GENE SIMMONS of KISS Sits Down with Three Sides and Talks About His Mother and Much More

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

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Episode 663. Mark and Tommy are at the new Rock & Brews in the Detroit area and sit down with GENE SIMMONS. They are joined by Roberto Boschian from The Drew Lane Podcast.

GENE SIMMONS talks about Rock & Brews, Creem Magazine, his mom and how proud she would have been about the Kennedy Center Honors and he picked on Mark.

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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	Can I be honest with you?
0:02.0	Yes.
0:03.0	On the way over here I got so excited I was going to ask myself for an autograph.
0:08.0	Ha ha ha ha ha.
0:13.0	Three Sides of the Coin has moved to a brand new YouTube channel.
0:17.0	Please hit the subscribe button below so you don't miss future episodes on YouTube.
0:21.6	Welcome to Three Sides of the Coin, a podcast about rock, heavy metal and kiss.
0:27.6	Founded in 2012 and over 10 million plays, where four longtime kiss and music fans discuss everything kiss.
0:34.6	So you love the show, visit www.3Sides of the coin.com, subscribe on YouTube, follow
0:41.4	and rate us on Spotify, subscribe and leave a review on iTunes.
0:45.7	We appreciate your support.
0:47.6	Surf into the Ultimate Kiss Store, the largest in the galaxy.
0:51.6	Explore an incredible collection of merchandise and collectibles from every era of the
0:55.2	greatest band of all time, Kiss. We have something for Kiss fans of all ages. Visit www.kiss army
1:02.8	warehouse.com. Well, first and foremost, G, we want to say welcome to three sides of the coin.
1:08.4	You've been on before and I know at least you
1:11.3	should know a little bit about what we do and I don't have to no but you do and we're
1:16.9	proud that you know I distinctly heard chew but you know and you know what the fact that
1:22.9	the whole band has always been so supportive of the things that we do, the kind of fans we are.
1:29.4	Well, all jokes aside without you guys, I'm asking the next person in line, would you like some fries with that?
1:36.1	Which is okay too.
1:38.1	Yes, so thank you very much for joining us.
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