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Former KISS guitar tech Barry Ackom joins us this week to share some incredible KISS Road Stories! Hired on to work for the band during the Alive! tour, Barry would pull double duty doing guitar tech work for both Paul Stanley and Ace Frehley. His tenure with The Hottest Band in the Land lasted through Alive II around 1978. Barry had a front row seat to the fast ascent of KISS and was a part of numerous landmark moments in the band's zenith. We barely scratched the surface in this entertaining chat but touch on topics such as the sold out 3 night run at Cobo Hall in 1976, the Anaheim Stadium show, the making of Destroyer, and KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park! Other subjects covered include a hilarious story of a barefoot Ace Frehley in Sweden, Ace getting shocked in Lakeland, Florida, and the subsequent use of wireless gear. Also, Barry shares how his Chicago-area band Lois Lane was almost a farm club for KISS replacement members. It's an hour-plus of great stories told by a man that witnessed the magic o

We kick off KISSmas in July with a special KISS-themed version of The Quarantine Sessions! This week we're joined by host of the InObscuria Podcast Kevin Williams! Aside from his podcasting duties, Kevin is a member of The Swear. The band will release 'The Clinic and the Sane' on July 17th and you'll get a sneak peak in this episode!   As always, we're answering YOUR listener-submitted questions/topics and Kevin is along for the ride. Subjects discussed include a KISSmas album, KISS saves Santa on Family Guy, Animalize, Vinnie Vincent Invasion, Crazy Nights, Eric Carr, a rumored 1988 reunion, and much more!   Rounding things out, Kevin takes on Chris in another rousing edition of Beat the Geek hosted by Aaron Camaro! Did Kevin lay the smackdown? You'll have to listen to find out!   Check out the new album by The Swear at https://ingroov.es/the-clinic-and-the?fbclid=IwAR2_2SHHlWOKajUEOK6YqcEj19LtGFVbgeixaJpbp1F1tcRyu0STr9pSHvs   We hope you enjoy The Quarantine Sessions Vol16 - Ep413 and SHARE with a

Author and host of The Classic Metal Show Chris Akin joins us this week for The Quarantine Sessions Vol15! The Classic Metal Show has been in existence for over 25 year and, in that time, entertained and offended a lot of people.   There are no punches pulled and opinions are doled out mercilessly. Chris Akin's background in radio pushed him into the field of "new media" in the 90's and has led to the success of the CMS to this day. Also of note, are Chris' many books on the subject of rock and metal. You can follow past and future book releases at https://www.facebook.com/chrisakinbooks/https://www.facebook.com/chrisakinbooks/   In this week's Quarantine Sessions Vol15, Chris Akin joins us to answer YOUR listener-submitted questions. Topics touched on this week include Frank Zappa, Hulk Hogan, Woodstock, favorite actors, Pringles, Bret Michaels stories, games shows, Deftones, box sets, crazy concert stories, Nu-Metal, terrible opening acts, drinking songs, Nita Strauss and much more!   Rounding things o

Ralph Viera (aka Dr. Fukk) joins us this week for The Quarantine Sessions Vol14! Known for many things including the bands Thrash or Die and Combat as well as the AlmostHuman56 Youtube channel and, previously, The Rock & Metal Combat podcast, Ralph has blazed quite a trail in the rock and podcasting worlds. With over 17,000 subscribers and over 10 million views, his AlmostHuman56 Youtube channel has become a go-to for rock and metal fans all over the world. In this episode of the Quarantine Sessions, Ralph joins us to answer YOUR listener-submitted questions. Topics this week include KISS producers, favorite Cheap Trick albums, RATT records, Rush, Judas Priest, rock band t-shirts, Cliff Burton, Dokken, Nazareth, Hulk Hogan movies, the Traveling Wilburys, The Cure, Music from the Elder, and tons more! And, as always, we wrap things up with another round of Beat the Geek hosted by Aaron Camaro! Did Ralph get the best of Chris? You'll have to listen to find out! We hope you enjoy The Quarantine Sessions Vol14

The Canadian Heartbreaker, Lee McCormack joins us this week for The Quarantine Sessions Vol13! Aside from his hosting duties at the Tramps Like Us: A Bruce Springsteen podcast, Lee is also a working musician. With a significant background in Rockabilly music and a style all his own, Lee wears his influences on his sleeve. If you dig The Stray Cats, Johnny Cash, and The Clash (among others), you'll really love Lee's music. His new 7" single 'Train to Heartbreak' is available on most streaming platforms as well as on pressed vinyl. You can get full details at www.moonviolet.com. As always, we're answering YOUR submitted questions and Lee joins in on the insanity. Topics include Riverdogs, CD collecting, KISS as Sesame Street characters, cruise ship gigs, pie, Bruce Springsteen songs, Rocky vs Rambo, favorite Overkill albums, Raging Slab, and much more! Lee also takes on Chris in another round of Beat the Geek hosted by Aaron Camaro! Did Lee emerge victorious? You'll have to listen to find out! Also, be sure

Eightball vocalist David Bush is our special guest this week for The Quarantine Sessions Vol12! Eightball's new album Love Struck will be released in June of 2020. You can get more information at https://www.eightballrocks.com/.   As always, we're answering YOUR listener-submitted questions. Topics covered this week include Wrathchild America, female rock guitarists, Dr. Seuss, Friday the 13th movies, movie soundtracks, RATT selling insurance, 90's Metallica, Iron Maiden eras, Rush albums, Black Sabbath, DIO guitar players, and much more!   Additionally, David will take on Chris in another round of Beat the Geek; the game show hosted by Aaron Camaro! Did David unseat Chris?? You'll have to listen to find out!   We hope you enjoy The Quarantine Sessions Vol12 and SHARE with a friend!   Contact Us! Rate, Review, and Subscribe in iTunes Join the Facebook Fan Page Follow on Twitter Follow on Instagram E-mail Us Subscribe to our Youtube channel! Support Us! Buy a T-Shirt! Donate to the

We're joined by a Decibel Geek legend this week as Shane "The Mooger Fooger" Paisley joins us for The Quarantine Sessions Vol11! If you've listened to Decibel Geek for any amount of time you're more than familiar with The Mooger Fooger as he's named pretty much every week during our Geeks of the Week segment. Who is this mystery man and how did he get his name? Listen and find out! As always, we're answering your submitted questions. Topics covered this week include our thoughts on the recent passing of Bob Kulick, time-travel concerts, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Dial MTV, Bill & Ted soundtracks, Mutt Lange, guitar bodies, concert home videos, pizza, and tons more! And closing things out, Mooger Fooger vs Chris Czynszak in another exciting round of Beat the Geek hosted by Aaron Camaro! We hope you enjoy The Quarantine Sessions Vol11 - Ep408 and SHARE with a friend! Contact Us! Rate, Review, and Subscribe in iTunes Join the Facebook Fan Page Follow on Twitter Follow on Instagram E-mail Us Subscribe

Rock photographer Mike G of MDG Rock Photography joins us this week for The Quarantine Sessions Vol10! Mike has been a staff photographer for many years and has taken some amazing live shots of many rock icons. You can check out his work at www.mdgrockphotography.com as well as the Decibel Geek Instagram account.   This week we touch on a myriad of topics including supergroups, favorite rock photographs, country acts covering rock songs, bands that inspired our love of rock, Ace Frehley's solo career, authors, video games, rock mascots, Winger's Purple Haze cover, and tons more!   Also, Aaron Camaro returns to host another round of Beat the Geek! Did Mike beat Chris? You'll have to listen to find out! We hope you enjoy The Quarantine Sessions Vol10 and SHARE with a friend!   Contact Us! Rate, Review, and Subscribe in iTunes Join the Facebook Fan Page Follow on Twitter Follow on Instagram E-mail Us Subscribe to our Youtube channel! Support Us! Buy a T-Shirt! Donate to the show!

We're doing the KISS thing again this week with special guest Andrew Sgambati for The Quarantine Sessions Vol9! Andrew recently released his new KISS fan film One Last Time Live from New York City The Movie!   This part documentary / part concert film is an inside journey into the KISS End of the Road tour. While the movie is focused on the current tour, it's so much more. The movie also touches on Andrew's personal KISStory; going back to the beginning of his fandom in 1988. You can watch the movie for FREE on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hDIvQSYrwY   As per usual with The Quarantine Sessions, we're taking YOUR questions. This week, all the questions are KISS-related. You guys submitted a ton of great questions and we got to as many as time would allow.  With so much KISS to focus on, we had to forgo Beat the Geek this week but it WILL return next week. We hope you enjoy The Quarantine Sessions Vol9 and SHARE with a friend!   Contact Us! Rate, Review, and Subscribe in iTunes Joi

It's our craziest episode yet as Rockin' Ron Runyon from Decibel Geek TV joins us for The Quarantine Sessions Vol8! If you aren't aware, Rockin' Ron has been capturing glorious live footage of your favorite bands for years. That footage is distributed via Decibel Geek TV on Youtube. Additionally, Ron has created some amazing enhanced versions of some of your favorite Decibel Geek episodes. It's all available at Decibel Geek TV. Please go there and subscribe, won't you? This episode goes off the rails in the best way as we answer YOUR listener questions while imbibing in our favorite spirits. Subjects covered this week include AXL/DC, Extreme, Paw, and Skid Row. Also, we talk about how we approach potential guests, Lizzy Borden, and lip-synching. Other topics include Saigon Kick, thrash metal, and Ozzy Osbourne. As always, we finish things off with another round of Beat the Geek; the weekly trivia show hosted by Aaron Camaro! Did Ron take out Chris? Honestly, it's hard to remember. Take a listen and find out

This week we're joined by Loose Cannon from the Cobras and Fire Podcast for The Quarantine Sessions Vol7! As we did last week with his digital life partner Bakko, LC joins us for another round of listener questions. We touch on all kinds of stuff in this episode. Topics include bad KISS lyrics, Badlands, the Big 4 of Sleaze?, beer, recording podcasts in a car, uses of umlauts, the smell of CD booklets, replacements for Gene Simmons, favorite podcasts, the harm that Sammy Hagar has done to this world and much more! Quarantine Sessions Vol7 Additionally, LC takes on Chris in another round of Beat the Geek hosted by Aaron Camaro! Did Loose Cannon outsmart Chris? Did Aaron pick brain-busting questions? You'll have to listen to find out! We hope you enjoy The Quarantine Sessions Vol7 and SHARE with a friend! The Decibel Geek Podcast is brought to you by Klick Tee Shop. Get your Decibel Geek swag and much more at www.klickteeshop.com! Contact Us! Rate, Review, and Subscribe in iTunes Join the Facebook Fan

This week we're joined by Bakko from the Cobras and Fire Podcast for The Quarantine Sessions Vol6! This week the guys are taking another round of YOUR questions. We touch on Van Halen albums, Paul Stanley's voice, underrated/overrated/perfectly rated bands, our planned career paths in high school, the Big 4, streetfighting theme songs, and tons more! Additionally, Bakko takes on Chris in another round of Beat the Geek! This trivia show that "goes to 11" is hosted by Aaron Camaro and he brought some serious brain busters this week. Did Chris defend his title? You'll have to listen to find out! We hope you enjoy The Quarantine Sessions Vol6 and SHARE with a friend! Contact Us! Rate, Review, and Subscribe in iTunes Join the Facebook Fan Page Follow on Twitter Follow on Instagram E-mail Us Subscribe to our Youtube channel! Support Us! Donate to the show! Stream Us! Stitcher Radio Spreaker TuneIn Become a VIP Subscriber! Click HERE for more info! Comment Below Direct Download     Learn more

We return this week for more listener questions, rock discussion, and trivia with The Quarantine Sessions Vol5! This week, host of the Mars Attacks podcast Victor Ruiz joins us for a spirited discussion based on YOUR questions! Subjects covered this week include Judas Priest, KISS, Quarantine tv shows, albums, and snacks of choice, and Van Halen's A Different Kind of Truth among many others. Quarantine Sessions Vol5 Additionally, Victor takes on Chris in another round of Beat the Geek! Did Chris return to form after last week's beatdown? You'll have to listen to find out! We hope you enjoy The Quarantine Sessions Vol5 and SHARE with a friend! Contact Us! Rate, Review, and Subscribe in iTunes Join the Facebook Fan Page Follow on Twitter Follow on Instagram E-mail Us Subscribe to our Youtube channel! Support Us! Donate to the show! Stream Us! Stitcher Radio Spreaker TuneIn Become a VIP Subscriber! Click HERE for more info! Comment Below Direct Download     Learn more about your ad choi

We're back again with another episode recorded via social distancing with The Qurantine Sessions Vol4! This week we're joined by the one and only Sonny "Hollywood" Pooni from the Growin' Up Rock and Podcast Rock City podcasts!   As we have been doing, we're back to answer YOUR questions that were submitted via our social media channels. We'll touch on lots of subjects this week including Pink Floyd, Weird Al, favorite rock documentaries, Van Halen, Hulk Hogan, Nickelback (yeesh), Vinnie Vincent (double-yeesh), and much more. Additionally, we discuss tons more KISS questions including Eddie Kramer, Eric Carr, Creatures of the Night, Psycho Circus, and tons more.   Quarantine Sessions Vol4   Finally, we play another round of Beat the Geek (yep, new title) as Chris takes on Sonny for 11 questions of rock n' roll trivia! We hope you enjoy The Quarantine Sessions Vol4 and SHARE with a friend!   OTHER Quarantine Sessions epiosdes   Contact Us! Rate, Review, and Subscribe in iTunes Join the Faceb

We hit our 400th episode this week as the weirdness continues with The Quarantine Sessions Vol3! Joining us this week for this KISS-centric episode is Podcast Rock City host Joe Polo! We've been fans of PRC since the very beginning and were stoked to have Joe on to help us answer KISS-related listener questions! We touch on damn near everything this week from thoughts on makeup design evolution, favorite guitars, hatred for Tommy and Eric, Paul Stanley's acting career, why Asylum rules and tons more! Additionally, Joe tried unseat Chris this week as reigning champion in Aaron Camaro's Rock n' Roll Game Show! Did he win? You'll have to listen and find out! We hope you enjoy The Quarantine Sessions Vol3 and SHARE with a friend! Contact Us! Rate, Review, and Subscribe in iTunes Join the Facebook Fan Page Follow on Twitter Follow on Instagram E-mail Us Subscribe to our Youtube channel! Support Us! Donate to the show! Stream Us! Stitcher Radio Spreaker TuneIn Become a VIP Subscriber! Click HERE f

This week Chris and Aaron are joined by Ian Wadley and Josh Toomey from the new Diabolus in Podcastica podcast for The Qurantine Sessions Vol2! We're stuck inside but that doesn't mean you don't deserve a show! This week Ian and Josh sit in with us to continue answering your listener questions. We touch on tons of subjects this week including music and otherwise! Above all else, we're happy to bust each other's balls for YOUR entertainment! Be sure to check out the Diabolus in Podcastica Podcast at https://www.spreaker.com/show/diabolus-in-podcastica and be sure to SHARE this episode with a friend! Contact Us! Rate, Review, and Subscribe in iTunes Join the Facebook Fan Page Follow on Twitter Follow on Instagram E-mail Us Subscribe to our Youtube channel! Support Us! Donate to the show! Stream Us! Stitcher Radio Spreaker TuneIn Become a VIP Subscriber! Click HERE for more info! Comment Below Direct Download     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're living in a strange time but that's not stopping us from getting on microphones and being ridiculous and we do just that with The Quarantine Sessions Vol1! We are having to practice social distancing but thanks to the magic of Skype, we're getting together virtually and answering your pre-submitted questions. The topics bounce around wildly in this episode and you'll get music related questions as well as some real life stories from the our childhoods. Additionally, we take some live phone calls for the first time. As you can figure, it's a comedy of errors. We're still figuring this technology out but had fun talking to a few of you and plan to do more of it going forward. We hope you are staying home, washing your hands, and enjoying The Quarantine Sessions Vol! Please SHARE and comment below! Contact Us! Rate, Review, and Subscribe in iTunes Join the Facebook Fan Page Follow on Twitter Follow on Instagram E-mail Us Subscribe to our Youtube channel! Support Us! Donate to the show! Stre

We get into some cool behind-the-scenes KISStory this week with our Conversation with Vincent DiGerlando! Vincent worked for Howard Marks Advertising for 14 year and, by proxy, KISS. Meeting the band in 1974, he would go on to design the iconic KISS Army logo! Additionally, Vincent had a major hand in several landmark KISS albums and products including the album covers for Double Platinum, the 78 solo albums, Unmasked, and Creatures of the Night. In this conversation, Vincent shares many interesting stories of working with the KISS team behind the scenes, the differences in design and printing compared to today, as well as his thoughts in hindsight of working with such a legendary band. We hope you enjoy Conversation with Vincent DiGerlando and SHARE with a friend! Contact Us! Rate, Review, and Subscribe in iTunes Join the Facebook Fan Page Follow on Twitter Follow on Instagram E-mail Us Subscribe to our Youtube channel! Support Us! Donate to the show! Stream Us! Stitcher Radio Spreaker TuneI

We're back this week to focus on all the news in the rock and metal world with New Noize 9! There's a lot of bleak news outside of the music world these days so we hope to provide a brief escape from it all in this episode. Starting things off, we give our in-depth review of the latest Ozzy Osbourne offering 'Ordinary Man'. Did we love it? Did we hate it? Do we disagree with each other? You'll have to listen to find out. Additionally, we discuss some of the latest developments between the Donnie Vie and Enuff Z'nuff camps. A lot has been put forth publicly by the former singer of our favorite pop rock band and we have our thoughts on the whol situation. Other topics discussed include Twisted Sister becoming licensing kings, updates on the Mick Mars solo album, Riot's singer trying out on The Voice (yes, we're serious), and a Nu-Metal tour that nobody asked for. Finally, we dig into some recent comments from Robb Flynn of Machine Head that didn't sit too well with Aaron Camaro. You'll hear Robb's comments

We're blessed to be joined by Tommy Skeoch this week as he reflects on the Tesla classic 'Psychotic Supper.' Coming on the heels of the successful 'Five Man Acoustical Jam' album, Tesla hit the studio in New York playing with house money. The recent success afforded them free reign to create an album devoid of record company pressure. The band went to work with producers Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero. The resulting album is a sonic platter of greatness. Psychotic Supper sounds as fresh today as it did in 1991. Boasting five successful singles including What You Give, Edison's Medicine, Song and Emotion, and Call It What You Want, Psychotic Supper achieved platinum status.  In this long-form discussion, Tommy Skeoch shares his memories of the making of this great album. Track by track, story by story; you'll get it all. We also get the inside track on Tommy's new band Resist and Bite. Putting the finishing touches on material, the band will soon be shopping for a label. In the meantime, we're giving yo