This was recorded back in 1977, & I find it to be amazing, what Ace Frehley was able to do on Lead Guitar Solos, such as this. Then-Beginning in 1978, with the release of the KISS SINGLES ALBUMS, things began to start to crumble, little by little. It wasn't Ace's fault. The guys in the Band wanted some time away from each other, so that's how the whole Single Albums thing came about. It gave everyone in KISS some "Breathing Room"...so to speak. Then came 1979. Paul and Gene wanted to go a different direction, in terms of musical styles, and Stage Apparel...and, as we all know by now, that's when the "Kingdom", known as KISS, began to REALLY experience a lot of problems. The two Main People, Paul and Gene, wanted to go with more of a Glammy look, and to do music, that was more Power-Pop, than anything else. They toned their music down, too...and, of course, people picked up on that right away, and began to stop listening to KISS. In 1980, Peter Criss was gone, but it's only recently surfaced, that he was actually fired from KISS, instead of quitting, like we'd been told. By late 1982, even Ace Frehley decided he'd had enough, and was out of KISS. Whatever will be, will be.
@@tommyboyindy1157yes paul has a big ego but the ego of peter is much bigger and peter is a terrible singer. He has a beautiful voice but can't get and hold notes properly so change paul and peter and we are friends
What impresses me more about Ace Frehley is that I recently read he never had any kind of formal guitar lessons and admits to being musically illiterate. Yet unable to distinguish the notes, chords, and keys, he's still able to create the right sounds. His story should inspire the rest of us to look past the elitist snobs and show the world what we can do. Educated or uneducated, skilled or unskilled, trained or untrained; we deserve the chance to prove what we can do beyond the barriers of institutionalized qualifications.
Myself and millions of other musicians worldwide are fully capable of the same thing, having no musical knowledge whatsoever myself, i've been playing 11 years, in many bands, without a hitch. Not to discredit Ace, he's top 5 guitarists for me easily, but you have to think that he got a lucky break meeting Gene and Paul in 1972. Plus, they wrote the songs, he merely wrote the lead for the songs, while important, without the foundation, Kiss could've never happened.
I've been playing the drums since I was 5, I'm 17 now. Never read any music, ever. Ace, despite the difference in instruments, has always been a big inspiration to prove that you don't need to know Bach inside and out to make some damn good music. that's all I got. sorry for the incoherent rambling BTW.
Yeah, sadly Ace doesn't play like this today. Ace was really on top of his game here, it just goes to show you how bad life choices and drugs can damage your God giving talents
The way Ace was playing at 22-27 years old in the 70s was off the charts. Never forget the context. Seriously great player, each note dripping with personality and soul.
Yeah, lot of negative and positive things said about this guy. Maybe not the most technically brilliant ever... but for showmanship and memorable licks he certainly ranks up there. He fulfilled rock and roll audiences fantasies about what a guitar god should look like and sound like... and that has got to stand for something.
Rock was never about technical proficiency. No normal person wants to here malmsteem. It was about blues. Ace is fine technically. It’s not about showing off it’s about music.
I remember as a teenager watching his smoking guitar solo with my parents my mom said to my dad My God HIS GUITAR IS ON FIRE!!! It was a golden moment I never forgot it?😆
Turns out, that it was actually a little smoke bomb, that he rigged in his Guitar, specifically designed for when he did the "Shock me" Lead Guitar Solo. There was apparently some type of a lighting device in a secret compartment in Ace's Guitar, and when that smoke bomb was lit, it was exciting to watch! How Ace didn't burn his fingers, I'll never know!
He designed it in early 1975. It was used in his solo during the longer jam version of "She". Then it was used in longer jam version of "Cold Gin", like in this video. Then in "Shock Me".
So many people over the years have credited Ace for being the reason for them picking up the guitar. Upon learning this he said "geez if I'd known so many people were paying attention I would have practiced more" LoL 😂 the guy with the best laugh in the business......
Ace and Mick Mars are both underrated as hell. Kiss probably wouldn't have gotten where they are today without Ace, just like Motley Crue wouldn't have gotten anywhere without Mick.
Ace is underrated because even in childhood he practised himself so good..then he go to substances..and i still think ace is best guitarist of kiss..he did not had ambition of Paul and Gene
Ace is underrated because he was so good but he made one mistake a little one that he flippantly made a pro Nazi remark in front of a bunch of blood thirsty paparazzi and they beat it to death or ran with it and just like Princess Diana they won't stop till you know what and it's happening more frequently as people turn to the internet and leave cable TV for good . They are bringing back the Roman Colosseum on national TV and people are cheering for it.
1:33 ...THAT is the rawest tastiest lick that has ever melted my face. I’ve been listening to Kiss ever since I was 14 years old and rock and roll ever since I was born ...nothing has ever sounded like that to me. Ace is god tier.
I've watched his solos and concluded he made KISS what they are. He was their best talent, although clearly the whole band was. Without Ace we wouldn't be talking about them.
You know Tommy looks back on this and gets asshurt that no matter how long he'll be in the band, Ace was and always will be cooler and more famous than he ever will be.
Ace created sounds from that guitar that were very unique to say the least. Truly from outta this world. He wasn't called the Space Man without cause!!
I used to critique him, but he's self taught and made it happen anyway. He wasn't trained as a classical piano player at 6 yrs old. They didn't have TH-cam and digital tuners. He was a working class kid. Lessons are expensive. He had the determination enough to satisfy the fans and be successful. So I don't hold his playing in the highest regard, but he gets extra respect points.
This is the real - original KISS, the only KISS ! I saw them in 76, 77, 78, and 79! They were never the same and never better after that. These are the men that are in the rock and roll hall of fame!
I play guitar and Ace is so underrated I find it genuinely puzzling. Ace will hardly ever be voted in the top 50 or guitarists of all time by the music press, or music elitists. But the fluidity, aggression, string bends and vibrato are among the very best. Maybe it's because he wears a weird stage costume music snobs find it hard to take seriously. And what's more he's doing all this while he's drunk!
So true , most of the best musicians taught themselves how to play , read music and learn theory , to be a great musician you have to love music so much that you will sacrifice everything even sell your soul , and love it so much you are prepared to learn what you need to on your own and spend long hours just playing even if its on a crappy acoustic you found in a garbage bin with a warped neck a few missing frets and bent machine heads with only 4 strings .
He's the reason I started playing guitar! I was a KISS maniac when I was 11 or 12 years old! They were my super heroes!! Bigger than life! Thank you KISS for giving me a outlet at an early age!!
Ace Frehley was the #1 reason I ever picked up a guitar he inspired me to keep going and never give up no other guitarist would have ever done the same as Ace did for me. Thank you Ace!!!
Ace kicked ass on his solo's. But IMO what really makes him a legend was how good he was live all around. I dont think I have ever heard a guitar player play the guitar the way Ace played during the "Alive I" recordings. The guitar solo of nearly every song is so kick butt and yet soulful at the same time that - its mind blowing.
I Love the f..k out of Angus and Ace, but I been runnin' with Ace longer. And no, I don't mean the 'Thunderstruck' Era Angus Young, I mean the Back In Black album and back to the late, great Bon Scott Era Ac/Dc, Fu...r's!!!!!!!! Lol. Good Day.
It drives me crazy in Kiss videos when the camera doesn't show the whole Ace solo. The director/editor is acting under direction from Paul and Gene. Paul and Gene want you to focus only on them.They do it all the time. Who wants to see Paul hacking away at a few power chords while wriggling his ass or Gene sticking out his tongue for the hundredth time while Ace is playing the only technically difficult part of the whole song. As a guitarist I find it infuriating. It's pathetic. Ace rocks.
Yeah I agree & on videos of shows where it's particularly bad I'm sometimes surprised the cameras don't follow Paul & Gene offstage while Ace is doing his solo.
This is a 7 year old comment but I agree, there’s a Metallica video of Cliff Burton doing a killer solo and the camera pans to James and Kirk playing an open e. It’s nerve wracking
Must be the same cameraman that somehow mostly missed Randy Rhoads' blazing live solos in that little studio gig the Blizzard of Ozz did that's still the best live footage of Randy. But in particular the dude focused on Sarzo and Aldridge while Randy was absolutely SHREDDING on "Mr. Crowley." Inexcusable.
I wish Ace could reproduce what he did on the alive album back in the 70's. That was the best soloing I ever heard and made me want to start playing guitar.
"Ace exploring sound with his guitar is like Picasso exploring a canvas with his paint." This is exactly why KISS can never be KISS without ACE!!! It isnt a matter of whether or not there are better guitar players in the universe. It is a matter of KISS grew into the KISS that rock-n-rollers all over the globe went bannanas over in very large part because of Ace's free spirit and disregard for playing it "right" and exploring "live" KISS (Ace, Peter, Paul and Gene)Were the Real Deal!
KISS best album is Creatures of the Night and Ace did not contribute. Kiss best album of their formative years was Destroyer and Ace wrote zero songs and didn't contribute on at least three songs. Ezrin even wrote the solo for Detroit Rock City
Did anyone ever play the guitar with so much passion? Ace put all his heart and soul in it 100%. It's raw, it's cool, it's all "Ace" spirit. That's the part that can not be replicated even if the notes can.
Same here, as a newlyborn 12year old i saw KISS in Sweden 76 and then my life Changed. Whatever all of todays Wiser allknowing clowns thinks, Ace and his Guitarplaying/Show was something mindblowing when the world didn´t even got Computers or Cellphones.. He has Inspired John5/Dimebag/Slash/Friedman/Myself to play the Guitar.. Not bad for a "shitty" Player in my opinion.. So to all of you haters/clowns/wiser guys..Keep up the flag of this guy if you can..🤣🙏🤘
@@PallesWorld6309 Most of the people complaining about his playing don't really understand guitar playing. They think you have to play shred (super fast nonsense noise) or it's no good. They don't understand where rock guitar and blues guitar playing came from, and how feel and attitude are just as important as notes.
Ace whaling guitar is the heart and soul of kiss. Nobody has that sound, very unique. Kiss records and song still sound heavy and modern still to this day.
This. Right Here! The reason I became a musician (and an Artist)! Ace maybe wasn't technically proficient but that isn't what Rock N' Roll is about is it? It's about feel and playing from your Heart (and Groin) and Ace is/ was just so frakkin cool! I still get goose bumps when that Les Paul starts to smoke!!! out, t
I saw Ace at Ritten House Square in Winston Salem a long time ago...I was playing pool and watching having a good time. I was lit. Ace started his solo and by the end I was getting dizzy. It took me to outerspace for sure when he started the part where the guitar lights up. Ended up making me sick and threw up outside. The bouncer wouldn't let me back in lol. TH-cam doesn't give you the true experience. This dude rocks big time in person.
Whenever I get discouraged at my guitar skills after 18 years of playing, I come back to this video. It's the video that I saw as a young child and said " I want to do that"
ACE's slumbering swagger, his laid back approach and trailblazing riffs are what made him my favorite all these years. I fixated on him as a kid on stage and when they reunited, an adult.
I think he's one of the most underrated guitar players in the world hes no blackmore or page but he's got all the right shit. I love him. He's pure rock n roll .
You can not even picture a Les Paul and not think of Ace Frehley! He was THE brand, THE sound of real KISS, and the heart and soul of their 5 decades of tours. If you went to the farewell tour, it was the sounds of Ace's guitar phrases that made the magick work
i believe when one is truly deep in their art and passion for something, at moments their souls leaves their body and is free. i love watching ace's solos because i can see it. drugs aside - he is so deeply in love with music and you can tell.
I was a serious KISS fan when I was 6 years old after hearing the Hotter Than Hell album at my cousin’s house. I had my walls covered with those giant posters you could get at Spencers in the mall. I started to collect all their vinyl. I was an obese child. Largest in the school. Listening to KISS, in particular Ace because there was nothing uncool about him, and pursuing my love of rock and roll, I lost all my weight and was inspired to this day. I’m 55, a drummer, guitarist and vocalist and have spent time in several bands. Ace was by far my favorite of the band but Peters killer drum kit made me want to learn that first. I can’t say enough about how these men of KISS really helped me as a young and insecure round boy. They fueled my imagination and showed me the possible impossibilities and I love them for it. However, when I heard RUSH for the first time. That, was pure inspiration on a higher plane of consciousness. Ace is the best of KISS though just to nail down the point of this comment.
johnny Sic Exactly, tge thing that makes Ace great is that NO one plays like him (famous except for Thayer), when you hear that sound, you know it's him.
I really wish Kiss would have made a concert film back in the 1970s. Something akin to Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains the Same with backstage footage and fantasy sequences to accompany the music.
Paul was not Eddie Van Halen, but then Eddie was no Paul Stanley, struttin' around the stage and singing those high notes in Heaven's on Fire. I'll always have a soft spot for KISS, having grown up with their music as a little kid, along with Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc. Great time to be a kid. I still love the boogie Rock n Roll, with the hard punch, and great choruses (Shout it out Loud, Rock & Roll All Night, Love Gun). I'm more of a Jazz guitarist, but I love Ace Frehley.
Ace Frehley and Angus Young in my opinion are the greatest guitarists of all time and by far the most underrated, these guys are by far more entertaining on stage than anyone else and have influenced so many of the guitarists from the late 80's into the 90's.
Tommy Thayer is an excellent guitarist, and I won't deny that. But one thing's for sure:He ain't no Ace Frehley! At best-Tommy Thayer is an Ace Frehley wannabe.
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In 1977, I was in Junior High listening to the Beatles. Then, I heard KISS - Alive II. That’s when I picked up the guitar and then, blew my father’s stereo speakers. Their Double Platinum vinyl LP -gifted to me by my HS GF is my all-time favorite rock album. I am 62 and I have the Epiphone Ace Frehley Budokan Limited Edition Les Paul Custom guitar #758.
One of Ace Frehley`s Best Solo`s ever !!! Just Perfect his Gibson playing back then - brilliant Les Paul Tone !!! I am very proud to be a Fan since my Childhood in the 70`s ! Ace Frehley is still too much underrated for what he plays in the 70`s ! His Gibson Les Paul playing is one of a Kind and one of the Best ever !!! His Solo`s were Magic back then ! Great Feeling !!!
When Ace was on top of his game he was unstoppable.
This was recorded back in 1977, & I find it to be amazing, what Ace Frehley was able to do on Lead Guitar Solos, such as this.
Then-Beginning in 1978, with the release of the KISS SINGLES ALBUMS, things began to start to crumble, little by little. It wasn't Ace's fault. The guys in the Band wanted some time away from each other, so that's how the whole Single Albums thing came about. It gave everyone in KISS some "Breathing Room"...so to speak.
Then came 1979.
Paul and Gene wanted to go a different direction, in terms of musical styles, and Stage Apparel...and, as we all know by now, that's when the "Kingdom", known as KISS, began to REALLY experience a lot of problems. The two Main People, Paul and Gene, wanted to go with more of a Glammy look, and to do music, that was more Power-Pop, than anything else. They toned their music down, too...and, of course, people picked up on that right away, and began to stop listening to KISS. In 1980, Peter Criss was gone, but it's only recently surfaced, that he was actually fired from KISS, instead of quitting, like we'd been told. By late 1982, even Ace Frehley decided he'd had enough, and was out of KISS.
Whatever will be, will be.
That means 1 show out of an entire tour?
Ace, the guitarist who inspired so many others to pick up a guitar, the coolest member of Kiss and their only true rock star
Is this a joke comment?
Ace definitely was the sound of Kiss.
@@reneesantiagoNo Paul
@@usgradeabeef2782 Paul was a tad more glam than Gene😝
@@tommyboyindy1157yes paul has a big ego but the ego of peter is much bigger and peter is a terrible singer. He has a beautiful voice but can't get and hold notes properly so change paul and peter and we are friends
Paul Stanley lives kiss.
Gene Simmons sells kiss,
Peter Criss loved kiss,
Ace Frehley is KISS.
Shane ML YOU GOT THAT RIGHT
and Vinnie Vincent saved Kiss..:)
Bruce Kulick rocks
Did everyone forgot Eric carr??
@@jasong6967 He's no dope.
What impresses me more about Ace Frehley is that I recently read he never had any kind of formal guitar lessons and admits to being musically illiterate. Yet unable to distinguish the notes, chords, and keys, he's still able to create the right sounds.
His story should inspire the rest of us to look past the elitist snobs and show the world what we can do. Educated or uneducated, skilled or unskilled, trained or untrained; we deserve the chance to prove what we can do beyond the barriers of institutionalized qualifications.
Myself and millions of other musicians worldwide are fully capable of the same thing, having no musical knowledge whatsoever myself, i've been playing 11 years, in many bands, without a hitch.
Not to discredit Ace, he's top 5 guitarists for me easily, but you have to think that he got a lucky break meeting Gene and Paul in 1972. Plus, they wrote the songs, he merely wrote the lead for the songs, while important, without the foundation, Kiss could've never happened.
I've been playing the drums since I was 5, I'm 17 now. Never read any music, ever. Ace, despite the difference in instruments, has always been a big inspiration to prove that you don't need to know Bach inside and out to make some damn good music. that's all I got. sorry for the incoherent rambling BTW.
+John Burns You're not rambling. I like hearing stories of those who succeed outside the academic bubble.
Glitter Now he probably read music pretty good. back in the day i doubt it. he probably didn't give a shit then
Almost every guitarist back then were self taught, now adays kids get lessions, back in the day there were no lessions, lol
I had severely underestimated ace holy shit, never knew he could play like this
Im telling you. People severely underestimate him, I still use riff ideas and bends I learned from these old days.. way ahead of his time
Welcome. Where ya been? LOL
Yeah, sadly Ace doesn't play like this today. Ace was really on top of his game here, it just goes to show you how bad life choices and drugs can damage your God giving talents
The way Ace was playing at 22-27 years old in the 70s was off the charts. Never forget the context. Seriously great player, each note dripping with personality and soul.
It didn't sound too great to me Bruce kulick buries this. Hell I can play this stuff
Yeah, lot of negative and positive things said about this guy. Maybe not the most technically brilliant ever... but for showmanship and memorable licks he certainly ranks up there. He fulfilled rock and roll audiences fantasies about what a guitar god should look like and sound like... and that has got to stand for something.
Ace is the only guitar player who sounds better than Eddie Van Halen to me.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣 they're both so crap, gimics
Yngvie Malmsteen - none of us would have a career if it wasn't for Jimi Hendrix, the parents of kiss fans saw the first burning guitar 😋😇
Rock was never about technical proficiency. No normal person wants to here malmsteem. It was about blues. Ace is fine technically. It’s not about showing off it’s about music.
Saw freely comet great show. Ace was great. Late 80s
I remember as a teenager watching his smoking guitar solo with my parents my mom said to my dad My God HIS GUITAR IS ON FIRE!!! It was a golden moment I never forgot it?😆
Turns out, that it was actually a little smoke bomb, that he rigged in his Guitar, specifically designed for when he did the "Shock me" Lead Guitar Solo. There was apparently some type of a lighting device in a secret compartment in Ace's Guitar, and when that smoke bomb was lit, it was exciting to watch! How Ace didn't burn his fingers, I'll never know!
@@ronaldshank7589this is before shock me.
He designed it in early 1975. It was used in his solo during the longer jam version of "She". Then it was used in longer jam version of "Cold Gin", like in this video. Then in "Shock Me".
Now you know why he was “Dimebag Darrell’s favorite guitarist of all time.
Still kickin ass in 2020
Was he really? I know he was the pearl jam guitarists fav too
What are you talking abt lol educate yourself before talking van halen was dimebag' hero. Favorite guitaristx god of all time
Yep, him and Eddie
Ace and EVH, he was always underlining them as his biggest guitar heroes and influences.
So many people over the years have credited Ace for being the reason for them picking up the guitar. Upon learning this he said "geez if I'd known so many people were paying attention I would have practiced more" LoL 😂 the guy with the best laugh in the business......
I agree with you, on that crazy laugh he has! That high-pitched cackling gets me every time! I love it!
昔は、エースのビデオが無くて、寂しかったのですが、ユーチューブで、今は、観れるんですね。嬉しいです。
Probably one of the best les paul tones I've heard
Serious!
He boosted the front end with Dimarzio super distortions I believe and an electro harmonix LBP-1 booster
Try listening to some Jimmy Page guitar work.
Nobody has a vibrato like Ace, he can bend the strings unlike anyone. The way he does it on Strutter and 100,000 years is incredible.
100,000 Years is one of his best solos!
Zakk Wylde has nice vibrato
....
See David Gilmore
For me, I’m more fascinated by the articulation and staccato.
Alex Lifeson vibrato.
Hello. It's 2023 and i still love Ace's lead solos. I'm 60 with a Les Paul
Ace is the coolest in KISS what a fkn legend!!!! ⚡️
Loved Aces guitar sound on those early records. Cool I’m not sure about. He was usually loaded!
I'll vote for that
Ace is so underrated, hell of a rock guitarist
Ace and Mick Mars are both underrated as hell. Kiss probably wouldn't have gotten where they are today without Ace, just like Motley Crue wouldn't have gotten anywhere without Mick.
@@bdr32965 and KISS would never had existed without the hard work and songwriting of Gene & Paul. Ace and Peter made awesome contributions early on
Underrated?!??? Lol....The band and Ace in particular have influenced countless guitarists. You are smoking crack kiddo
Ace is underrated because even in childhood he practised himself so good..then he go to substances..and i still think ace is best guitarist of kiss..he did not had ambition of Paul and Gene
Ace is underrated because he was so good but he made one mistake a little one that he flippantly made a pro Nazi remark in front of a bunch of blood thirsty paparazzi and they beat it to death or ran with it and just like Princess Diana they won't stop till you know what and it's happening more frequently as people turn to the internet and leave cable TV for good . They are bringing back the Roman Colosseum on national TV and people are cheering for it.
Ace Frehley a guitar great for his generation.
Ace was the Kiss member who inspired and influenced the most future musicians and guitar players.
I thought Ace had a phenomenal stage presence. He really knew how to entertain a crowd and was very exciting to watch.
Ace frehley is my inspiration for playing guitar. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
ACE got so many of us started playing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ace is legendary and is the reason I took up guitar. Favorite musician hands down!
1:33 ...THAT is the rawest tastiest lick that has ever melted my face. I’ve been listening to Kiss ever since I was 14 years old and rock and roll ever since I was born ...nothing has ever sounded like that to me.
Ace is god tier.
I’ll like my own comment. FUCK y’all cuz I’m right
Amazing solo.Incredible timed effects. Haven't heard anything like it
Just AWESOME !!!
ONE OF THE GREATEST
"Hey Look! It's Rock 'n' Roll!"- Ace Frehley
Ace Frehley is tearing it up
I've watched his solos and concluded he made KISS what they are. He was their best talent, although clearly the whole band was. Without Ace we wouldn't be talking about them.
yep. too bad that the drugs got in the way.
You know Tommy looks back on this and gets asshurt that no matter how long he'll be in the band, Ace was and always will be cooler and more famous than he ever will be.
Let's face it, he's just an unreasonable faxsimile.
Tommy who?
@@SmithBrotha Thayer
MR TOMMY THAYER DOES NOT LOOK BACK!!!! WOW!!!
Tommy is an Ace impersonator, nothing more.
Ace created sounds from that guitar that were very unique to say the least. Truly from outta this world. He wasn't called the Space Man without cause!!
Was Frehley as innovative as Eddie Van Halen?
i don't know too much about guitar being a drummer but I love that echo stuff he always does
Not a KISS fan, but I can definitely see why he was such a huge asset to KISS. Standard 70's guitarist with a style that's raw and pure rock and roll.
A bit Over the Top
@@vincentl.9469this is literally his solo. He’s normally playing licks in songs.
I used to critique him, but he's self taught and made it happen anyway. He wasn't trained as a classical piano player at 6 yrs old. They didn't have TH-cam and digital tuners. He was a working class kid. Lessons are expensive. He had the determination enough to satisfy the fans and be successful. So I don't hold his playing in the highest regard, but he gets extra respect points.
This is the real - original KISS, the only KISS ! I saw them in 76, 77, 78, and 79! They were never the same and never better after that. These are the men that are in the rock and roll hall of fame!
I play guitar and Ace is so underrated I find it genuinely puzzling. Ace will hardly ever be voted in the top 50 or guitarists of all time by the music press, or music elitists. But the fluidity, aggression, string bends and vibrato are among the very best. Maybe it's because he wears a weird stage costume music snobs find it hard to take seriously. And what's more he's doing all this while he's drunk!
So true , most of the best musicians taught themselves how to play , read music and learn theory , to be a great musician you have to love music so much that you will sacrifice everything even sell your soul , and love it so much you are prepared to learn what you need to on your own and spend long hours just playing even if its on a crappy acoustic you found in a garbage bin with a warped neck a few missing frets and bent machine heads with only 4 strings .
He was decent basic guitarist, that's all, but his "sloppy" style really fit the ethos of band. Loved listening to him.
He's the reason I started playing guitar! I was a KISS maniac when I was 11 or 12 years old! They were my super heroes!! Bigger than life! Thank you KISS for giving me a outlet at an early age!!
Ace Frehley was the #1 reason I ever picked up a guitar he inspired me to keep going and never give up no other guitarist would have ever done the same as Ace did for me. Thank you Ace!!!
blues influenced madness at its finest
Ace kicked ass on his solo's.
But IMO what really makes him a legend was how good he was live all around. I dont think I have ever heard a guitar player play the guitar the way Ace played during the "Alive I" recordings. The guitar solo of nearly every song is so kick butt and yet soulful at the same time that - its mind blowing.
Ace was truly a, pioneer truly laying down classic guitar solo's
Ever heard of Angus Young, mate?
***** can't even compare. Ace fucking slays that guy..
I Love the f..k out of Angus and Ace, but I been runnin' with Ace longer. And no, I don't mean the 'Thunderstruck' Era Angus Young, I mean the Back In Black album and back to the late, great Bon Scott Era Ac/Dc, Fu...r's!!!!!!!! Lol. Good Day.
With the exception of' Flick of the Switch.' Some killer tracks on that one.
It drives me crazy in Kiss videos when the camera doesn't show the whole Ace solo. The director/editor is acting under direction from Paul and Gene. Paul and Gene want you to focus only on them.They do it all the time. Who wants to see Paul hacking away at a few power chords while wriggling his ass or Gene sticking out his tongue for the hundredth time while Ace is playing the only technically difficult part of the whole song. As a guitarist I find it infuriating. It's pathetic. Ace rocks.
Yeah I agree & on videos of shows where it's particularly bad I'm sometimes surprised the cameras don't follow Paul & Gene offstage while Ace is doing his solo.
quick! put on your tinfoil hat or else Gene would find and hunt you down
This is a 7 year old comment but I agree, there’s a Metallica video of Cliff Burton doing a killer solo and the camera pans to James and Kirk playing an open e. It’s nerve wracking
It is pretty annoying to see it happen in kiss videos putting the camera on gene and Paul when the one playing is Ace or Catman
Must be the same cameraman that somehow mostly missed Randy Rhoads' blazing live solos in that little studio gig the Blizzard of Ozz did that's still the best live footage of Randy. But in particular the dude focused on Sarzo and Aldridge while Randy was absolutely SHREDDING on "Mr. Crowley." Inexcusable.
I met Ace in 1988, i was 15 and i still am in awe of having met him 35 years later.
Ace Frehley has the best vibrato and sound in rock and roll
I wish Ace could reproduce what he did on the alive album back in the 70's. That was the best soloing I ever heard and made me want to start playing guitar.
Hell Yeah! Ace was the best lead guitarist KISS ever had!
Tell that to money man Simmons. He won't have Ace back even though he's keen.
nah. Ace was good before the alcohol. Bruce was the best guitarist kiss had!
Technique wise, I would say it was Bruce.
I like Vinnie Vincent most.
@@odom2142 Vinnie was good.
LOVE YOU Ace Frehley Guitar Solo Showww!!!!!!😍😍😍😍
"Ace exploring sound with his guitar is like Picasso exploring a canvas with his paint."
This is exactly why KISS can never be KISS without ACE!!!
It isnt a matter of whether or not there are better guitar players in the universe. It is a matter of KISS grew into the KISS that rock-n-rollers all over the globe went bannanas over in very large part because of Ace's free spirit and disregard for playing it "right" and exploring "live"
KISS (Ace, Peter, Paul and Gene)Were the Real Deal!
KISS best album is Creatures of the Night and Ace did not contribute. Kiss best album of their formative years was Destroyer and Ace wrote zero songs and didn't contribute on at least three songs. Ezrin even wrote the solo for Detroit Rock City
Did anyone ever play the guitar with so much passion? Ace put all his heart and soul in it 100%. It's raw, it's cool, it's all "Ace" spirit. That's the part that can not be replicated even if the notes can.
3:19 guitar god
My first rock ‘n’ roll concert was kiss in 1976. It was kiss live tour the good old days.
Same here, as a newlyborn 12year old i saw KISS in Sweden 76 and then my life Changed.
Whatever all of todays Wiser allknowing clowns thinks, Ace and his Guitarplaying/Show was something mindblowing when the world didn´t even got Computers or Cellphones..
He has Inspired John5/Dimebag/Slash/Friedman/Myself to play the Guitar..
Not bad for a "shitty" Player in my opinion..
So to all of you haters/clowns/wiser guys..Keep up the flag of this guy if you can..🤣🙏🤘
@@PallesWorld6309
Most of the people complaining about his playing don't really understand guitar playing. They think you have to play shred (super fast nonsense noise) or it's no good. They don't understand where rock guitar and blues guitar playing came from, and how feel and attitude are just as important as notes.
Ace whaling guitar is the heart and soul of kiss. Nobody has that sound, very unique. Kiss records and song still sound heavy and modern still to this day.
Still have never heard some of the cool sounds to this day, that he played in this solo. That echo and delay are so cool.
ACE is Still the best guitarist EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and without ACE & PETER, KISS=PISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree! Sign the petition!
www.change.org/p/kiss-bring-back-peter-criss-and-ace-frehley-as-full-members-of-kiss-for-their-final-tour
untrue, but i appreciate the sentiment
Proves you don't need to be musically literate to be good.
i guess
maybe
+Tyreek Murillo not an I guess, it's simple yet sounds good, showing you don't have to play yngwie classical music to be good
^ My man.
Sure helps though. Imagine how much better he would’ve been if he was?
This. Right Here! The reason I became a musician (and an Artist)!
Ace maybe wasn't technically proficient but that isn't what Rock N' Roll is about is it? It's about feel and playing from your Heart (and Groin) and Ace is/ was just so frakkin cool!
I still get goose bumps when that Les Paul starts to smoke!!!
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Awesomeness, I would have loved to get to see this as a kid
This stuff made me crazy - I was 16 years old in 1977, and Kiss was *the* band to see live. Rock-N-Roll!
One of the all time great solos!👍
One of my first guitar heroes.
You gotta love him!
I saw Ace at Ritten House Square in Winston Salem a long time ago...I was playing pool and watching having a good time. I was lit. Ace started his solo and by the end I was getting dizzy. It took me to outerspace for sure when he started the part where the guitar lights up. Ended up making me sick and threw up outside. The bouncer wouldn't let me back in lol. TH-cam doesn't give you the true experience. This dude rocks big time in person.
I'm still an Ace fan. Every Halloween. I love his solos.
Whenever I get discouraged at my guitar skills after 18 years of playing, I come back to this video. It's the video that I saw as a young child and said " I want to do that"
ace is just one of the greatest guitarists EVER Thanks for upload ! ....
ACE's slumbering swagger, his laid back approach and trailblazing riffs are what made him my favorite all these years. I fixated on him as a kid on stage and when they reunited, an adult.
I think he's one of the most underrated guitar players in the world hes no blackmore or page but he's got all the right shit. I love him. He's pure rock n roll .
Best Ace solo.....recorded it on cassette when it was on HBO, and listened to it over and over.
Ace was and is the sound of Kiss period Legend .....grew up in the 70's .....listening to ACE ..
You can not even picture a Les Paul and not think of Ace Frehley! He was THE brand, THE sound of real KISS, and the heart and soul of their 5 decades of tours. If you went to the farewell tour, it was the sounds of Ace's guitar phrases that made the magick work
This is one of Ace's very best solo spots! Brilliant and so fluid in every way!
I saw them in Canada in 1977 also..... loudest concert i ever attended.... and the energy was insane.
Ace is the friendly hardware place!
lmao good one👍👍
i believe when one is truly deep in their art and passion for something, at moments their souls leaves their body and is free. i love watching ace's solos because i can see it. drugs aside - he is so deeply in love with music and you can tell.
Thank you a million times over for posting this! "Space Ace" is an inspiration to us all.
I was a serious KISS fan when I was 6 years old after hearing the Hotter Than Hell album at my cousin’s house. I had my walls covered with those giant posters you could get at Spencers in the mall. I started to collect all their vinyl. I was an obese child. Largest in the school. Listening to KISS, in particular Ace because there was nothing uncool about him, and pursuing my love of rock and roll, I lost all my weight and was inspired to this day. I’m 55, a drummer, guitarist and vocalist and have spent time in several bands. Ace was by far my favorite of the band but Peters killer drum kit made me want to learn that first. I can’t say enough about how these men of KISS really helped me as a young and insecure round boy. They fueled my imagination and showed me the possible impossibilities and I love them for it. However, when I heard RUSH for the first time. That, was pure inspiration on a higher plane of consciousness. Ace is the best of KISS though just to nail down the point of this comment.
How can someone not like this video?
That is some real rock&roll!!!
I don't like it.
@@thekinarbo I'm with you. Thank gawd for Akira Takasaki and Eddie Van Halen, not necessarily in that order.
Nothing but greatness 🙌
In my opinions .... among the 10 best in rock .... great guitarist 👌
What a flippen awesome band they were back then. Happy to have grown up listening to all their music as it happened. Bless them
Ace specifically said that he only got a les paul because Jimmy Page had one.
Without a doubt Ace is my favorite guitarist. Style /technique and stage presence go along way.
johnny Sic Exactly, tge thing that makes Ace great is that NO one plays like him (famous except for Thayer), when you hear that sound, you know it's him.
Although Ace couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.
***** You're trolling right? Lol.
***** I don't see Les Paul, I see A Gibson Les Paul custom.
I really wish Kiss would have made a concert film back in the 1970s. Something akin to Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains the Same with backstage footage and fantasy sequences to accompany the music.
Wish I was old enough to see them in the 70's wow ACE is the BEST
Paul was not Eddie Van Halen, but then Eddie was no Paul Stanley, struttin' around the stage and singing those high notes in Heaven's on Fire. I'll always have a soft spot for KISS, having grown up with their music as a little kid, along with Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc. Great time to be a kid. I still love the boogie Rock n Roll, with the hard punch, and great choruses (Shout it out Loud, Rock & Roll All Night, Love Gun). I'm more of a Jazz guitarist, but I love Ace Frehley.
Saw Kiss in Minneapolis in 1977 as a 14 y.o. kid. I was never quite the same afterwards..
Kiss rock and roll Army forever!!!
Same I was 7 lol my sister took me to my first concert changed my lif
Yep, I saw this same act in Seattle '77. Never get tired of it. My favorite band of all time. KISS Rocks!!!! 🤘 May 2024!
Ace Frehley and Angus Young in my opinion are the greatest guitarists of all time and by far the most underrated, these guys are by far more entertaining on stage than anyone else and have influenced so many of the guitarists from the late 80's into the 90's.
Incredible stuff!
This is how Legends
become Legendary
Okay Dime, I see what you mean now.
I downloaded this solo to listen to on the way to school
The REAL Ace Frehley. Not the imposter.
there is no imposter , ACE chose another path..💙
Tommy Thayer is an excellent guitarist, and I won't deny that.
But one thing's for sure:He ain't no Ace Frehley! At best-Tommy Thayer is an Ace Frehley wannabe.
What it's an outrage, I want my money back.
I want the fake one, I demands it ese vatos locos forever putos locos tacos head gasket chumps cheese dip caca cabron mamados hot
In 1977, I was in Junior High listening to the Beatles. Then, I heard KISS - Alive II. That’s when I picked up the guitar and then, blew my father’s stereo speakers. Their Double Platinum vinyl LP -gifted to me by my HS GF is my all-time favorite rock album. I am 62 and I have the Epiphone Ace Frehley Budokan Limited Edition Les Paul Custom guitar #758.
Ace #1 hands down. Keeps it bluesy none of that prog rock fluff.
After all these years what's so wonderful about Ace is that he's at heart,a blues player.
One of Ace Frehley`s Best Solo`s ever !!! Just Perfect his Gibson playing
back then - brilliant Les Paul Tone !!! I am very proud to be a Fan since my
Childhood in the 70`s ! Ace Frehley is still too much underrated for what he plays
in the 70`s ! His Gibson Les Paul playing is one of a Kind and one of the Best ever !!!
His Solo`s were Magic back then ! Great Feeling !!!
he is a great experienced and sensitive guitarist
he was my model in 70's
i play guitar since 1976 by his influence on myself
love Ace
4:54, hammer-on?
I had a bad case of rock n' roll Pneumonia this morning... I watched this and now my symptoms are gone. thank you ace.
One Of My Favorite Guitar Payers Of All Time!!!
Ace with a great solo Part. Fantastic
Este magnífico guitarrista formó parte de un auténtico fenómeno, el cual es
sencillamente insuperable.
全盛期の頃のACEですね♪
ポールよりギター下げて弾いてて凄いわ。
小学生だったワタスは、ギターのネックを振ればビブラートが勝手に出るもんだと思ってましたよ(苦笑)。
フェアウエルツアーで東京ドーム見に行きましたYO！
he is one of the best guitarist of the history!
Really? Better than Eddie Van Halen? Better than Randy Rhoads? Better than Yngwie Malmsteen?
OF THE 😂 (HISTORY)😂
Let me put it this way, Ace Frehley and his skills are perfect for Kiss.
I just met Ace, got an autograph, and shook his hand literally 5 minutes ago at his book signing! Long live the Spaceman!!!