Ace In 1975

[@CoreyTourigny]

Ace in the 70's was one of the greats. He had such a major influence on a lot of us future guitarists growing up back then. He was dynamic, awesome to watch on stage and you could see he felt every note he plucked. That's a real guitar player...it doesn't have to be perfection....it has to be from the heart....and ACE was all that!

[@grahamyoung3433]

@@CoreyTourigny Now he's wearing Gene's lice infested 2nd hand wigs. What's great about that?

[@CoreyTourigny]

@@grahamyoung3433 I was talking about Ace in the 70's......Ace is great. Now go comb the ball sack hair you have on your head. 😂

[@da324]

@@grahamyoung3433 What the fuck does that have to do with a comment discussing Ace in the 70's?

[@cassiusdio6048]

Without Ace there never would have been Kiss, he absolutely gave that band their sound.

[@sjs1555]

Stupid comment.

[@DavidM-mb1vx]

Ace and Peter REALLY stand out. Peter kicked some serious ass on those days. Ace always rocked.

[@DickGozinya-zl2bd]

KISS in the 70's was Fresh, Original, In your face, Loud & HEAVY! Their MUSIC (I'm not talking about the visuals) was easily in the top ten of Heavy Rock bands in the 70's. Personally, I LOVED the visuals but, I think it held them back with a lot of music fans & critics. For whatever reason, a lot of fans were turned off by the visuals & refused to give their music a fair listen.... & the original KISS was BY FAR the best KISS.

[@Errcyco]

Their Debut was like turning a shotgun blast into a record. How on earth it was not immediately the biggest thing on earth makes no sense.

[@jimmyloricco2445]

As a kid, the makeup caught my attention to listen. As a teenager, it taught me how to play full songs with leads. As an adult, I appreciate that live sound from the 70's more than ever and appreciate Ace as an influence still in my life. Paul laid down great rhythm to allow the space for Ace to feel it out. The four had the magic. Thank god for the band Classic 78 for giving us some modern sounding Kiss influenced song writing today.

[@leokimvideo]

Ace, the only true rock star in Kiss

[@romainbertrand253]

So true.

[@JeffKopis]

Just phenomenal. They rocked so hard back then.

[@TimothyWarner-q7s]

Ace made kiss without his playing they would have been nothing fact

[@tracezachdaniels4264]

NO...but the 4 were awesome TOGETHER..!

[@BigBass-xf5yi]

Loved Aces sound. You always knew who was behind the guitar

[@redtape73]

Geez man… Boy he is just killing it.

[@joerectifier]

I love Ace's playing from this era...he was and is EXTREMELY influential and that cannot be denied. What he brought was a stinging, sustaining lead tone, incredible feel and key repetition of basic sequences injected into licks he ripped from his influences.....and his most natural attribute to me was his incredible vibrato. Fantastic vibrato. You can always tell a natural player by their vibrato. Ace's vibrato is stunning, and he used it well.

[@capnramsey68]

ALIVE! was memorable because of ACE! 🎸🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@SkippyTarbuckle]

Still one of my all-time favorite guitarist.

[@denofearthundertheeverlast5138]

I was born in 73'..Ace was my first guitar hero when I was 5 yo and started noticing seeing KISS on TV news and other shows in 77-78

[@pawlpoche8736]

I feel the same I was born in 72 and I remember kiss me in the first round man I noticed on TV, and said “what is that?”

[@sjs1555]

Ughhh when you’re 5, all you know is the makeup.

[@daveb8449]

Ace had some good chops and incredible style back in the day.

[@AlmostReady504]

We were all young once

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

He still has it.

[@daveb8449]

@@LaurieValdez-zk3dy LOL. Good one.

[@TimothyWarner-q7s]

Still does just little older an slower but far better than Tommy Thayer 😅

[@daveb8449]

@@TimothyWarner-q7s Thayer is a much better player. Ace sounds like a total beginner these days. He's awful.

[@karl-unoisaksson4000]

Forever Ace Just saying Love from Sweden 💖

[@jimilove7773]

Thanks Ace is one of the masters! Along with Uli, Blackmore. Howe, Hackett, May, Page, etc. PERIOD!

[@daveb8449]

One of the masters? lol Can you say 'delusional'?

[@erickaufmancustomguitars1351]

I'm gonna watch this is spinal tap again... It's at least supposed to be funny.

[@kevinstrong8265]

@@daveb8449 Yes he was a master. He's raw as fk! His playing made KISS. I can say delusional. You're delusional if you think he wasn't great.

[@daveb8449]

@@kevinstrong8265 He was adequate and had some cool moves on stage. That's it. To call him on of the masters does, in fact, does make you delusional.

[@kevinstrong8265]

@@daveb8449 Okay slick. lol

[@ECNIV2000]

Man, KISS in ‘75, at their absolute best, completely still a united front in spite of the differences of character, some of the best rock has to offer. Ace was my first influence to pick up a guitar and KISS the first band that inspired me to start up a band. Cheers Ace!

[@ВалерийТимошевский-г3м]

Ace Frehley это мой любимый музыкант в группе Kiss.

[@willchew4040]

ACE FOREVER !!!

[@j7cc]

Much respect ACE ! 🤟

[@romainbertrand253]

He wasn't the most technical player, but he had a very recognisable sound and solos you could remember.

[@kevinstrong8265]

I'm so sick of guitar players and that technique crap. That's for classical music not rock and roll. Rock music is suppose to be raw.

[@skiddosdad]

Ace is not a trained guitarist He played by ear not knowing what notes are and he is awesome

[@GeorgeCostanzais10.]

There’s a video on YT on which Elvis’ nephew talks about the time he showed KISS to the King, and He said they were basically bringing back what he and others had done in the 50s and was very well impressed by ‘the guitarist’ (Ace)

[@redriderbbgun8018]

and he inspired millions of teenagers to pick up a guitar 🎸

[@PaulLeger-c4l]

Definitely had his own style whi ch is rare by today's standards 🤘🤘❤

[@RadioReprised]

Name another Lead Guitar Player who could play like that while writhing around and making crazy gestures without missing a note! Nobody was more visually dynamic while playing and doing it in costume with explosions and the spectacle that was a KISS SHOW! Ace WAS KISS! Ace was never going to sit on a chair and play!

[@toddjones6474]

I was going to say Angus Young, but ace didn't play the same three cords in every song 🤟

[@darrenpaulger4922]

Ace at his best!

[@ervinmichalak1012]

My brother took me to see KISS in '79 Dynasty tour Milwaukee Wi. I was 12 needles to say I was hooked . Ace rocked 👍😁🤘

[@shannonjones3714]

Some of my favorite stuff! Cool video!

[@betoney1]

ALIVE! - Almost 50 years later, STILL one of the greatest live albums EVER!!!

[@garys5175]

KISS at its best!

[@simonkelic7786]

When Kiss ruled my world...

[@schlitze1]

KISS was awesome in the 70s, and Ace was a great rock guitar player. He had style and no matter how fast you are you can’t learn that. He had feel and emotion in his playing and we might not have had Dimebag, John 5, Jerry Cantrell, or countless other guitarists if it wasn’t for his inspiration.

[@mattcastellanos2178]

Had Kiss Alive on vinyl as a kid, wore it out. What a sound, they captured, Paul Stanley vocals top drawer.

[@britneyspears1932]

ACE IS A TRUE GUITAR GOD 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@Greg-om2hb]

This is awesome! All the best parts. It’s basically the ALIVE! album. Where can I find the complete video?

[@Scottocaster6668]

Yep, my favorite era '74-'78 they were hungry back then, Awesome👍👍.

[@geraldagen5640]

Such a fantastic band, already at this time !

[@Starman2112ofKings]

Ace was so killer with his solo’s!!! This ain’t no Constantly Cute crap!!! 😆

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

I ❤ Ace

[@michaelguillemette2230]

followed KISS all... their existence. Ace was my FAVE, too!

[@davepugh7961]

I loved em when I was a kid, and still occasionally listen. I ran into a woman in Walmart looking at Kiss t shirt. When I asked if she was a fan, she said that she loved em when she was young, and still likes the music, but as a mature woman, she couldn't get with the lyrics. 😂 Ace rocks. I had to edit to mention that I was not aware anyone was pointing a camera at Ace when he was wailing. I saw a interview he did and he commented about the fact that in the videos when he was soloing they always showed Paul prancing around. He was right and should have gotten his mug time. Especially during his solos.

[@DH-3on_sAm]

Ace Frehely kicks ass his solo concerts are the best!!

[@danstanfield5570]

Studying to be an astronaut. I'm taking up space 101.

[@TimGolf71]

That was great. He was at his best in '76, His solos were more refined.

[@fabioreynoso4747]

Ace es unico!!! No es de este planeta!!!❤

[@sickb2200]

In 1975, I was 6 years old. The moment I heard Ace playing guitar, I knew I was going to play one too. I may not be very good, but I still love playing guitar and I owe it all to him...and maybe a little to Jimi.

[@user-tv1le7sw2l]

Ace and Peter are Kiss

[@redriderbbgun8018]

People under the age of 45 have no idea how huge Kiss was in the 70's

[@tonystevenson26]

Kiss were the Taylor Swift of their era

[@michaelmartin7073]

@@tonystevenson26 bigger. It was kiss this kiss that ,kiss you momma ,and if you dent like kiss then you could kiss there Ass.those were gr8 times.

[@thomasjoseph2050]

Bigger than Taylor swift then! I was 15 in 1976 when I saw them! Talk about loud and right in your face! Holy crap! I had the pleasure of seeing them in 77,78 also! The big years!

[@tonystevenson26]

@@thomasjoseph2050 samecas Taylor's butt in yo FACE 😋

[@KhalilLadson-tt1vc]

No Michael Jackson Taylor swift is ass

[@johntorres7220]

🎉As a kid I fantasized about being ACE, then I just wanted to be famous..😢..I'm a 56 yr. Old man who loved being a strange kid who wanted to be Ace Frehley😂

[@jeffgile2921]

Bro I'm 52 and I was convinced as a kid I was going to be Ace Freyley. Coming from a musical family I learned piano first and then guitar. Since then I played guitar for several bands. The last one was 10 years playing Death metal all thank you to Ace

[@野口文雄-z7u]

エースは最高のギターリストですよ❤❤ かっこいいギターリストです❤❤❤ エース 最高❤❤

[@MartinVelasquez-j6s]

Ace was the man.

[@greengrass1072]

If all the Kiss fans back in the day were to pick a favorite member, Ace was probably 50% while the other three shared the other 50. Everyone loved Ace. I know my group of friends were all Ace fans first.

[@tonyrobbins1665]

His solo album sold more than the other guys !!🎉

[@stephenwerner7126]

Awsome

[@scaredycatparanormal3431]

Guitar God!

[@garysondrini4911]

Ace was never a great guitarist but he had cool riffs and you could always tell his playing when you heard it. I’m glad I saw them live in their prime on the Destroyer and Rock and Roll Over tours. I even got to meet them without makeup in December 76’ in Philly.

[@littlebritain64]

I would really like to know so much which concerts these excerpts were take from. They look really good and Ace is on fire!!!

[@marcocappa3738]

Wow ....Ace so young and thin.....mostly recorded Cobo Hall,Detroit February 26,1976....those outfits were worn until early June '76(European tour )even if Destroyer had already been released

[@petelake7373]

Ace rules

[@caseyeisenman]

I loved Ace's styles and licks in the 70's. Unlike Angus young, which I loved in the 70's also Ace tried different licks, sounds and chords not much, but he did try new things.

[@ajjy1110]

first clip is 1976 Manchester free trade hall 13th may.. interview by Tony Wilson

[@Carlos-y7y6t]

Forget never ave gene whoever Paul watever would not be there without ace% criss%

[@bretmavrick-ph2ip]

Ace is bucketheads Father,,,,,,,,,says Darth Vader😮

[@tonyrobbins1665]

Peter killing the kit during firehouse solo !

[@tonystevenson26]

All you gotta do is listen to LOVE HER ALL I CAN off Dtessed to Kill......nobody sounds like Frehley or Peter Criss.....unique and inspiring

[@karl-unoisaksson4000]

And this the phenomenon they thought the T-word wouldnt only replace, but also by (in true denial of the history) remixing classics with the T-word pretending as we all did as kids... small kids... children...

[@Artress357]

I need a bit more context. We're all watching a video of guitar solos. What t-word?

[@Kssgghtes24789]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@johnnyringo9759]

It's sad, but Ace can't play anymore!!! 😢

[@johnnyssik]

Ace was kisses secret ingredient

[@christianlewis6252]

Those demons tried to steal/steel my 12 yr old soul in 75,76 and 77

[@danielvaniel4914]

For me that is Kiss !!!!

[@PaulLeger-c4l]

Back then IMO he could've been the next Jimmy page no doubt but today not so much to much partying for him definitely

[@jeffcote6649]

Is he not the coolest? Was always a huge fan, loved KISS.

[@phantomf4747]

Gene $immons will find this channel, say he created it and steal of the royalties. Gene created air, the sun, airplanes, electricity, banks and time. I hated $immons Weak link was Criss and Beth was a sell out. I met Paul once and he was amazingly cool. I followed Kiss because of Ace. My first expensive guitar was a '72 Les Paul Studio in tobacco sunburst. It's the only guitar I have left. Love me some Ace! I saw them for the first time in '77

[@garys5175]

Ace and Peter made the music!

[@glengamble526]

Music is songs-and the (majority of) songs were written by Gene and Paul. So…no.

[@garys5175]

@@glengamble526 Okay. Ace and Peter made the concerts worth going to.

[@glengamble526]

@@garys5175 I agree they helped, for sure. In their prime and at the beginning of reunion, too. But then they both sucked, if I’m honest. Love them, though.

[@garys5175]

@@glengamble526 No NO nO!!! Ace and Peter were KISS! Ace and Peter!!!!!! LOL! Just kidding. I just like the original line up. It is a shame that the egos and personalities clashed. I would have loved for the original members to have stayed together since the beginning. Thanks for the comments. ☺

[@michaelguillemette2230]

everyone's opinion counts! ;-) Spaceman and Catman were also MY faves

[@acb9896]

Why use his 1979 solo album cover to talk about 1975? Are you new to how dates work?

[@paulwortman483]

What I don't get is the stigma on Ace was he was drunk out of his mind, can't play, etc, etc. Every one of these videos he appears to all there and playing the some what right notes. What gives??? Also learned he played a Les Paul junior. He's Ace!!!

[@marcocappa3738]

Intro....actually it was may 1976,first UK tour

[@tommyboyindy1157]

Without Ace Kiss was just a bar band.

[@CreateAnduseSystem]

Fun guy

[@tonyrobbins1665]

Ace set the standard of what it "looked" like to be a professional rock guitarist; EVH both broke,and reset the standard of "playing" rock guitar

[@allanharris4281]

More style than Eisen or Chaim

[@IBZRG8570]

Nice footage. Except it’s Ace in 1976 not 75.

[@michaelguillemette2230]

The “Alive” footage was 1975

[@IBZRG8570]

@@michaelguillemette2230 That footage is from Cobo Hall in Detroit during Alive! tour. January 25,26 and 27 1976 to be specific. The brief section of Ace backstage is also from ‘76 during the European tour they did. May-June ‘76). I’d love to see more video from that tour. There are bits and pieces of it floating around but I’d love to see a whole show. They were using the Alive! costumes and stage set but they were starting to work some songs from Destroyer into the set list.

[@hockeyeverything4339]

75, 76 who gives a fuck. Virtually the same

[@helgelippert1970]

@@IBZRG8570 I think it doesn`t exist any full show from that late Alive/early Destroyer era, apart from audio bootlegs. I´m pretty sure you know the footage from the german programm "Szene 76". I think there is a very little chance that somewhere in an archive is still unedited live footage from Munich 1976. By the way that show was performend in huge tent at circus "Krone".

[@moiresendiz4102]

​@@IBZRG8570exactly!

[@dmaster4194]

To any of the Fake Frehley Tommy Thayer lovers out there check out the real thing here poetry in motion not some imitation wanna be.

[@johnmarshall3903]

Exactly. I'm sick of that Fake Frehley bullshit.

[@kevinstrong8265]

Fake Frehley and Cheater Criss. Half a tribute band. It's sickening.

[@kevinstrong8265]

@@johnmarshall3903 I hated it when they let them put it on. Don't forget Cheater Criss.

[@dmaster4194]

@@kevinstrong8265 Quite true my friend all the so called fans that supported the charade for the last 20 years should be ashamed of themselves

[@dmaster4194]

@@kevinstrong8265 But you know what if enough fans stayed away and voted with their wallets Ace and Peter would have been back in the band a long time, thank god it’s finally over.

[@alessandrogouveia2268]

Ace ain't punk but theres lots of "punkness" with his reckless manners and way to play, you know?!

[@JeffKopis]

Punk "musicians" dont have his chops

[@johnhareiel5118]

Ace was an original Punk. Straight from the streets of NYC pre Ramones

[@johnhareiel5118]

Mike Ness played solos all day long and he's punk

[@alessandrogouveia2268]

@@johnhareiel5118 word

[@peterfaria104]

Only one of them had a top ten song when they made their solo albums, that was Ace, he was the talent in the band. Listen to gene and Paul’s solo albums… complete shit.

[@billyshane3804]

No Space Ace, No Peter Criss - NO KISS. Gene & Paul & others = PISS

[@moiresendiz4102]

Did you see thayer? This is the only one SPACE MAN. The original...and you only a joke😂😂.

[@ianheath4332]

Sorry gene and Paul u fucked up!!

[@michaelguillemette2230]

who? ;-)

[@grahamyoung3433]

Now Ace has to wear Gene's lice infested wigs after his bankruptcy. Paul's twisted vendetta has lasted over 50 now

[@amarce904]

Técnicamente muy bueno pero sus descontroles personales lo arruinaron pudo haber llegado mucho más lejos.

[@WilliamCurry-bh3dk]

PETER A SLEEP ON DRUMS usual thing

[@TimothyWarner-q7s]

The guys that play those junk strats need to see what a real rick guitar sounds like Gibson Les Paul fender is for the wood stove

[@chrismorgan7494]

Blackmore, Hendrix, Uli Jon and Trower beg to differ.

[@denofearthundertheeverlast5138]

Strats sound awesome too...just listen to David Gilmour solos

[@johnmarshall3903]

​​@@chrismorgan7494Don't forget Malmsteen, Beck and SRV

[@chrismorgan7494]

@@johnmarshall3903 Absolutely

[@kevinstrong8265]

@@denofearthundertheeverlast5138 They're weak. Les Paul has great sustain.

[@hockeyeverything4339]

Nowadays, Ace cant even play the solos he created. And to be honest, he hasnt put out a good album since Trouble Walking.

[@TimothyWarner-q7s]

You must be a Paul Stanley fan that loves getting ripped off for lip syncing 😅

[@hockeyeverything4339]

@user-rc1qq9pn7k I'm a music fan. Ace is a joke, and has been for years. These are the worst live performances by any alleged previously accomplished musician of all time. It's not even close. The guys a trainwreck.

[@TimothyWarner-q7s]

@@hockeyeverything4339 must like the imposters an Paul Stanley lip syncing go ahead and smoke some more or whatever you are smoking snorting or shoving idiot

[@benjaminbaird9303]

To be honest he hasn't done anything GREAT since 78. Love him or hate him Paul Stanley tells the truth. Ace never lived up to his potential, which in his day was off the charts. I still utilize all of Ace's licks.

[@troyscherr5054]

​@@benjaminbaird9303life long Ace fan here. And Rock & Roll is a young person's game. I dig Keith & Ron but the Stones haven't put out anything that rocks since the 80's either. Getting old and losing the fire kind of thing. I will say not everyone can hold on the fire but Paul Rodgers voice is still strong!

[@americohernandeztroncoso5189]

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