I have that on tape at home. I also watched it when it first appeared on tv and used to talk about it in semi-reverent tones. An old girlfriend, half-amused & half-mortified by my tendency to sit around playing Kiss riffs on my guitar while watching TV, bought it for me. It's horrible (Kiss doesn't even make an appearance until halfway in, and the so-called Phantom of the Park is just a disgruntled park employee/mad scientist - seeing as how it's a Hanna-Barbera production, the plot is basically a Scooby-Doo mystery with Kiss as the Scooby gang), but somehow mesmerizing, too. Especially for Paul's incredibly-stupid-but-he-thinks-profound pronouncements and Ace's drunken duck squacks. Oh, and the Asian guy in Ace Frehley makeup who's the stunt double for the fight scenes. And the mysterious Kiss power amulets that glow gold in a briefcase like Marcellus Wallace's soul. That's good stuff.

I too watched that when it was first broadcast. Only because we had one TV, two channels, and my brother was bigger than me.

I too watched that when it was first broadcast.

I have this memory of a KISS tv show where, at one point, they jump over a really tall fence into a city park. If this has that scene or something like it (I haven't checked the link) - I saw it when it was first broadcast as well.

Right this second I am finishing up a best-of-the-first-half-of-06 mix. If work lets up a little today, I might even be able to post it - more likely it will be later this weekend though.

oh Beth what can I do?

saw it in the 70s, loved it. good memories.

Beth is my almost ten year old nephew's favourite song. He's a really big KISS fan. Gee, I wonder where he gets that from?

Thom Jurek of AMG reviews the song "Jesse" off Scott Walker's album The Drift.

A snippet.

"Jesse" is inhabited by the ghost of Elvis Aaron Presley. His ghost is sitting in the backyard of Graceland, sitting out back under the moonlight, talking to his stillborn twin, Jesse Garon Presley, as he often did in life. He's speaking to him about the fall of the Twin Towers. He's talking like he's still Elvis instead of a rotting bag of bones under the earth. The creepiness factor is in place as the cut opens, slowly, ominously, with a baritone guitar droning quietly before precisely playing the intro to "Jailhouse Rock." It's deliberate and unmistakable, but it's a wreck, slow, detuned, octaves lower than the original. It feels almost inverted, stretched across the empty space behind it. At 13 seconds, Walker as Elvis whispers "pow, pow!" He repeats it three times while detuned basses and poltergeist keyboards enter the frame like afterthoughts before he begins singing:

"Nose holes caked in black cocaine/'Pow! pow!'/No one holds a match to your skin/No dupe/No chiming/A way off/Miles off/No needle through a glove."

Let me start by saying: Pixies! Superchunk! Versus! New Pornographers! Tegan and Sara!

Okay, now has anyone heard Paris Hilton's single (Stars Are Blind)? It's throwaway pop for sure, but it surprised me a bit. It's very Gwen Stefani (who I like alright but don't love). I'd have expected Hilary Duff/Ashlee Simpson/Avril from P-Hil.

Let me start by saying: Pixies! Superchunk! Versus! New Pornographers! Tegan and Sara!

These are good things to say.

::imagines music geeks with Tourettes wandering around Haight Street shouting things like this at the top of their lungs::

Okay, now has anyone heard Paris Hilton's single (Stars Are Blind)?

Tom's link above to the Kiss clip also included a clip for that song: [link]

To the P-Hil video, my response is, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" The parts that are in color are KILLING me. She's trying to pole dance (with a palm tree, natch) and failing pretty miserably. I'd have thought that would be one thing she'd be damned good at, considering how much of her life is spent in clubs.