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Known as Gene Simmons' signature song, this was actually written by band mate Paul Stanley. Stanley had written it as a much more up-tempo number about him being the "God Of Thunder" and Rock and Roll. Bob Ezrin, who produced Destroyer heard it, loved it, and much to Paul Stanley's chagrin, immediately gave it to Gene to sing. On the record, it is much slower, plodding, and menacing.
The odd noises in the background are Ezrin's kids, who were told to make spooky noises through a cheap walkie-talkie set.
Over the years this has become a showcase song for Gene Simmons. It's usually performed after he does the blood spew. (thanks, Ken - LaSalle, Canada, for all above)
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Comments:
"ok, got reception." isn't this what the kids say at the start? I think the kids voices made the song sound "spooky" when I was younger and listned to this...we're talking me at age 12 or so way back when destroyer was still a new album.
- Darrin, Cambridge, MN
In the song 'God of Thunder', the children are yelling out “He’s the Devil!” at 0:23 from the beginning of the song, and “But, I don’t want to go to Hell” at 1:30. Just listen again and you'll see.
- Cannuck, Gatineau, QC
The kids are saying "GODZILLA"
- KISS, Dayton, , IN
To Randy, Colerain TWP.,OH. The disatortion at the end of Do you love me, is a combination of what I believe is four different things. 1.A pick slide on a guitar. 2. The roar of a crowd. 3. The boys choir that was used in "Great Expectations" singing the title. 4. Is a live recording of Paul Stanley talking to a crowd and he is saying "I tell you it looks like, it looks like were gonna have ourselves a rock and roll party" Or some thing like it.It doesn't get clear until the end in which you must increase the volume a bit.
- Jason, Denver, CO
what do those kids say at the start of the song,OKAY.............and you can hear a mans voice during that too saying go i think lol
- sezan, melbourne, Australia
I think that the shouting of the kids ruins the song- somehow I don't think that Paul had that in mind while writing it. I still haven't figured out the recording played after 'Do You Love Me?' on the 'Destroyer' album- must be something else Bob Ezrin mustered up.
- Randy, Colerain Twp., OH
the kid noises in the background are bob ezrens kids on a cheep walkie talkie set there mostly shouting its too loud and turn it down an making it sounds like there scared
- clayton, council bluffs, IA
My dad and I play this song while working in our garage. I think we see ourselves as "gods of thunder...and rock and roll!" Haha, anyway, I love KISS (you kidding, I'm from Detroit, you don't love KISS and Ted Nugent they'll run you out of the friggin state), and this song is one of their best. It was also played at the beginning of Rob Zombie's Halloween, to introduce Michael Myers. I think it fit.
- Rob, Detroit , MI
ok we agree the kids are "CREEPY" but what in the hell are they saying?
- gooch, shithole, DC
Those weird kid noises in the background were weird when i first heard the song.
- Randell, Sydney, Australia
In the beginning of the song you hear kids screaming and yelling, those are Bob Ezrins kids. And for all of you who dont who Bob Ezrin is, he was the producer for the destroyer album and other KISS albums.
- Cam, Cambridge, Canada
Hooo-hoooo! My pal Mike and I used to cruise around Burbank, California late at night in his car, which had a 40 watt P.A. system installed in it. We played this one through it and it sounded awesome! Echoed all through the Verdugo Hills...
- Wes, Springfield, VA
Paul sings it on the demo version in the Box Set, and the tempo is more like that of disco, not bad though.
- Eddie, Acton, ME
The KISS box set has the original demo version. Drums were played by Junior Smalls, who can be heard shouting "you wanted the best, you got it" on Alive! The line "hear my words and take heed" was originally "we make love 'til we bleed." Yucky imagery.
- john, seattle, WA
In the more recent concerts since the late 1990's (reunion tour on up to current), Gene sings this song while standing up on the lighting fixtures above the stage, after he flies up there.
- Jimbo, Corpus Christi, TX