They were smart enough to allow their music to evolve with the crowds, and also realized that it's also important to keep certain things the same.

@@tonyapoindexter2781 By saying "They were smart enough to let their music evolve with the crowds," I suppose you mean Kiss understood that to be a success in the music business, you must play the kinds of music people will actually want to listen to, dance to, & buy. As a musical artist begins widening out into other styles of music, I think the things which should never change are the ingredients which make music _authentic:_ creative originality, love, passion, & sincerity. _Authenticity_ is the key, because that is what the Public responds to Ive been playing electric bass & acoustic guitar for 23 years. 7 piece drums for half as long. So I speak not as a Kiss devotee, but as a 70s child who witnessed the rise of Kiss, Gerry Rafferty, Rita Coolidge, A Taste of Honey, George Benson, KC & the Sunshine Band, the Eagles, Michael Martin Murphey, Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Diamond & many others. From the Jazz/ Orchestral world there are also Barry Manilow, Andy Williams, Tony Bennett, The Living Strings, Paul Mauriat, Syd Lawrence, Ronnie Verrell, Gene Krupa, & Floyd Cramer. It was the Easy Listening age, & the age of Soft Rock, too. Not just an age of meteoric pop bands

@@magnificentmuttley154I agree, as I too was brought up in a family of musicians, I woke up, slept with the sound of live music being played, practiced and echoing throughout the house. I was aware of the music in it's time, I remember watching the Elvis comeback special as it was being aired on TV. I remember my Uncle stopping by to see if my older brothers were going to this thing called Woodstock 😂. My earliest memories revolve around music, that is why it is key that people expose their children to some type of music early. It is associated to memory recall. A variety aids in personal growth, just as it is important for musicians to learn every genre. It allows the artist to develop a more broad range of style they can form to create and stay fresh. If you only do one thing, one style then that's where you stay, and that is where you will be, on time you will be left behind, you grow stagnant. I think we are in agreement.😊

@@magnificentmuttley154 but this is not always the case.the 2 founding members of X Japan saw Kiss in concert and that inspired them to form a band. When they started they had the punk/Glam Rock style, and were rejected in Japan, but they stayed with it and became the biggest rock band in Japanese history. They didn't change to suit the audience, the audience came around to them.

*@Gerard Cote* 🎯 Excellent point! Sometimes you just gotta grow on people- - - just like mold. Lol! Im not even a Kiss fan. I never liked them. They gave me the creeps when I was a kid, & 44 years later they _STILL_ give me the creeps! Nevertheless, as a musician I respect their ability to change their musical style, to reach a different audience If I understand their history correctly, "Beth" was their first hit (1976-77). Unlike a more dominant hard rock style that would become apparent later, Beth was a number meant to break them into soft rock radio & mix stations. Evidently Gene & Paul thought it more practical to have their first breakthrough hit that way, than to go up against far tougher competition. Everyone from Boston, to Kansas, Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin, Steve Miller, Journey, The Cars, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Foreigner, Gerry Rafferty, Billy Joel, etc They could produce a hit later on to break into what they wanted to be their dominant musical catagory. The important thing was to get started with that first hit. And their plan worked. I dont know the chart rankings, but I was there to witness that Beth was played on both soft rock & on mixed music radio. True to the practice of easy listening radio, once Beth had become a familiar song that first year, we would hear the Living Strings' contemporary orchestra version of Beth. I have that album *EDIT:* Upon further investigation actually "Beth" is Kiss' third career hit, following behind "Nothing to Lose" & "Rock 'n Roll All Nite." Thats 1976, 1974, & 1975, respectively. Furthermore Ive been told by a knowledgeable fan that a DJ played "Beth" by accident on the B side of a 45, & thats how it became a hit. So it wasnt by strategy or design that they found their song accepted into mix stations, soft rock, & eventually easy listening radio

Eddie and Alex Van Halen also played on Gene's demos for the Love Gun album.

And a little band called ac/dc too

They had everyone

Slash also auditioned to replace Ace, but Paul thought he was too young at 17. Paul also apparently introduced Desmond Child, who co-wrote this song with Paul, to Jon Bon Jovi, and they went on to co-write some of Bon Jovi’s biggest hits. They both have a great eye for talent.

@@belle.m lol ace was 18 when he joined kiss

This song is infinitely better than that overrated ass 'Rock & Roll All Night' that usually gets played. Facts.

I'm a KISS fan and actually always liked this song . I hate disco too!

Just said how much better this is live b4 i read the comments 🤘🤘

I grew up in the 80's KISS, i love these MTV songs. Uh all Night is my favorite KISS song. And i do know the 70's KISS well too, nothing bad about that.

Bro my first ever concert was KISS, the firework guitar stunt set our rafters on fire and they had to lower it to put the fire out WHILE THEY KEPT ON PLAYING

Wow, I was born in the 7p’s , know of kiss never knew any of this about em. Great info. Thanks

“Fellas” lol

thanks for that awsome wikipedia copy/paste, lol!

@@michaelengle9062 I appreciate it, just wanted to put that info outdare.

Thought they were from Detroit not New York

Imbeciles were breaking their albums. The band was already paid. Absolute clown idea of protest.

I agree! By that point in time "pure" disco was really starting to suck - "Push Push In The Bush" anyone? KISS, Queen, Bad Company, Sweet, and other rock bands who dabbled in danceable music gave the genre a much-needed second wind.

One of my favorite concerts. They weren't in make up

Me too 😊

Wicked az Mary!

Was my first concert in 2000's. Was in Michigan outside.

Mine too!

This song is much harder than "I want to rock and roll all night." This song rocks and it says to me, they are defiantly the Masters of Rock.

@@Bellawhite1 True

I think it just took some time for the old fans to come around with this one. It was different but a great song!

Fits like a glove and black diamond

Detroit Rock City! I saw KISS in concert with Def Leppard! Amazing Concert!

This is how good rock and roll was in the BEST DECADE ever 1970s

THIS song came out in 1979 And they where there best in the 70s

But this was a 70s PARTY Big time ,,

@@theodoreritola7641 it's a great song, but far from their greatest 70's catalogue material imo. One of their most commercial hit sounding ones, yes!

I love their 80’s stuff

@@metaphoria3 me too, much great stuff. Only wish Crazy Nights and Asylum had way better mixes/production. Basicly no bottom exists. Almost just treble and weak mids. I'm sure there are third party remasters circulating out there though. But really wish Kiss would do new mixes and remaster them again!

This is my favorite by Kiss 💯

Don't forget Alice Cooper, and David Bowie rocked the make up as well at times. Guess you also forgot Twisted Sister. And to be completely honest Kiss stole the Face Painting from Arthur Brown, and his legendary "Corpse Paint" in the 60's. Sensational Alex Harvey Band guitarist Zal Cleminson did the Clown motif Face Paint in the 70's, and in the Punk scene same era was the Skull Face Paint of The Misfits. More in the 80's picked it up Now KISS were the most famous, and the only reason I know this is I am as old as dust, and did record reviews in the mid to 70's to 80's so got most of the new releases. LOL.

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars were before KISS.😅

Kiss did full makeup. No one knew who they were. Yes other band wore makeup but not full face

The same occurred to me, i got here acccidentally. I liked their reaction. It was the same my then 5 or 6 yo son had when listening to this song. He is now 15 and still enjoys this kind of music.

KISSCO

I loved that movie too and that’s why I clicked this video😂

Yes! I think they’ll LOVE Seger! Beautiful loser would be awesome for them.

A lot of Kiss fans are idiots who hopped the disco hate train and subscribe to rock and metal's worst elitist bullshit tendencies. Fuck 'em...And fuck Gene Simmons, but that's neither here nor there.

There was a pandemic in 77?!

Long time between concerts.

Comic books, lunch boxes, you name it.

are they all still alive??

Oh gosh… they need to watch one of the videos displaying Gene’s obnoxiously long tongue, which has become a rock legend in and of itself.