He was still finishing the final verse in the studio as the recording commenced. Even with the changes the song very nearly didn't happen for the album with producer Bruce Fairbairn being unsure that Frehley could get the song fixed in time to record it the next day. Ace just changed the title of the song after the demo was done, which Gene had mentioned to him". I have the original demos that were cut in Ace's studio, and basically, it's the same song. Despite Gene Simmons claiming he and Stanley needed to provide substantial help arranging the song, Co-writer Karl Cochran has said, "as far as the basic song structure, almost nothing was changed from what Ace and I wrote. Frehley then went up to a separate room and rewrote the lyrics to his song in 30 minutes. Frehley would record the song under the title "Pursuit of Rock and Roll" for his 2018 solo album Spaceman.įrehley's "Into the Void" was co-written with Karl Cochran and originally titled "Shakin' Sharp Shooter", but Simmons and Stanley were unhappy with the lyrics and title. He mentions that the title and song were deemed very similar to the song "I Pledge Allegiance to the State of Rock 'n' Roll". In 2011, in Frehley's book No Regrets, he says that he wrote a lot of songs for the album, one of those songs being titled "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Rock 'n' Roll". Stanley and Simmons have claimed various reasons for them not playing much on the album from them not being capable, to them not showing up, to them wanting new financial deals, to it being the producer's choice to not use them. Peter Criss stated in Makeup to Breakup: My Life in and Out of Kiss, that Paul Stanley was so determined not to work with him and Frehley in the studio that they were paid $850,000 each not to participate in the recording. Ace Frehley and Criss were used sparingly, with Criss playing drums only on "Into the Void".
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As with Dynasty and Unmasked, however, many of the songs were recorded by uncredited players.
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" You Wanted the Best" is the only Kiss song in which lead vocals are shared by the entire lineup.įollowing the highly successful 1996–97 reunion tour, Psycho Circus was marketed as the first new studio album by the band's original lineup since 1979's Dynasty (as Peter Criss did not participate on the 1980s Unmasked, although Criss' drum work is limited to only one of the nine songs on Dynasty). Some pressings featured a lenticular cover that alternates between a black Kiss logo and the album title with pictures of a clown and the band members, while the Japan initial first pressing featured a pop-up cover which had three foam spring-loaded panels of a clown face and two others with band members faces that popped out when the doors were opened.
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Psycho Circus is the eighteenth studio album by American rock band Kiss and the first to involve all four original members since 1979's Dynasty, While touted as a band effort, Peter Criss was only allowed to play drums on the Ace Frehley-penned track, Into The Void, and guitarist, Frehley, was only allowed play on two regular album tracks, the one he wrote plus You Wanted The Best (He also played on a bonus track called In Your Face, penned by Simmons).