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Ace Frehley says he has had more than one close encounter with UFOs in his lifetime, and believes he knows why our Government has spoken more openly about the phenomenon in recent years. “I don’t think they have a choice at this point,” the former Kiss star tells UCR. “There have been so many sightings over the years, plus people claiming they have been abducted. The evidence is overwhelming.” Frehley also thinks he may have been visited by beings from another world. “I dreamt that I was [visited]. The dreams started happening a couple of weeks after I ended up unconscious between the open doo...
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Eddie Kramer, who helped secure Kiss’ future with his production work on their 1975 album Alive!, recalled how nervous Ace Frehley could be in the studio. In a recent interview with Guitar World, he said he’d resorted to special measures in order to get the best out of the guitarist for his 1978 self-titled solo debut. “Ace is interesting because many interesting things go on in his brain – but you must get him in the right mood to get that cool stuff out,” Kramer said. “I had to have him lie on the floor with a pillow behind his head and a bottle of Heineken because he was too nervous to stan...
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Ace Frehley says there are no hard feelings between he and Justin Hawkins after the Darkness frontman called the former Kiss guitarist “a cunt” during the Monsters of Rock cruise. Both men performed at the event, which ran from March 2-7. Other artists on the bill included Joe Satriani, Quiet Riot and KK’s Priest. Discourse arose after Frehley was late for one of his sets, causing the Darkness — who were going after him — to be delayed. “Let me tell you a little story,” Hawkins began when he finally hit the stage. “You’ll notice I wear a watch onstage. Some of you think… ‘He has to regard the ...
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Ace Frehley is strongly denying online accusations that he wasn’t the main guitar player on his new album. Since the well-received 10,000 Volts was released last month, some fans online have suggested that it was producer and founding Trixter guitarist Steve Brown who actually handled the majority of the guitar work on the record. “Wow. Listen to previous albums by Steve Brown. Do they sound like this record? I don’t think so. Number one, I’m doing all the vocals. Number two, I’m doing the majority of the solos,” the former Kiss star tells UCR. “You know, Steve grew up idolizing me. And he’s a...
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Ace Frehley said it took him years to get over being replaced on four tracks for Kiss‘ 1976 album Destroyer. Despite that, he said he normally got on well with producer Bob Ezrin, whose strict work ethic had come as a challenge to the infamously unruly guitarist. The sessions saw Ezrin shouting into Gene Simmons‘ face for giving up on a take without being told to, wearing a coaching whistle and, as Paul Stanley reported in his memoir, “Bob made a point of letting us know who was the boss. … He told us we didn’t know anything.” READ MORE: The Moment Ace Frehley Knew It Was Time to Leave Kiss Wo...
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Although it took him a while to fully break out of Earth’s orbit, Ace Frehley has had a long and successful solo career since he first left Kiss in 1982. Battles with substance abuse and a five-year reunion with his former bandmates caused Frehley to vanish in comet-like style for long stretches during ’80s, ’90s and ’00s. But over the past decade Frehley has kept up a recording pace few of his peers can match, crafting five new studio albums since 2014. Here’s the best solo or Frehley’s comet songs the original Spaceman has released since leaving his famous former band. With the exception of ...
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Ace Frehley doesn’t think about time. That’s what he tells us early in our conversation about his new solo album 10,000 Volts as we point out that it’s arriving 50 years after the debut album from his former band Kiss. “I don’t think about [that] and dates,” he explains. “I’ve been sober for 17 years and one of the things that they teach you in sobriety is to live in the now.” But hearing him talk about his career, there were plenty of moments where things were clear. As Kiss became more successful, his own personal profile grew too. He became more confident in his own abilities. Once he had a...
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Why did Ace Frehley leave KISS in 1982? The guitarist revealed a couple of reasons during an appearance on the Talk Is Jericho podcast with Chris Jericho, including one that relates to the band’s most recognizable trait – the makeup. Why Did Ace Frehley Initially Leave KISS?Though Frehley was still doing promotional appearances with the band late into 1982, the guitarist tells Jericho, “First time I left KISS was in ’81.” He recalls, “I remember them saying, ‘Ok, you’ve resigned yourself to leaving.’ Paul [Stanley] came up to my house, took me out to lunch and begged me not to leave. And I had...
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Ace Frehley has included at least one cover song on every solo album he’s ever released, but his most recent comes from a very unexpected source. The tradition started with Frehley’s 1978 debut solo album, when the Kiss star hit No. 13 on the pop charts with his cover of Hello’s “New York Groove.” Since that time he’s covered famous songs from ELO, Sweet, the Steve Miller Band and others on studio albums otherwise filled with original songs. He’s also released two records dedicated entirely to covers – 2016’s Origins Vol. 1 and 2020’s Origins Vol. 2. But on his newly released 10,000 Volts albu...
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Credit where it’s due: Ace Frehley knows how to make headlines. The Spaceman hasn’t been able to make a peep about his latest album 10,000 Volts without also taking a swipe at his former Kiss bandmates. He’s mocked their plans for a virtual afterlife, boasted that he can sing better than Paul Stanley and claimed that his new album will make his ex-cohorts “look like imbeciles.” The bad news for Frehley is that 10,000 Volts isn’t going to make Kiss look like imbeciles. The good news is it doesn’t make him look like one either. The album finds Frehley largely sticking to what he knows best: catc...
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