The KISS inspired podcast, Three Sides Of The Coin, gets as close as anyone can get to talking to the late visionaries responsible for molding KISS, Bill Aucoin and Sean Delaney. Michael Brandvold and Tommy Summers welcome Sean’s brother and former KISS employee Leon Delaney along with Bill’s nephew Mark Britton.

Leon and Mark share many stories of the early days of the band when Leon dropped his construction job to work for them doing anything and everything they needed him to do from the beginning to the late 70’s. Mark shares many insights about Bill until the time he and KISS parted ways and after the split. The issue of Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer in Peter Criss and Ace Frehley’s make-up did come up, and Mark said Bill was against it. “Bill even said to me that they should have done something different with the make-up. They are portraying two people that were already in the band; I mean they could have made up anybody else and they could have made a totally different face on somebody and represented a new face” he said. “If I was Tommy Thayer I would be sort of embarrassed going up there as the Spaceman when he could have his own identity that’s not basically bought off of somebody else”, he continued. Mark also went on to say that if Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley left that people would still go to the show. “I think even if Gene and Paul left the show and they still did the original show; I think more people go there to see the show and bring their kids to the show. If you put somebody else in Gene and Paul’s place, it’s the show; it’s the music.” Leon Delaney talked about how KISS was the four guys and the four guys made KISS, and followed it up with an amazing statement that a guitar hero told him about Ace. “Eric Clapton said ‘he is one of the best guitar players he’s ever seen'.” That is high praise coming from the Slow Hand himself. The entire episode is filled with great stories of the early days of KISS, fun stories about Bill Aucoin, and some very interesting stuff from the making of KISS Meets The Phantom.