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“WOW” Album Notes:

Produced by Gene Simmons. Engineered by Frank Filipetti. 2nd Engineer: Tom Roberts. Assistant Engineers: Billy Miranda, Tom Brick, and Moira Marquis. Recoded and mixed at Right Track Studios, New York. Gene played the majority of bass on the album credited as ‘Reginald Van Helsing.’ This surname some fans of the horror genre will immediately recognize as being from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” character Dr. Abraham Van Helsing. There have been suggestions, stemming from an Wendy O. Williams interview in the French magazine “Enfer” that the bassist was actually a well known guitarist who had also played bass on a post-1985 Sammy Hagar solo album.

That comment would indicate that the bassist was one Edward Van Halen. However, Eddie’s involvement with the project never materialized and he had simply been mentioned as a possible guest player during the early stages of the project. It should be noted that the “W.O.W.” album was Gene’s first released extra-KISS production role. He would set the precedent of controlling who played on the recording and use material from his own catalog of songs when he felt that the band’s material didn’t measure up.

I Love Sex (And Rock And Roll)

Written by Gene Simmons, Wes Beech, Rod Swenson, TC Tolliver, and Richard Stotts. Wes Beech had been the rhythm guitarist with The Plasmatics and would remain with Wendy until her “Fuck ‘N Roll” fan club EP in 1985. Rod Swenson was Wendy’s manager and partner, and responsible for much of the image which Wendy pursued during her musical career. Richard Stotts was the Plasmatic’s lead guitarist and TC Tolliver was the drummer. Richard would not play on Wendy’s solo album with Michael Ray being used instead.

It’s My Life

This Stanley/Simmons composition would be a KISS demo over-dubbed with Wendy’s vocals. This song would be issued as a single from the album, with picture sleeve, backed with “Priestess.” It would be available in both 7” and 12” formats. A video would also be made, though neither would help the album’s success since the record label Wendy was signed to was having problems. A promotional 12” single would be released backed with “I Love Sex (And Rock ‘N Roll” and “Thief In The Night.” For collectors, a picture disc version of the full album was released in the United Kingdom.

Priestess

Written by Wes Beech, Rod Swenson, Chris Romanelli, and Richard Stotts. Chris Romanelli had replaced Jean Beauvoir as the Plasmatic’s bassist, but would not play on Wendy’s album.

Thief In The Night

Written by Gene Simmons and Mitch Weissman. While Gene would donate this song for Wendy to record, he would later bring it back to KISS to record for the “Crazy Nights” album in 1987. There would be very minor arrangement differences between the Wendy and KISS versions of this song. However, Wendy’s chorus would be longer: “Like a thief in the night / She breaks into his heart / Like a thief in the night / Alright, alright / Like a thief in the night / She never leaves her mark / Like a thief in the night / Alright.”

Opus in Cm7

Written by Rod Swenson and Chris Romanelli, this track would feature piano played by Gene’s song-writing partner Mitch Weissman.

Ready To Rock

Written by Rod Swenson, Chris Romanelli, and Richard Stotts. Paul Stanley is credited on guitar on this track. According to Gene, he had simply asked Paul to participate on the track and he agreed.

Bump And Grind

Gene would persuade Ace to spend an hour recording the guitar solo for this song which was written by Wes Beech, Rod Swenson, Chris Romanelli, TC Tolliver, and Richard Stotts. Strangely, Ace acquiesced to Gene’s request and provided a stellar 30 second signature piece. This song would also be re-released on Wendy’s “Fuck ‘N Roll” fan club EP in 1985, though without Ace’s solo, since the recording was recorded live on November 24, 1984 at L’Amours Club in New York, a week before Frehley’s Comet made their live debut at SIR Studios.

Legends Never Die

Originally written by Micki Free, Adam Mitchell and Gene, this song was tried out by KISS during the “Creatures Of The Night” album sessions, though Paul was not particularly keen on the song. Gene would later suggest that he took the incomplete KISS instrumental track and added Wendy’s vocals to the song (he has also contradicted this stating that the song was written specifically for Wendy).

It would seem logical to assume that if Gene was willing to do that with one “Creatures” era track then he would certainly not hesitate on using another, and the sonic signature of Eric’s drums seem to point that direction. Regardless, Eric Carr is credited on drums on the “WOW” recording even though he never went actively participated in the recording of the album. However, on the recording Micki Free is credited on acoustic guitars indicating that Gene may simply have used a Free/Simmons/Carr demo instrumental of the track.

Ain’t None Of Your Business

Written by Gene Simmons, Eric Carr, and Vinnie Vincent, this song has nothing to do with the track with the same title that KISS had demoed in 1976 with Peter Criss on lead vocals. With lyrics like “I’ll do as I like / I’ll do as I please / Don’t ask me why” the song’s subject matter makes it more of a twin of “It’s My Life.” This song would also be re-released on Wendy’s “Fuck ‘N Roll” fan club EP in 1985.