Sunday Morning’s Start with a KISS

January

I don’t know about you but I was brought up in a house where every Sunday morning my Mom & Dad would play their favorite artists albums for at least 2 hours. Our Sunday morning breakfasts included eggs with Elvis or Patsy Cline. Some weekends it would be Fats Domino or Roy Orbison but overall we were fed a heavy dose of Elvis and Patsy. As I became a teenager, my love for the Beatles had grown immensely and there use to be a radio station that did “Breakfast with the Beatles” (who knows it may still be going on). Now as I try to pass on the same tradition to my kids, it sometimes gets harder because they can easily run to their room and throw on their I-PODs if they don’t want to hear it. (I didn’t have that option). Recently I have “gone back in time” to one of my first “love’s” in rock music and they are KISS.
Being ridiculed as a teenager for liking KISS, I have re-discovered my affection for this band. Laugh if you will but I still say that they made some solid tunes. (Yes I too jumped off the band wagon back in the day when they recorded “I Was Made For Loving You” but that was because of my “youth.” I actually like that song today). Now for the past few months I have been blasting KISS around the house and I have now hooked my youngest son. He is now discovering more and more of their tunes through my library.
This morning’s breakfast focused on the 1976 album “Rock and Roll Over” album. Do you know the feeling you get when you haven’t listened to something in a long time and then when you put it on, it feels like the first time all over again? Wow!! How good is this album? This is when they were at the height of their career in my opinion. “Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em” sounds as fresh today as it did back in ‘76. How about “Baby Driver” with Mr. Criss on vocals? Or the rockin’ “Mr. Speed” with the classic vocal style from Paul? One of the “staples” of their live shows, “back in the day,” was “Makin’ Love” which has the blistering solo from Ace. I think this album was Frehley’s best with the band. So this morning’s pancakes didn’t need syrup as the sweetness from this album has kicked off my day right. Have a great day!!

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 25th, 2009 at 12:01 pm by Errol Arne.
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One Response to “Sunday Morning’s Start with a KISS”

Jorge Fitz-Gibbon January 26th, 2009 at 8:21 am
Consider yourself lucky, Errol: My dad’s Sunday morning tunes consisted of Doris Day and Perry Como. But he did listen to old Cuban stuff, that I love to this day.
Still, it’s a great tradition and it’s very cool you’re passing it on to your kids. And there’s nothing wrong with Kiss: I saw them twice in high school and played every one of their vinyl records down to the needle. My son hasn’t taken to them, but it’s still great that we’re in a generation where our kids appreciate our music. Very cool.

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