R.I.P. Ace Frehley, the best KISS member by far!!!

[forktender]

With this trademark triple Humbucker, Les Paul, Ace was an amazing player, not the most technical player, but his stage presents, and his ability to keep tight in the pocket was his trademark playing style.

I will have one of his guitars in my collection, sooner than later.
As a young kid, I wore out my KISS Destroyer, KISS Alive, and KISS Alive 2 albums, and drove my parents absolutely insane. I've seen KISS live in concert eight times, the last time was 3 or 4 yrs ago without Ace on the guitar, and I almost walked out mid show I was so bummed, but my wife had never seen them, so I stuck it out, but it just wasn't the same without Ace.

RIP brother, you brought yrs of joy too my ears, you were a God to me in my young teens.

 

[JckDanls 07]

Yup.. RIP

forktender ... Tell us how you really feel...

 

[Steve H]

Yup, hell of a player. Hell of a group. RIP Ace.

 

[JC in GB]

First main stream band I ever went to see. That was the Lick It Up tour.

RIP Ace.

JC

 

[forktender]

Yup.. RIP

forktender ... Tell us how you really feel...

I'm pretty sure I just did.

 

[BGKYSmoker]

Cheap Trick opened for Kiss in 77. Kiss was upset that they got better reviews than them. Anyways.
Cheap Trick even gave them a good jab on their surrender song.

Yeah im that old....And I remember watching the shuttle pop off the 747 to glide to EAFB That happened right over my parents house in Littlerock, Calif.......Yikes

 

[chef k-dude]

I was a huge Kiss fan as a kid. I did halloween with friends one year and Ace was my character. I was actually called Ace by my peers, teachers and even my Ex mother and father in law as a teen. I was a rebel and found myself in summer school between 7th and 8th grade. That teacher (no other teachers ever did this) asked if any of the kids had nicknames they wanted to be called. I dont remember if it was me or one of my friends who knew I was a Kiss fan and specifically Ace who said it, but that day I was branded "Ace" and that was my name through the rest of high school. No joke, I literally signed my name Ace as my first name.

It wasn't until my senior year when I was selected as a welding student to work as a trainee at an army research and development facility that I started using my real first name. When I graduated, I dropped the name...opting for maturity in the welding field. Took years for people to stop calling me Ace. My ex mother-in-law called me Ace until the day she died.

As far as Kiss the band, in my opinion Alive 1 was their pinnacle, they got real cheesy from destroyer-forward in my opinion and I was devastated that radio played Beth ad-nauseam. I loved rock and roll, guitars, drums and bass played hard. Beth was an insult to rock and roll! I still have songs in my mix from Alive 1 only. Only years later did I learn how overdubbed that album was! I thought it was raw concert recordings...not!

Cheap Trick opened for Kiss in 77. Kiss was upset that they got better reviews than them. Anyways.
Cheap Trick even gave them a good jab on their surrender song.

Yeah im that old....And I remember watching the shuttle pop off the 747 to glide to EAFB That happened right over my parents house in Littlerock, Calif.......Yikes

Kiss gave upstarts to a lot of bands by selecting them as opening acts. Some were by far better bands over time! But Kiss were the kingmakers for decades. Biggest difference between Cheap Trick and Kiss...about 80 million albums more sold by Kiss...and then there's the merch. Kiss probbaly made as much money on the merch as they did albums and concerts.

I moved on to Sabbath, Deep Purple, etc. by the time I was 13-14. The album Rock and Roll Over was it for me. No more wasting my money.