VH1 Classic That Metal Show Host Eddie Trunk Sits Down and Clears the Air on KISS

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Visit http://www.ThreeSidesOfTheCoin.com http://www.facebook.com/threesidesofthecoin http://www.twitter.com/threesidescoin and CALL US at 320-515-4771 and join the conversation. Three Sides of the Coin is a KISS talk show featuring Michael Brandvold, Mitch Lafon and Tommy Sommers. In the 50th episode we celebrate with special guest, Eddie Trunk. For over two and a half hours, the four delved into Trunk's start in the music business at Megaforce Records, the Rock 'N Roll Hall Of Fame, his love and support of influential guitar hero Ace Frehley, his thoughts about the current KISS line-up, his sometimes shaky relationship with KISS frontman Paul Stanley and much more. "There will be, very soon, a version of KISS with no original members," muses Trunk about the band's near future. "Nobody went to a KISS show in the '70s and said 'I hope I catch a guitar pick from Spaceman tonight'. It was 'I can't wait for Ace's guitar to smoke,' stated Trunk about the band's current branding. 'It didn't say bass by the Demon on KISS - Alive! It said Gene Simmons. They were the people," added Trunk emphatically. When speaking of his personal relationship with affable KISS icon, Paul Stanley, Trunk declared, 'Paul has always been hot and cold with me." As for Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer, Trunks says, "they are great musicians. I have no problem with Tommy and Eric. I don't begrudge them at all for doing this." Voicing his opinion on the different line-up changes, Trunk throws out, "I'll never forget hearing Animalize for the first time, I was like 'Oh, my God - KISS has a shredder in the band (Mark St. John)' and it was exciting because it was different. That, to me, made line-up changes exciting," and adds, "one of the beautiful things about being a KISS fan, I think, is that throughout their whole history every record was a different turn. Unmasked was a power-pop record, The Elder was a concept record, Creatures (Of The Night) was an all out metal record; whether or not you like these records is irrelevant. They took these different turns. You had all these different variations." As for KISS' being included on the Rock 'N Roll Hall Of Fame's ballot this year, Trunk says clearly that, 'as KISS fans we have fought the perception for years that KISS is nothing, but a manufactured joke that can't play their instruments or write songs. What's offensive to me is that we're here over ten years after they first became eligible and still trying to figure out if they should get in. They should have gone in the first time they were eligible." Eddie Trunk hosts, Trunk Nation, on SiriusXm's Hair Nation (ch. 39), That Metal Show (with Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson) on VH1 Classic as well as Eddie Trunk Rocks (a nationally syndicated radio show). He's also authored, 'Eddie Trunk's Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal - Volumes 1 & 2'. Since launching a year ago Three Sides of the Coin has been viewed or listened to over 200,000 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). Mitch Lafon, a renowned rock journalist, first interviewed Gene Simmons in June 1980 at age 11 and has since interviewed nearly all current and past members of KISS (many more than once). In 2013, he organized, produced and released the 'A WORLD WITH HEROES' - KISS TRIBUTE for cancer care (available worldwide on iTunes). Tommy Sommers has spent many years on the record show circuit selling memorabilia and meeting many KISS fans. It's only our opinion... it's neither right nor wrong. Facebook: www.facebook.com/threesidesofthecoin Twitter: twitter.com/threesidescoin YouTube: youtube.threesidesofthecoin.com Spreaker: spreaker.threesidesofthecoin.com iTunes: itunes.threesidesofthecoin.com TuneIn: http://tunein.threesidesofthecoin.com Stitcher Radio: stitcher.threesidesofthecoin.com Web: http://threesidesofthecoin.com Merchandise: shop.threesidesofthecoin.com Three Sides Of The Coin is unofficial & unsanctioned and has no affiliation with the band KISS.