KISS Alive III  NEAR MINT COVER NEAR MINT VINYL NEVER REMOVED FROM INNER SLEEVES, THE PIC OF VINYL IS AS FAR AS THEY HAVE EVER BEEN MOOVED FROM THEIR SLEEVES. RECORDS ARE ON BEAUTIFUL BLUE VINYL...                                     SWEET!!! Alive III by  ReleasedMay 18, 1993RecordedNovember 27–29, 1992VenueCleveland, Detroit, and , , Length66:53Kiss,  chronology
(1992)Alive III
(1993)
(1996) from Alive III ""
Released: May 8, 1993

Alive III is a live album released by the   band  in 1993. It was certified  in 1994. It is the third installment of the Alive series. The recording of Alive III took place over multiple dates (in ,  and ) during the band's 1992 tour in support of .

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It was the first live album the band had released since 1977's , and the first live recordings released since 1984's  concert film. The recording of "I Was Made For Lovin' You" was actually recorded at one of the band's soundchecks, but had the crowd  in the song to make it appear as if it is "live," which led to speculation that many other songs on "Alive III" could be overdubbed, just as was done on the first two in the series.

The album is the only live Kiss album released during the group's non-makeup era, excluding , released later in 1996. During the recording of Alive II, Kiss did not want to duplicate songs from Alive!, although some songs from Alive IIIare duplicate songs from their previous live albums. For example, "" was performed on Alive! and again on Alive III, but was not featured on Alive II. It is also the first Kiss live album to feature a different lineup to the previous two, which featured the original lineup.

The liner notes of Alive III include a  showing the various Kiss lineups from 1973–1993, as well as bands that the then-current and former members of Kiss were in. It was designed by the band's Japanese fan club. 's , for whom  drummed in 1986–87, is misnamed Tommy. The notes also mistakenly claim that "Watchin' You" is from , and "" from . The  of Alive III (as part of the  ) contains an additional track, "Take It Off", matching the original international CD and US  versions of the album.

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Alive III was certified  by the  on October 27, 1994.

"Canny power pop given a merciless headbanging," decided Jeremy Clarke in .  magazine listed Alive III eleventh best album of 1993.

Bruce Kulick's climactic version of "" was ranked seventh on the Ultimate Classic Rock list Top 10 National Anthem Guitar Solos, before 's version and after 's.

Track listing[] No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength1."", Adam Mitchell4:402.""3:433."I Just Wanna"Stanley, Stanley4:244.""Simmons, VincentSimmons3:275.""Stanley, Stanley4:156."Watchin' You"SimmonsSimmons3:357.""SimmonsSimmons3:478.""Stanley, Child, Stanley4:329."I Still Love You"Stanley, VincentStanley6:0310.""Stanley, SimmonsSimmons3:3211.""Stanley, VincentStanley4:1812.""Stanley, Stanley3:5313."Take It Off" (Bonus track)Stanley, , Stanley6:0414.""Simmons, VincentSimmons3:2015.""Stanley, EzrinStanley5:3016.""Stanley, Simmons, Ezrin, Stanley, Simmons5:2217.""(instrumental)2:40

"Take It Off" was a bonus track on the Japanese, European and South American CD releases and the US vinyl release. This version of the album would later be included in the  CD box set.

Personnel[]  – rhythm guitar, lead vocals  – bass guitar, lead vocals  – lead guitar, backing vocals  – drums, backing vocals

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 – keyboards, backing vocals