KFM-BFM Origins: Ace Frehley
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- Ace Frehley joined us for the first ever KFM-BFM Origins. The former KISS guitarist and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, discusses topics ranging from his early days in the legendary group to his new album Origins: Vol. 1. Enjoy KFM-BFM Origins!
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cant read a single note of music....still became one of the most legendary guitar players of rock and roll...
notation was only a thing because of classical music, before that people used tabs, so no shame in not knowing how to read notes or only know tabs
Thats the case for most rock legends
thats actually really common. theres a difference between being a guitarist and being a musician
most of them can't read music, thats not necessary to rock
Don’t need to read any freakin thing to play! Stoopid!
Ace's guitar had a hell of a lot to do with the Kiss sound. His riffs were simple but clever, and those licks had tonnes of flash! And that unique bending style was all his own.
LOVE his laugh,very infectious......and a bloody legend....................
Ace was always my favorite member of Kiss.
44:30 "I've got a facelift, big f**in deal"... LOL gotta love his honesty and straight forwardness :-)
ace is the sweetest of the 4
Naturally gifted with music, no need to read or understand it. Just a cool 70's guitarist who had his own individual style. Ace influenced countless youth who started bands in the 80's / 90's.
Waaayyyy back then I was one of those youths, now I'm just an old fart but I'm still playing! 🎸⚡
#AceFuckingFrehleyForever
@@leeedward6804 Same with me. I bought Destroyer in 1976. I wanted to be Ace and I am still playing guitar.
Well said
Even if he only inspired Dimebag, that alone gives him an unattainable status of Legendary.
And I think "Black Diamond" is 1 of the best songs ever. The riff, the lead, everything just fit. 1 of those "I wish I wrote that" kinda things.
Ace would have been a perfect cast member in the Sopranos. Fo getta bout it........
Fan since 1976. The more I listen to my classic catalog of Page, Clapton, Beck and others I realize Ace can easily be part of this "first call" list of guitarists. His chops weren't technical but then the greatest chops usually aren't. Soul is the main ingredient and Ace always had it in spades.
Eddie Kramer said it best: "Ace was the heart and soul of Kiss". Those first six studio LPs and the live albums are an education unto themselves. Not to mention his first solo LP is a classic. Ace consistently delivered the goods.
As an aside Mike McCready is a badass. Huge Ace fan and plays in a UFO cover band. Written some classic with PJ as well.
When you listen to recent kiss albums, then listen to Ace's solo stuff, he is the one that still has that original kiss rock sound!
Ace Frehley rocks!
In every interview he says Kisstory and laughs like he has never said it before.
Thank you Ace for all of these years of wonderful music !.
Ace gave alot to Kisses sound! The guy is a rock legend an Icon the dude is humble,cool, and original! He deserves all the accolades the rest of the band recieves! He's the riff meister master! Long live Space Ace! 👍 in 1978 I bought his solo album on 8 track recording ! 👍 🎸
ACE! thank you for being the awesome person and musical person you are. My first album was destroyer and from that day till now I've been inspired to be a rock and roll guitar player. Im still working on that but you are the reason it all started....
my first album too.
I'm always amazed at how down-to-earth Ace is for being a guitar god.
Ace is bad ass..one legendary guitarist we better cherish why we still have em around. I know he isn't that old but we've been losing so many greats lately it jus let makes u think.
Ace is the reason i play today. his solos are so melodic one can sort of sing them. He and Jimmy Page play a lot of the same licks. Love them both equally, That being said, where Jimmy brought the Zeppelin songs, Ace seems to be a lot crispier on the lead. then again it was Page who came up with those English guitar licks
English guitar licks..LMAO. Have you ever listened to Chuck Berry, BB King, Albert King, T-Bone Walker or Blind Lemon Jefferson?
DVS: I’m writing a book about “Shock Me.” Would you like to participate in an online survey and be included in the book?
Your doing a book on ACE or the song "shock me" lol. I'd be glad too.
@@jimhoffmann
A book on Shock me? Must be a short story.
Utterly fascinating, thankyou so much for this!
A Really likeable fella,Kiss lit up the World,Great interview!👍😀
Whatever you want to say about his playing now, Ace in the 70s was absolutely brilliant. Superb feel and instantly recognizable vibrato
No other Artist has truly EARNED his nickname: he IS an Ace!
Ummm it's not a nickname - it's his given name
Paul Daniel Frehley is his birth name.
Because he was popular with the girls in high school he was given “ace” as a nick name
The one and only ACE!
if you met hendrix like ace did,chances are you would strive to make it ! huuuugggge influence on ace and everyone else.go ace!
What a cool genuine dude.
Ace is a true name kiss ace guys...this is Rock and Roll...
Ace is great 👍
Drink game, take a shot every time Ace says "Y' know"
Gotta love the Space Man, huge sence of humor and a true rock legend
My favorite Ace Frehley song is Cold Gin.
He talked about the time when he was younger playing with his older brother, I wish he would tell the story about his brother showing him how to play a few chords, and how he was taught by Peppy Castro of the Blues Magoo's a few years later, these old stories are very interesting 👍
BEAST!!! KISS HAS NEVER BEEN THE SAME WITHOUT HIM!
When Ace was a kid his Mom would always tell him he was "The most handsome boy on the wholllle block"! ✨⚡🌠😉
Ace is awesome
Ace has killed a lot of brain cells!!! It's important when doing a remake of a song that you don't try to replicate it to the bone but to improvise and add a little of some thing from in you.Ace recorded shock me laying down on his back in the dark.Was there ever lyrics written for fractured mirror?
This guy's Bad Ass !!! 👍👍😍🌹
God ace is cool as ice.. truly the real deal and I’m sure fun as hell to hang with. Gene Paul please just think about the fans and not your wallets for once and get the four original member’s together one last time and go out the right way. Then you can do kiss any way you want time and life is too short anyone can be gone in the blink of an eye.. the chemistry between the original original 4 is magic. Do it one more time before it’s too late
ACE IS GOD !!!
Congrats to ACE FREHLEY for 13years now today 2108
What a charmer.
iam geting a tattoo of ace
I am getting an album of Ace's.
He makes it look easy.
The song that Ace was playing wasn't Ticket to ride , it was Day Tripper !!!
I don't like Kiss but I like Ace. He just seems relatable on a more human level and was a pretty great player in his prime.
🤘🏻 ACE 🤘🏻
It's not how hard you play, or fast you play, or complicated and complex you play... it's about what you play.
Most guitarists develope their own quasi theory on the neck. Theory is just a way of assigning numbers to all the notes. Paul's variations are pretty damn clever on the 2nd guitar tracks. COLD GIN is a classic.
I LOOOOOOOVE his Micth Mitchell story.
Ace is such a cool guy.....his playing was kick ass and has only gotten better! Without him Kiss would have sucked big time
First !
Who cannot enjoy all the original Kiss recordings up to but excluding Dynasty ( !? )
Including Dynasty! Excluding Unmasked & Elder.... You gotta be crazy to skip 2000 Man or even Sure know Something From Dynasty. People can call it Rock Disco if they like, but i Counter with The Stones -Some Girls. Miss You is a solid groove, how do you discount it or Shattered?, simply because they have a Soul+Funk groove underneath. Plus, what is wrong with that groove? The whole "Disco sucks" is an old, tired trope, used mostly because it was a transitional period.
If you think of it, many forms were dying then. Art Rock- Yes, Kansas, ELP and King Crimson- all GREAT Bands that all but disappeared, but it was a period of cosmic shift. Jeff Beck and others of the 20 minute, self indulgent solos ilk disappeared as well. Then, 2 forms exploded out of that shift, namely "quote/unquote, Disco" and Punk.
I assert to you, that both of those short lived forms combined to create New Wave. Think of Bands like Blondie, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, and even Talking Heads used elements of both in their eponymous works. But, hey, as they say, it is all subjective- to a point. i stand pretty strong behind my assertion, having lived through the End of the Beatles, though the 70's and the time discussed when it comes to Dynasty. They moved with the times. A lot of bands didn't, and became irrelevant, and of course Kiss didn't make the next quick shift and fell out of favor for many.
However, the 80s and 90s, though several people love many parts of that era, save for Unmasked at least, some even love Elder, but i lost my love for their original material with Dynasty. Unmasked pissed me off, cuz as a young, rebellious man, i took it to mean they would quite literally unmask- on an inner sleeve or something. When i saw it was just a stupid, comic book cover concept...then hearing the material inside -this guy was done. i went to the Reunion and Farewell Tours, taking my oldest Son. Again, with the Farewell Tour, i, much like Ace, took them at their word. Just like Unmasked, Farewell was in name only, and all the things they said about staying in the game too long, ImHO are, and have, come to fruition.
+Kilgore Trout naked city from unmasked is awesome I also like torpedo girl
*****
Yeah, id agree, but they just pissed me off with the hollow title. At almost 18, it made me pretty angry...that was almost enough for a dime back then. ;/
I prefer Ace to Vai.
Ace sounds like the cookie monster or something when he talks it cracks me up
at least it's not Tommy Thayer
Shows like The Schaefer Beer Concerts in Central Park were legendary in the 1970’s.Big name bands $4.00 per ticket
he has to aceify it.
Give us his respect he definitely puts Paul’s vocals up on a pedestal where they belong in this song he holds no grudge as far as Paul’s talent I got to give him respect for that
I wonder if he and Anton Fig still jam together
10:17 ACE.
52:55 wheres that from, i remember the sound but cant put a name to it
Just a classic 12 bar blues turnaround. Ace has used it in his solos, Page is playing like it in Bring It On Home at the beginning etc...
I subbed!!
B100 FM❤️👍
got an old b&w show of Kiss with Paul in Lone Ranger make-up.....not sure why none of them ever mention that design, ....maybe they are under legal order to forget it
you know you know you know you know you know
Ace always cracks me up. It's his sense of humor and joy that comes through in his playing.
Big Ace fan, but Ive heard over the years that hes consistently a dick to his fans.
Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but I've met Ace three times in the past couple years. At a horror con in Indy in 2011, at a book signing in Chicago later in 2011 (the day after he played House Of Blues which was a great show!) and again at the same horror con in Indy in 2012. He didn't act like my best friend, but he was nice, shook my hand and thanked me for coming. I'm in a wheelchair and pretty easy to remember (or so I'm told). One of his guys hooked me up to make sure I could get through the line and he told Ace that he'd met me before and Ace said in his squeaky accent, "I thought he looked familiar" I'm sure he didn't remember me, but it was still, it was Ace Frehley! They let me sit in the room across from Ace while he was signing, Eddie Balances was in the room and they were telling some stories. I can see why some people might say he's a dick, but the guy is getting up there in age, and if you listen the other members of KISS, when Ace first joined, and when he wasn't completely loaded he was kind of quiet. He's sober now so he's probably just more like that guy.
Nope. I've had a rotten encounter with Peter, but the handful of times I've met Ace, he was almost as friendly as Paul. Point being, everyone has bad days--sorry if you've been on the wrong side of one of them.
+fidoflint Really? with Peter? He seems like the guy that is most friendly to his fans. Oh well, maybe a bad day like you said.
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Oh, definitely. You should see how the Catman defiled my cherished Dyansty tourbook. Mee-YOW.
Ace was always the coolest Kiss member.
Ace is a cool dude, they all were in their own way, but Paul had the pipes and the moves.
Otis Spunkmeyer Ace is cool, but Paul is cooler. Well, they’re all cool, except Peter.
@@lifesgreat9951 🤦♂️
he should get a different gitar--with a better shape & one that does not smoke or catch fire that would best suit the personality.
Paul Stanley IS KISS! Ace only played on a handful of albums in the ‘70s. Paul carried KISS throughout the ‘80s-‘90s by himself! Gene was too busy screwing Cher and Diana Ross and making shitty movies with Tom Selleck like “Runaway” to write great songs and be a full member of KISS during that time. Ace is a very unique talented guitarist and he has a hilarious personality! lol But Paul was ALWAYS the creative genius and driving force in KISS.
I love Ace. He is himself ...Love that because he is not FAKE.
Well said. He is the best. That laugh, his love for his fans, and the talent. He is the real deal. He is himself. And that is plenty.
Francie, You say it! That's it! Same reason why i love the guy, beside i play guitar because of him.
Darrin Ros
Me too Francie. Ace is definitely genuine.
Ace is the real deal
Ace has a style to his playing that can't be matched...listen to any old Kiss song and Ace sounds better playing it.
"I'm brain dead- ya gotta help me out!" Ace you humble cool dude
You can sing, whistle or hum more than 30 of Aces guitar-solos by memory. That’s musicality on his part. Who cares how technical you are? He wrote guitarmelodies that still is ”sung” 45 years later. Ace ☝🏿
One of the most influential guitarists of all-time...ACE Frehley new album 2/24/24....10,000 Volts
They're all talented in their own right but ACE is the MOST GIFTED musically. Not only is he a great musician but he also seems LIKEABLE as a person. You can't say that about a lot of other musicians who let success go to their heads.
"I'm out of tune, what happend?"
You're playing authentic Sir.
Ace Frehley was one of my first solo guitarist that peaked my interest. I am 57 years old now and still play to this day, mostly heavy metal. I remember Kiss in the early years and I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to be in the band!! I went through so many LP's trying to figure out what he was doing. Back and forth at the solos I would ruin the record and have to buy another one. I may be responsible for Kiss selling so many albums in the early days. Ace is and always will be one of my favorites!!
I think Ace should change his name to Ace 'You know' Frehley.
harry balls like u are now
harry balls Freudian slip u doofus
stan broniszewski its a NewYork thing ... don't ask silly questions
must hang around the guys from oasis a lot, d'ya know what I mean?
Who else couldn't stop thinking about how comfortable those chairs looked? Lol
Ace doesn't shy away from playing/ jamming with other bands or musicians. He's real down to earth and humble in that sense. I love that about him. So many guitarists started playing because of him, but he doesn't gloat about it and that's just awesome!
Ace is more than a virtuoso -
Ace is The Spaceman -
Ace is Ace - One of the Greats
And hands down the best laugh in Rock !
Ace is and always has been my fave along with Peter -
KISS ain't KISS without em -
I truly admire Aces honesty and openness to his fans. What a good guy and open book.
He can be a bit repetitive because he is getting older but he is truly a legend and he is a genuine cool guy.
I never liked Kiss because of Gene and Paul, but I like this man.
Great interview. Ace Frehley the Legend.
Actually, he’s a plumber
"Yeah! Whatever you want. I'm here." -Ace. What a cool guy. He's very neighborly and really has a funny sense of humor. What an amazing artist/musician.
Finally found this in 2021. One solid hour of Ace just chilling and being real. He was always that way, and that is perhaps the key thing about this guy - he makes you feel like you could sit and have a - bottle of water - together and just talk. Cheers Ace!
Ace... such a nice and genuine human being he is !! He's got human qualities and an authenticity that are rare in that industry.
Ace is wonderful, so easy going, generous...one of a kind ! A blues album would be awesome. His style is unique and the way he ace-ified any songs he performs is great ! He raw voice, his Bronx accent really makes a big difference on the songs. He is a great rock'n'roll lead singer ! Watching that video was like chatting with him in my living room. Ace is the cooooooooooooolest !
When does an established artist get their life back ? I hear a lot about guys like Ace who blow hot and cold on the fans . He has been being approached by strangers acting as if they know him for over 40 years . To me , say " Nice to meet you ." then move on .
As soon as I heard Ace singing Cold Gin, gene never sounded right to me again. The way of the song as well as the lyric's are so Ace-infused. If only he had the courage back in the day to sing it on their debut. Gene singing Cold Gin just doesn't fit, it really never did. I guess I say that on count of how he scolds people who have a drink or smoke a little. It's weird
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jason pkeda exactly.
Simmons would puke on his boots if he drank Cold Gin. Not believable when he sings it.
Curly likes this video! ACK!!!!
Ace was WAY before so many greats, his riffs will always rein supreme. I'm 61, so was with him most of the way, Rock will never be the same, thanks to Ace.
11:06 I'm actually in tears, Ace has such a brilliant singing voice.
Great to see Ace continuing to do amazing things.
The JHE Mitch Mitchell story awesome. First guitar? "Some Japanese piece of crap." Priceless. Love the stories, Ace.
Fire & Water! Paul needs you Ace
DJN 71 that solo on the cover was absolutely awesome Paul kossoff would even agree with that I think I know Paul Rodgers loved there version especially cause it shined some light back on free
top 5 greatest players of all time. #1 guitar influencer for bands and players around the world.
I like Ace as much as the next guy but he isn't one of the top 5 guitar players in the room he's in - he's not as good as I am and I shovel horse poop for a living
@@davidrice3337 I never heard of one of your songs or albums.
Def nowhere close😂😂😂😂 to
most famous players agree the reason they picked up the guitar was because of ace. When you hear ace. you know its ace. How many guitarist do you know that has that reputation. Top 5 maybe not.......top ten for sure.
Ace was my guitar hero when I was 14. He still is! He is rock and roll! I would have never learned to play if I had never heard Kiss Alive II
ACE FREHLEY IS LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!
Ace signs his autographs with stars and planets and half Moons and a splay of cards with Aces. He was nice enough the sign for me here in Dallas and I'm not even a kiss fan! My taste leans more towards Paul Revere and the Raiders
Ace is the man.
His playing is simple yet effective - isn't that what rock n roll guitar is all about it?
Ace its a Les Paul thats why its out of tune.
Glad it's not a crapocaster
I wonder if Ace ever thought of using his voice as a cartoon character ? He reminds me of Mel Blanc .
Meh, what's up Doc? 😁🤘
I went to a signing and It took his entire posse to help him spell my name (Kristina) and I said "Krissy" is fine and I got "Krssy". Lol. We are so lucky this dude is still with us.
Ace is so kind to show his fans how he rips it up....PLAY ON ACE
Great interview and kudos to you for just letting Ace talk.
Ace is cool. I would rather meet and hang with him rather than Simmons or Stanley by a New York mile.