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Peter Criss Related Recordings
PENRIDGE-CRISS ALLIANCE SESSION II
No Record Label (USA, 1985)
01. Baby, Hold On (4:17) - Penridge
02. Forever With You (3:40) - Penridge
03. Never Met A Woman (2:50) - Penridge
Produced by Stan "Doc" Penridge.
Recorded at Cinderella Studios in Madison, TN
Following the failure of his "Let Me Rock You" album, Peter dropped from sight before re-emerging in 1983/4 with a new project with Stan Penridge. Following some limited live performances the Penridge/Criss Alliance set up in Nashville in early 1985 to record a series of demos. While Peter's involvement in the band would soon cease, severing his relationship with Stan Penridge. Peter Criss sings lead vocals and plays percussion. The studio band consisted of Stan Penridge (Vocals, Guitar), Alan Woody (Bass), Benny Harrison (Synthesizer, Keyboards, Vocals), and Tony Mercadante (Guitar, Vocals). The song was neither a rocker nor soft, building more off traditional R&B energy and style.
The "Alliance" demo sessions would see the end of Peter and Stan's personal relationship when Peter essentially quit the band. According to Peter, "The band I had a few years ago with Stan though was really the straw that broke the camel's back. I knew then that it was cool if the two of us just stayed in a room and wrote songs together, but in the real world there's no way we belong together. We don't belong on the road or in a band because we're just bad influences on each other, drugs wise" (Kerrang #226, 1989). The material recorded by the Alliance is essentially the only original music Peter was involved in until 1989 (From the "KISS & Related Recordings Focus, © 2007 - Julian Gill).