I have been doing a Kiss Bootleg Series for years. You get a review every time I add a new one to the collection. Well, after buying 38 Bootleg CDs from John Humphrey’s personal collection, I figured let’s jump right back in and do a whole lot of reviews on the Bootlegs. Oh, if you don’t know who John Humphrey is, you need to know he is a massive Kiss collector. And he is the drummer of the band Seether. John decided to sell off his entire collection…sort of…he kept all the vinyl (like 4,000 of them). He did it through an auction at Backstage Auctions and I had to have a piece of it…and I did wind up with some things.
This time the bootleg we have contains a bunch of remixes and demos from throughout the years. It was released in 1994 and this one was actually originally purchased at Starship Records & Tapes on June 11, 1995 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It only cost $21.99. How do I know all this? Well, the receipt was inside the booklet in the case. Now, I don’t know if this receipt was when John Humphrey bought it or not…but either way, cool to have the receipt.
This particular disc contains 17 tracks and they consist of several remixes and a bunch of demos including some from Ace Frehley and Peter Criss. However, I don’t think these were Kiss demos as the Ace ones were from 1985 so it would place them during Frehley’s Comet. And also, the Peter ones are from 1982 which places the two songs outside of his time with Kiss as well. The rest of the demos are from various band members from 1976 up to 1990 so it has songs that Gene, Paul, Ace & Peter as well as Eric Carr and Bruce Kulick.
The album kicks off with 3 remixes. First up is “Let’s Put The X in Sex” and this remix was actually released as the “X-cessive Mix” on a 12″ Promotional single. And if you thought the original song was bad, wait til you hear this one. Kiss and dance mixes don’t mix. Then we get the “Dirty Livin’ Remix” from 1979. If I have the right one, this was the Jim Burgess Mix and only released in Germany on a 12″ Single. And yes, it is another dance, disco track.
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