#love gun

[pixelpunk98]

[coldgins]

Ace looking particularly beautiful (HOT AND SEXY), around ‘76.

[rock-and-roll-hell]

July 24, 1977

Love Gun Tour

Pacific Coliseum - Vancouver, British Columbia

According to the promoter: “The cops heard of KIϟϟ’ so-called reputation and they ordered four squads to the show. They played poker all night and billed us $8,000 for overtime” (Montreal Gazette, 8/2/77).

From a local review: “Hype? Not really. KIϟϟ promise nothing less than the greatest spectacle in rock and nothing less is exactly what they provide. From that it is easy for the unaware parent or pundit to mistake KIϟϟ for a threat to our civilized way of life. But understand this, KIϟϟ are not self-pitying, humorless nihilists like the punk rockers. If anything, they are a fantasy for an age that has seen just about everything. Of course they appeal to the escapist stripe. It would be fun to stand seven feet tall, spit fire, deafen everyone within a 1,000 yard radius and make a million bucks doing it” (Vancouver Sun, 7/25/77).

From another local review: “The KIϟϟ concert Sunday night was better than the fireworks display the Sea Festival holds annually. The Coliseum took on all the aspects of kid’s day at the PNE’s Playland with harried parents leading offspring by the hand up into the stands, plopping their plump selves down into the same seats they had at The Ice Capades or The Shriner Circus, and stopping up their ears with cotton… KIϟϟ was perfunctory as you please, well rehearsed, but musically deadening and the sound from the press box was, as usual, muddy except when Ace Frehley took off into one of his solos. Frehley appeared to be bored, or tired, or sick, or drunk, or all four, while batman, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley did their best to whip up a surprisingly complacent audience which eventually succumbed and went nuts when the hits and the gimmickry got into gear” (Georgia Straight, 7/28/77)

[lybite]

Paul Stanley Solo Album 1978

Acrílico sobre madera

Medidas: 20 x 20 cm

2022

[loveherallican-blog]

KISS - Love Gun

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

Insane Satanic Panic Moments

[animalb0y]

Kiss, 1983.

[kriselicate]

Release KISS Nendo

[sluttery-withoutshame]

Let me

pull the trigger

of your

Love gun

[abolishthefed]

[not-shandi]

I need to feel this man’s love gun

[criminallyoverrated]

Call me the Plaster Caster Blaster the way I'm probably annoying my neighbors with that song

[rolandrockover]

Ace's Solos Vol. 4 - X-Ray Eyes

X-Ray Eyes actually does little other than pick up where Almost Human left off on Love Gun, which is even more true of Ace's wonderfully noisy solo.

So kudos to Vini Poncia for recognizing this conciseness as a necessity for the Kiss identity and elevating it on Dynasty to a tradition. And what awaits us this time is nothing less than the acoustic equivalent of the presumably entire fulfilled life of a passionate and devoted steel locksmith, which runs through his mind in just a few seconds before he passes on to the next world with a satisfied smile in his face.

Ace can sometimes be so sensitive and compassionate that it almost brings tears to my eyes.

That, dear people, is true poetry.

X-Ray Eyes (1979)

[rock-and-roll-hell]

April 28, 1977

Love Gun Photo Sessions

Barry Levine’s Studio - Los Angeles, California

📸 Barry Levine

"We experimented a lot with everything. That’s how the series with the wildly multicolored, shimmering mylar background happened. It was 1977 and we had to do a Love Gun promotional shoot. I set it up in my studio and I wanted to get a series with different colors in the background because we had been using a lot of blacks and greys up to that point. I got these colored mylar sheets and reflected some plain white light from them, sometimes adding just a little bit of blue gel to the mix. I pulled the light a little out of focus because the patterns on the sheets were very odd, and I wanted to get really vibrant colors and images from the mylar. These shots appeared on magazines and newspapers all over the place. Some mylar shots, as well as other images I photographed, were included on the cover of KIϟϟ’ World Tour 77-78 program. If you look really carefully, you can tell that those same shots were the photo models for the gatefold etchings inside Double Platinum, as well as the solo album covers, although we didn’t have either of those projects in mind when we decided to shoot that day

Although I had shot many bands before KIϟϟ, I knew the second they stepped into my studio, they were in a class by themselves. Techniques that worked with other bands, didn’t fly with KISS. And the difference in style between individual members was vast. I quickly became familiar with their distinct personalities and became adept at pulling certain traits out of each of them as needed. When they’re onstage, they simply metamorphosize into their unique band personas, but in the studio, it was up to me to pull a Demon, a Spaceman, a Lover and a Cat out of the four guys who showed up. They all knew how to capture their onstage personas, but sometimes I had to go the extra mile to get just the right facial expression or stance.” - Barry Levine

KIϟϟ’ new costumes (Love Gun) were constructed by Maria Contessa and Laurie Greenan, and the band traveled with three of each of the outfits while on tour. Gene and Ace used slightly altered versions of the original design for touring purposes. The total cost for the new production, including the new stage, costumes and instruments, was $194,910, although the show was hyped as a million-dollar production in most markets.

[falkonryderz]

MAMMOTH MAMMOTH - LOVE GUN (LIVE)

[mrbopst]

Released June 30, 1977