Wicked Lester ( Kiss ) : The Original Wicked Lester Sessions

The Original 
Wicked Lester Sessions

is a bootleg release of

 Wicked Lester's

 rejected 1972 album

 for Epic records. 

Feeling the group

 lacked direction,

 Wicked Lester leaders 

Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons

 left soon after the album's rejection

 and formed another

 identically-named group

 with a more rock-oriented focus, 

soon recruiting drummer

 Peter Criss

 and guitarist 

Ace Frehley

 and changing the newe

r group's name to

 Kiss.

Several years later, 

fearing Epic would 

release the album

 to capitalize on Kiss' 

subsequent fame,

 Simmons and Stanley

 purchased all rights

 to the album from Epic

 whose then-owners

 had no idea

 of Wicked Lester's

 connection to Kiss

 through intermediaries,

 then shelved it permanently. 

 Tracks 1, 3 and 5

 were released on the

 Kiss box set in 2001.

TRACK LIST 

1. "Love Her All I Can" (2:28) 
2. "Sweet Ophelia" (2:56) 
3. "Keep Me Waiting" (3:04) 
4. "Simple Type" (2:33)
5. "She" (2:54) 
6. "Too Many Mondays" (3:27) 
7. "What Happens in the Darkness" (2:59) 
8. "When the Bell Rings" (3:11) 
9. "Molly" (aka Some Other Guy) (2:23) 
10. "We Want to Shout It Out Loud" (2:04) 
11. "Long, Long Road" (4:28) 

• Note: As the album was never officially released,
•  there are many different song orderings available
•  on downloaded copies, 
• with "Love Her All I Can,"
•  "What Happens in the Darkness," 
• "Simple Type,"
•  and "Sweet Ophelia" 
• all serving as the opening tracks
•  for various versions.

LINK

Share this post