The Story About the Lost 1970s Authorized KISS Biography
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ม.ค. 2025
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Guest Interview Begins: 31:52
Episode 504. This episode is a rock n roll geeks dream! We are joined by author David Leaf who discusses his 1970s authorized KISS biography that was written and then shelved. Only to reappear decades later as part of the KISS: Behind the Mask - The Official Authorized Biography. Why was his original book shelved and how it end up in Behind The Mask? Then the discussion turns to Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys… The Beatles and Paul McCartney… Charles Manson as we discuss David’s new book, God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth.
Buy God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth - www.amazon.com...
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While everyone else is reviewing the new Creatures of the Night we are still waiting for our copies. One year after the KISSonline shipping fiasco with the Destroyer box set nothing has improved with the shipping of the Creatures of the Night box set. Over a week after release date Michael’s box set has been sitting somewhere in Southern California for three days. This is after the first shipping alert email was sent out on November 18th. His box set has been on a tour of the US… leaving MI for OH, then on to OK, then a stop over in NM and now Southern CA. NEVER purchase anything from KISSonline that you can purchase from Amazon. Box sets purchased from Amazon, for less money, arrived on release day.
Just another reason to ask… does KISS care any longer?
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Since launching in 2012 Three Sides of the Coin has been viewed or listened to over 8,000,000 times. Three Sides of the Coin has been joined by special guests including Gene Simmons, Eric Singer, Ace Frehley, Bruce Kulick, Vinnie Vincent, Blackie Lawless, Rob Halford, Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, Dennis DeYoung, Buck Dharma, Lydia Criss, Eddie Trunk, WWE/AEW Superstar and lead singer of Fozzy Chris Jericho, Angel lead guitarist Punky Meadows, Five Finger Death Punch members Jason Hook and Jeremy Spencer, Vinnie Vincent Invasion and Slaughter lead singer Mark Slaughter, Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider and Jay Jay French, comedian Craig Gass, KISS’ former business manager Chris Lendt, KISS art director Dennis Woloch, Head of KISS Security Big John Harte, the Black Veil Brides Andy Biersack, Ron Keel, 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) and many, many more.
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 has 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! Lisa Martini has been a KISS fan, almost since birth, thanks to her older brother introducing her to KISS in 1974! Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Lisa Martini has extensive experience in the music industry, from radio to production to merchandising, and also holds a degree in audio engineering. Over the years she’s worked at many KISS Expos. starting at the New York Expos in the mid-’90s to the present day. She’s been fortunate enough to have been part of many outstanding KISS moments, such as helping to launch the KISS fragrance and accompanying them to their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Possibly the best & most insightful guest that I've ever heard on your show. Kudos not just to Mr. Leaf, but to you guys allowing and encouraging him to branch off from Kiss and just share his experiences. Utterly enthralling.
3 Sides Of The Coin never ceases to amaze me with your guests. This episode was awesome. I'm 58 yrs young & the info on The Beach Boys, The Beatles & KISS from David was extremely interesting. I started out as an Aussie kid getting into The Beatles as we used to sing in 3rd grade at school with a single speaker, a song book in class & then I discovered my Father had the Revolver album. When I asked my Dad who his favorite music band was he said The Beach Boys & I liked them but didn't get into them until about 20 yrs ago. Bee Gees didn't really hit me until say just over 25 yrs ago. Never too young or old to appreciate music. Thanks for making my week, every time I watch 3 Sides Of The Coin. It never ceases to amaze me.
A wonderful conversation in all its topics. Thank you Three Sides and David Leaf!
Yet again another amazing guest,loved the stories about Kiss,Brian Wilson and the Pet Sounds album,undoubtedly a masterpiece.
As always you guys get the best interviews and David’s love of music was there to see with such varied books on musical icons.
I hope Mark can get access to David’s archive tapes they will be in safe hands!
Big thumbs up to the three of you 😊
Pure gold!!! Many thanks, what a christmas present, so much about Briam Wilson & Beach boys saga, how being a family was also their tragedy. Gelousy, greed, hate between brothers and cousins is always way more violent and sad than between friends. Thank you boys, from Barcelona.
I have been listening to / watching your show for exactly 9 years and this was one of my favorite episodes 😎🤘👏👏
I'm with Mark, that solo Peter Criss interview is what intrigued me the most. I had not realized none existed while he was in KISS (unless you count 16 Magazine, when he came to their offices with Lydia, and who knows how much of that was legit). But it was great to hear how polite and accommodating KISS was back then. The Beatles and Beach Boys talk was also interesting. Paul McCartney is on record citing God Only Knows as his favorite song (then again, I've also seen him cite A Whiter Shade of Pale). But one can clearly hear the Brian Wilson influence on Here, There & Everywhere...maybe my personal fave. Great episode, guys!
Cool episode. Love hearing the Beach boys stories. I'm always referencing behind the mask. One of my favorite books about kiss.
David Leaf rules! Brian Wilson is my hero and idol. David dies great things for us insane Beach Boys lunatics 😊
Respect. A great episode still in 2024.
I already have Ken Sharp's "Nothin' to Lose". David Leaf made me curious to learn more about the influences in music 🎶.
Fabulous guest, I'm not a fan of the Beach Boys in fact I don't like their music at all, but he made me want to read his book. He shares his passion and knowledge. Kudos to Tommy who's a fan of the BB and came up with great questions.
I L-O-V-E this Episode Big time!!! I'd Love to see and read this as a released book just as it was back in 1979!!!
And Mark now has a new Mission; get those tapes fixed up and saved!!!!
Hey now, not all your listeners said huh? I knew all about the Dennis wilson/Charles Manson connection. Lol
Excellent guest- David Leaf has many more stories to tell. He continues to spread knowledge about the great History of Rock and Roll, music documentaries, and Stories of the artists via his teaching at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
Awesome interview. Behind the Mask is an excellent book!
Great interview with David guys. Going to order his Beach Boys book. Sounds like a cool story. You guys quit belly aching about the delivery on the boxset...🤣 Great show like Tommy said.
I forgot to mention don't forget to get that engineer David spoke about that had some Kiss stories. Would be good to hear what he had to say. Thanks...
Great conversation.
I was at the Des Moines KISS concert in 1979 and skipped seeing the Pope with my catholic family (He was in Des Moines that day). It was at Veterans Memorial Auditorium (terrible sound). We now have Wells Fargo Arena. Cool that Dave was there interviewing them that day. I heard they were acreoss the street at the Holiday Inn but i was 13 and my older sister brought me.
I hope Mark gets those tapes!!
Love the Beach Boys and was a fan of theirs before I was a fan of Kiss and I also was a Major fan of Jan & Dean too!!!
Historical sidenote: When I started reading "Behind the Mask", I wondered why the first chapter about the individual band members sounded so familiar. It was said that this had never been read before. But, no. In 1981, a German teenie magazine named "Pop/Rocky" ran a series with those band member interviews. Of course I first read it in German translation, so it took me a while to figure it out. But that was definetly word for word the same text.
That really intrigued me how the book idea fizzled out in 1979 and it was not revisited.
The author was dreaming high, but if it had been released in 1980, would the book have been a fiasco? Perhaps a big yes.
Mark did the original bootleg shirt have anything on the back?
Tommy and Mark- Your 2017 LA trip was off the charts- Laughs, Huge Burritos, Peter Criss meet up, Ace Concert was huge, but it was filled with more excitement than I thought. Meeting me did not even rate!!! What else happened?
The 'Creatures' 3 LP blue vinyl ended up not being a KOL exclusive - and was available from uDiscover for $42.00
I thought this guest was absolutely incredible! No offense to KISS ( they are my number one band) but I was more intrigued by the other stories he was telling, especially the Dennis Wilson/ Charles Manson connection. I read the book' Helter Skelter' as a teenager one summer while visiting my Grandparents. It was on their bookshelf. I started reading it late one night before bed, which looking back on it now was probably not the smartest thing to do. I was both horrified and fascinated at the same time, and couldn't put the book down. I remember talking to my Mom about it. She said she remembered cooking dinner one evening while listening to the radio and heard about the murders on the news. It was a HUGE story. She said she was terrified. It scared everybody. She was pregnant with me at the time, as was the actress Sharon Tate with a baby boy. My Mom said she couldn't even begin to imagine the hell she went through.
Whats the over under
Mark ends up with the tapes haha
I think we've all seen the clip of Carol Kaye "schooling" Gene Simmons on bass - she played all the bass parts on "Pet Sounds", "Good Vibrations" and "SMiLE".
Tell that guy at the bottom to please, for the love of god turn a light on (unless he looks like the elephant man). You guys have had to have mentioned this to him and this can’t be the first time someone has said that. You can barely see him let alone anything he may hold up. Very unprofessional. Especially when you look at the top two. While I’m asking. I’m definitely not trying to be a misogynist but does that woman you have on actually know anything about kiss? I have yet to hear her ask a question or make a comment about kiss. It’s more like 2 sides of the coin and one who doesn’t know anything about kiss and one who hates light.
Leave. Problem solved for you.
Overkill but light would be nice
@@FoxysFriends sorry, happy to refund your subscription fee for the podcast.
@@MichaelBrandvold a bit of a cunty response? Especially since you agree about that statement being overkill and your co-host not having enough light as stated yourself. An appropriate response would be thank you hope you enjoyed the episode anyway
@@FoxysFriends show me where we hurt you?
WOW, the Vet was not god awful.
Roughly one hour, three minutes to 1 hour, 21 minutes is a glitch- repeats part of the interview. Not sure why. Just FYI
Really?? Please stop the banter.
It is just easier for you to stop listening, we love the banter and will keep doing it.
Why doesn’t Mark have lighting?