Had a great hang with Ace Frehley tonight on the SiriusXM show. Ace was in great spirits and said all the Kiss drama would not take down his fun finally going into the HOF this Thursday. I’m sure the audio will be everywhere on Youtube and elsewhere soon if not already. It will also be on the SiriusXM On Demand app likely by tomorrow. A few highlights:
*His new album Space Invader will be released June 24th. He did record a cover of Steve Miller’s “The Joker” as one of the tracks. He will also assemble a new live band to tour behind it.
*He still wishes there would have been a performance for the HOF, wanted to play with another band, but HOF would not allow. Joked he might do a solo “NY Groove” during his speech. He has no plans of wearing a Kiss costume or makeup.
*The individual speeches have been cut from 3 minutes each to 2. He and Peter speak between Gene and Paul who start and finish in the speaking order. Said he likely would not use a teleprompter and just go for it.
*Said the recent anti semetic claim by Paul is absurd and noted his fiance is Jewish. Was aware of recent photos of Paul himself in Nazi regalia and said he can’t figure out what’s going on with Paul these days.
*Did not rule out jumping up and joining in the all star jam at the end of the night but wasn’t sure.
*Said he can’t speak on other members not being inducted into the HOF with Kiss since he has nothing to do with the decision and there are precedents for both scenarios.
Ace answered everything that was thrown at him including a ton of calls for the listeners. I will be sitting with him and Peter at their tables for the big night Thursday and will provide info as I it happens when I can via Twitter @EddieTrunk More soon no doubt. Appreciate him coming in. He really was in a great mood and committed to having a fun week in NYC and not letting all the sniping dim this event as you will hear in the audio.
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Eddie, did you ask Ace how he felt about Tom Morello being the inductor, i.e., was he satisfied with the choice?
I am in agreement with HOF decision on KISS member inductions; it was Gene, Paul, Ace and Peter that created the iconic characters. While subsequent musicians brought in have performed admirably, they have just kept the images alive and not added anything new. The possible exceptions are the band members who were with KISS during their non-makeup period. Regardless of their reasons, not performing for the fans speaks volumes about Gene and Paul.
hey paul Stanley, the more you talk & try to make ace & peter look bad, the more it backfires! or have you not noticed your plan to turn everyone against them is actually turning almost everyone against you? why can’t you just shut up? your recent comments now about ace being a racist have gone way too far, you’ve crossed the line now and I got to say, you are not at all the decent person I thought you were, years ago. instead of uniting the kiss army, you have divided the kiss army, all ace & peter wanted to do was have some fun & move on, but you & gene had to fuck everything up!
Well Said My Friend!
Eddie
Are they going to be sitting at the table w/ Paul & Gene ?
Can you sock Paul in the mouth for me ?
As far as making movies in my mind go, I just got a great visual for this lol…”This is from all the fans that think you should have stopped in 2001! WHAM!!” : )
Hell yeah, and if Tommy is there maybe you could cut the cheese as you walk by him.
“sock” him in the mouth? You watch way too many cartoons. Try the Learning Channel.
Ace and Peter should do a tour together, just to demonstrate who has the essence in Kiss. Like the one they did in 1995. Long live to Ace And Peter.
What a joke. I saw two dates of that train wreck. Ace was so drunk in St Louis they had to walk him back and forth in the hotel room to try to sober him up. He was NINETY minutes late to the stage. Gene and Paul have the Kiss essence, and you have….a laughable opinion.
So the fact that they are now sober makes your point meaningless, right?
No, it doesnt. Besides you dont know for a fact theyre sober. At least with kiss you get the songs sung by gene and paul plus the massive show, i saw Ace on his last tour and he was really quite good but for the most part it was a nameless cover band singing kiss songs, with Ace on guitar. So no, my point is not meaningless. Ace and Peter are not the true essence of kiss, thats a joke. Now…myob.
And how is this version of kiss not a cover band? Lol…Ace’s shows are about the music nowadays…kiss is just about makeup….p/g are dinosaurs….can barely move and paul cant sing…not to mention paying huge $$ to see a watered down show….ur tribute band theory holds no water…
I worked on Ace’s video crew for a NYC date on that tour and it was a debacle. What a stupid nightmare the entire evening was. It all had to do with George Sewitt, Ace and Pete’s manager at the time, and former 1979 Kiss tour manager. What a freaking control freak this guy was. All he did was yell at Ace about nothing, pull the plug on the video production to only at the last minute say it was a go (last minute meaning 5 minutes before showtime).