Ace Frehley *FINALLY* OWNS UP To His Bad Behavior During "Destroyer"

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

I ❤ Ace With love from Philadelphia USA 🇺🇸 Nostrovia 😱🙏🏥🌎

[@petesevern7638]

Ace owned his mistakes. He was accountable. Gotta love him for doing so! 💓

[@redsed1565]

SpAce man lead guitar. Gotta luv him❤❤❤

[@PatriciaEsposito-i8u]

There will never be a band like kiss ever again

[@santosmadrigal3702]

It's hard work to be Kiss . Then you got people like Ace and Peter that were very lucky to have met with Gene and Paul ... You can't just step out the door and be a star .

[@PatriciaEsposito-i8u]

Yes I agree I love kiss especially the originals I just don't like them w/ singer & Thayer in ACE & peters make up ,there good don't get me wrong but they weren't there in the beginning

[@HappyMachorino-bd8no]

​​​@@PatriciaEsposito-i8u True. Tommy and Eric were not there in the beginning. But they were always there until the end. They worked instead of Ace and Peter and kept their contribution in KISS alive. Tommy and Eric wore the original make-up to show: We are working for KISS, because those guys can't work anymore. But we represent them. Like Rock soldiers 🪖we wear the same uniforms. That's why I accept and respect Tommy and Eric.

[@owlperchedsilo3745]

Ace was the best member of Kiss

[@grk608]

Agree to disagree. Paul is the MAN!

[@christianhebditch]

@@grk608Sorry but how many guitarist’s has Paul influenced! Ace influenced more people,along with Jimi Hendrix in the 60’s and Eddie Van Halen in the 80’s!

[@Fluffy-Alien-Kitten]

And also Peter Criss in my option from original members💚

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

Best member? Not if you’re supposed to work with him.

[@Muddog-md7ob]

@@grk608he’s also an over compensator that projected his insecurities about power dynamics onto everyone else

[@TRUMPUSA1]

My sister was a DJ and did an AM Radio Show in Garden City, Michigan with Dick Wagner. RIP BOB KULICK

[@1968spikey]

He never missed a gig though. 😊

[@MichaelSimmons.]

He missed a tv taping after The Elder. They went on as a trio

[@1968spikey]

@MichaelSimmons. that's not a gig.

[@HappyMachorino-bd8no]

He wrote in No Regrets that he had problems with studio work. Gigs were easier. The fans didn't care about his mistakes. Other than the studio workers. And at concerts he could drink or take something. But in a studio there was always more control. .

[@brianstrutter1501]

Almost missed one on the Reunion tour. Had to go on about an hour late

[@1968spikey]

@@brianstrutter1501 exactly. He never missed a gig. 😎

[@GeorgeFrehley]

Dick Wagner did a great studio take of Flaming Youth and Ace did a great Flaming Youth the few times they played it live

[@Acejustforalaugh]

Magical time. Ace is the man !

[@thejahlion]

he wasn't hitting studio 54 during destroyer. The club didn't open until April 77. So he was partying somewhere else, but just doesn't remember.

[@ozzyace71]

As a long time Kiss fan from Australia 🇦🇺 I’m happy to see this video (being an Ace fan) despite my (not so good) experience in seeing Ace (solo) in 2017. Be nice if other members would admit their mistakes as well.

[@williamlangan5902]

Ace and Peter, though less steady and reliable than Gene and Paul, both seemed to be born to play their respective instruments. It took longer to encourage Peter to write. But starting on Destroyer, write he did with Beth. Ace was writing since their debut, with Cold Gin. Ace had to be coaxed to sing lead vocals. He finally did sing lead with Shock Me on 1977’s Love Gun. The thing with some of these bands is once they think outside the box, they sometimes expect more in the future. I think the solo albums idea was a great one, which unfortunately was more the “writing on the wall” for Ace and Peter. Paul and Gene were the chief songwriters and lead singers by nature. And since they stayed in the band longer, that may be why when Ace and Peter’s names are mentioned, they each say “Sorry but we gave both of them more than one chance!” That’s not to say Kiss was the same when Peter left, then Ace. It wasn’t.

[@1968spikey]

@@williamlangan5902 Beth was written while Peter was in Chelsea prior to Kiss

[@williamlangan5902]

@@1968spikey , yeah, and the Star Child called him out on it. “If he’s such a gifted songwriter, how come he hasn’t had more hits?” One time you could call Paul Stanley a “fallen star!”

[@1968spikey]

@@williamlangan5902 that not the point I was referring to. Peter did not "start" with writing Beth on Destroyer, it was a demo penned years prior from a previous band.

[@HappyMachorino-bd8no]

It's no use in using trivialities. Of course KISS was not the same when Peter left, then Ace. But The Rolling Stones were not the same either, when they fired Brian Jones. They became better. For many fans KISS became better in the 80s.

[@brianstrutter1501]

Peter didn't wrote or even co-write Beth. Stan Penridge did and he even said so. Peter changed like 2 lines in the song and got the copyright.

[@basher5107]

I had a bass player that never made it to practice on time so if practice was at seven we told him Six and it worked just fine

[@DMSProduktions]

DID he show up to GIGS on time tho?

[@aaronw8781]

Sounds like our guitar player. Usually shows up for gigs with just enough time to run a sound check.

[@DMSProduktions]

@@aaronw8781 As LONG as he got there to start!

[@HappyMachorino-bd8no]

It didn't work with Ace. Tommy told him to come earlier. When they called him at home he didn't answer the calls. He even managed to miss three planes. Then he was bashing Tommy he was a liar. Because he told him the wrong time, and so on.

[@basher5107]

@@DMSProduktions yeah he was never late for gigs I don’t know if it was because it was later in the evening or what and he was very well practiced and good and we liked him so we put up with it Now the studio was much different when time is money and he was fired

[@alonzovillarreal4666]

Ace was the best. I like Gene and Paul as well and even though Peter was largely responsible for me wanting to be a drummer, I quickly outgrew his approach to playing. He did play his best for a period of time. Ace is has always been cool from a fans POV.

[@pauljams6565]

Great guitarist, great dude. . .🎶🎸💥.

[@ejames6431]

SPACE ⚡ACE

[@EricFansher]

12 years of sobriety! 🤣

[@Eddie-o3e]

How about the band MINI KISS???

[@Martin-es8mb]

Remember the infamous interview with Tom S.he was drunk as.skunk and laughing himself silly.

[@markherring3513]

"Tell me about it."

[@Martin-es8mb]

@@markherring3513 ace frehley made himself look silly being drunk as a skunk

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

@@Martin-es8mb No, he made Gene and Paul look silly.

[@markherring3513]

@Martin-es8mb I know..duh!..."Tell me about it!" was one of his drunk laughter comebacks to Snyder.

[@HappyMachorino-bd8no]

Later Ace blamed Paul and Gene they would destroy his reputation in the music business. Does anyone who saw him on the Tom Snyder Show need Paul and Gene to tell them more about Ace? Everyone loves a joker, but no one wants to work with him.

[@My_trashtalking_account]

Gotta remember though, Ace was not a skilled or disciplined guitar player. And recording is not easy. Even when you're playing easy music. It's something that you have to be on your game to do (back then).

[@donniemoder1466]

Ace turned out to be irreplaceable. Ace was a major component of the KISS sound. And they never found a lead guitarist that could match him. Of course he had to be kicked out of the band, he was a mess and just was not cooperative enough.

[@paulmoore-LPC-LMFT-NCC]

Like Ace, but he was replaceable.

[@HappyMachorino-bd8no]

The tragic is that Ace can't match himself either. But Tommy, his Alter Ego (on stage), kept Ace alive in KISS.

[@jonldavis]

How late are you when you have time to go find another guitarist.

[@HappyMachorino-bd8no]

I don't think Bob Ezrin had to wait. Dick Wagner was waiting for him, for his call.

[@ThePlunger-i3l]

Don't know of any other guitarist that invented the smoking guitar. How many years did Tommy play Ace, and get paid? Gene and Paul are the 🤡of the band.

[@HappyMachorino-bd8no]

Not sure if it wasn't Sean Delaney? He arranged the stage show. Tommy's performance was always an original KISS procedure. It's what KISS fans expected.

[@ThePlunger-i3l]

@@HappyMachorino-bd8no Tommy was nothing more than a poor mans Ace Frehley. Living off the back of Ace, and what Ace had already achieved. Tommy never performed the smoking guitar. He was a sandwich maker a gopher, that hung around and finally wormed his way on stage.

[@HappyMachorino-bd8no]

@@ThePlunger-i3l There IS definitely a video on KZbin: Tommy was playing a smoking🎸. Ace has more magic. But nonetheless it's a KISS procedure.

[@bobpugliese4428]

​@ThePlunger-i3l tommy was the stage manager and he had to teach ace the songs for the reunion tour. Ace quit the band and blew his money. He filed bankruptcy and lost his home in foreclosure. Tommy was offered the job the reason he wore the makeup ? Ace's broke ass sold the rights to it. Ace has lived off of his kiss legacy. Almost every interview he's done has been about kiss. I like ace but he's never grown as a player he's played the same licks for 40 years only worse. 10k volts his solo album hardly. He contributed 5 % and can't even play the songs live. What great guitarist talks about his old band for forty years. Tommy was offered a job worth millions and did a great job

[@ThePlunger-i3l]

@@bobpugliese4428 Tommy was a sandwich maker, and played the songs and Solo's that Ace made. Go whine to someone else crybaby. 👶🍼

[@thebluesrockers]

IMO "Destroyer" is their worse studio album from the original four members. I'm NOT a fan of Bob Ezrin. I didn't like Destroyer and I didn't like "Music From The Elder. I liked a few songs from Destroyer but Bob rejected nearly everything Kiss brought to the studio. Lucky for Kiss that their song Beth hit the charts. Because the album Destroyer wasn't selling as well as they anticipated. Eddie Kramer was called in to record "Rock N Roll Over" and all the original tunes that made it onto that album was rejected by Bob. IMO the song "Beth" sounded the best when Kiss performed that "Live" on their MTV Unplugged show. I did love several tunes from Destroyer though. God Of Thunder, Sweet Pain, Do You Love Me & Shout It Out Loud. I liked every song on Rock N Roll Over with the exception of "See You In Your Dreams" I didn't hate it, but it's the only weak link. "Love Gun was great except for "And Then She Kissed Me. that one sucked ass! IMO. Ace's solo's on every song that he played on fit the tunes perfectly. I even prefer his version of Eddie Van Halen's solo on "Christine Sixteen" But many people never heard Eddie's version. But it's on YT for those that care to hear it. Thanks for the killer video. I subscribed.

[@OnyxJaguar]

I'm glad I read this take. I never listen to Destroyer but have the first four albums and love gun on constant repeat. Destroyer just doesn't sound like Kiss as much as I like Detroit Rock City

[@thebluesrockers]

@@OnyxJaguar My favorite song from "Destroyer" is "Sweet Pain" The only version of "Beth" I like is on the "Unplugged" concert. Ace played an amazing solo. Side 4 of "Alive-2" has three treasures on it. "All American Man & "Larger Than Life" and of course "Rocket Ride" Outside of those three songs, I'm not a fan of that album. It just feels like they stifled Ace's solo's on that album.

[@kingofallwhites]

His behavior now is much worse. He’s a trump clown now.

[@BillBlazejowski]

You sound gay

[@Grabowski65]

Sober now.

[@JacksonAxe]

No adult in their right mind would vote for 4 more years of what they just put up with.

[@kingofallwhites]

@@JacksonAxe Voting for Trump is insanity

[@JacksonAxe]

He did fine first time. History is clear on that.

[@mikestiffler7921]

I think the first records didnt sell because they sounded like shit. The guitars were thin & weak sounfing. Had no punch whatsoever! Wasnt the songs, it was the sound that screwed them. Imo

[@hugnroll]

I Like First Three Album Sounds And Love Hotter Than Hell Sound. I Think That If First Album Cover Was Differend It Would Been Selling Better? If It Was Like Picture Where Peter Had Knife In His Hand? 🔪🐱🔪 🤘😝🤘 KIZZ Forever!