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Classic Album Review: Various Artists | Spin The Bottle: An All-Star Tribute To KISS

A who's-who roster of rockers get together to jam on some of the band's classics.

This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


KISS songs are so simple anyone can play them. Even rock stars.

That’s the concept behind Spin The Bottle, a tribute disc that combines rockers from various bands — Helmet, Styx, Winger, Dokken, WASP and so on — and lets them bash out a batch of KISS classics. Standouts include Dee Snider and co.’s Detroit Rock City, Lemmy’s Shout it Out Loud and a devilish God of Thunder from the strange-bedfellows lineup of Melvins Buzz Osbourne, guitarist Bruce Kulick, Rob Zombie bassist Blasko and drummer Carmine Appice. But most of the cuts — including Winnipeg ’rassler Chris Jericho’s assault on King Of The Night Time World — don’t add up to more than the sum of their parts. It just goes to show: Anyone really can play KISS songs — badly.