BARRY LEVINE! So Many KISS Stories & Memories! You Will Only Hear These on Three Sides of the Coin

Three Sides of the Coin – A KISS Podcast and Radio Show

Michael Brandvold, Tommy Sommers, Mark Cicchini and Lisa Martini

Music, Music History, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.3 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Episode 669. This is a BIG ONE! Legendary photographer BARRY LEVINE sits down and shares his stories and memories of photographing KISS.

Barry talks about:

His very first photo session with KISS.
The Elder session. His brutal honesty is great.
Who was the most challenging member of KISS to work with.
Motley Crue Shout At The Devil.
His favorite KISS session.
His least favorite KISS session.
His favorite KISS photo.
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.
Producing the movie Detroit Rock City. Including an entire script rewrite and new movie name that he gave to Gene Simmons.

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Since launching in 2012 Three Sides of the Coin has been viewed or listened to over 6,000,000 times. Three Sides of the Coin has been joined by special guests including former KISS lead guitarist Bruce Kulick, Eddie Trunk, AEW Superstar and lead singer of Fozzy Chris Jericho, Angel lead guitarist Punky Meadows, Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Jason Hook, Vinnie Vincent Invasion and Slaughter lead singer Mark Slaughter, Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider, comedian Craig Gass, KISS’ former business manager Chris Lendt, the Black Veil Brides’ Andy Biersack, Frank Munoz associate producer for Ace Frehley’s Anomaly album, award winning songwriter Adam Mitchell, Ed Kanon (Peter Criss’ drum tech), Kevin Valentine (drummer on KISS’ Psycho Circus album). Three Sides of the Coin was picked (October 2013) as a ‘What’s Hot’ podcast by Apple’s iTunes.

In the early ’90s, Michael Brandvold launched the fifth ever website on the Internet devoted to KISS, KISS Otaku. He built, launched and maintained Kissonline.com (KISS’ official web presence). He now owns Michael Brandvold Marketing, providing marketing services and digital strategy to musicians. Tommy Sommers spent 15 years on the record show circuit collecting, trading and selling memorabilia / Kiss merchandise. He is now a successful residential Real Estate agent in the Minneapolis / St. Paul area. Tommy has also produced a KISS song For The Oddfathers and is the owner of Rock Steady Digital Photography. Mark Cicchini, is a world renown KISS collector. KISS have used parts of Mark’s vast KISS collection for audio, video & print materials including their book NOTHIN TO LOSE, CD re release of the LOVE GUN album & the VH1 Ultimate Album KISS ALIVE! special as well as many other KISS projects. His wife also makes a mean meatloaf!!!

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0:00.0	This week on three sides of the coin, this is a great episode.
0:05.2	And not because Lisa is the one here, although it's always great when she's here.
0:10.1	We are joined by Barry Levine.
0:13.2	And if you're a Kiss fan, you know that name.
0:16.3	If you don't know that name, hit the stop button and go listen to the Abba podcast.
0:22.6	He could be on that one, too,
0:30.1	actually, couldn't he? He could be. Barry Levine, who shot all of the legendary kiss photos that we so love and obsess over. This episode is magic people. Without being magic.
0:41.0	Welcome to Three Sides of the Coin, a podcast about rock, heavy metal and kiss. Founded in
0:47.2	2012 and over 10 million plays, where four longtime kiss and music fans discuss everything
0:52.4	Kiss. Three Sides of the Coin has moved to a brand new YouTube channel.
0:57.3	Please hit the subscribe button below so you don't miss future episodes on YouTube.
1:02.5	Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Three Sides of the Coin.
1:05.9	We're going to just pet to the chase again.
1:08.2	I know you guys actually like it when we don't chat up front
1:12.1	because we used to get those complaints all the time.
1:14.8	Took you 45 minutes to get to the interview.
1:18.1	There's a fast forward button.
1:21.2	Nothing kiss related to talk about.
1:24.3	This week, we are joined by none other than Barry Levine.
1:31.7	The guy, this is his book from years ago, the guy who shot all of these amazing
1:42.3	his photos that have been on our walls for decades as pin-ups.
1:49.7	He sits down for 90 minutes and we talk about the glitter photo session.
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