{"id":1739,"date":"2014-07-21T00:15:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T07:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2023-10-16T11:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:11:43","slug":"kiss-room-service-for-10-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/kiss-room-service-for-10-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"KISS &#8216;Room Service&#8217; for 10 hours!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riddle me this\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Question:\u00a0 What possibly can be worse than being trapped on an airplane for 10+ hours while you travel overseas?<\/p>\n<p>Answer:\u00a0 Being subjected to listening to KISS\u2019s Room Service song 10 times is what!!!<\/p>\n<p>When you have a long plane ride obviously you prepare well for a variety of activities such as do some work, read a book, play videos games and listen to the airplane audio track, of course.\u00a0 So after I was done doing some work, after reading for a bit and then after playing a few video games it was time to chill and listen to the airplane\u2019s classic rock station on my headphones and relax.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss-dressed-to-kill_room-service.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss-dressed-to-kill_room-service.jpg\" alt=\"kiss dressed to kill_room service\" width=\"350\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss-dressed-to-kill_room-service.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss-dressed-to-kill_room-service-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss-dressed-to-kill_room-service-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>So I plug in my headphones, dial-in the classic rock channel and crank-up the volume!\u00a0 We were off to a great start with Jimi Hendrix\u2019s \u2018All Along the Watchtower\u2019, then Neil Young\u2019s \u2018Down By The River\u2019 and third was AC\/DC\u2019s \u2018Hells Bells\u2019.\u00a0 You would think all was good in my world, right?\u00a0 Well, it was, until the KISS song \u2018Room Service\u2019 started blaring through my headset!<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong, I love KISS for the most part and have for a long time but this song, which I had never heard before, was the most juvenile attempt at lyrics ever.\u00a0 I mean seriously, like ever!\u00a0 The music itself was groovy but even on the first playing of the song I was somewhat applauded at the lyrics.\u00a0 By the tenth time it played on my 10+ hour flight I was transformed!\u00a0 Transformed from applauded to a closet-secret lover of this horrible song.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I came home guess what the first thing I HAD to do?\u00a0 Take a nap?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Feed the dog? \u00a0No.\u00a0 Get on YouTube and share \u2018Room Service\u2019 with the wife?\u00a0 Yes!<\/p>\n<p>And as she so eloquently put it, \u201cbecause you had to suffer, I have to suffer?\u201d.\u00a0 Well, \u201cYes, of course\u201d was my answer and in the true spirit of sharing I proudly present to you, my loyal KevinNeal.com readers, KISS\u2019s \u2018Room Service\u2019:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss_youwantedthebest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1742 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss_youwantedthebest.jpg\" alt=\"kiss_youwantedthebest\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss_youwantedthebest.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss_youwantedthebest-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss_youwantedthebest-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Room Service&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m feelin&#8217; low, no place to go<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m a-thinking that I&#8217;m gonna scream<br \/>\nBecause a hotel all alone is not a<br \/>\nRock and roll star&#8217;s dream<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But just when I&#8217;m about to shut the light and go to bed<br \/>\nA lady calls and asks if I&#8217;m too tired or if I&#8217;m just to dead for<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Room service, baby I could use a meal<br \/>\nRoom service, you do what you feel<br \/>\nRoom service, I take the pleasure with the pain<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t say no<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My plane&#8217;s delayed and I&#8217;m afraid<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re gonna keep me waiting here till nine<br \/>\nThen a stewardess in a tight blue dress says<br \/>\n&#8220;I got the time&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But just as I&#8217;m about to take my coat and get my fly<br \/>\nShe says &#8220;Oh please&#8221;, she&#8217;s on her knees<br \/>\nAnd one more time before I leave I get some<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Room service, baby I could use a meal<br \/>\nRoom service, you do what you feel<br \/>\nRoom service, I take the pleasure with the pain<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t say no, no<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In my home town, I&#8217;m hangin&#8217; &#8217;round<br \/>\nWith all the ladies treatin&#8217; me real good<br \/>\nA sweet sixteen lookin&#8217; hot and mean says<br \/>\nI wish you would<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But just as I&#8217;m about to tell her &#8220;Yes, I think I can&#8221;<br \/>\nI see her dad, he&#8217;s getting mad<br \/>\nAll the time he knows that I&#8217;m in need of<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Room service, baby I could use a meal<br \/>\nRoom service, you do what you feel<br \/>\nRoom service, I take the pleasure with the pain<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t say no<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Room service, baby I could use a meal<br \/>\nRoom service, you do what you feel<br \/>\nRoom service, I take the pleasure with the pain<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t say no, I can&#8217;t say no<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Room service, baby I could use a meal<br \/>\nRoom service, you do what you feel<br \/>\nRoom service, you take the pleasure with the pain<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t say no<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Room service, well maybe baby, room service<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dressed to Kill is the third studio album by American hard rock band Kiss, released on March 19, 1975. It was produced by Casablanca Records president Neil Bogart and the band itself as the label&#8217;s financial situation at the time did not permit the hiring of a professional producer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life_and_family","category-travel"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss-dressed-to-kill_room-service.jpg",350,349,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss-dressed-to-kill_room-service-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss-dressed-to-kill_room-service-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss-dressed-to-kill_room-service.jpg",350,349,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss-dressed-to-kill_room-service.jpg",350,349,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss-dressed-to-kill_room-service.jpg",350,349,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss-dressed-to-kill_room-service.jpg",350,349,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss-dressed-to-kill_room-service.jpg",210,210,false],"coral-dark-medium-large-2x":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss-dressed-to-kill_room-service.jpg",350,349,false],"coral-dark-large-2x":["https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kiss-dressed-to-kill_room-service.jpg",350,349,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Kevin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/author\/kneal\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Dressed to Kill is the third studio album by American hard rock band Kiss, released on March 19, 1975. 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