Episode 68: This is Rob's Documentary/VLOG about going to Beaver Dam Kentucky along with Xander of @kissarmythings podcast to see Gene Simmons Band live. Ride along with Rob from Ohio to Indiana where he hangs out with Xander and Daphne for the evening. Then Rob and Xander head off the following morning to Kentucky to see Gene! All that and more as we take RBTE on the road! Links: SHOW HOST https://right-between-the-eyes-podcast.simplecast.com/ TWITTER @RBTEpodcast https://twitter.com/RBTEpodc...
May 22, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 68
(Special release day) Episode 67: Happy Birthday Eric Singer – Show & Tell Edition On this special release for RBTE Monday May 12th 2025, Rob is joined by Xander of KISS Army Things to Celebrate Eric Singer’s 67th Birthday! Born on this day May 12, 1958. It's fitting that this is our 67th episode as well… this was not planned by the way haha. Rob and Xander pull out some of their Eric favorite, and some rarely shown merchandise, collectibles and vinyl featuring Eric! Some of the items have n...
May 12, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 67
episode 66: Just before March closes the boys drop another episode of the show. On this episode Nick, Nikko, and Rob discuss MSN.com recent (February) post about the top 25 definitive KISS songs. That in and of itself could start a fight between any KISS fan. Are all eras represented? Is this just another 70's only best of... or is it somewhere in the middle.... or not even close!? Let's not waste any time and let's dig in. The link below will allow you to follow along with us over at MSN's home...
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 66
episode 65: 50K No Way, Off The Sound Board, Boxset Yay! Better late than never, RBTE is back... again. Sorry for the starts and stops, we should be good to go moving forward! Fist off a tribute to Karl Cochran, former Ace Frehley bassist as well as Joe Lynn Turner band member and a member of Eric Singers' E.S.P. band from 1998 to 2000. Nick, Nikko, & Rob kick off 2025 with something that's pure Gold! KISSonline released a 50th Anniversary single for Strutter with a Gold record for sale.... ...
Mar 09, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 65
Episode 64 Show Notes: It's Christmas time again already?!! Where has this year gone. Its be a rough year scheduling wise for the podcast, so right up front we would like to apologize for the lack of episodes this year. 2025 should be a much better year for the show! Again, like we said it Christmas and it's time for our annul KISSmas episode. Ironically scheduling during the holidays is tough sometime and unfortunately the Caruso's could not make the episode as they were attending a Christmas p...
Dec 26, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 64
Episode 63: Returning To Rosemont... One Year Later November 27th 2024?...!!! Has it really been one year since we all saw our last KISS concert? How can that be? How am I living in a world where KISS is no longer a touring band? What have we all been doing since that wonderful day in Rosemont Illinois on November 27th 2023. Join Nick, Nikko, and Rob on this episode along with Rosemont Crew, Xander, Brant and Emily! We discuss the show a one year later, and what we are all doing now since the la...
Nov 27, 2024•2 hr 4 min•Ep. 63
Episode 62: It’s that time of year again, its KISS solo album month and this rough the original Catman is up next!. We have already covered Ace Frehley and Gene Simmons’ 1978 KISS solo albums. Peter’s album would take the biggest departure of the four…. But let’s be honest Genes is a close second… but it’s not a departure of who Peter is. Big band and jazz are right in his wheel house. Did Peter make the best KISS solo album, or did Peter make the best solo album that first right into the 1970’s...
Sep 28, 2024•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 62
Episode 61: The 9 Hottest, Heat, Fire KISS Songs! It's the end of Summer and school is back in session... buuuut we are not done with the heat just yet! We thought we'd have one last summer party and the guys decided to pick the hottest songs in the catalogue. The rules were simple. The songs had to have hot, heat, fire or some adjective like that ... turns out there are only 10 in the catalogue. So everyone has the smae songs and the guys make that KISS list from there. Summer break is over so ...
Aug 22, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 61
Episode 60 has the guys taking another slight pause in getting back to KISS content since Nick was unable last minute to be on the show. This gave Nikko and Rob the chance to talk about the newest album from The Warning that had just been released the week prior. This is Nikko and Rob's review of the album "Keep Me Fed" and how they both discovered the band and did the album live up to the expectations that had they had built up for it? Grab a sandwich on this oversized episode... I'm not gonna ...
Jul 12, 2024•2 hr 5 min•Ep. 60
This episode finds Nick, Nikko, & Rob pushing pause on the KISS discussion for a minute and invites a long-time social media friend for his first appearance on the show in what we call a satellite episode. Rick Shew from @FriendsWorkPod also Political BS: @Leftcrewpolitics F-list actor. and was once was Superman! He is also a huge music fan! That is the reason why Rick is here for our topic... "The Replacements". band members come, and band members go. What ones worked and what ones that abs...
May 23, 2024•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 59
Episode 58: KISS Sells The Brand Sadly, it's been a month since our last episode, sorry about the delay but I think we make up for the wait with this discussion. Nick, Nikko and Rob are in rare form. I know everyone else has chimed in on KISS selling the brand, but the guys take a look at the topic as well and in typical RBTE fashion sometimes other topics come into play, Bon Jovi, Frank Sinatra, Spider-Man? Think of this a round table discussion. Not much else to say other than push play! Links...
May 02, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 58
Episode 57: Kiss (album review) 50th Anniversary! 50 years... let that sink in. Your parents or grandparents tuning 50, or their 50th wedding anniversary are milestones that people celebrate. When its music or a movie, somehow that seem bigger or it's something that you can't wrap your head around> We say things like "I can't believe that is the 50th anniversary of that! It's even rare when is music and the band is still together (ok in some form i get it haha) touring the world. KISS has bee...
Mar 21, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 57
Episode 56: NYC PPV and Beyond We might be last to the party; it's not when you show up, but did you have a good time? Nick, Nikko, and Rob are coming off the high of the Rosemont show on November 27th. For show purposes it's December 2nd and we are watching with the rest of the world... the finale live KISS show... ever with Eric, Tommy, Gene and Paul...KISS! What did we think? Was our Rosemont show better, was something else better? What does our show look like moving forward? All that and mor...
Jan 25, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 56
Episode 55: Billy Baker - New Yeras Eve 2023 "The End Of The Road" The finale moments of 2023 are going out with a bang from the confetti cannon! Billy Baker stops back in and talks to Rob and special co-host for this episode Xander (KISS Army Things podcast). Billy tells the guys about last two years of his time work with Eric Singer, Lorne”Gump”Wheaton and Pearl Drums creating Eric's finale drum kits and the finale ever KISS kit for the End Of The Road Tour! The kits you saw and the one kit th...
Jan 04, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 55
Episode 54: Rosemont Recap November 27th 2023. The Day we have been waiting for, for six months. The build up the travel. the phone calls, the texts! Now three gentlemen are standing face to face with each other for the first time, only ever existing before on a computer screen. Nic, Rob, and Nikko and many of their friends are all standing in the same room, all having the same experiences together. They are all seeing their LAST KISS concert... TOGETHER! Nick, Rob, & Nikko share their favor...
Dec 14, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 54
Episode 53: The Road To Rosemont Part 6: The Finale The six-month journey has us all packed and traveling down the road to our finale KISS concert. Our guests Xander from KISS Army Things Podcast, Brant from In My Head Channel, Emily from EmilyGraziano96 YouTube Cannel and our good friend Ric from It’s All For You Demon Channel even joined us on these last three episodes. Nick, Nikko, Rob and the Rosemont crew will do a final Rosemont 9. It’s a best of KISS and what made us KISS fans episode. Th...
Nov 23, 2023•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 53
Episode 52 & The Road To Rosemont Part 5: The Halloween Edition. On this episode of the show, our cast of characters discuss the things that go bump in the night on Planet KISS! What are things that scared us when we first discover the band... or was it just ok to spit blood and fly up to the rafters and have glowing eyes with 100 other town kids in town... ok that got scary.... so, while we sit at home and eat the Halloween candy... and a few rocks, you can sit back and listen to the Rosemo...
Oct 26, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 52
Epsiode 51: PSYCHO CIRCUS (25th Anniversary) After the success of the 1996 Alive Worldwide Reunion Tour, everyone asked one question "what's next?" Surely the band would record a new album, and they did just that... well kinda. In 1998, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss entered the studio to record their first album together since 1979's Dynasty. Much like Dynasty, Ace and Peter would practically appear on the album in name only, with the exception of Peter only playing dr...
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 51
Episode 50! The Road to Rosemont part 4 It's All For You Gene Simmons: The 9 Gene Simmons Underrated Songs. The Rosemont Crew takes a look and some of the overlooked, and in some cases songs that were major songs for Gene at one time and for some reason never made it back in the set. Plus, this our 50th episode of the show and we couldn't think of a better group of people to talk with and celebrate... aaaand we have a special guest.... push play to find out! RBTE 50!!!! WE ARE JUST GETTING START...
Sep 28, 2023•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 50
Episode Notes Episode 49: Gene Simmons 1978 Solo Album It’s September, so you know what that means… we are reviewing another ’78 solo album. This year we are looking at the Demon himself, Mr. Gene Simmons. How does Gene’s album compare to the previous album by Ace? Is the album chuck full of the standard ‘Demon’ songs like ‘God of Thunder’, ‘Calling Dr. Love’, ‘Love ‘Em Leave ‘Em’, or ‘Duece’? Or is this album a reflection of who Gene is as a person, musician, and star? Nick, Nikko, and Rob take...
Sep 14, 2023•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 49
Episode 48 & Road To Rosemont 3: The Opening Acts As we like to do from time to time on the show is to take a look at some of the other bands/artist that have opened for KISS over the years, as a way to talk about other bands on the show. Since this is a Rosemont episode, we thought it would be cool to talk about the bands we have seen at the various KISS concerts over the years. The RTR panel has returned, Xander, Brant and Emily, but as it happens, we are missing a few people again on this...
Aug 31, 2023•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 48
Episode 47: KISS Marvel Comics Super Special #1 The episode is at the heart of RBTE. Comic books! That is how this whole podcast was started. The three of us were doing a round table guest spot on another podcast, we did not know each other well at the time, but in the Zoom call screen Rob saw Nikko in a KISS t-shirt... and the rest is KISStory. In 1977 right on the heel of KISS' 6th studio album Love Gun, KISS teamed up with Stan Lee and the folks at Marvel comics to release on June 21st The Ma...
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 47
Episode 46 & Part 2 of The Road Trip To Rosemont is here! Last episode we introduced the group that is going on this trip, along the way you might pick up additional members of your party. Emily Graziano joins us on this episode as she also is going to the Rosemont show. Once you know your destination and your bags are packed and you're driving down the road... you need some tunes. This is the 9 KISS Road Trip songs. Each member has picked 9 songs. We also have compiled them into a Spotify P...
Jul 20, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 46
Episode 45: The Road To Rosemont pt.1 Assembling any band takes work and time, with podcasting it's the same. Coordinating three schedules sometimes is tricky 5 it's well you know... it takes time. We are all here! All three podcasts are finally all "here." From KISS Army Things we have Xander, from In My Head we have Brant... and of course Nick, Nikko and Rob from RBTE. This episode we ask at a few questions amongst everyone. Why did you choose the show in Rosemont? Have you seen shows in Chica...
Jun 29, 2023•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 45
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 its the first to feature the late great Eric Carr, and if that's not enough this is the only known soundb...
Jun 01, 2023•57 min•Ep. 44
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 you should have with you to go into the world to show others why they should join the KISS ARMY and what...
May 11, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 43
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 Huey Lewis And The News! This power trio released their self-titled debut on January 23rd 2023...
Mar 30, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 42
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 with their debate album Make a Pest a Pet! Various other project would come, but in 2007 he would help f...
Mar 09, 2023•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 41
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 band and the Ank Warrior has taken his place, affixed with a gold Ank gold looking cross on his f...
Feb 23, 2023•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 40
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 disk, and how does this set up the Creatures of the Night album? Plus The 9 is here! We are just ...
Jan 26, 2023•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 39
