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The Album Cover That Made KISS Legends: Destroyer’s Secret Weapon [Highlight From Episode 360] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a quick highlight from our latest episode of Booked
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  Speaker 1: on Rock. Martin Popoff, the author of Kissed seventy six
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  Speaker 1: twelve months that defined the hottest band in the land.
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  Speaker 1: The album cover by Michael Dorett. I think that's the
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  Speaker 1: pronunciation of the last name he did the art on
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  Speaker 1: Rock and Roll Over. Before we talk about that, we
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  Speaker 1: should talk about Ken Kelly though, because his cover of Destroyer.
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  Speaker 1: So both of those album covers are iconic and ken
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  Speaker 1: Kelly's How important was that artwork in shape and kisses
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  Speaker 1: mythic superhero like identity, particularly against the album covers from
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  Speaker 1: the other bands that year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, super important. People love that cover, you know, immediately.
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  Speaker 2: And what a great title to Destroyer, What a killer title.
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  Speaker 1: I had the Jigsaw Puzzle, the Destroyer, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 3: Ever had that. But he also did Rainbow Rising, which
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  Speaker 3: came out the same year, and later on he did
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  Speaker 3: Man a War. He did Love Gun as well.
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  Speaker 2: But no, that's a great, great album cover and it
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  Speaker 2: was just so super reproduced on everything.
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  Speaker 3: People loved it, great great pictures of the band in that.
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  Speaker 2: Later on we got to see the alternate versions, which
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  Speaker 2: are kind of the same but but just cool as well.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, what it looked.
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  Speaker 2: Cool kind of floating above that rubble and then on
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  Speaker 2: the back it was classy because it was just sort
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  Speaker 2: of a continuation of the scene with nothing much in it,
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  Speaker 2: just some smoking ruins kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, it was it was really really cool that way.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, uh, it's it's still it's it's All of
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  Speaker 2: the album covers were cool, I mean, especially Alive the
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  Speaker 2: debut was cool, hotter in hell, so they had had
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  Speaker 2: great album covers, but yeah, against it it really it
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  Speaker 2: really showed you what this band was about. You know.
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  Speaker 3: The other interesting thing about that album cover.
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  Speaker 2: Subconsciously, as kids, we always felt this and I still
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  Speaker 2: feel this to this day that when you when you
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  Speaker 2: illustrate a band, it makes them seem more important than
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  Speaker 2: when you photograph a band.
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  Speaker 3: Uh So it's like, oh, somebody's doing or painting. Uh
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  Speaker 3: you know. Uh so that that's kind of cool. That's
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  Speaker 3: kind of cool as well.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it made the band look, like you say,
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  Speaker 2: larger than life, and rock.
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  Speaker 1: And roll Over is more like a comic book type
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  Speaker 1: of energy to it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I remember getting that and feeling a little
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  Speaker 2: bit disappointed in the idea. You know, it still looked great,
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  Speaker 2: and it blew our minds that, oh my god, a
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  Speaker 2: new Kiss album. But you were starting to feel that
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  Speaker 2: am I outgrowing this band a little?
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  Speaker 3: Is this a little too goofy looking?
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  Speaker 2: It certainly doesn't look as manly as Destroyer did.
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