KISS meets the Phantom of the Park

[clockworkcanary]

Damn...we could get off topic about all this but yeah - I remember so many after school seminars about the Satanic panic of the 80s - ouija boards, evil rock music, etc.   Everything was of the devil back then - my music, my D&D books, the cartoons on TV, everything and anything that mentioned magic, even in a fictional sense.

KISS got a bad rap for being so popular -anything that popular is always "of the devil" lol just like Harry Potter is now. 

As far as backmasking - yeah I remember my fundy aunt would bring over these cassette tapes of preachers hammering on about backwards messages.  Little did they know they were indirectly introducing me to a whole lot of bands I might not have heard of at the time.  That's how I learned about Alice Cooper back in 7th grade.

Yeah yeah they all had the backwards messages if only one was told what they were looking for (power of suggestion big time).  The only ones that actually had those backwards messages were albums specifically recorded/engineered to have them, like Pink Floyd's message on the Wall, "this is a backwards message" or something funny like that.

And Stairway to Heaven - I have this MP3 backwards and it does have the phrase, but I think it was intentionally put there just to stir up controversy and controversy=more albums sold. 

KISS being Satanic is funny though - kinda silly if you think about actual Satanic lyrics and bands who were much more up front about it  like King Diamond, Danzig, or Venom.  Sure, some of the were just using a gimmick popularized by raving preachers at the time.  Danzig does kick ass (well his music ...not live music ...his recorded music anyway lol).

[Scott]

We use to have air guitar concerts for the whole neighborhood from our second floor window with all the lights on. Using baseball bats as guitars. We once played to a sold out audience of 2 or 3 kids one night.

My brother had every KISS album at the time. We would play those songs over and over again. My favorite KISS songs were DETROIT ROCK CITY, GOD OF THUNDER, STRUTTER, PARASITE, SHOUT IT OUT LOUD and later from Ace's solo album called NEW YORK GROOVE. The solo albums were kinda the end of KISS for me. Years later my brother went to one of their big concerts when they all reunited. He said the show was really great.