Danger Zone: An Exploration of KISS' Crazy Nights

This is a great book and provides many different viewpoints on the people involved become, during, and after the recording. The interviews cover a lot of ground and include great tour stories. Bruce Kulick provides great insight into that period and many involved in the project cite what an excellent musician he is. Now, if Julian will work on a Revenge album book, I'd be ecstatic. This was a fast read but plenty of material is included. I have been a Kiss fan since 1975, and I learned a lot from this book!

I was interested in reading about this time period of the band, but this book leaves much to be desired. It’s filled with a ton of typos (clearly, no one went back and proofread this book before printing it) and unnecessary repeats, specifically towards the beginning where paragraphs are duplicated for no reason. The interviews in the interview chapter are drawn out. It does detail some cool descriptions of demos and outtakes from the Crazy Nights sessions. All in all, I’d skip this book as it just isn’t nearly as good as I had expected.

This is a great book. I really enjoyed the stories of the making of the record. I know some kiss fans have a hard time with this record but I really think there is some gems on it and I like reading about how it was created.

The editing in this book is atrocious. Repeated passages throughout. Sloppy. Disappointing.

I think only die hard fans would read this. Since most of the literature out there is on the '74-'79 era, it's cool to see a book about the platinum albums without makeup like this one.

Lots of good info on all things Crazy Nights...from songwriting to producing to touring, this book covers it all. As a member of the KISS Army, I found it to be a very enjoyable read.

Okay. Little light on content. Some good insight and stories.

Awesome read and details. Can never go wrong with a Julian Gill book. He gives great insights and provides amazing interviews

Firstly let me say i have a couple of the authors previous KISS books,so its no an attack on him but this is really an average read,a struggle actually.Lets be honest it would be hard writing a top drawer book and focusing solely on one album.The fact that the album isnt a classic like say Zep 4 or Floyds Dark Side Of The Moon,even more so when the album in question isnt rated that highly by the fans in the bands home country( it was more popular in Europe and the UK),may have had platinum sales but....it didnt hit the height that Kiss wanted.The chapters about the album and the tracks are decent but most of it has been read elsewhere. The most interesting chapter relates to the tour with various reprinted reviews which range for hostile to down right hatred,respect thru gritted teeth but wishing they would go away and on the other hand some favourable reviews.But the interviews apart from Bruce kulick ,most interviewee's have to be prompted and generally respond ,cant remember,dont know or it was a long time ago,perfect example approx 10 pages interviewing Tom Kelly (backing vocalist).. 9 and 1/2 pages about his career and about a paragraph on his performance on the album.I have had this since xmas and usually devour KISS books this has been a chore,sorry.

Another in the long (long) line of excellent KISS books from the same author(s). Never disappoints and one of my favourite albums as well. What's not to love?!

To call this a "book" is a huge stretch. I've taken the bait with all of Julian Gill's KISS books, but I'm done after this one. As someone else mentioned, many long stretches of text are copied and pasted all over this book. I don't know if it was a mistake (which would indicate no editing took place), or if it was intentional (which would indicate deceit). The parts of the book that aren't repeated ad nauseam, are mostly quotes taken from existing KISS books by actual authors. I've given Gill the benefit of the doubt many times, but the jig is up. Each of his books actually gets worse instead of better. I'm actually surprised Gene hasn't attempted to stop the publishing of this drivel, as he does appear to enjoy litigation.

A well written & analytical read of KISS’s attempt to remain relevant in the late 1980s and regain their status as super-band. The album Crazy Nights was that attempt

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