Right Between The Eyes Podcast

RBTE Episode 44:  KISS Off The Soundboard: Poughkeepsie NY  1984 Two of the three generation are here for this episode, at the last minute Nick could not make the episode but as they say... the show must go on! Nikko and Rob take a look at the newest offering from the Off The Soundboard series with the Poughkeepsie NY  1984 release. What makes this and extra special release from the series that it...

Episode 43: THE 9 KISS ARMY THINGS! After a few set back and some family stuff the guys are back... well two of them are. Nick and Rob. The is RBTE after all and its three generations of KISS fans right? So standing in for Nikko is Xander from KISS ARMY THINGS Podcast!    Using Xander's podcast namesake at the toping for the show we turned it into a question. What are the 9 KISS army things that y...

Episode 42: Heroes And Monsters On this episode the guys keep on the Todd Kerns train with his lates project/album called Heroes And Monsters .  Along with thundering powerhouse drummer Will Hunt from Evanescence, Tommy Lee, Slaughter, Dark New Day, White Owl Noise, Black Label Society & many many more. Plus, the exceptional guitarist extraordinaire Mr. Stef Burns from Alice Cooper, Y&T and even H...

Episode 41:  Todd Dammit Kerns On this episode Nick, Nikko, and Rob welcome Todd Kerns to RBTE! Todd has had as they say what rock and roll dreams are made of! Staring with is early days Canada honing his craft on bass and guitar and developing his killer pipes Todd saw the rock and roll bat-signal if you will at an early age. Stating out in some of his early bands like Age of Electric in 1989 wit...

Episode 40: Creatures of The Night 40th Annivesarty Box Set: Disk 4 & 5 - Creatures Tour Live '82/ '83 The promotion tour is over and the 100 city tour for Creatures of the Night  is about to start. The band is ready to take the stage, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Eric Carr and Vinnie Vincent....? Who is that? And where is Ace.... is that Ace and he is wearing new make up? Ace Frehely has left the...

Episode Notes Episode 39: Creatures of The Night 40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Box Set: Demos, Disk 3 Part 2 of the Demos disk for Creatures of the Night Super Deluxe Box Set is here! Nick, Nikko, & Rob continue their discussion from the previous episode and are now digging into Creatures territory. What do the guys think of the multiple tracks and how this disk is put together from the previous d...

Episode 38: Creatures of The Night 40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Box Set: Demos, Disk 2 It's 2023! Happy New Year! New year means, new box set from KISS. Rob predicted this a year ago and he couldn't be happier, Creatures of the Night!. Just like last year Nick, Nikko, & Rob look at the demo disk first. They discuss how they discovered the Creatures album and go through the 16 tracks that make up...

Episode 37: The Boot I - Dynasty Tour The Omni 1979 As 2022 comes to a close one looks back at the past and remembers what lead us to this place in time, that was the previous episode. Now we look towards the future. The Future with the band, future KISS related items... and the future of RBTE of course. We are so excited for what's in store for this show, including the episode you are about to he...

Episode 36: KISSmas 2022  It's the most wonderful time of the year... its been a great year for KISS fan! In all our years being fans of the band, we have seen no other year like this before. The amount of music, merchandise, concerts, events & a KISS Krusie has been like no other year that we can remember! We moved the KISSmas episode up in the rotation to the first episode of the month so we can...

Episode 35: THE 9 HALLOWEEN KISS SONGS! The Episode is simple, you throwing a Halloween party and you need some tunes.... some KISS tunes! The only problem is you can only pick 9 songs for the party because your Mom only bought  30 minute blank cassette tapes! Your in luck though, with Nick, Nikko and Rob's help they will each pick the perfect 9 songs for your KISS Halloween party! It's time to wa...

Episode 34: KISS Off The Soundboard: Des Moines 1977 The Year 1977,  KISS is on it's ALIVE II tour and makes a stop in Des Moines Iowa!?..... that's where we pick up the latest Off The Soundboard album. This is fourth in the series and the second in a row featuring the classic lineup of Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, the last one being Donington 1996. This is KISS in its...

Episode 33: Crazy Nights (35th Anniversary) KISS released their 21st album on September 21st 1987. Paul and Gene worked with the hot producer at the time Ron Nevison for the next chapter of the band. Crazy Night would bring a pop/rock/metal sound for this album. More akin to 1980's Unmasked album but with a heavy keyboard presence.  Speaking of presence, Gene's was almost nonexistent. Gene was spe...

Episode 32: Ace Frehley 1978 KISS Solo album In an effort to keep Ace Frehley and Peter Criss from exiting the band in early 1978 pursue solo careers.  Gene, Paul and band manager Bill Aucoin said that each member should do just that, record KISS solo albums. Each album would be a KISS solo album where each member would be the center star of their own direction and music and would be in complete c...

Episode 31: We are going on tour. Travel back in time as we look aback at our 9 favorite KISS shows we attended. Nick, Nikko, & Rob each pick three giving us the 9 shows we liked the most. We discuss what made each show special and the memories... and sounds form that shows. Plus if we had a time machine what 9 other shows do we wish we could go back and see?! This is what we call an evergreen sho...

Episode 30: The Opening Act: Def Leppard  - Diamond Star Halos Just 10 episodes ago we last visited Def Leppard by celebrating the 30th Anniversary of 1992's Adrenalize. Little did we know we would  do another Opening Act segment again so soon with Lep, but here we are. Def Leppard released their 12th studio album Diamond Star Halos on May 27th 2022. Written while in lock down because of the pande...

Episode 29: Billy Baker On this episode the guys have the wonderful pleasure interviewing the man behind Eric Singer’s End of The Road & last few KISS Kruise drum kits, the amazing Billy Baker. Billy takes us on the fantastic roller coaster ride of how he got to be part of KISSTORY and his friendship with Eric. All it took was a mirror and Facebook and the rest as they say is KISSTORY! Billy Baker...

Episode 28: Proper One Year Anniversary Celebration: May 30th 2021 was our first episode of the show. A year and a month later... we finally have the chance to sit down and properly record a true anniversary episode of the show. Nick, Nikko, & Rob look back a the last year of show, how it started and their favorite moments plus. The 9! We celebrate with our favorite party, anthem, and just plain f...

EPISODE: 27 KISS OFF THE SOUNDBOARD: Donington 1996 In the third installment in the Off The Soundboard series take us back to 1996 and the Reunion tour was in full swing. This also marks the first release in the series to feature the original band line up of Gene, Ace, Peter, & Paul KISS took a small break from the US leg of the tour in August and the band heads to the Monsters of Rock Festival to...

Bonus Episode: 1 Year Anniversary!  This is our 1 year Anniversary "episode"... kinda-sorta LOL. A proper one is coming. This however is a collection of discussions over the last year that did not make previous recorded episodes. Some are things we discussed on the  mic before we started the actual episode, or i kept the mic recording after we finished the main episode and other topics of conversa...

Episode 26: REVENGE  30 years ago May 19th 1992, KISS released their 16 studio album and 24th overall. Having suffer the tragic loss of their beloved drummer Eric Carr the year prior KISS was determined to get Revenge and get their heads back in the game. A new look for the band that was more akin to black and leather look of the past welcomed new member and drummer Eric Singer. Formally of Badlan...

Episode 25: On this episode we have the wonderful pleasure of interviewing Ron Williams to discuss his book I Stole Your Love: the 100% True Story of a 100% True KISS Fan. His book takes you to his to his childhood home in the Vancouver suburb of Port Coquitlam, BC, Poco as the locals call it. The back drop and the driving force for Ron is of course KISS. KISS was and is not only in his blood it e...

For second part the KISS Family Tree featuring Ace Frehley, we take a look at his first solo outing since leaving KISS in 1982 with his band Frehley's Comet ! On April 27th 1987 (Ace's birthday no less) Frehley's Comet released their first studio album. Nick, Nikko, & Rob celebrate the 35th Anniversary of this album! The guys discus each track and  pick their 9! Some of the guys are hearing this a...

Episode 23- The KISS Family Tree: Ace Frehley On this episode Nick, Nikko and Rob discus The original Spaceman (a.k.a) The Space Ace, Mr. Ace Frehley! How did each of the guys discover Ace? What is it that makes Ace so damn good? How does a guy that says "if I would have know I would have inspired so many people to pick up the guitar, I would have studied more" , do just that? Those are the questi...

 Episode: 22 The Opening Act Def Leppard part 2: Adrenalize 30th Anniversary   On March 30 (in the UK) and her in the United States on March 31st 1992 Def Leppard released their 5th studio album Adrenalize! The album debuted at No. 1 on both the UK Albums Chart and, in the following week, on the U.S. Billboard 200. This would be the first album with out founding lead guitarist Steve Clark since hi...

KISS Off The Soundboard Virginia Beach 2004 This episode is well, kinda gonna sound like the Paris show from the Destroyer Box Set. And that should not be the case. Nick, Nikko, and Rob work their way through the second release from the Off The Soundboard series. Coming off Tokyo 2001 release the guys were pleased with that on. How will they favor this one? Rob saw this tour twice, plus he and Nic...