Kiss,Cheap Trick/Broadcast NY,USA 1977

The third night of “New York Report” had the best comic-like intro, “I’m Gene Simmons Death. Anata Ha” and “It’s 笳銀雷笳銀雷” (DJ himself). A large-scale special project in the summer of 1977 by the radio program “Young Jockey,” which was extremely popular among Western music fans at the time, featured a popular DJ who traveled to the United States in July of the same year. At the venue, interviews with artists were also conducted, and the third night of the “New York Report”, which is known to those in the know, is a major project that remains in the Western music radio program that was broadcast every night for a week (the broadcast date is August 10). The sound quality is top class. The DJ group flew from San Francisco to New York to see Pink Floyd and ELP at MSG, and despite being caught up in the New York blackout on July 13th, they managed to make it to Canada. I watched Kiss and Cheap Trick on the undercard on August 14th, the fourth day of the Canadian tour at the beginning of the Love Gun tour, and reported on it, but Gene’s interview was conducted in New York (probably on the 7th). Before the ELP live on May 7th? *The Canadian tour starts the next day.) It’s 25 minutes long, including the DJ’s interpretation commentary, and covers the current state of Kiss immediately after the release of Love Gun and their future plans (including their next live album and solo album, which is expected to be released as a set of four). , a lot of content is told from Gene’s mouth. Gene’s feelings at the time are told in realistic words, but most of all, it takes place in 1977, the height of the makeup era. It also has very high documentary value. In response to DJ’s various questions, Gene responded in real time with great professionalism, excellent service, and the same high level of showmanship as on stage.Everything he said in real time was worth listening to. Cheap Trick was around the time right before the release of “In Color.” Hello There, I Want You To Want Me, and Clock Strikes Ten are played from the album sample that was received directly from the management (the album title is not even decided, the DJ says “Cheap Trick 2”). Many people may have heard this famous song for the first time on this program. Cheap Trick’s first visit to Japan was about 9 months before “LIVE AT BUDOKAN”. The DJ’s introduction was interesting and he said, “The leader, Rick, is such a wonderful performer, and he does so many things, he’s no ordinary person anymore. That character is actually a pose, and he’s really amazing. I was looking forward to the interview, thinking he must be an intelligent person, but when I met him, he turned out to be exactly that kind of person, and I felt like I was in trouble.” (lol) I think the fans were listening to it with excitement, music magazines in hand. At the Ottawa performance that DJ saw, both Kiss and Cheap Trick were great live, but the PA sound was bad. Cheap Trick’s performance was particularly bad, and the members seemed to be angry about this, as Kiss wouldn’t let them do the sound check that day. He was said to have told the DJ something like, “I won’t let you do a sound check if I become the opening act for the band,” and the DJ said something like, “I don’t know if that day will ever come.” (lol) It’s also the best. During this tour, DJ apparently became very good friends with Cheap Trick, and it is said that the members visited him in his hotel room and that they had a good relationship. Although it is unrelated to the main story, the last part of this disc includes 4 minutes of 10pm radio news, including about the late Prime Minister Fukuda’s trip to Southeast Asia and Malaysia, and an article in the Soviet Communist Party’s official newspaper “Pravda” from 1977. You can enjoy the broadcast as it is, giving you a summer-like mood. 1. Gene Simmons Intro 2. Love Gun * 3. DJ Talk 4. Parasite ** 5. Exclusive Interview with Gene Simmons 6. Then She Kissed Me * 7. Exclusive Interview with Gene Simmons 8. Got Love For Sale * 9. DJ Talk 10. Hello There *** 11. Exclusive Interview with Cheap Trick 12. I Want You to Want Me *** 13. DJ Talk 14. Clock Strikes Ten *** 15. Outro. 16. News * from “Love Gun ” ** from “Alive” *** from “In Color”