That was when Gene lived across the street from me. Paul Stanley: “We wrote Shout It Out Loud one morning before we went into the studio. A fist-waving hard rock classic, the catchy answering vocals that drive the song are Motor City-inspired but not derived from the world of hard rock. During a Kiss show, their concert anthem Shout It Out Loud can always be counted upon to rally the Kiss Army. Bob Ezrin called and said: ‘Whatever happened to that song King Of The Night Time World? He gave a tape of it to Paul, who rewrote some of the lyrics and rearranged the song.”ĩ. I wrote all the music and Kim Fowley came up with the lyrical ideas. Mark Anthony (co-writer): “That was a song by my band the Hollywood Stars. The song had been pitched to Kiss by music impresario/Hollywood scenester/hustler Kim Fowley and reworked by Paul Stanley, who gave it the requisite swagger and bombast it deserved. King Of The Nighttime World, one of the standout tracks on Destroyer, was a cover of a song by a Hollywood, California band called the Hollywood Stars. On Detroit Rock City and Shout It Out Loud, all the power chords are being doubled with a grand piano. I think when we came into the studio we probably thought colour was how much treble or bass you’d put on your Marshall amp. Paul Stanley: “Bob was very much into texture and depth and colour. In order to achieve a larger-than-life, almost cinematic sound for the record, producer Ezrin employed orchestration, circus calliope and even grand piano to enhance the blockbuster power of Detroit Rock City and King Of The Nighttime World. It was changed from Beck to Beth by Bob Ezrin."ħ. Peter Criss: “The melody for the song came to me on a train going to New York City, and Stan and I worked on it to finish it. They achieved this with a lushly orchestrated ballad called Beth, a song that originally had its genesis from Peter Criss’s band Lips. With Destroyer it was crucial that they capitalise upon that success. Riding high on the massive success of their 1975 album Alive!, Kiss had finally broken through in the big leagues of rock. The bass line from Detroit Rock City is similar, but it’s not the same thing note for note."Ħ. That’s the bass line from his song Shaft. It’s very R&B, almost like the song Freddie’s Dead by Issac Hayes. Gene Simmons: “The bass part is very nontypical of me. The classic bass line underpinning the verses to Detroit Rock City were borrowed from an unlikely source. And it’s not because I’m some kind of musicology major.
It is pretty well an old-fashioned flamenco theme adapted to hard rock music. I wrote that in my head I don’t think I actually picked up an instrument. I felt like this was the sequence where he was driving and this would be the music that would go underneath it. We got to the point that we had seen the introduction and met the characters, and it was time to set up a little tension with a moment of high drama. With its Spanish flamenco flavour and flairthe signature lead guitar solo that explodes at the centre of Detroit Rock City was an idea that came from producer Bob Ezrin.īob Ezrin: “I wrote the guitar solo on Detroit Rock City. It was trying to get the best out of us and try to get us to set a new standard for ourselves.”Ĥ. Really what it was was musical boot camp. That’s pretty funny when you’re selling out arenas and you have somebody in the studio that’s treating you like an imbecile. He was not above pointing a finger in your face and yelling at you. Paul Stanley: “ would blow the whistle and call us ‘campers’. During the recording of Destroyer, Ezrin wore a whistle like a camp counsellor, which he’d use to keep Kiss in line. Whether working with Alice Cooper, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Kiss or any of his other clients, producer Bob Ezrin is a wellknown task master in the recording studio. If you listen to this opening through headphones, you get this eerie feeling that this is all happening to you.”ģ. Unveiling its tale of an unlucky teenager tragically killed in an automobile accident on his way to a Kiss show, in the song’s introduction, producer Bob Ezrin is the voice you hear as the newscaster reporting this tragic tale.Ĭorky Stasiak (engineer): “We put his voice through a little radio and recorded it off the radio. Detroit Rock City is a colossal mind movie, a cinemascope fantasia of sound and fury.
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