Since a plethora of unreleased KISS demos seem to be surfacing as of late, I decided in my Evilness that they should have their own thread:

Let's start off with an verry interesting demo of one of the all-time KISS klassics, "Detroit Rock City."

Get up!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZYtakRS4m0[/youtube]

Get down!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjT5Zqf-mrg[/youtube]

Nothing ever resulted from this demo, but I always liked it. From 1982.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUdzQlysik8[/youtube]

This is one of my favorites. It was loosely reworked into the song eventually on Sonic Boom. This is from 1985.

There goes KISS -- re-recording old songs again!

Well they could argue that they are song craftsmen and they were hard at work for many years fine tuning these songs until they were good enough for release.

I'm pretty sure the rest of us would know that's a bunch of B.S.

Hell, KISS was recycling Wicked Lester material on their early albums. It guess it's okay to "plagiarize" yourself.

Gene $immons himself has said that this Wicked Lester song was re-worked into "Charisma."

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiMzmCElKH0[/youtube]

Supposedly the piano part in this comes from Beethoven's "Pathetique", but I would think that might have been Ezrin's doing.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETWDilQbM_c[/youtube]

Poor sound quality, I'll give you that, but this the bizarre single edit of "Detroit Rock City." If they put this on a new KISS compilation, I'd buy it just for the sheer bizarro factor.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwsNhXxrrS0[/youtube]

Again, poor sound, but an interesting early demo for this deep KISS cut:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5s4ENe6Bfk&feature=related[/youtube]