The NME once wrote "
half their songs are in E, the other half in A" in the early days of KISS. Combined with the damning verdict that "
KISS are living proof that it takes less skill to play hard rock passably than any other music known to man".
Not sure that is right though. Aside from the fact that their songs were probably in Eb and Ab because KISS tuned half a step down to accommodate Stanley's voice, wasn't Detroit Rock City in either B or C (or somewhere in between, Bob Ezrin probably messed with the tape speed again)?
Good ole Ace, the way he
lurched from note to note on the fretboard and
raked from string to string was always highly idiosyncratic, but it never sounded like he actually knew what he was doing (much less do better)!
St(r)utter is a case in point, what the hell is he doing there in that riff?
First time I heard it
, I thought something was wrong with the vinyl or maybe he had made a mistake and got stuck on a string playing the riff?
But he plays it like that
every effing time and I for one have never been able to replicate it. It sounds weird and "wrong/out of time to me to this day. What is it supposed to be in rhythmic notation?
