This was the first album that changed my life. After listening to it I decided to play music. Tha album is KISS-ALIVEII.
It's really a cool album. I bought it (back then it was in cassette format) in the early 80's I think. I must say from that day on I wanna be a musician.
The origins of "Alive II" go back to early 1977 when the band's manager, Bill Aucoin, had the idea to have Eddie Kramer record a live album during the evening show at Budokan Hall in Tokyo on April 2, 1977. The plan was to release a live album to give KISS some mch deserved time off before recording the album that would become Love Gun later that Fall. Kramer finished work on the album, but Casablanca Records and KISS deemed it unusable, and the band forged ahead with the Love Gun sessions.
Most of the live tracks on Alive II were recorded during the band's August 26-28 residency at the Los Angeles Forum while on the Love Gun tour. The 3:00 PM soundchecks at the August 26 & 27 shows were recorded, and later used on the album (i.e. "Tomorrow And Tonight") with crowd noise being dubbed in later. "Beth", "God Of Thunder" and "I Want You" were lifted from the aborted Japanese live album and used on the finished Alive II.
