Right Between The Eyes Podcast

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 party of their own, so Rob called in Xander from KISS Army Things Podcast to complete the episode with him!Since Christmas has 9 letters and you know how much RBTE loves THE 9, Xander and Rob pick 9 songs each and each song has to start with the first letter of the word Christmas. So how do you spell Christmas? Tune in a push play! Links:Guest Links:  KISS Army Things PodcastXander  www.youtube.com/@kissarmythings  https://www.facebook.com/kissarmythings  Twitter: @kissarmythings  SHOW HOSThttps://right-between-the-eyes-podcast.simplecast.com/TWITTER@RBTEpodcasthttps://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast@NCarusoJrhttps://twitter.com/NCarusoJr@NikkoCarusohttps://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso@Vigilante1939  @DrummerRob10https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10www.youtube.com/@roguerecordmusic (Rob's New Podcast)FACEBOOKwww.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcastINSTAGRAMhttps://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/We love it loud... Right Between The Eyes! 

Episode 63:Returning To Rosemont... One Year LaterNovember 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 last concert and reminiscing about ROSEMONT! We missed a month, so this is an extra sized episode... grab a pizza and something to drink... you are going to need it!Links:SHOW HOST:Right Between The Eyeshttps://right-between-the-eyes-podcast.simplecast.com/  TWITTER @RBTEpodcast  https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast  Nick@NCarusoJr  https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr  Nikko@NikkoCaruso  https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso  The Vigilante 1939 Podcast@Vigilante1939Rob  @DrummerRob10  https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10  FACEBOOK  www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast  INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/  MERCHANDISE https://virtualmerchbooths.com/rbtepodcast/  We love it loud... Right Between The Eyes!  ROSEMONT CREW Links:  KISS Army Things PodcastXander  www.youtube.com/@kissarmythings  https://www.facebook.com/kissarmythings  Twitter: @kissarmythings  IN MY HEAD  Brant  www.youtube.com/@InMyHead  Twitter: @InMyHeadChannelEmily Graziano 96  Emily  www.youtube.com/@emilygraziano96  Twitter: @flapperdame16    

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 as a whole? Let’s not waste any more time and let’s get our platform boots on and head to Studio 54 because “You Matter To Me”!Links:SHOW HOSThttps://right-between-the-eyes-podcast.simplecast.com/TWITTER@RBTEpodcasthttps://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast@NCarusoJrhttps://twitter.com/NCarusoJr@NikkoCarusohttps://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso@Vigilante1939  @DrummerRob10https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10www.youtube.com/@roguerecordmusic (Rob's New Podcast)FACEBOOKwww.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcastINSTAGRAMhttps://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/We love it loud... Right Between The Eyes! 

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 lest get this podcast back on track! Break out the S'mores because we are about to burn some stuff here!Links:SHOW HOSThttps://right-between-the-eyes-podcast.simplecast.com/TWITTER@RBTEpodcasthttps://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast@NCarusoJrhttps://twitter.com/NCarusoJr@NikkoCarusohttps://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso@Vigilante1939  @DrummerRob10https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10www.youtube.com/@roguerecordmusic (Rob's New Podcast)FACEBOOKwww.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcastINSTAGRAMhttps://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/We love it loud... Right Between The Eyes! 

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 say they will keep you fed.... not gonna do it.....  Links:SHOW HOSThttps://right-between-the-eyes-podcast.simplecast.com/TWITTER@RBTEpodcasthttps://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast@NCarusoJrhttps://twitter.com/NCarusoJr@NikkoCarusohttps://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso@Vigilante1939  @DrummerRob10https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10 FACEBOOKwww.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcastINSTAGRAMhttps://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/We love it loud... Right Between The Eyes! 

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 absolutely did not? Links:SHOW HOSThttps://right-between-the-eyes-podcast.simplecast.com/TWITTER@RBTEpodcasthttps://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast@NCarusoJrhttps://twitter.com/NCarusoJr@NikkoCarusohttps://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso@Vigilante1939  @DrummerRob10https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10FACEBOOKwww.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcastINSTAGRAMhttps://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/We love it loud... Right Between The Eyes! 

Episode 58: KISS Sells The BrandSadly, 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:SHOW HOSThttps://right-between-the-eyes-podcast.simplecast.com/TWITTER@RBTEpodcasthttps://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast@NCarusoJrhttps://twitter.com/NCarusoJr@NikkoCarusohttps://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso@Vigilante1939  @DrummerRob10https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10FACEBOOKwww.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcastINSTAGRAMhttps://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/We love it loud... Right Between The Eyes! 

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 been a band for 50 years last year in 2023, now their first album at the time you are reading this has just turned 50... yours truly (Rob) just turned 50 himself. I am older than this album by 8 days. Nick is 7 years older than the band to put it into perspective. This is a big event. It all started with this album! Whatever era, lineup, album, song, or member is your favorite... none of it would happen without this album! Nick, Nikko & Rob will take you through track by track of this historic... and kinda slow album haha. Links:SHOW HOSThttps://right-between-the-eyes-podcast.simplecast.com/TWITTER@RBTEpodcasthttps://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast@NCarusoJrhttps://twitter.com/NCarusoJr@NikkoCarusohttps://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso@Vigilante1939  @DrummerRob10https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10FACEBOOK 

Episode 56: NYC PPV and BeyondWe 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 more. So, let's rewind the clock back just a bit to December 2nd, 2023, and talk the end of an era and the start of something... new?We are on all podcast platforms and over at our host site.https://right-between-the-eyes-podcast.simplecast.com/Links:SHOW HOSThttps://right-between-the-eyes-podcast.simplecast.com/TWITTER@RBTEpodcasthttps://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast@NCarusoJrhttps://twitter.com/NCarusoJr@NikkoCarusohttps://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso@Vigilante1939  @DrummerRob10https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10FACEBOOKwww.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcastINSTAGRAMhttps://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/MERCHANDISEhttps://virtualmerchbooths.com/rbtepodcast/We love it loud... Right Between The Eyes! 

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 that never made it home. All of that and more... Goodbye 2023 and Hello 2024!! Happy New Year!Links:Guests Billy Baker:www.bakerdrums.comXandar (KISS Army Things)FACEBOOK & YouTube@kissarmythingSHOW HOSThttps://right-between-the-eyes-podcast.simplecast.com/TWITTER@RBTEpodcasthttps://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast@NCarusoJrhttps://twitter.com/NCarusoJr@NikkoCarusohttps://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso@Vigilante1939  @DrummerRob10https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10FACEBOOKwww.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcastINSTAGRAMhttps://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/MERCHANDISEhttps://virtualmerchbooths.com/rbtepodcast/We love it loud... Right Between The Eyes! 

Episode 54: Rosemont RecapNovember 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 favorite moments from this event! We hope you enjoy this episode!Links:SHOW HOSThttps://right-between-the-eyes-podcast.simplecast.com/TWITTER@RBTEpodcasthttps://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast@NCarusoJrhttps://twitter.com/NCarusoJr@NikkoCarusohttps://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso@Vigilante1939  @DrummerRob10https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10FACEBOOKwww.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcastINSTAGRAMhttps://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/MERCHANDISEhttps://virtualmerchbooths.com/rbtepodcast/We love it loud... Right Between The Eyes! 

Episode 53:The Road To Rosemont Part 6: The FinaleThe 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. This is also an oversized episode and our KISS Thanksgiving Episode. Thankful that these friendships all grew out of the love for this band. This is our thank you to Paul, Gene, Eric, Tommy, Bruce, Mark, Vinnie, Eric, Ace, & Peter. Thank You for being the soundtrack of our lives for 50 years! Next stop… ROSEMONT!Links:  Guest Links:  KISS Army Things PodcastXander  www.youtube.com/@kissarmythings  https://www.facebook.com/kissarmythings  Twitter: @kissarmythings  IN MY HEAD  Brant  www.youtube.com/@InMyHead  Twitter: @InMyHeadChannelEmily Graziano 96  Emily  www.youtube.com/@emilygraziano96  Twitter: @flapperdame16  Ric  IT"S ALL FOR YOU DEMONwww.youtube.com/ @ItsAllForYouDemon  www.instagram.com/itsallforyoudemon/  SHOW HOST:Right Between The Eyeshttps://right-between-the-eyes-podcast.simplecast.com/  TWITTER @RBTEpodcast  https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast  Nick@NCarusoJr  https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr  Nikko@NikkoCaruso  https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso  The Vigilante 1939 Podcast@Vigilante1939Rob  @DrummerRob10  https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10  FACEBOOK  www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast  INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/  MERCHANDISE https://virtualmerchbooths.com/rbtepodcast/  We love it loud... Right Between The Eyes!

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 Rosemont Gang talk about the scary side of KISS! Happy Halloween! Links:  Guest Links:  KISS Army Things PodcastXander  www.youtube.com/@kissarmythings  https://www.facebook.com/kissarmythings  Twitter: @kissarmythings  IN MY HEAD  Brant  www.youtube.com/@InMyHead  Twitter: @InMyHeadChannelEmily Graziano 96  Emily  www.youtube.com/@emilygraziano96  Twitter: @flapperdame16  Ric  IT"S ALL FOR YOU DEMONwww.youtube.com/ @ItsAllForYouDemon  www.instagram.com/itsallforyoudemon/  SHOW HOST :Right Between The Eyeshttps://right-between-the-eyes-podcast.simplecast.com/  TWITTER @RBTEpodcast  https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast  Nick@NCarusoJr  https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr  Nikko@NikkoCaruso  https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso  The Vigilante 1939 Podcast@Vigilante1939Rob  @DrummerRob10  https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10  FACEBOOK  www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast  INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/  MERCHANDISE https://virtualmerchbooths.com/rbtepodcast/  We love it loud... Right Between The Eyes!

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 drums on one track and singing lead vocals two.  Ace only played guitar on two tracks and sang on 2 tracks.  The remaining drum and guitar tracks were played by Kevin Valentine and future KISS lead guitarist, Tommy Thayer, both uncredited.  Most of these decisions were made by producer, Bruce Fairbairn.On this episode, Nick, Nikko, and Rob discuss the 25th Anniversary of Psycho Circus.  Taking off the KISS goggles and ignoring the drama in the recording studio, is there a solid KISS album underneath the tracks of Psycho Circus or this just KISStory repeating itself?  So, take off the drama blinders, raise your glasses and get ready to toast the anniversary of Psycho Circus...welcome to the show!   Links:SHOW HOSThttps://right-between-the-eyes-podcast.simplecast.com/TWITTER@RBTEpodcasthttps://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast@NCarusoJrhttps://twitter.com/NCarusoJr@NikkoCarusohttps://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso@Vigilante1939  @DrummerRob10https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10FACEBOOKwww.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcastINSTAGRAMhttps://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/MERCHANDISEhttps://virtualmerchbooths.com/rbtepodcast/We love it loud... Right Between The Eyes! 

Episode 50!The Road to Rosemont part 4It'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 STARTED!!!Links:  Guest Links:  KISS Army Things PodcastXander www.youtube.com/@kissarmythings  https://www.facebook.com/kissarmythings Twitter: @kissarmythings  IN MY HEAD  Brant www.youtube.com/@InMyHead Twitter: @InMyHeadChannel Emily www.youtube.com/@emilygraziano96 Twitter: @flapperdame16 Ric IT"S ALL FOR YOU DEMON www.youtube.com/ @ItsAllForYouDemon  www.instagram.com/itsallforyoudemon/ SHOW HOST https://right-between-the-eyes-podcast.simplecast.com/ TWITTER @RBTEpodcast https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast @NCarusoJr https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr @NikkoCaruso https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso @Vigilante1939 @DrummerRob10 https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10 FACEBOOK www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/ MERCHANDISE https://virtualmerchbooths.com/rbtepodcast/ We love it loud... Right Between The Eyes!