KISS has announced plans to release a new live album that will be the sixth installment of the band’s Off the Soundboard series of official bootleg recordings.
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The new album is titled Off the Soundboard: HemisFair Arena, San Antonio, Texas – December 3, 1985, and is due out March 28. The show took place during KISS’ tour in support of its 1985 studio album Asylum. Asylum was the band’s first full album to feature guitarist Bruce Kulick. Kulick joined a KISS lineup that also featured co-founding members Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, and drummer Eric Carr.
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The Off the Soundboard: HemisFair Arena, San Antonio, Texas album will be available via major digital platforms and streaming services. A limited-edition three-LP colored-vinyl set packaged with a specially designed T-shirt is available exclusively from the KISS online store. The LPs will be pressed on custom-dyed multicolored vinyl. The vinyl set is priced at $99.98.
The album features 18 tracks, and includes renditions of two songs from Asylum—“Tears Are Falling” and “Uh! All Night.”
KISS’ set also included featured such classics as “Detroit Rock City,” “Cold Gin,” “Love Gun,” “Lick It Up,” and, of course, 15. “Rock and Roll All Nite.” The show also featured instrumental solos by Stanley, Kulick, Simmons, and Carr.
The new Off the Soundboard record will be the first official KISS live album or home video to feature a performance from the Asylum tour.
More About KISS’ Asylum Album
Released in September 1985, Asylum was KISS’ 13th studio album. The album peaked at No. 20 on the Billboard 200. “Tears Are Falling” was a melodic rock anthem that was released as the only single from Asylum. It reached No. 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 20 Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart.
A music video for “Tears Are Falling” received significant airplay on MTV, which helped boost the single’s popularity.
The album’s cover featured images of the band’s four members without face makeup, although each featured different colored lipstick.
For the tour in support of Asylum, the band showcased the largest lighted KISS sign they’d ever brought onstage.
Asylum went on to be certified gold by the RIAA for sales of more than 500,000 copies in the U.S.
Other Off the Soundboard Releases
KISS has released five other Off the Soundboard official bootlegs, starting with Off the Soundboard: Tokyo 2001 in June 2021.
That album was followed by Live in Virginia Beach 2004 in March 2022, Live at Donington 1996 in June 2022, Live in Des Moines 1977 in July 2022, and Live in Poughkeepsie, NY 1984 in July 2004.
Off the Soundboard: San Antonio, TX 12/3/1985 Track List:
- “Detroit Rock City”
- “Fits Like a Glove”
- “Cold Gin”
- Paul Stanley Guitar Solo
- “Uh! All Night”
- Eric Carr Drum Solo
- “War Machine”
- “I Still Love You”
- “Under the Gun”
- Bruce Kulick Guitar Solo
- “Tears Are Falling”
- Gene Simmons Bass Solo
- “I Love It Loud”
- “Love Gun”
- “Rock and Roll All Nite”
- “Heaven’s on Fire”
- “Oh! Susanna”
- “Lick It Up”
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