No Substitute

Vinnie Vincent

The second of the Invasion demos, the album version of this recording would be released as a promotional single in some markets. The song was also considered to be a follow-up to the album's first single, complete with video, though the band later opted to record a new studio album instead. According to Bobby Rock, "we were going to do 'No Substitute' as a video. We just came off the Maiden tour and we had a decision to make whether we wanted to do the video or just get started on the new record. From a business standpoint it would've been smarter to do the video and try to harp on the first record, but by that point we'd grown so much. We had Mark in the band and we would've been promoting a record that had another singer on it" (KISS Klassics #6).