Dfactor does KISS Cover "See You Tonight"

Sometime around late September/early October, with news of a new KISS album and 35-yr anniversary tour in the wind, I finally got around to reading the official KISS biography called "Kiss: Behind the Mask", an excellent look at the early days and success years for KISS. Sure, the thing was published in 2003, so it took only six years for me to catch up. Not unusual.

I was a big KISS fan way back. I made posters, was part of the KISS Army, subscribed to CIRCUS Magazine (the unofficial PR arm of KISS in the mid-70s) and saw the band at least 3-4 times in Chicago during the classic years (1975-1978). Teen rock stuff. So I knew a lot about the band. But in reading the book, I learned more, like how Gene and Paul used to rehearse in a Chinatown loft; its early days as Wicked Lester and the LP they made but was never released (and the Wicked Lester songs you can now hear on YouTube), who wrote which songs and much more.

And that's how we get to the video below of me swinging a cover of "See You Tonight" - great lil' pop song, with easy chords, cheesy, repeatable lyrics and the absolute surprise that it was written by Gene Simmons in 1969 (re: the book). Who wudda thunk? Click the song title link to hear Kiss's '96 Unplugged version - it's great. So there ya go.

One recording note - my video below is all one-take stuff, after two muffed intros. You notice I'm singing into the microphone in the video - not to look cool, but actually to record it! I used this recording as the basic track, added some backing vocals, the ever-present Dfactor tambourine and some sonic dimension. And voila, you have Dfactor singing a 1969 pop song as written by Chaim Witz. I added that version to my MySpace page - or just download it here.