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b0vidine · 1 year

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I have no clue what I’m gonna do with these guys but here’s the Welcome to Rosswood boys

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rolandrockover · 4 months

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Reprise Vol. 1 - Master & Slave

I think it's no big secret that Paul doesn't have much good to say about Kiss' Carnival of Souls. To put it mildly. Or he simply does everything imaginable to at least create such impressions whenever this album title should rarely enough become the subject of an interview question. Of course, he's welcome to do as he pleases, but personally, from my humble perspective, I think it's a bit of a shame, because I can also remember times when he spoke a tiny bit differently about it.

For example, I can still remember the time when the subject of a reunion was still treated as fictitious, and it wasn't on anyone's horizon, least of all Paul's and Gene's. That was back in 1994/95, when Kiss' laudable motto of perseverance and giving their best was for a change increasingly emphasized in their new music.

I still remember very well that regular little Kiss feature in the German Rock Hard magazine, which was supervised by their Kiss Die-Hard (0), and from whom one got the vivid impression that he regularly got a certain insight into the world of our favorite band. I think it must have been February or March 1995 when Paul and Gene (1), but also Eric Singer (2), apparently got in touch with the interviewer directly from the rehearsal room in a telephone interview and Paul confidently said, not without his usual side-swipe at Gene, that his songs were much more melodious and heavier than Gene's. There was a certain pride in that. At some point later he even went so far as to claim that the new album was the best and heaviest since Creatures of the Night.

Oh my! What I mean, since that's a rather thoughtful and equally rare tribute to their own music, which was previously only outspoken to give a very special shine to the indeed excellent Revenge, and the return to form associated with it. And I must add to this Paul seemed quite proud of Revenge in 1992 regardless of how hard he had contributed to the previous albums in the 80's anyway. But who knows, once again, it was probably just the latest sensationalization of the upcoming album (3). Promotion is a double-edged sword, but to wipe Revenge away so succinctly because of it, I really don't know. But maybe and probably because it wouldn't have sounded so good to say their new album was the best since... their last one.

But to get my act together and to at least briefly talk directly about Master & Slave in this context.

So, as I already mentioned in my original entry, Master & Slave had the working title: Paul's Riff. In my perception, this suggests pride and respect, not necessarily from Paul himself, but clearly from his band environment. And the fact that such a meagre, yet all-saying no-name was chosen as accepted as a working title, if not even honored from everybody involved clearly speaks for itself.

And because this is a reprise, I'll simply feature an excerpt from my original text about what I see in this song:

"What begins in Not For the Innocent with a few approaching, ominous tones, continues in Unholy as a small extension in a slightly different pitch, and a much more compact back and forth oscillation of these tones, which thereby does not form the entire riff, but only a complementary part of it. In Master & Slave the whole thing gains in drasticness, and the motif is doubled to a lower pitch, added to the previous one to secure its terrain, only to turn into a Black Sabbath motif a la After All. An endlessly repeating highly dynamic acrobatic feat in loud and quiet/guitar and bass contrast."

When writing Master & Slave, Paul must have thought to himself: Ok Gene, a dark album full of Unholys shall it be? This time I'll listen to you, then you shall get Unholy. Which must have stimulated his ambition to try to outdo Gene in terms of Unholy by more than a small margin. I think the result shows in all strength what the right ambition can achieve.

"To conjure up this wet dream of riff Paul must have really tried hard and done his very best to achieve such a result - regardless of what he claims about Carnival of Souls as a whole today."

It is a real pity that he no longer stands by it. Gene and, above all, Bruce (4) seem to have fewer problems with this.

Side Notes:

(0) Jan Jaedike.

(1) Gene emphasized the psychedelic component and compared Carnival of Souls to the Rolling Stones' Satanic Majesties Request (1967) (5) , and that they couldn't explain either why it sounded different from the previous album.

(2) Eric said the album was super heavy and exactly the kind of music he wanted to play. I love to mention this because he had also clearly distanced himself from Carnival of Souls over the past few years. Klassik.

(3) Can anyone still remember how they loud-mouthedly advertised Crazy Nights as a mixture of Animalize and Destroyer back then? There's even a Youtube video of it, but don't ask me where. Anyway, that was still was something different.

(4) Or the last of the Mohicans, as I like to call him.

(5) Hmm, which Stones album did Ace's cover of 2000 Man actually come from?

Master & Slave starts from the beginning. Unholy and Not For The Innocent are highlighted. Turn up the volume and open your ears, I assume no liability:

Master & Slave (1997)

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Unholy (1992)

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Not For The Innocent (1983)

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I'll add After All by Black Sabbath on top.

After All (1992)

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32hive · 1 year

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im gonna tell my future kids this was tomgreg

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sitdownmiller · 1 year

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he’s so pretty my god

#chris addison #the thick of it #ttoi #ollie reeder #toby wright

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cpmhew · 6 months

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I rewatched In the Loop last night and this killed me.

#judy's reaction is so good.......#in the loop #toby wright #Youtube

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metalshockfinland · 5 months

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Iconic Venue Meets Grammy-Winning Producer: The Machine Shop + Toby Wright Empower Artists on a Global Scale

L- R Jimi Brown, Toby Wright, Jon Tanner – Photo Credit: Mintypics World-famous independently-owned venue, The Machine Shop, is proud to announce its collaboration with legendary producer/mixer, Toby Wright. Renowned for his groundbreaking work with industry giants such as ALICE IN CHAINS, KORN, METALLICA, and KISS, his work on ALICE IN CHAINS’ ‘MTV Unplugged’ is still celebrated as one of the…

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lavotha · 9 months

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“Sketches from life” by Toby Wright exhibition at Accademia in September

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bimbvx · 5 months

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punks not dead (but you will be) closeups under cut :))

...also i wasn't thinking while drawing this so uhhh in this au tim and toby are left handed ok

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crushedsweets · 9 months

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Ok! Ok? Ok. I’m only gonna finish one. Which do I finish(I might not even finish)

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yawningama · 11 months

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ummm some proxy hcs I’m gonna change a bit more but ehehdhehwhehehehehehehehehsgshehhehehsheheehe

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c-horror-angel · 7 months

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tim masky as tobys dad is my favorite headcanon ,,,

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rolandrockover · 2 months

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Besabbathed

I put on black clothes and painted my fingernails black just to write this. Even my socks are pitch black. And our neighbors' rooster avoids me when he notices me even from a distance, and that's good for him, because today I would do the same if I were him.

I can't remember where I might have read it, but it seems most likely to me that Bruce was the source of the information that the working title of It Never Goes Away was Black Sabbath (1) .

And with this I could claim to have said everything on this subject, namely that It Never Goes Away's main riff and Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath are basically one and the same. The only difference is that Kiss do everything possible in terms of arrangement to add a few more tracks to their version by shifting the pitches downwards, adding lower pitched guitar tracks to the higher ones, and doing all sorts of things with the bass and making the whole thing as low and just as downbeat as (un-)humanly possible. Many a Kiss fan had to come to terms with that, and still nibbles at it today.

To paraphrase a saying: When you set out to out-black sabbath Black Sabbath, do it right, or don't do it at all. In my humble opinion, I can only say that Carnival of Souls is one of the few albums on which Kiss really did everything right.

The only thing I think Paul needs to work on is his Ozzy impression.

Side Note:

(1) In between on the Head-Promo Picture LP it was listed as It Never Ends.

It Never Goes Away (1997)