Sean Delaney Interview from 12/7/97 and Never Released Before. Conducted by Michael Brandvold

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

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

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 SEAN DELANEY was conducted by Michael Brandvold for his early website KISS OTAKU on 12/7/97.

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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0:00.0	Two page spread. Well, actually three page because I also did a review on the final sessions album.
0:11.0	Mm-hmm. So it was like a big section in their Sunday newspaper.
0:17.0	Great. Is there any way I can get a copy of that?
0:19.0	Yeah, I'd love to see that.
0:21.6	So was that something just a one-time thing, or are you doing some writing for them?
0:25.6	Well, actually, I've been sort of asked to, you know, do their music thing.
0:30.6	I don't know if I really want to do that, because that's sort of like a commitment to...
0:34.6	Right.
0:35.6	Keep doing the thing, you know, you know weekly right coming up with something
0:39.4	new every week and we've been just working our ass off on uh we went to start off to do just a
0:47.3	chapter for uh the publishing company wants to do something with us and the chapter almost turned
0:52.4	into a damn book you know so we like to
0:57.4	chop everything back down um what i'm doing with the book is is pretty interesting i think because
1:04.1	i've never seen another book that's done this what it is is i go through my story, and then my story is corroborated by interviews with everybody
1:17.3	else that was there.
1:18.4	Okay.
1:19.4	So it's not like me saying something, and people go, oh, well, that's just him saying
1:24.5	that, you know?
1:25.5	Right.
1:26.5	The chapter we're doing is about doing Gene's solo album and how it came to be, how I got asked to produce it, what was happening with Peter Chris at the time when, because I actually thought I was going to produce Peter's album.
1:42.2	I mean, Peter and I were like, be best friends in the band.
1:45.6	We hung together, got high together, the whole thing,
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