Alive II
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| Live album by Kiss | ||||||||||
| Released | October 14, 1977 | |||||||||
| Recorded | April 2 - August 26–28, 1977 (live) September 13–16, 1977 (studio) |
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| Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal | |||||||||
| Length | 71:26 | |||||||||
| Label | Casablanca | |||||||||
| Producer | Eddie Kramer, Kiss | |||||||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Metal Nightfall | |
| Pitchfork | (7.0/10) |
| Rolling Stone |  |
| TrueMetal | (90/100) |
| Vista Records | |
Alive II is the second live album (and eighth overall) by American hard rock band Kiss, released on October 14, 1977 by Casablanca Records. The band had released three albums (Destroyer, Rock and Roll Over, and Love Gun) since the previous live outing, the seminal 1975 release Alive!, and the band drew upon the variety of new tracks, with Eddie Kramer producing.
The origins of Alive II go back to early 1977 when the band's manager Bill Aucoin suggested that Kramer record a live album during the evening show at Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan on April 2, 1977. The plan was to release a live album to give Kiss some much deserved time off before recording the album that would become Love Gun later that autumn. Kramer finished work on the album, but Casablanca and Kiss deemed it unusable, and the band forged ahead with their Love Gun sessions.
Most of the live tracks on Alive II were recorded during the band's August 26–28 shows at the Los Angeles Forum while on their Love Gun Tour. The 3 p.m. soundchecks at the August 26 and 27 shows were recorded, and later used on the album (i.e. "I Stole Your Love") with crowd noise being dubbed in later. "Beth" and "I Want You" were lifted from the aborted Japanese live album and used on the finished Alive II. As the band did not want to duplicate songs included on Alive!, the songs chosen for the three live sides of the album were all drawn from Kiss' three preceding studio albums: Destroyer, Rock and Roll Over and Love Gun.
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