01. KISS - “I Stole Your Love“ (Alright, Largo! Alive in Maryland 1977 franKENstein Redux)

This is the first in a series of classic multi-cam KISS concerts from the ’70s that I have been upscaling and re-creating the audio for. My goal is to give these shows near-album-quality audio while maintaining all the nuances of the actual performances. Rather than simply syncing the official live albums to these shows, I have re-created the basic tracks using various isolated tracks from those albums along with other sources, blending them with actual guitar solos, vocals, drum arrangements and other variations that match the original performance. This show is from Largo, MD and was taped at Capital Center 12/20/1977 on the ALIVE II Tour. Vocals: Some vocals bits come from the original Largo recording, but since those vocals are very boxy and distorted (even after “clean-up“) they are the vast minority used here. Instead, I used Alive II for the majority of the vocals. They have been altered/edited to perfectly match the Largo video so the feel of the original show is more or less ma