cetera Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 [quote name='NancyJohnson' post='160233' date='Mar 19 2008, 01:51 PM']...I think you need to post some pics of your basses on the porn page. P[/quote] Getting a new camera soon..... and another Spector.... so will do shortly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 sorry for another imminent question, but I am genuinely interested: which bass did he use on Alive II? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 (edited) [quote name='MacDaddy' post='161043' date='Mar 20 2008, 07:40 PM']sorry for another imminent question, but I am genuinely interested: which bass did he use on Alive II?[/quote] I wouldn't go with the photo that graced the inside cover of Alive II, as I don't believe that it was taken from the LA Forum show...I'd read this somewhere around the time it came out - Geoff Barton (Sounds) - I think. I used to keep every Kiss cutting I could find back then! That said, the bass in this picture looks like one of the Spectors mentioned above. Incidentally, Barton was in LA on the behest of the label/management of New England (who were produced by Paul Stanley) - they were supporting Kiss at the LA Forum show. Barton, who I'm sure was cognizant that Kiss were recording, gave New England a small (albeit good/accurate) article in Sounds, while, within a week or two, a multi-page spread on Kiss appeared. Incidentally on its review in Sounds, Alive II carried the strapline 'Perhaps the greatest live album of all time'...I think for me, at fifteen or sixteen, it was the best thing I'd ever heard. P Edited March 21, 2008 by NancyJohnson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chardbass Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 (edited) My God, when I was about 14 I used to gaze at that gatefold for hours taking in everything. Listening to that album with it's (slightly over the top) crowd mics blaring, listening to a band at the top of it's game and staring at that image absolutely brain washed me. One of the best in-concert shots ever. Captured 70's USA arena rock perfectly. It was the bass feedback before God of Thunder and Simmons' make up that made me want to play bass. Obviously very impressionable back then! Edited March 23, 2008 by chardbass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cetera Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 [quote name='MacDaddy' post='161043' date='Mar 20 2008, 07:40 PM']sorry for another imminent question, but I am genuinely interested: which bass did he use on Alive II?[/quote] He used Spector #1. The one he got in 1976 (and which was sold a few years back at the Butterfields KISS auction....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 [quote name='cetera' post='163032' date='Mar 25 2008, 11:16 AM']He used Spector #1. The one he got in 1976 (and which was sold a few years back at the Butterfields KISS auction....)[/quote] cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJW Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 Just saw an interview where he said he fell off stage and broke the lobue bass and just gave it to the audience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziphoblat Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Hn8ywmjEI"]https://www.youtube....h?v=w3Hn8ywmjEI[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 [quote name='Ziphoblat' timestamp='1432304488' post='2780253'] [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Hn8ywmjEI"]https://www.youtube....h?v=w3Hn8ywmjEI[/url] [/quote] ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cetera Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 [quote name='JJW' timestamp='1432303693' post='2780240'] Just saw an interview where he said he fell off stage and broke the lobue bass and just gave it to the audience. [/quote] He made that up. He often talks crap sadly.... He gave it to Micki Free (of Shalamar) who had it stolen from the trunk of his car. It's never been seen since.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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