Rocket Ride

Rocket Ride is the seventh full-length album by German power metal band Edguy, released on 20 January 2006. It features a style that differs from their usual power metal style and is more oriented towards hard rock.

In Europe, the limited first edition was released as a digibook, featuring a photographic history of the group with formerly unreleased pictures from their early days and the bonus track: "Land of the Miracle (live in Brazil)".

Track listing

All lyrics written by Tobias Sammet, all music composed by Tobias Sammet, except "Out of Vogue" by Sammet, Jens Ludwig.

Personnel

References

Rocket Ride (song)

"Rocket Ride" is a song by the American hard rock band Kiss. It was originally featured on their 1977 album Alive II.

Background

The song was written by Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley and Sean Delaney. Frehley sang lead vocals, and he noted in the booklet for the 2001 Kiss Box Set that this was his first vocal performance that he was satisfied with. It was the only studio track of the five recorded for Alive II that he performed on, as Bob Kulick was brought in to play guitar on some of the other tracks.

Like many of Kiss's works, the song is a double entendre, using space travel (appropriate to Frehley's onstage "Spaceman" persona) as an innuendo for sexual intercourse.

Hide sampled the intro for his 1998 single "Rocket Dive", the title also being an homage to the song. Ace Frehley's 2008 tour, The Rocket Ride Tour (in support of his album, Anomaly) is named after this song.

Reception

Rocket Ride peaked at #39 on the American Billboard Hot 100, making it the band's seventh US Top 40 hit.