Members of Mr. Speed and KISSNATION Join Three Sides of the Coin in Las Vegas

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

Michael Brandvold, Tommy Sommers, Mark Cicchini and Lisa Martini

Music, Music Interviews, Music History, Music Commentary

4.3 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Episode 657. Three Sides on the Side… while in Las Vegas for the KISS Kruise we sat down with member of the KISS tribute bands Mr. Speed and KISSNATION. Up first Mark and Tommy speak with Rick from Mr. Speed. This is followed by Tommy and Lisa speaking with Billy and Ruby from KISSNATION.

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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	Everybody, this week on Three Sides of the Coin, kind of an interesting hybrid show.
0:05.0	We've got two guests.
0:06.8	Three guests.
0:08.4	Three guests.
0:09.4	Three guests.
0:10.3	Three guests. Two segments. Three guests.
0:13.2	Yes.
0:14.1	I'm looking at myself backwards in the camera.
0:16.9	I'm like, do I ever the right number of fingers up?
0:18.9	I haven't been drinking yet.
0:21.2	Three people, two interview segments from last November.
0:26.0	We interview members of Mr. Speed and Kiss Nation.
0:30.3	You're going to love this.
0:31.6	This is Three Sides of the Coin, talking all things, kiss.
0:37.3	So you love the show. Visit www.3sides of the coin.com
0:41.7	subscribe on YouTube follow and rate us on Spotify subscribe and leave a review on iTunes
0:47.1	we appreciate your support three sides of the coin I honestly God I don't know who's going to ultimately end up showing up here and who's going to leave early.
0:59.2	But we're starting with Mike, Mark, and Lisa.
1:02.3	That's every week.
1:04.5	If you're listening, head over to YouTube right now because you want to see Lisa.
1:10.5	I know I got out of jury duty early today.
1:12.6	I was very excited.
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