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Shout It Out Loud: The Story of Kiss's Destroyer and the Making of an American Icon
by James Campion, James Campion
I'm not the world's biggest KISS fan...not even close. I've never even owned a KISS album. But the band fascinates me, and this, of course, is when they went from being just another band to a trademark, a marketing success, a known entity.
What I didn't expect, and what I found so interesting about this book was that, when it comes down to it, this is, much like Meat Loaf's BAT OUT OF HELL (both the first and the second), this is a Bob Ezrin solo album that mostly utilized Gene, Paul, Ace, and Peter to get the job done and, when they couldn't do it all, he leaned on other, better musicians. Yes, they provided the bones of the project, but it was Ezrin that shaped it, improved it, and turned this into something far greater than just another KISS album.
It's a truly epic, bizarre, twisty journey, as I'm sure most album recording projects are, and it's so much more than just the four members of KISS and Bob Ezrin.
Of particular interest was how the cover came to be.
Overall, I enjoyed the hell out of this book.
What I didn't expect, and what I found so interesting about this book was that, when it comes down to it, this is, much like Meat Loaf's BAT OUT OF HELL (both the first and the second), this is a Bob Ezrin solo album that mostly utilized Gene, Paul, Ace, and Peter to get the job done and, when they couldn't do it all, he leaned on other, better musicians. Yes, they provided the bones of the project, but it was Ezrin that shaped it, improved it, and turned this into something far greater than just another KISS album.
It's a truly epic, bizarre, twisty journey, as I'm sure most album recording projects are, and it's so much more than just the four members of KISS and Bob Ezrin.
Of particular interest was how the cover came to be.
Overall, I enjoyed the hell out of this book.