#Rock and Roll All Night

[bobcronkphotography]

I Love It Loud

MiniKISS rocking it hard in Newport, Oregon.

Bob Cronk

[jakobissognarly85]

Kinda look emo today 🖤

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔎𝔦𝔰𝔰 - ℜ𝔬𝔠𝔨 𝔞𝔫𝔡 ℜ𝔬𝔩𝔩 𝔄𝔩𝔩 𝔑𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱

[rolandrockover]

Rock and Roll from Nine to Five

WARNING! This entry explicitly aims to compare rock music with sausage products.

I can't help but think I have to resign myself to being a victim of my impressions and my imagination, because now I'm already picturing Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons as butchers behind the counter, trying to sell their bologna.

And inevitably linked to this, I also imagine them making these cold cuts all by themselves in the back room of the abattoir. But there's no real reason to worry, because these sausages and hams aren't made from animals, but from old Kiss songs, however not quite exclusively.

The question I asked myself beforehand was what ingredients were needed if they wanted to write a rock anthem like Stand from Sonic Boom (2009), for example. And if they were more or less shamelessly stealing from their own repertoire the whole time anyway, why not directly from their two best-known anthems? And well, what could that be other than Rock and Roll All Night (1975) and God Gave Rock n' Roll to You II (1992) ?

If you wish, you can now imagine Paul and Gene in a blood-stained butcher's smock with meat cleavers in their hands, preferably with a somewhat nasty smile in their faces. Ready to do what they have to do. And that means first of all chopping off Rock and Roll All Night's main riff and verses without further ado, and then cutting them into a goulash laid out in very generously sized chunks. Its precious chorus they leave in one piece.

And poor God gave Rock n' Roll to You II awaits the same fate and also gets mercilessly separated from its verses with hard cuts, while most of it ends up in the garbage can, because it is the chorus that is of particular interest to them. Which nevertheless they cut into two large pieces, and only the harmony part in the chorus at the end, remains in one piece. Just like the chorus of Rock and Roll All Night.

And let's not forget the secret ingredient, or as I call it, the red herring, namely a nice fillet strip of Alice Cooper's No More Mr. Nice Guy's (1973) catchy solo hook between the intro and the first verse, which is presumably intended to prevent Rock and Roll All Night from being recognized too quickly. Who knows?

Now watch them throw the whole lot into a pot, stir it roughly, and then add some of this stuff which uses an enzyme to fuse the proteins in the pieces of meat together to form a new, almost homogeneous whole sausage-like piece. Just like the ham from the supermarket refrigerated counter. It would probably be silly to imagine how they press all this stuff into a casing to give it a wonderfully oversized sausage shape, but it has to be done now, otherwise something would be missing. But let's just leave it in the refrigerator for a while to work. We can always save it for later to cut it into nice big round slices and then put it on a sandwich.

We can of course have a chat about all the offal, the pieces of bone used for the gelatine and all the binding agents I haven't mentioned so far another time.

No highlighted links today. It was crackbraining enough to write it:

Stand (2009)

Rock and Roll All Night (1975)

God Gave Rock n' Roll to You II (1991)

Special Guest Appearance: No More Mr. Nice Guy (1973)

[randgugotur-6]

May 1, 1976

On this day 48 years ago KISS guitarist Ace Frehley gets married in NYC to Jeanette Trerotola. KISS would perform “Rock and Roll All Nite” and “Shout It Out Loud” at the reception, without makeup of course.

Although they haven’t been together in decades, technically Ace and Jeanette are still married.

[rocketqueen1989x]

I need his hair

[brainrotcharacters]

Have a romp in a Honda Odyssey now and fix your marital disagreements today!

[timmurleyart]

Kiss thunder pops. 💋🎵🎸

[mikesflaccidlemonade7]

"she did show favor to the youth in your sight, I admit that man"

*guitar*

[born-to-lose]

I'm a simple girl, I see a classic rock band on MTV and I squeal

[lesbin]

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[rocknrollflames]

I Drove All Night

- Roy Orbison

[rickchung]

♫ The Linda Lindas x “All in My Head” x Jimmy Kimmel Live!

[lunarrolls]

taliesin specified that ashton’s hair is short when introducing them so naturally upon rewatching it i was like what if ashton’s hair Long

[rocketqueen1989x]

he’s so cute

[rolandrockover]

Uh!llegiance All Night

Most recently Lick It Up (1983), and now Asylum (1985). Whoa! Psycho Circus (1998) is always good for a surprise as far as its references are concerned, you have to give it that. But honestly, what Kiss album isn't?

So, so far, so klassik. And without further ado and as the title already indicates, we are so on to Uh! All Night and I Pledge Allegiance to the State of Rock & Roll, two hard n' heavy rockers that are not only united by their light-hearted feel good attitude.

Once you take the time to realize what exactly you're dealing with here, and thus briefly keep in mind that the chorus of Uh! All Night itself actually works quite faithfully to the chorus of Tomorrow & Tonight (1977) (1), with the guitars stomping all over the riff of Led Zeppelin's Misty Hop Mountain (1971), which would later become the massively heavy middle section of Unholy (1992), you can hardly avoid admitting that this is not exactly to be sneezed at (2).

If you then put I Pledge Allegiance to the State of Rock & Roll next to it and take into account that its bridge to the chorus bluntly uses 1: 1 Tomorrow's (1980) chorus melody, or that the chorus riff makes no big secret of its Fits Like a Glove (1983) main riff recycling, and also contains one or two Shout It Out Loud (1976) or Let Me Go, Rock n' Roll (1974) cross-references in spirit (3), there is not much more left than the joyful realization that we are dealing with two real reference heavyweights here.

Reason enough to shift up another gear, take advantage of this sacred momentum and give the stereo system at home a bit of a run and find out how much such speakers are actually capable to handle before they completely blow up in your face (4). And I ask you dear readers, be honest with me, what would be more suitable for such a mission than Uh! All Night's vocal refrain? Hmm, maybe the vocal refrain from I Pledge Allegiance to the State of Rock and Roll, because they both sound pretty much the same anyway.

Not so much in a direct melodic sense, of course, but rather as an straight energetically functioning punchline in terms of feeling and attitude, and in which a certain scheme, the vocal refrain, is used as a blueprint and serves as an exaggeration for a theme that is to be varied. It's a bit like the often dubbed sibling or sequel songs, only in this case reduced to the pure chorus, of course, whatever you want to call it, you can let a game of chess or an arm wrestling match decide. Depending on whether you prefer the mind or the fist.

Kiss, for their part, have proven more than often enough that they know how to use both sections of the body to great effect.

Kudos, gentlemen!

Side Notes: (1) I just realized that I haven't even presented this one yet. I'll be sure to do so in the coming days or weeks, as soon as I've dug it out of the drawer.

(2) There would be more to list but it is not my intention to go beyond today's scope. Not today. I only say Dressed to Kill (1975) and Paul's solo album (1978).

(3) On top of that there would also maybe be a literally tiny ZZ Top reference and another one to Destroyer, but we'll save that for… another time, of course.

(4) Who doesn't inevitably think of the Uh! All Night music video and that impactful moment right before Bruce's muscular but classy solo?

Nobody has to pledge allegiance to the highlighted links all night long, just click on them:

I Pledge Allegiance to the State of Rock & Roll (1998)

Uh! All Night (1985)