KISS' Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley Discuss 35th Anniversary Of Alive! On Redbeard's In The Studio; Audio Preview Available
October 27, 2009, 14 years ago
KISS legends Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley discuss the 35th Anniversary of Alive! this week on In The Studio - The Stories Behind History's Greatest Rock Bands with professional radio broadcaster and rock musician interviewer Redbeard.
An audio preview of the show can be heard at this location (scroll down on the left-hand side).
Therockradio.com spoke with
Stanley about the bonus disc of KISS re-recording their '70s and '80s hits included on the new Sonic Boom package. The album, which is sold exclusively at Wal-Mart properties, costs only $12, features the new Sonic Boom album, along with a 2009 DVD concert featuring current members Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina - as well as Thayer and Singer joining Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley on the new re-recordings.
Stanley says that returning to the hits in the studio was a surreal experience: "That was really a lot of fun. It was kind of like revisiting where you once lived. As much as we thought we were true to the original recordings when we played the songs live, they had developed and changed over the years. We actually studied those songs, sometimes a line at a time, in terms of singing. And they're virtually indistinguishable, except sonically, a little different."
