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This week Tom & Zeus review the 1983 pivotal album, "Lick It Up" This was KISS' 11th studio album and the 23rd KISS studio album reviewed by SIOL. Lick It Up was the first studio album from KISS without the makeup. Before the release, the band was on MTV and unmasked with MTV VJ the late great J.J. Jackson and premiered the video for Lick It Up. This was the first (and last) credited album with Vi...

On the 69th Episode of Dorm Damage With Tom & Zeus Tom recaps his concert experience of the Foo Fighters at Fenway Park on July 21, 2024. The Foo Fighters is one of Tom's favorite bands. He was able to see them at legendary Fenway Park with his son. Tom recaps the night and the has some thoughts about this concert versus KISS' End Of The Road tour concert experience. Yes there is KISS talk! For al...

This week Tom & Zeus breakdown KISS' 1993 appearance on the Arsenio Hall Show. Arsenio Hall was the coolest late-night talk show in the 1990's. KISS was in their Revenge lineup era and paid a visit to Arsenio to promote KISS Alive III. The band performed two songs from KISS Alive III, Detroit Rock City & Deuce. In between the songs, Arsenio interviewed, Gene, Paul, Bruce and Eric. The guys breakdo...

On the 68th Episode of Dorm Damage With Tom & Zeus, the guys list their top 3 songs from The Beatles, Cream & The Monkees. They then rank which artist had the best 3 songs. The Best 3 From 3 is a Dorm Damage segment where the guys pick bands from an era and rank their top 3 songs. This episode features bands that began in the 1960's. These three are some of the biggest bands of that era and The Be...

This week Tom & Zeus discuss KISS member, lead guitarist and the current spaceman, Tommy Thayer. This is SIOL's 6th KISS member profile. The guys discuss Tommy's KISS membership, from his early background to Black 'n Blue, to his miscellaneous roles in KISS and finally to him taking over the Spaceman role and joining the band. The guys analyze Tommy's contributions, style and impact. Yes, the guys...

On the 67th Episode of Dorm Damage With Tom & Zeus, the guys each list their favorite celebrity crushes volume 2. Throughout Loudcast history Tom & Zeus have mentioned many of their favorite beautiful female celebrities. On this episode the guys once again each create a list of their favorite celebrity crushes. The list includes women from their youth, movie stars, wrestlers, musicians and more. S...

This week Tom & Zeus welcome former MTV & VH1 host, radio & television host and music executive, Matt Pinfield to talk about his KISStory and more. Tom & Zeus both watched Matt Pinfield in the 1990's on MTV as the guy who knew his alternative and grunge music. However, Matt is and has always been a major KISS fan. Matt tells the guys stories of how and when he got into KISS, his involvement in the...

On the 54th Episode of the Album Review Crew of Shout It Out Loudcast, Tom, Zeus & special guest, Trixter, Fozzy and Kuarantine's bassist, PJ Farley review the 1981 legendary album by Journey, "Escape." Escape was Journey's first album with songwriter and keyboardist Jonathan Cain. Journey now featured their classic lineup, with legendary singer Steve Perry on vocals, Neal Schon on guitar, Ross Va...

This week Tom & Zeus review two articles posted on Ultimate Classic Rock, The Top 20 KISS Songs From The 1980's & Top 10 Songs From The 1990's. Ultimate Classic Rock loves discussing KISS. Recently they had two articles. The first article was the top 20 songs from the 1980's. Those are songs from Unmasked through Hot In The Shade. The second was the top 10 songs from the 1990's. Those songs are fr...

On the 66th Episode of Dorm Damage With Tom & Zeus the guys review the Loudwire article "Top 80 Hard Rock + Metal Albums In The 1980s Part 1" Loudwire ranks the top 80 hard rock and metal albums of the 1980s. Tom and Zeus both love hard rock and metal and so when they saw this article the guys wanted to dissect this list. The guys analyze albums 80 through 61 . Another fun list to breakdown SIOL s...

This week Tom & Zeus welcome legendary L.A. Guns guitarist, Tracii Guns to talk KISS and so much more in this epic conversation. Tracii Guns is a legend of the 1980's hard rock scene. From the beginning of Guns N' Roses to his finding one of the preeminent Los Angeles bands of the 1980's L.A. Guns, Tracii has seen and done it all. Tracii share his KISStory, his feelings on Paul and Gene and Tommy...

On the 65th Episode of Dorm Damage With Tom & Zeus, the guys welcome back David LaGreca from the Busted Open Podcast & Busted Open Radio on Sirius XM to rank their favorite professional wrestlers of all time. When Tom & Zeus wanted to discuss their favorite wrestlers of all time they had to invite one of the hosts of the popular wrestling show Busted Open, David LaGreca. David is one of the most k...

This week Tom & Zeus review the 1994 KISS tribute album, "KISS My Ass Classic KISS Regrooved." To coincide with KISS' 20th Anniversary, the band decided to organize a tribute album featuring today's hottest rock acts. Artists like Lenny Kravitz, Anthrax, Gin Blossoms and more interpreted classic KISS songs. KISS was even able to get the biggest act of the 1990's Garth Brooks to perform "Hard Luck...

On the 64th Episode of Dorm Damage With Tom & Zeus, the guys each create their own Pearl Jam Dark Matter tour setlist. Pearl Jam has been one of Tom & Zeus' favorite bands since freshman year at Stonehill College in 1991. Pearl Jam is known for constantly switching up their setlist and mixing things up. The band is currently touring on their new album, Dark Matter. Tom & Zeus each created their ow...

This week Tom & Zeus welcome music journalist, television personality and the host of the "Allison Hagendorf Show", Allison Hagendorf. Allison Hagendorf was the host of the last KISS concert, which was at Madison Square Garden on December 2, 2024. She interviewed the band and more throughout their New York experience during the final days of the End Of The Road Tour. Recently she just interviewed...

On the 63rd Episode of Dorm Damage With Tom & Zeus, the guys discuss the mail order music clubs, Columbia House and BMG Music Service. Tom & Zeus have mentioned Columbia House & BMG before on the Shout It Out Loudcast. On this episode they discuss their origins with the music mail order club, the pros and cons and what it meant for them personally. So tune in and go back in time when you could ord...

This week Tom & Zeus break down the KISS Destroyer 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Box Set, Disc 4, "Live In Paris" The KISS album Destroyer was released in 1976 and is considered to be one of KISS' most legendary albums. For it's 45th anniversary, Destroyer became the first KISS album to be given the Super Deluxe Box Set treatment.  Disc 4 of the Box set is a live album from the Destroyer tour on M...

On the 53rd Episode of the Album Review Crew of Shout It Out Loudcast, Tom, Zeus & special guest, rock journalist, author and fellow Pantheon podcaster, Martin Popoff review the 1981 rock album by Rainbow, "Difficult To Cure." Rainbow and was on its third incarnation by 1981. Rainbow was still led by one of the greatest guitarist of all time, Ritchie Blackmore. SIOL favorite Don Airey was still th...

This week Tom & Zeus discuss the 2017 "Gene Simmons Vault" When Gene Simmons announced he was releasing a $2,000.00 career retrospective called the Gene Simmons Vault, it made news. The Vault contains 11 discs of unreleased material from Gene Simmons from 1966 - 2016. There is over 150 unreleased songs in the Vault. The music comes on CDs in a safe like container with a Gene Simmons business man d...

On the 62nd Episode of Dorm Damage With Tom & Zeus, the guys discuss their favorite video games. Tom and Zeus both remember when Atari console began entering the homes of kids in the late 1970's and early 1980's. Thus began the explosion of home video games. Whether it was the home consoles of Nintedo, PlayStation or X-Box or playing the video games at the local arcades, we all remember our favori...

This week Tom & Zeus review the 1975 KISS Dressed To Kill Tour. This is SIOL's 8th KISS tour reviewed. This was KISS' 4th tour and followed the Hotter Than Hell tour. It began as the Dressed To Kill album was released on March 19, 1975. The tour in support of KISS' third album featured new KISS classics, like C'mon And Love Me, She and of course, Rock And Roll All Nite. The band had still not brok...

On the 61st episode of Dorm Damage With Tom & Zeus the guys discuss the article by Cracked.com, "Top 100 Greatest Seinfeld Moments." Seinfeld is in the Shout Out It Loudcast Hall Of Fame for a reason. It is perhaps the greatest tv comedy of all time. Loved by critics and fans alike. Cracked.com ranks the Top 100 Greatest Moments in Seinfeld. Tom & Zeus will break this down into 5 parts with part 1...

This week Tom & Zeus review the recently updated release from the late great Eric Carr, "Unfinished Business." This year on Record Store Day, Eric Carr released a new version of his 2011 posthumous album, Unfinished Business. The packaging was incredible, including a light that glows on the new cover art featuring Eric Carr in the fox makeup. The album also including 5 unreleased cuts from Eric is...

On the 60th Episode of Dorm Damage With Tom & Zeus, the guys welcome Ryan Spencer Cook & Jeremy Asbrock from Ace Frehley's band and their own new band, Rock City Machine Company. Ryan Spencer Cook & Jeremy Asbrock are both well known and accomplished Nashville musicians who have played in Gene Simmons' band and Ace Frehley's band. However they have teamed with fellow Nashville musician Phil Shouse...

This week Tom & Zeus breakdown KISS' 1980 appearance on the children's show "Kids Are People Too." Right as KISS was preparing their tour of the Unmasked album, the band wanted to introduce their new drummer, the Fox, Eric Carr to the world. KISS decided to go on the children's program, Kids Are People Too. The appearance did little to stop the fast decline of their popularity. However, the episod...