
Shout It Out Loud
The Story of Kiss's Destroyer and the Making of an American Icon
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Narrated by:
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Stephen Borne
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By:
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James Campion
How does an underground oddity become a cultural phenomenon?
For more than 40 years, the rock band Kiss has galvanized the entertainment world with an unparalleled blitz of bravado, theatricality, and shameless merchandizing, garnering generations of loyally rabid fans. But if not for a few crucial months in late 1975 and early 1976, Kiss may have ended up nothing more than a footnote.
Shout It Out Loud is a serious examination of the circumstance and serendipity that fused the creation of the band's seminal work, Destroyer - including the band's arduous ascent to the unexpected smash hit Alive!, the ensuing lawsuits between its management and its label, the pursuit of the hot, young producer, a grueling musical "boot camp", the wildly creative studio abandon, the origins behind an iconic cover, the era's most outlandish tour, and the unlikely string of hit singles.
Extensive research from the period and insights into each song are enhanced by hundreds of archived materials and dozens of interviews surrounding the mid-'70s-era Kiss and its zeitgeist. New interviews with major principals in the making of an outrageously imaginative rock classic animate this engaging tale.
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Kiss fans only
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Awesome book!
The Detroit Rock City story was compelling.
Shout it out
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Author’s handling of researched materials—as If he were in the room (s).
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I feel the author does a very good job of bringing the reader to that time and place, filling in details that otherwise would have been lost in time. It was very obvious that the author not only knew his literary trade, but also had a deep emotional connection to the subject matter.
I think this book would be a welcome addition to any Kiss fans bookshelf, or playlist, as the case may be.
Great trip down my teenage memories!
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But as a dedicated KISS fan myself, it's fair to say about 80% of the material will only be of interest to other hardcore KISS fans.
There's plenty of great KISSstory, but there's other sources I suggest you turn to first for such content.
And while there are plenty of juicy details about the making of Destroyer, they're embedded amid a sprawling narrative (the audiobook is 14 hours long for Pete's sake!?).
Personally, I was hoping for something more tightly focused on the songwriting, performances, and studio craft. But I enjoyed the book nonetheless.
And again, I definitely recommend it to any hardcore KISS fans.
Good stuff! But really only for hardcore kiss fans
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The bad: enough useless adjectives to drive a college writing professor leap off of a tall building.
Good and Bad
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Shout It Out Loud produces a detailed, focused account which not only includes specific quotes but some fascinating recent insider interviews from the Destroyer production team. Yeah the book cover stupidly features the non-Ace and Peter lineup (WTF?!?) and fails with a disorienting, meandering waste within the opening chapters, but what we really get is hundreds of fun facts none of us has previously heard along with dozens of hilarious anecdotes. The research and placing of each quote is a great tribute to KISS and Destroyer. The real star is Bob Ezrin who looks back with great affection.
But again... the detail! The new interviews! The Legend.
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Skip The First Few Chapters, This Is A Must-Read!
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Loved all the perspectives of the people who were there.
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Boring
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