AXEL RUDI PELL - Sample Of New KISS Cover Of 'Love Gun' Available
August 23, 2007, 17 years ago
As previously reported, German guitarist AXEL RUDI PELL is scheduled to release Diamonds Unlocked on October 1st (Germany: September 28th, North America tba), his first album consisting exclusively of compositions by other musicians.
A sample of his cover of KISS' 'Love Gun' is available here.
Pell comments: "'Love Gun' is one of my favorite Kiss tracks and I was wondering why they didn´t include it on their unplugged album a few years ago. It´s an excellent Hard rock track but is also working as a ballad. We played that ballad version live since a few years now and therefore it was very easy to chose that track for the cover album too. It wasn´t very easy to get the permission from the original american publishing company and Paul Stanley to re-arrange that song as a ballad, but after a few weeks we finally got the 'ok', after they had heard our version. So I guess they must like it!"
Tracklisting of Diamonds Unlocked: 'The Diamond Overture', 'Warrior' (RIOT)', 'Beautiful Day' (U2), 'Stone' (CHRIS REA, THE LAW), 'Love Gun' (KISS), 'Fools Game' (MICHAEL BOLTON), 'Heartbreaker' (FREE), 'Rock The Nation' (MONTROSE), 'In The Air Tonight' (PHIL COLLINS), 'Like A Child Again' (THE MISSION), 'Won´t Get Fooled Again' (THE WHO).
