Ever puzzled how Kiss’ 1987 album Loopy Nights would sound with out all these hair metallic keyboards?
The FranKENstein Creations YouTube web page helps reply that query with a keyboard-free fan remix of the band’s 1988 single “Activate the Night time.”
You’ll be able to hear the outcomes beneath.
FranKENstein, who delivered a full-album remix of the band’s 1974 album Hotter Than Hell final month, opted for a much less typical challenge this outing. “I made a decision to have somewhat enjoyable and moderately than do a straight remix, mess around with the association a bit,” the put up explains earlier than working by way of a laundry record of tweaks, re-arrangements and samples used on the remix.
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“I additionally left keyboards out fully,” the notes conclude. “I did not really feel like they have been actually essential and solely made the principle riff sound much more like [Bon Jovi’s 1984 single] ‘She Do not Know Me’ than it already does.”
Longtime Kiss guitarist Bruce Kulick, who performed on the Loopy Nights album, shared the video on his social media accounts, noting that “right this moment’s expertise in audio mixing will be very inventive.”
It appears like Kiss frontman Paul Stanley would not thoughts having a second shot at mixing the Loopy Nights album himself. “I feel it is a greater album than it wound up sounding,” he defined within the 2003 e-book Kiss: Behind the Masks. “I feel it’s kind of plastic-sounding. The fabric, and what it might have been, was higher than what it turned out to be.”
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