Kiss - God Gave Rock and Roll To You II - Solo[source]

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    <title>Kiss - God Gave Rock and Roll To You II - Solo</title>
    <description>
        My recording of the solo from Kiss's "God Gave Rock and Roll To You II"
    </description>
    <category>Music</category>
    <category>Music recording</category>
    <category>Guitar</category>
    <series order="42">2022 music project</series>
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<p>
    I'm not a particularly big fan of Kiss, but I own one of their tab
    books, so here I am. I was amused by the "II" suffix of this song;
    I figured it was a case of a band ripping off their own music
    like Metallica did with
    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unforgiven_(song)#%22The_Unforgiven_II%22">The 
    Unforgiven</a>. But apparently it's a cover of a song by
    the band Argent so Kiss wrote some more lyrics and then tacked a "II" 
    to the end of it to differentiate it from the original.<glacius:cite>I
    just listened to Argent's version on YouTube, and frankly it's way better than
    Kiss's version. Kiss just changed some lyrics, changed the guitar solo, added
    a key change, and removed the organ solo. They also tuned down a half step. I can't
    believe they were allowed to put their names on it as writers, since it's
    basically a rip off. I feel betrayed. I can't believe I covered an inferior cover.
    Even Kiss's guitar solo was worse. What a waste.</glacius:cite>
</p>
<p>
    Comically, this was all done for the soundtrack of
    the cinematic masterpiece
    <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101452/">Bill &amp; Ted's Bogus Journey</a>.
</p>
<glacius:figure glacius:src="god-gave-rock-and-roll-to-you-ii-book.jpeg" type="image">
    <caption>
        Transcription of the solo from <em>God Gave Rock &amp; Roll To You II</em> 
        from the 1991 movie <em>Bill &amp; Ted's Bogus Journey</em>
    </caption>
</glacius:figure>
<p>
    Even more amusingly, the world's hardest rocking Christian band
    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra_(band)">Petra</a> also covered
    it. I can only imagine the new connotations they added to it to make
    it sufficiently religious.
</p>
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<p>
    Anyway, the solo has some harmony and I like that. So here's a cover.
</p>
<h2>Recording</h2>
<p>
    This video is pretty bad. I should have turned my light on. I compensated
    by jacking up the brightness in post but it looks pretty awful.
</p>
<glacius:figure 
    glacius:src="god-gave-rock-and-roll-to-you-ii-solo-480p.mp4" 
    glacius:thumbnail="god-gave-rock-and-roll-to-you-ii-solo-poster.jpeg" 
    type="video">
    <caption>
        Cover of Bruce Kulick's solo from <em>God Gave Rock &amp; Roll To You II</em>
        (or maybe it was Ace Frehley or Paul Stanley I don't know who actually played
        it this song isn't worth that much research)
    </caption>
</glacius:figure>
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    glacius:thumbnail="ardour-god-gave-rock-and-roll-to-you-ii-thumb.jpeg" 
    type="image">
    <caption>
        Screenshot of my 
        <a href="https://ardour.org/">Ardour</a>/<a href="http://hydrogen-music.org/">Hydrogen</a> 
        setup
    </caption>
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