Long Lost 1997 Interview with TIM ROZNER Tour/Production Manager from the KISS Reunion Tour

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

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 164 minutes

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Summary

Episode 656. After recently moving Michael Brandvold opened up boxes he had in storage for decades, including one box filled with cassette tapes. They are slowly being digitized to share with everyone. Be sure to subscribe to the channel so you don’t miss future recordings found in the foot locker.

This interview is with TIM ROZNER, Tour/Production Manager for the KISS Reunion Tour, was conducted by Michael Brandvold for his early website KISS OTAKU on 10/21/97.

This interview is filled with all sorts of minutia and behind the scenes discussion about the KISS REUNION TOUR! Remember, this interview happened a short time after the tour had ended.

RIP TIM ROZNER.

His show business production career continued for over 45 years. He worked with many of his “rock heroes” including Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Steve Winwood, Robbie Robertson, Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaugan, Willie Nelson, Johnny Winter, BB King, Willie Dixon, Hubert Sumlin, Sheryl Crow, John Mayer, Vince Gill, The Grateful Dead, Tom Jones, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, U2, Aerosmith, Kiss, Heart, Styx, REO Speedwagon, and Don Felder. Tim provided gift tickets to countless family members and friends so they could view Tim’s shows and enjoy the experience together. Ticket requests were often a second full-time job for Tim.

His work on Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festivals in Chicago, Dallas, LA and New York were feats of production mastery. They used rotating stages so that there was never a break in the music during these festivals that lasted 10-12 hours each day.

Press requests please contact Michael Brandvold at www.michaelbrandvold.com

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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Three Sides Of The Coin is unofficial & unsanctioned and has no affiliation with the band KISS.

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0:00.0	ground about yourself.
0:02.0	Well, I'm single.
0:04.2	I'm 38 years old.
0:06.6	Are you recording, by the way?
0:07.7	Yes.
0:08.1	Okay, good.
0:09.3	So I can talk it well then.
0:11.0	All right, single 38.
0:12.0	I have four brothers.
0:13.8	I grew up in the western suburbs of Chicago.
0:17.5	And we've pretty much been interested in music from grade school or high school on,
0:24.7	where I was always involved in radio and television theater.
0:31.6	I used to do some, what I would say still would be some fairly ambitious multimedia shows, which involved live performances and still and moving picture and special effects, pyro, special lighting effects, back in high school.
0:49.3	And I think that's where it kind of started.
0:51.4	I mean, it was a combination of that and seeing, seeing some
0:56.4	shows, um, uh, you know, about me personally, I think, uh, I'm probably considered a very
1:03.3	loyal person. My family and friends are very important to me. Um, I, I'm one of those people that's unfortunately probably more of a control person,
1:17.9	control freak than I sometimes want to be, but I really believe in not doing something
1:25.0	if you're not going to do it the right way and been accused of being
1:30.6	a perfectionist. Sometimes that's good, sometimes that's bad. Right. Makes a good match for kiss.
1:39.1	Yeah, yeah. It's, you know, sometimes you have to separate between being a perfectionist
1:47.7	and knowing when to move on to the important thing.
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