KISS - DESTROYER LP 1976 STILL IN ORIG. SHRINK
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KISS
DESTROYER
LP
1976
STILL IN ORIGINAL SHRINK!!
Destroyer is the fourth studio album and fifth album overall by hard rock band Kiss, released on March 15, 1976 in the United States. It was the second consecutive Kiss album to reach the Top 20 in the United States, as well as the first to chart in Germany and New Zealand. The album was certified gold by the RIAA on April 22, 1976. It was certified platinum on November 11, 1976, the first Kiss album to achieve that distinction.
Coming on the heels of the group's breakthrough album Alive!, Destroyer is easily the most ambitious studio recording of Kiss's '70s catalogue. Bob Ezrin, who had previously worked with Alice Cooper, was brought in to produce the album. Among the production flourishes Ezrin introduced to Kiss were sound effects, strings, screaming children and reversed drums (on "God of Thunder") as well as a children's choir.
The song "Great Expectations" uses the first phrase of the main theme from the second movement of Beethoven's Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, opus 13 "Pathétique", but songwriting is credited to Simmons and Ezrin. The same theme was also lifted (and properly credited partially to Beethoven) by Billy Joel in 1983 for the song 'This Night' from the album, An Innocent Man.
Destroyer is the first Kiss album to prominently feature outside musicians, such as members of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. However, one musician was not credited: Dick Wagner, from Alice Cooper's band, replaced Ace Frehley on tracks such as "Sweet Pain" (as Frehley didn't want to interrupt a card game he was playing during recording sessions for the song) and even on a song that Frehley himself co-wrote, "Flaming Youth". Wagner also played the acoustic guitar found on the song "Beth". The success of Alive! and Destroyer enabled the band to embark on their first tour of Europe.
Throughout the years, "Detroit Rock City", "Shout It Out Loud", "God of Thunder", "King of the Night Time World", and "Do You Love Me?" have become permanent staples on the band's concerts. "Beth" was last played live on the band's Dec. 20, 2003 concert at Save Mart Center in Fresno, CA the last show of the World Domination Tour; after drummer Peter Criss' final departure, the band retired the song from their set list until the "Sonic Boom Over Europe: From the Beginning to the Boom" Tour peforming the song acoustic. God of Thunder was last played in 2008 in Athens, Greece.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 496 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
LABEL: CASABLANCA RECORDS
BARCODE: NBLP 7025
Vinyl Condition : EX
Sleeve Condition : EX
STILL IN ORIGINAL SHRINK
MY VINYL RECORD GRADING TABLE:
- SEALED / Never Opened or Never Played
- MINT / Flawless
- NEAR MINT / Almost Flawless
- NEAR MINT MINUS / Almost Flawless With A Few Minor Light Scratches &/Or A Few Light Minor Surface Marks
- EXCELLENT PLUS / Minor Paper Scratches &/Or Minor Surface Marks
- EXCELLENT / Almost Excellent Plus
- VERY GOOD PLUS / Light Paper Scratches &/Or Light Surface Marks / Sounds & Plays Excellent
- VERY GOOD / Scratches, Surface Marks, Scuff Marks &/Or Maybe Pops But Plays Excellent
- GOOD / Many Scratches &/Or Many Surface Marks But Plays Excellent
- GOOD MINUS / Pretty Rough But Still Plays Well
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