Right Between The Eyes Podcast

EPISODE 20Topic: Def LeppardFor our next installment of The Opening Act, Nick, Nikko, and Rob knew right away what the band was going to be... DEF LEPPARD! Formed in 1977 in Sheffield with the union jack flag waving, helped lead the new wave of British heavy metal movement of the early 1980s. Through the late 70's till today Def Leppard have blazed a trail the most bands can only dream of with iconic albums like Pyromania, Hyesteria, Adrenalize and Euphoria to name a few have topped the rock charts over and over again. The guys will tell you what this band means to them and take you on "Rocket" ride like no other. So "Stand Up" and kick the podcast into motion! This the Opening Act, and this is DEF LEPPARD!Links: Twitter @RBTEpodcast https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast @NCarusoJr https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr @NikkoCaruso https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso @DrummerRob10 https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10 www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/ email: [email protected]

Episode 19: DestroyerOn March 15th 1976 KISS unleashed their magnum opus, an album that might as well be considered a greatest hits before it was even released. Destroyer was the album that KISS was looking for. An album that truly represented themselves as artists, it took what they were doing live and finally captured that spirit on vinyl. With producer and song writer on the album Bob Ezrin brought out parts from each band members that they didn't know they had. This episode we look at the album as a whole. We look at each song track by track, we pick what other singles could have be used for radio, rank the album cover and the album with what has been done on the show so far. This also wraps up the 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Box Set series as well. Nick. Nikko, and Rob will take you through the city streets of Detroit Rock City and beyond as we look at Destroyer!Links: Twitter @RBTEpodcast https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast @NCarusoJr https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr @NikkoCaruso https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso @DrummerRob10 https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10 www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/ email: [email protected]

Episode 18:Destroyer 45: Live In Paris 1976Part 3 of our look at the Super Deluxe Box Set that is Destroyer 45th Anniversary. On this episode Nick, Nikko and Rob take a look at the... well... you know. The Paris disk. This was the big audio item in the box that had a lot of people talking when it was first announced, after we found out what it was, and after we all heard it... so yeah. This is going to be one of those episodes. What do we think of the end result..? I think you kinda already know. Here are the facts May 22nd 1976 KISS takes the stage at 3PM, as the evening slot was already filled by comedian Jerry Lewis. This show is very well known in the bootleg circles as Stoned In Paris. What is the version we got in the box, Soundboard recording, a bootleg even better that SIP? Find out and see? This is KISS LIVE IN PARIS!Links: Twitter @RBTEpodcast https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast @NCarusoJr https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr @NikkoCaruso https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso @DrummerRob10 https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10 www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/ email: [email protected]

Episode 17:We continue our journey through the Destroyer 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition (Box Set). On this oversized episode we look at Disk 2 Destroyer Demos and Disk 3 Destroyer Outtakes, Alternate Versions/Mixes & Singles... that's a mouthful. We go track by track on the Demo disk and do an overview of the Outtake Disk. "Doncha Hesitate", it's "True Confession" time on this episode... is this the Destroyer show or Rock and Roll Over, or Gene's solo album show? While Nick, Nikko, and Rob figure that out. "Shout It Out Loud" because Destroyer 45 part 2 starts now!!!Links: Twitter @RBTEpodcast https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast @NCarusoJr https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr @NikkoCaruso https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso @DrummerRob10 https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10 www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/ email: [email protected]

Episode 16:45 years ago on March 15th 1976 KISS release their 5th studio album Destroyer. On November 19th...ish. Universal and KISS released a mega deluxe box set commemorating the release of this landmark album that pushed KISS into the stratosphere. On this episode Nick, Nikko, and Rob take a look at the box itself and all the goodies and extra that make up this massive collection. Over the next few epsidoe we will break down all of material and CD's in this box. This is just part 1 for our coverage of KISS Destroyer 45th Anniversary Links: Twitter @RBTEpodcast https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast @NCarusoJr https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr @NikkoCaruso https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso @DrummerRob10 https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10 www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/ email: [email protected]

A Very Merry KISSmas Vol. IGather around the KISSmas tree, Santa Gene is going to grant you a KISSmas wish... and probably charge you for it, but that's neither here nor there. On this episode Nick Nikko and Rob discuss receiving Destroyer 45 finally, then the the trio pick 6 things each they would love to see under their KISSmas tree. Grab some hot chocolate (maybe with a splash of Cold Gin in it) and gather around the fire place and KISSmas tree and we celebrate our first Christmas as a podcast with you!Links: Twitter @RBTEpodcast https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast @NCarusoJr https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr @NikkoCaruso https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso @DrummerRob10 https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10 www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/ email: [email protected]

Episode 14KISS: End Of The Road Tour RecapNick, Nikko & Rob have now all seen... well almost seen all of their shows for the tour. The trio look back at their 2018-2021 concerts for the tour. The shows, the songs, the band members, the fire, the rain and the merch... Rob bought a lot! Did they get to say goodbye the way the hoped to? Did they get what they came for? Push play and lets find out. Let's go back to the End Of The Road!Links: Twitter @RBTEpodcast https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast @NCarusoJr https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr @NikkoCaruso https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso @DrummerRob10 https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10 www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/ email: [email protected]

EPISODE 13 NOTES Topic: Rock And Roll Over (Album Review) Rock and Roll Over is the 5th studio and and the 2nd album review for the show. Released November 10th 1976, this would be the follow up album to the massively successful Destroyer album. Nikko, Nick and Rob go track by track through the album and discuss its importance and its place in KISStory! Grab a hold you rocket, get your baby from the ladies room and drive down the road because Dr. Love is here!Links:Twitter @RBTEpodcast https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast @NCarusoJr https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr @NikkoCaruso https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso @DrummerRob10 https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/email: [email protected]

EPISODE 12 NOTES Topic:On this episode we take an overview of the band members past and present body of work outside of, before during or after KISS. Peter, Ace, Eric, Vinnie, Mark, Bruce, Eric, Tommy, Gene & Paul. Not so much each band or project, but what we thought of their music outside of the band. This will open the door for full album reviews of all these projects. The Blue Room is open, so Lift yourself up and prepare for the Invasion. Ace is back and he's a Fire starter! We're going solo! Links: Twitter @RBTEpodcast https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast @NCarusoJr https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr @NikkoCaruso https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso @DrummerRob10 https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10 www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/ email: [email protected]

EPISODE 11 SHOW NOTES: Topic: KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (Commentary Track)For our first annual Halloween episode we thought we would kick off the trick or treat season in style! At the height of KISS’ popularity in 1978, the band set off to make a TV movie that was billed to them as The Beatles A Hard Day’s Night meets Star Wars… more on that later. So on October 28th 1978 at 8pm this TV movie event was released. This podcast is also released on its 43rd Anniversary.Grab your copy of KISSology vol.2, push play on the podcast and your DVD/Blu-Ray players and we will watch this film together. and discuss the film and try not to crack up to much. RBTE Theater starts now! Happy Halloween! Links: Twitter @RBTEpodcast https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast @NCarusoJr https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr @NikkoCaruso https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso @DrummerRob10 https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10 www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/ email: [email protected]

It was 1980 something, and we can all remember sitting down with our boom box and making that perfect KISS Mix Tape. You poured over it, you had to pick the right songs that expressed what this band means to you.... but each song had to fit just right on the tape. Maybe it was your road trip tape, maybe it was the tape you gave your best friend, maybe it was the tape you gave that special someone, OR when someone would say KISS sucks and you said HELL NO!... LISTEN TO THIS! So we are going back in time and making a RBTE Mix tape just for you! Lets BANG this one out!

On a the fall of 2006, and 10 year old Nikko Caruso wanders into the family room and puts in his fathers KISSology Vo.1 DVD and pushes play. What comes on the screen changes his life. 1977's classic KISS concert The Summit live in Huston! Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss & Paul Stanley put on one of the classic shows of all time. This would be bootlegged for years and years before KISS themselves put it out in this three volume box set that came out in October of 2006. So lets go back in time to at least 2006 and pretend along with Nikko that it's 1977 and we are seeing one of the great KISS concerts for the first time!Links: Twitter @RBTEpodcast https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast @NCarusoJr https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr @NikkoCaruso https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso @DrummerRob10 https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10 www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/ email: [email protected]

Episode 6:It's finally here!....(it is... at the time I'm writing this.. Aug, 17 2021) KISS is about to take the stage again after a 16 month stoppage due to the Corona Virus. To celebrate, Nick, Nikko, & Rob have some fun with the bands set list and make "realistic" song choices for the KISS End of The Road set list. What "new songs" do they use, will the guys get any of the choices right? Who got the most correct, and who was dead wrong? If all goes according to plan, you'll know right away because this episode is released on Thursday morning August 19 2021. KISS just played last night on the 18th! So grab your score cards and let's hit the road with KISS!Links: Twitter @RBTEpodcast https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast @NCarusoJr https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr @NikkoCaruso https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso @DrummerRob10 https://twitter.com/DrummerRob10 www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/ email: [email protected]

Episode 5:It was 1989 and KISS' Hot In The Shade had been released for a few months and would find its way into Rob's hand through a classmate, and Rob was off on his journey with band and his love for this album. On this episode Rob, Nick and Nikko review and dissect the Hot In The Sade album and go track by track. Rob talks how much he still loves the album and what it means to him, while Nick talks about this being a blind spot for him in bands career and Nikko hearing most of this album for the first time! Plus a new feature is added to the show when discussing any studio album moving forward. THE 9 is here! All this and more. grab your sun screen because it's Hot In The Shade! Links: Twitter @RBTEpodcast https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast @NCarusoJr https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr @NikkoCaruso https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/ email: [email protected]

Episode 4:KISS keeps giving us reasons to change course. Our second recorded album review becomes the first one released. This episode has Nick, Rob and Nikko talking a look at the newly released KISS Off The Soundboard: Tokyo 2001. The trio discuss the album, favorite tracks and hopes for this series. This is more of a free flowing discussion as apposed to our normal album review... but you would not know that as our typical album review as not happened... yet. So lets board the KISS Jet and travel back to the finale days of the Farwell Tour to find a new Cat behind the kit and talk all things Off The Soundboard!Links: Twitter @RBTEpodcast https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast @NCarusoJr https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr @NikkoCaruso https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/ email: [email protected]

Episode 3:Nick, Rob and Nikko discuss the two part four hour of the 2021 A&E Biography KISStory. The trio discuss the parts that worked and the ones that did not. How will old and news fans revive this and, what does this documentary say about KISS as a whole? Episode 3 starts right now! Links: Twitter @RBTEpodcast https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast @NCarusoJr https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr @NikkoCaruso https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/ email: [email protected]

Episode 2:25 years ago in the summer of 1996 Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons reunited with Peter Criss and Ace Frehley for The Alive Worldwide Tour of 1996-1997. The idea of Ace and peter ever returning to the band was always met with a hard no from Paul and Gene. The 1995 MTV Unplugged performance changed all of that! Nikko acting as the interviewer asks Nick and Rob what is was like to hear the news of the Reunion and see the shows that they saw. Buckle up, we are going back to 1996 and headed to Tiger stadium and beyond! Detroit Rock City here we come!Links: Twitter @RBTEpodcast https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast @NCarusoJr https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr @NikkoCaruso https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/ email: [email protected]

EPISODE 001 Topic:Nick’s first KISS! We kick off Episode 1 with a BANG! In July of 1975 10 year old Nick Caruso happened to catch The Midnight Special on TV. The Midnight Special was a variety type of show with various comedians, skits and musical acts that would come on at midnight and entertain viewing audiences. On this night, young Nick would see something that would change his life forever. What he didn’t know was it would change the lives of many other that happened to see this spectacular performance. The baptism by fire starts right here. We start our First KISS 3 part series right here with KISS’ performance on The Midnight Special Links: Twitter @RBTEpodcast https://twitter.com/RBTEpodcast @NCarusoJr https://twitter.com/NCarusoJr @NikkoCaruso https://twitter.com/NikkoCaruso www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/ email: [email protected]

Introduction:Right Between The Eyes is a podcast about our favorite band KISS! You hosts Nick, Rob, & Nikko take you through the journey of what lead to the creation of this show and how we discovered KISS!Topics:Who are we?How did we discover KISS? (first KISS)Favorite albumFavorite band memberFavorite makeupFirst Concert & KISS concert experiencesKISS 2020 Goodbye update Links: Twitter @RBTEPodcast www.facebook.com/RightBetweenTheEyesPodcast https://www.instagram.com/rightbetweentheeyespodcast/ email: [email protected]