has nothing to do with this concert.
This is KISS' "lost" concert, a mini performance by the band in Las Vegas that was supposed to be broadcast over the Internet, courtesy of Pixelon, on October 29, 1999. Over one billion people were disappointed when the computer servers crashed and denied them something that would have made the history books. Months of hyped-up publicity concerning the upcoming concert was for not...until this DVD release in 2005.
The concert itself is awesome. Especially "God of Thunder" (the best performance I've ever seen of that song), and the outrageous "Rock and Roll All Night". But there are only four songs! The fair thing to do would have been for this concert to be paired with another shorter concert(s) to make a full-length program. Or Pixelon could at least not try to gouge and misdirect us on the product. Some of the extras are cool, though. I don't dig the tribute bands, though. KISS is KISS and it's really not right to try to copy them so exact.
This is KISS' "lost" concert, a mini performance by the band in Las Vegas that was supposed to be broadcast over the Internet, courtesy of Pixelon, on October 29, 1999. Over one billion people were disappointed when the computer servers crashed and denied them something that would have made the history books. Months of hyped-up publicity concerning the upcoming concert was for not...until this DVD release in 2005.
The concert itself is awesome. Especially "God of Thunder" (the best performance I've ever seen of that song), and the outrageous "Rock and Roll All Night". But there are only four songs! The fair thing to do would have been for this concert to be paired with another shorter concert(s) to make a full-length program. Or Pixelon could at least not try to gouge and misdirect us on the product. Some of the extras are cool, though. I don't dig the tribute bands, though. KISS is KISS and it's really not right to try to copy them so exact.
Program Listing:
Shout it Out Loud
Love Gun
God of Thunder
Rock and Roll All Night
Bonus Materials:
Alternate multi-angle camera version of the concert.
KISS Farewell Tour interview
Detroit Rock City premiere
Gene and Paul, in full makeup, at Hollywood Tower Records to release a box set
KISS receiving star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
Larger Than Life documentary, KISS tribute band
KISS Army documentary
Shout it Out Loud
Love Gun
God of Thunder
Rock and Roll All Night
Bonus Materials:
Alternate multi-angle camera version of the concert.
KISS Farewell Tour interview
Detroit Rock City premiere
Gene and Paul, in full makeup, at Hollywood Tower Records to release a box set
KISS receiving star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
Larger Than Life documentary, KISS tribute band
KISS Army documentary