The band’s sixth studio recording, Love Gun was the first
album to feature lead vocal performances from all four original band members,
and the last studio album with the original KISS line-up. Love Gun has since
gone on to sell more than four million copies worldwide. The 2CD edition
includes the complete original album re-mastered on the first disc, featuring
such classics as the title track “Plaster Caster”, the song inspired by Cynthia
Plaster Caster, the groupie famous for taking casts of rock star genitalia;
“Shock Me”, written about Ace Frehley suffering an electric shock during a
concert in Lakeland, Florida; “Christine Sixteen”, and “Then She Kissed Me”,
the band’s cheeky, gender-switching cover of the Crystals’ 1963 hit penned by
Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector. The second disc is made up of
rare, previously unreleased Love Gun demos of “Plaster Caster”, “Then She
Kissed Me”, “Tomorrow and Tonight” and “Much Too Soon”. Also, the first four lines of the demo “I
Know Who You Are” eventually evolved and became the song “Living In Sin”. A
glimpse into Paul Stanley’s creative process is demonstrated in “Love Gun
(Teaching Demo)” with Stanley talking through the various chords of the song
after writing the song with the next version – “Love Gun (Demo)” – being the
complete demo performance. “Reputation”,
the only previously released demo, was originally included on this year’s KISS
40 compilation.
The band’s sixth studio recording, Love Gun was the first
album to feature lead vocal performances from all four original band members,
and the last studio album with the original KISS line-up. Love Gun has since
gone on to sell more than four million copies worldwide. The 2CD edition
includes the complete original album re-mastered on the first disc, featuring
such classics as the title track “Plaster Caster”, the song inspired by Cynthia
Plaster Caster, the groupie famous for taking casts of rock star genitalia;
“Shock Me”, written about Ace Frehley suffering an electric shock during a
concert in Lakeland, Florida; “Christine Sixteen”, and “Then She Kissed Me”,
the band’s cheeky, gender-switching cover of the Crystals’ 1963 hit penned by
Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector. The second disc is made up of
rare, previously unreleased Love Gun demos of “Plaster Caster”, “Then She
Kissed Me”, “Tomorrow and Tonight” and “Much Too Soon”. Also, the first four lines of the demo “I
Know Who You Are” eventually evolved and became the song “Living In Sin”. A
glimpse into Paul Stanley’s creative process is demonstrated in “Love Gun
(Teaching Demo)” with Stanley talking through the various chords of the song
after writing the song with the next version – “Love Gun (Demo)” – being the
complete demo performance. “Reputation”,
the only previously released demo, was originally included on this year’s KISS
40 compilation.
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