Kiss "alive II"

This is it : ground fucking zero. This is the album that launched my obsession with packaged music. In 1978 a 6 year old Joel caught the "kiss versus the phantom " tv special.  While I have been told I loved music since a baby and I can vividly remember hearing CCR on am radio in my mom's Volkswagen bug this was the first time I can remember feeling like the music was "mine". I can remember begging my mom for a Creem magazine that had #KISS on the cover, having only seen the show once I was enthralled. My parents bought me a cassette copy of "alive II" and unveiled it to me while riding in my stepfather's van. There nestled in floor to ceiling shag carpet on the bed in the back of that van the kiss story unfolded before me (I know! Could it have been a more perfect setting?) While I knew music came packaged on 8 tracks and records this was the first time I had something I wanted and could listen to at my own demand. Which was often. I played those two tapes on one of those flat top-load cassette decks with the single speaker. I played them ragged. I soon discovered that kiss had more of these tapes and was given "Destroyer" for Christmas (which is still in my top 5 album covers of all time.) To this day I can still freehand draw the "casablanca records" logo.  I was Gene Simmons so for three consecutive halloweens. I now have a wall of cds because of this experience.  My wife has KISS to thank.