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NOTES
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Track 01 : "In Your Face" was written by Gene Simmons
for Ace Frehley to sing.
Released as a bonus track on Japanese KISS "Psycho Circus" album, and as "Non-album Bonus Track" on various versions of the KISS "We Are One" CD-single.
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Track 02 : "Shakin' Sharp Shooter", written by Ace Frehley and Karl Cochran this song
would become "Into The Void", with a little bit of
suggestion From Gene Simmons.
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Track 03 : "Life and Liberty", an Ace Frehley and
Anton Fig collaboration, written around the time of the
"Psycho Circus" sessions.
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Track 04 : originally written by Ace Frehley and Marty
Kupersmith (aka Marty Sanders) in 1985.
It's not clear if "You Make It Hard For Me" is demoed
in 1985. Parts of the 1985-song would be recycled in 1998 when
Ace Frehley wrote a song with the same title with ex- Skid Row
singer Sebastian Bach.
"You Make It Hard For Me" has long been known as a title of a song that Ace
Frehley wrote with Sebastian Bach prior to the start of the KISS "Psycho Circus" sessions.
The song was demoed by Ace Frehley, Sebastian Bach, Richie
Scarlett, and Anton Fig.
At the time it was apparently close to making the album, but was eventually cut. According to Sebastian, "I talked to Gene Simmons and I asked him what happened and he said he didn't want any songs about sex on the new record because he had done so many songs like that"
(ballbustermusic). As the title would suggest, there is some sexual innuendo reminiscent to KISS' own "(You Make Me) Rock Hard" from the "Smashes, Thrashes, and Hits" album released in 1988, though the lyrics (see below) are a bit more direct. It is also ironic to hear the suggestion that Gene didn't want the song on the album for sexual reasons (especially when fans were being sold the line that producer Bruce Fairbairn was in ultimate control of what was recorded for the
album, but that's another aside)...
At the time it was easy to accept Sebastian's comment blaming Gene for the lack of the song's inclusion on the album. It was known that a lot of music had been written and had not made the album, not just Ace's material.
The copyright registration for a song with the title "You Make It Hard For Me"
is credited to Ace Frehley and Marty Kupersmith. Marty had been a member of Jay & The Americans (a band with ties to Paul Stanley's Uncle Joe band) and had written "We Got Your Rock" in 1983 - it soon found itself to Ace and turned up on his first post-KISS solo album.
From the Frehley/Kupersmith copyright it was noted that the song was written in 1985. Marty had copy-written the song (PAu-1-829-029) in early 1994 - correctly noting Ace's co-writing contribution. So, it would seem that the 1998 song borrowed at least the title from the 1985 composition. Additionally, Marty had released his version of the song on his
1996 album, "It'll Come To You" This release of the song could go some way to explaining the song's absence from "Psycho Circus" and further Ace
Frehley interest.
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Track 06 - 08 : Ace
Frehley
related song titles mentioned in interviews during the
"Psycho Circus" recording sessions.
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