Ace Frehley Live guitar solo Kiss from San Fran in 1975

Space Ace was my first guitar hero, this black / white classic footage has it all, niffy triplet turn-around penatonic licks, uni-son string bends and a surprise bit of pick tapping all the way back in 75' If you got the time please check out my channel Lefty99riffs with guitar cover, improv jams, and my original guitar music is available at www.cdbaby.com/...

[@stemikger]

He was great here, sadly he no longer plays even close to this, but in his day, he was awesome!

[@JefferyHagen]

It’s probably age among other things. My 59 year old fingers just don’t work like they used to.

[@stevejohnston8543]

@@JefferyHagenGuess I should count myself lucky, continue to improve with no issues. Thing with Ace is he reached a certain level and never really pushed himself to go beyond. Kind of Kirk Hammett.

[@brycev.5170]

It's sad because he keeps posting live clips for his current tour and I'm just like 😅. Huge fan tho. It's just so different now

[@JB-hq7vp]

He is 73 for God sakes....lol...wtf do you expect

[@markwhited1785]

I saw him a few years ago and he is still pretty damn good.

[@mrwascaly42]

Over the years, keyboard warriors have trashed Ace's guitar skills. In all reality, he was Shred Master General long before most of them were even a scratch in their daddy's nads.

[@chriscampbell9191]

A lot of them weren't alive in the 70's, as you mention -- so they are unaware of the state of rock guitar back then. Back then what Ace did here, and what Jimmy Page did in Heartbreaker (which, at the time, was the required solo for guitarists to learn to sound 'cool'), was really the closest thing to 'shredding' that one could hear on record. It wasn't until late in the decade when Schenker hit, and then Eddie Van Halen changed things forever with Eruption, that what we now call 'shredding' became an art form....

[@Greggyboyz60]

100% facts

[@SuperStuff-hb5lg]

Yeah, Ace was never given the respect he deserved.

[@Ronniejamesleo]

Why even pay any attention to those morons in the first place?

[@Bartockamus]

​@@chriscampbell9191I feel like Ronnie Montrose is Not known by enough of my sisters and brothers. Definitely an American Metal Pioneer!

[@yvonnewebster6879]

I know this is about the great guitar work of Ace Frehley, but Pete Criss on drums only adds to the greatness of this solo.

[@jimfromMaine]

I didn't see any hint of great guitar work

[@joejones9520]

ive got ace frehley, ive got peter criss waiting there for me yes i do...

[@joshchristian8598]

When they were all still real hungry...Ace has a voice on guitar, even tho he's using the same penta licks of the day that everyone used, he found a way to sound like himself... he didn't set out to do it he's just got hella swagger and zero f's to give... and, it comes accross. Of the four original members Ace is the best musician hands down, peter could sing, Gene and Paul had their beatle thing but Ace? Had one purple and one orange sneaker... the dude was the 1970s .... one of my main musical dads! Long live ya' Paul (Ace) 😊

[@philipholmes5884]

I thought he wore different colored socks to the audition...it was sneakers ???

[@duncandistortion]

ace influenced a hell of a lot of players.

[@jmilne5751]

has Tommy Thayer...doubt it

[@duncandistortion]

@@jmilne5751 I guess if it wasn't for ace, thayer wouldn't have got the gig.

[@jmilne5751]

@@duncandistortion I'm waiting for Tommy to put out a solo album of his own songs....gonna be waiting a damn long time...

[@Testing-123]

Ace's approach to using dynamics during his solos of going from fast-to-slow and using low-to-high phrasing is a cornerstone of the traditional lead guitar break. Such an ICON!!

[@wizerulz]

Ace and a Les Paul ….epic!!

[@JamesBumbalough-jv8gv]

I would say in the old days he was a great player

[@EikeMenzel]

1976 ACE shredded 'Eruption' with his the smoking Les Paul Custom and Influenced a boy named Eddy... History! That's Why ACE FREHLEY's absolutely a Guitar God.

[@tedcabana]

Eddie always said that he did not invent finger-tapping, but was inspired by Jimmy Page's Heartbreaker solo. Yet, many, many guitar players before him have been recorded using the finger tapping technique. Ace was a few years ahead of Eddie in that aspect.

[@EikeMenzel]

@@tedcabana, it is all History now. Fingertapping startet with Robert Johnson (if you believe in Michael Schenker) which was one (if not *the* Inspiration) to Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck or Prince... 🤔 Paul Daniel *Ace Frehley* is a Master for Eddie van Halen (He said once to a Reporter of 'Guitar&Bass' - Magazine / Germany 11/1977)... 🤔 Music based on 8 Tones and had so many Variation's of bringin' these together since 1.500 Years (the dawn of writing down Songs...) 🤭 # 1 of Modern day Rock-Guitar are also so many that noone could Name any. Does it *matter* ? 🤭 I don't think so. Anybody who likes Music is welcome ...

[@stanlee-eq7lu]

Yes, Ace influenced EVH with the tapping. But Eddie's greatest guitar hero was actually Eric Clapton.

[@tedcabana]

@@stanlee-eq7lu Yes. That I do know.

[@chatgpt-n8r]

hardly eruption

[@michaeldunn6107]

It's easy to forget how good they were at one time 74, and 75 just rock and roll as it should be!

[@Jaycee731]

Say what you want about Ace and his talent. He was the most talented member of the original line up. Had the most successful solo album. Lived the life of a huge rockstar with bands like Judas Priest and Van Halen opening up for him. And he just released a new album.

[@kevinbirge2130]

Always killer. Always inspiring.

[@britneyspears1932]

ACE IS A TRUE GUITAR GOD 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@officialacefrehleychannel]

Hello Britney How are you doing today? Nice meeting you here!

[@jakefoxx7978]

You can't top the way he tapped rapidly and then gradually slowed down 👌😔

[@blazinchalice]

Coming up on FIFTY YEARS ago! Long live rock 'n' roll!!

[@warmitag]

Ace Frehley tapping in '75... who would have thought?

[@lefty99riffs]

yes he was be it sloppy and more of a visual trick then musical but the idea was still there in 75 !!

[@RebeccaStout]

Right?

[@KombatRealm]

@@lefty99riffs the idea has existed long before ace picked up a guitar.

[@davidhenrylake2047]

Watch Atomic Rooster I Cant Take No More - 1971 Johnny DuCann did it first.

[@BullToTheShit]

Gene on seeing Eddie playing for the first time: "I saw this guy (Eddie) like tapping away on his guitar, *WHICH I HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE* " kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZucpn2kbc5nb80

[@lefty99riffs]

glad you liked it my dvd from the vault vids will continue !! the most interesting part of this one is Ace taps with his pick back in 75' a few years before the Van Halen tapping craze began....

[@TonyFuentesTV]

Funny...in the 70's I totally followed Ace!!! Ace ruled!!

[@FredClouse-h2h]

Going to see Ace tonight in Sandusky Ohio at bike week 🤘

[@thebluesrockers]

How was the show?

[@David-k2x4c]

I wish he could still play like that.

[@daveb8449]

Yeah, he's pretty awful now. Drugs take their toll.

[@lefty99riffs]

nice to see your still around brother, more from my DVD Vault is coming !!

[@toddcaylor370]

Wow. Ok. I love Ace too, BUT it seems a lot of people here are misinformed about the origin of tapping, so feel free to look this up online for clarification. Neither Ace Frehley, OR Edward Van Halen originated the tapping technique. MANY guitar players (even some who primarily played acoustic) were doing limited tapping YEARS before either Ace or Edward. Angus Young for one, played a limited tap during "Baby Please Don't Go", in 1973, and Jimmy Page had been doing it since the mid-sixties. IN FACT, EVH himself said that it was after seeing Zeppelin in '72, when Page taps during the solo break in "Heartbreaker", THAT was what really inspired him to develop his own technique. The primary reason EVH is credited with originating tapping, is because when "Eruption" was heard by everyone for the first time, although many other guitarists utilized tapping in the technique, EVH was the first to do it for complex periods of timing and octave changes--orchestrating long runs that no one had ever heard before. He was FAR from being the originator of the technique though. As was Ace Frehley.

[@lefty99riffs]

wow a lot of comments on this vid lately I think the overall recent decline of Ace's playing and some newer concert vids blasting him has given this video a new life so to speak since you are clarifying the history for folks here is the correct history on Jimmy Page for you Page actually did not tap in the Heartbreaker solo studio or otherwise...What Page did was push down / bend the strings downward behind the nut before the tuning pegs or use his hand as a capo on the fretboard in front / before his hands playing the guitar doing hammer-ons up and down the neck very sloppy too as more of a showy thing than being musical and Eddie saw that live in person and said what if I tap on the fret-board instead....

[@toddcaylor370]

@@lefty99riffs I know what you're speaking of and you're correct to a point. What Page did is a primitive form of it--same thing with Angus Young, but it evolved into something more complex, and remember, I'm simply repeating EVH words himself. Edward developed a far more complex two-handed technique later, as did other players like Rik Emmett, who used it in a more "classical" approach but--nonetheless...and we haven't even gotten to Randy Rhoades who was playing the strip at the same time Mammoth/VH was. Edward wasn't the first, he was just insanely good at, and did it for longer, more complex stretches of time. I'll even quote Guitar World : "...Eddie might not have been the first, but Eruption was the first time any of us had heard a player tap for that long using both hands at lightening speed"...

[@jeffkaufman9875]

Just prior or just after the first major commercial breakthrough, the beginning of the end…

[@yongkim777]

At the pinnacle of his career!

[@kibscott6096]

The REAL SPACEMAN!!!!! Ace !!!!!

[@thomasaronson6482]

THE REAL ACE IS THE F'N PLACE .THANK YOU

[@jawsartist]

Tapping before EVH and everyone says Eddie started it. Nope

[@BullToTheShit]

Ace didn't start it either! Lol Genesis' guitarist was doing it in 1972. He didn't invent it either! But Eddie DID popularize it and took it to a whole new level where everyone at the the time thought he invented it, and he did nothing do discourage that belief. It wasn't until KZbin came along and showed old footage of guys from the 1930s '40s '50s & '60s had done it.

[@jawsartist]

BullToTheShit Did I say ace started it? Then you call me a genius right before a sentence that says “guitarist was doing it in 1972”. Your grammar is impeccable.

[@BullToTheShit]

@@jawsartist I didn't call you a "Genius" you idiot, Lol. I referenced the band "Genesis". > " *Your grammar is impeccable* " Embarrassed much?

[@alexm5764]

Who the hell even says he started it? EVH himself even said he didn't invent it, he was inspired by Jimmy Page who was tapping with one hand. EVH didn't invent it, he made it sound the best.

[@leothecuisinart]

@@BullToTheShit there was an italian named vittorio camardese who was tapping in the 60s. i'm sure he wasn't the first guy either, but most likely the first to be recorded on film doing it.

[@nasserjasin8972]

GUITAR-GOD OF EARTH ACE FREHLEY

[@willchew4040]

ACE FOREVER !!!

[@justinfendelet8675]

Aewsome!!! From a fellow lefty!!!!!!!

[@guglielmo64]

Great stuff! ❤

[@dmaster4194]

AMAZING !!!!

[@joeaxe]

Ace Frehley tapping in 1975 #KISS50

[@Mrguitarjoy09]

Early Kiss is the best!

[@kimberlypotts5014]

Play it baby and your the greatest

[@Dragbike900]

Love, the fact that the camera was solely on Ace and Ace only. the other two clowns took away from Ace on stage. And ended up with all the money. In the end.

[@MusicStudent1]

I like KISS’s philosophy - they changed their guitars and basses to fit their look and sound. I think Ace even has his strap on “backwards” so the custom design he had done to it are more visible. It’s backwards, isn’t it? Correct me if I’m wrong. Ace (and to a slightly lesser extent Ted) started it all for me.

[@corneliuscrewe677]

Not backwards, he moved the strap button from it’s normal location from the side to the back of the guitar.

[@patrickriley9347]

Raw AF !!!

[@moiresendiz4102]

Maestro!!!!!

[@genyceballos4489]

❤heeeey,!!! Grandioso ,el mejor KISS ❤ SPACE ACE ❤por supuesto. ❤ A!!!!!CE FREHLEY ❤

[@officialacefrehleychannel]

Hello Geny How are you doing today? Nice meeting you here!

[@genyceballos4489]

@@officialacefrehleychannel WOW!! Dios ?❤👍💋💋💋💋

[@genyceballos4489]

@@officialacefrehleychannel fine!!! Fine thaks

[@officialacefrehleychannel]

@@genyceballos4489 That sounds so nice So glad you like my works Can I know where you are commenting from?

[@genyceballos4489]

@@officialacefrehleychannel from México Cyty. I am

[@jeffholt9437]

Thank f""k we got the edited solos for both Ace and Peter on both the Alive albums......

[@sammyrothrock6981]

Space Ace !

[@daveb8449]

Ace definitely had the moves and the swag back then.

[@contemposuits1983]

I would like to see a video on how to play this solo. It is epic Ace.

[@lefty99riffs]

I have a vid playing the live solo thing from Kiss Alive 2 but it is not a lesson just search you tube I am sure there is a dude who does the Alive 1 Ace solo lesson which is what this basically is

[@scottycunningham1413]

From a technical standpoint it's nothing special, but he plays with great tone, pocket and phrasing. His usage of dynamics should be studied. Tension and release.

[@joqu6971]

That line up of kiss in 75 was solid

[@patmayer7222]

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, KISS FOREVER❤

[@averyadrian1534]

Figaro

[@apogeedata]

Absolutely when Kiss ruled the world, God ace was a God back then

[@justinfendelet8675]

Lefty here too❤

[@cainm8808]

Wow he was so young

[@rjc7289]

He sure was firing on all cylinders back in the day. Nowadays, not so much.

[@patrickriley9347]

I doubt you are either.

[@matthewjdouglas6471]

Ace and thunders and steve jones are my 3 favourite guitar players. Not the best technically but for sheer attitude and tone nd chops yeah they all rock

[@lefty99riffs]

hell yeah, make up, outfits, bombs,smoke, and Volume, Bang for your Buck..

[@WayneBastianelli-fb6jx]

Eddy Van Halen must have been watching this I was 9 jammin this like Live in my room my mom trashed my stereo it was in the can

[@Slammintone]

I liked his suit!

[@erics9754]

Yes me as well i like the early Kiss costumes better than the 1977-79 ones. The 74-76 ones were the best especially Aces.

[@Tysandifer]

Man and to think you could be in vietnam amd listening to kiss 😂 crazy how time works

[@bobbiedeleon4845]

2:22 I wonder if Gene tried to explain tapping to Ace after witnessing the master EVH?

[@davelaw8913]

ACE FREHLEY TAP MASTER!!!

[@johnnovak9982]

Ace ruled💯🤘🏼

[@ligo-s8l]

Esse é o verdadeiro KISS🎸

[@robcale8165]

" "Shumimishe, in schpite of all of thish......... I'm shtill a drunk".

[@lefty99riffs]

agreed Parasite is one of the best Kiss tunes thanks for comment

[@larrynoe6162]

Gene’s Grabber awesome.

[@rockmusician7269]

Ace was a pretty good guitar player 😁👍🎵🎶🎶

[@jedialpha2]

Figaro, Figaro...

[@YTusercomment]

Ace...doing the "Tapping" technique in 1975.

[@OceanbornAngel]

I was like 3 years old back then?

[@philheath9854]

I find the way he holds the pick real unusual.I see others doing it this way but the only way I can hold it is with my other three fingers straight. I find it easier to control....

[@kylogehrod4358]

This is great, but it doesn't bother me at all that most guitar solos are shorter these days!

[@jameswise7719]

I remember when kiss was cool This was it . After 1977 wtf happened?

[@lefty99riffs]

sex drugs egos & rock and roll !

[@charleskollin1221]

Hey Eddie. Ace Frehley just called and he wants his...

[@lefty99riffs]

Yes Sir me included !!

[@cecilmusick8629]

Ace was so much better in these early days before he let the excesses of fame and fortune in the form of booze and drugs take over.

[@saldifrancesca2500]

Simple, easy pentatonic licks....😂I learned this back in the 70s when I was 12......

[@martinbaker2322]

Ì realize it now. I've always failed to wear an upside-down triangle!!!

[@_vixen_4504]

And people give EVH credit for tappning while Ace ( the best guitarist of the 70’s) did it before EVH hmmmm

[@cristianconnolly2709]

Who cares who did it first (ACE was not the first one to do it btw) Is this a race or music? EVH popularized tapping because he sounded great doing it, he took the idea and developed it.

[@_vixen_4504]

@@cristianconnolly2709 Yea i know that Ace wasn’t the first but he never gets credit for the fact that he did it even before EVH

[@williamsidis5489]

@@_vixen_4504 listen to some of aces solo off rock and roll over and your sure to here many tones like eddie van halen . And ace never used a whammy bar for his passing dives just tuners .

[@Duck_Dodgers]

Best guitarist of the 70s you joking right maybe in top 10

[@stanlee-eq7lu]

Back when KISS was hungry for success, unlike the Reunion Tour and everything that followed.

[@metallic_zombie_killer9837]

Kiss would not have reached half the fame they recieved if not for Ace!

[@JeffThompson-l4p]

Ace was ok live...but some of his studio stuff is just off the hook..he did some really good work on his solo album while still in KISS when they all put out the albums...and then he did some great stuff with the Comet's and my favorite album of his is Trouble Walking...he really cuts some big swaths on that record...🎸🎸🎸

[@thomasnagy3506]

He taught Eddy how to play.

[@横山康治-w3x]

何気にライトハンドやってる　世界初かも

[@SimplyTC]

Kiss died when Pete and Ace left the group.

[@benjaminzingale5477]

Not true Ace was the best guitar player they had however Ace and Peter made their own decision

[@kcbrutality5271]

was Ace tapping before Eddy ?

[@knightfall9394]

harvey mandell and steve hackett were tapping before ace, if you listen to vh club bootlegs from around this time he might have been tapping

[@trollmunchkinzm4364]

Wow ace tapping before evh, interesting. Turns out nothing evh did was original

[@Ronniejamesleo]

Fyi EVH was so original that tablature was invented to explain what he was doing on the guitar.

[@JamesBumbalough-jv8gv]

That's kiss alive 1

[@rkr7372]

The only real musician in that band.

[@InglesParaAmericaLatina]

Eddie Van Halen had nothing him.

[@bryonkidder6199]

EVH definitely stole a bunch from Ace Frehley and then claimed it as his own...lol

[@Nicholas-dreamlove]

Ace is finger tapping.

[@DouglasSnodgrass]

Eddie Van Halen did not invent tapping. Ace Frehley and Steve Hackett were pioneers. But Eddie did perfect it

[@neobx2]

Frehley not Freeley

[@jeffcote6649]

Funny I read about how sloppy his guitar playing was. And yes it is very sloppy but he's made millions of dollars off of it lol. More than any of you haters here lol. Somebody bought thier records and gone to their concerts. The people were not forced to buy or go. So I don't understand all the hatred here. He was cool as fuck and me being 48 I still wanna be Ace Frehley.

[@stuartromig9576]

Ace invented 'tapping'...and Eddie stole it.

[@JMXification]

You're kidding, right?

[@stuartromig9576]

@@JMXification Ace never kids...

[@knightfall9394]

@@stuartromig9576harvey mandell and steve hackett were doing that shit yrs before ace, he got it from them

[@twilightbin]

I just realized Van Halen was probably heavily influenced by KISS

[@knightfall9394]

They weren’t

[@InglesParaAmericaLatina]

Sound a lot like eruption

[@sjs1555]

Back when Ace was pretty badass, and not a fat, swollen, drunken buffoon.

[@tonyhope8366]

They broke up cuz a money, greed,paul,gene made the money more important than the music...killed kiss...

[@carloslozada470]

Your not inspired to play. ? Why too many drugs

[@Duck_Dodgers]

You got out a doll??? Are you an adult??

[@benbonesalive]

Eddie Van Halen definitely didn’t borrow his sloppy moves