This week Greg Chaisson of Badlands is on the show.
In Part 1 of thr conversation, Greg discusses how he went from a jock to a bassist, why he wanted to fight future Badlands drummer Jeff Martin when he met him in highschool, why Rob Halford showed up at his house, why he hung up on Sharon Osbourne 3 times (and auditioned for Ozzy only because they agreed to take him to Loche Ness), why 80's image held him back from getting gigs, and how Badlands came to be. Plus how management wanted to FIRE Jake E Lee!
Part 2 is next week.
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Episode 86, July 29, 2014. Ace Frehley's new album Space Invader landed in our inboxes so this week we do a track by track review. Our first impressions of our first listen. We discuss what is outstanding, what misses the mark and rate the album on a scale of 1 to 10. Mark Cicchini this week catches up with his Music from the Elder part one collectibles.
Since launching a year ago Three Sides of the Coin has been viewed or listened to over 500,000 times. In the last year, Three Sides of the Coin has been joined by special guests including former KISS lead guitarist Bruce Kulick, 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), and Kevin Valentine (drummer on KISS' Psycho Circus album). Three Sides of the Coin was recently 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 was the first to build, launch and maintain Kissonline.com (KISS' official web presence). Tommy Sommers has spent many years on the record show circuit selling memorabilia and meeting many KISS fans.
Hard Rock/Classic Metal Trivia Podcast focusing on music mostly from the 70's and 80's. Please play along at home. In Episode #31, The guys play "Intellectual Poetry" which is a segment where you have to guess the song based on the lyrics alone. "Cover This" - guess who's covering a classic tune. "Who the hell is this?" - guess the obscure track or artist from the 80's. Top 3/Bottom 3 (First 3 Cinderella studio albums). Your hosts are Mark (in California) and Danny (in Delaware).
"This week Ray Luzier takes us through his career and tells us about how landed the drum gig in KoRn, goes in detail about how it was being in the David Lee Roth band for 8 years (clue - he quit 4 times), his new band KXM, and how an "average" student got asked to teach at the Musicians Institute. Plus loads of advice from Ray for aspiring musicians."