Founding KISS guitarist and 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Ace Frehley has debuted an all new single titled Gimme a Feelin’ exclusively through
Rolling Stone today (May 29th). The new effort serves as the first single from his all new LP Space Invader slated for a summer release via eOne Music.
Gimme a Feelin’ is available for purchase on iTunes and Space Invader is available for pre-order via Amazon.
Widely known as the original “Space Ace” and founding guitarist for 16 cumulative years (over 2 tenures) of the multi platinum selling rock band KISS, Frehley is demonstrably the most popular original member. In addition to having the best selling solo album career (vintage or current) among the original foursome, Frehley’s self titled Ace Frehley, released in 1978, went on to sell over one million copies, producing the only Top 40 single, New York Groove, from any of the legendary KISS solo albums; (peaking at #13). The massive hit was most recently featured in an episode of cult show Entourage and was also KISS’ second best selling download in 2012, besting such KISS Army anthems as I Was Made For Lovin’ You, Beth and Calling Dr. Love even after 36 years.
Since departing from KISS, Frehley went on to release four more solo albums and one live EP including his most recent effort, Anomaly in 2009, which debuted at #27 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and received a welcoming response among critics.
You can catch Ace Frehley accepting his award at the 29th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction Ceremony on May 31st at 8pm on HBO.
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Mixed feelings…the music is pretty good, seems like his voice has changed a little though. He should stick with his classic vocal style…if possible.
Unfortunately, everybody’s voices change over time.
I think Ace’s voice is a highlight of this track actually. Sounds younger and more like the ’78 album. Was never a great singer but his voice has a charm and certain attitude that works for him. Kind of like Keith Richards voice works for him.
I agree eddie, he sounds good vocally on that track..the licks/riffs sound like typical Ace..if u want his voice to sound like it used to, then just listen to the older albums..im not big on the lyrics and I thought the drums were alittle low in the mix but maybe its just me…I want to hear the finished product…Eddie, do u know who his studio band is?
I think this is the best Ace’s voice has ever sounded.
I like it it’s got a cool loose vibe to it
That is exactly why I have always liked his guitar work, it is just him, no copying somebody else, while others would of course call the same thing bad chops or sloppy style or whatever.
Sochoman,
You forget that Ace’s guitar work comes from some of his influences (Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Jimmy Hendrix, etc…). Influences come out in everyone’s music, and nothing is completely original. Sometimes, watching Jimmy Page reminds me of Ace. This is not to take anything away from Ace, I am sure he would agree. While it is HIS guitar work, those influences produced it in him.
On another note, I like Ace’s work from 74-82 more than anything he has come up with (we will see when Space Invader comes out) so far. His style of playing in those days were inspiring and tight, and you can tell there was a discipline to his playing. In my opinion, that level of guitar playing was missing in his two last solo albums (Trouble Walkin and Anomaly).
By the way, I think I have a good handle on guitar players and singers when it comes to being unbiased. I am not trying to kid myself of anyone else–just giving my honest opinion. When I read a comment that seems way off or overblown–I feel compelled to challenge the merits of your argument. Everyone is biased–you can only do your best to avoid bias and give an objective assessment.
…and don’t tell me you know anything about statistics. That has nothing to do with this forum.
Man you are a nuisance trying to misapprehend everything others say as absolute statements – of course everyone is influenced, I was referring to Ace being the original and Tommy being the copyist, did you not get that? Ace was influenced by the heroes of the guitar before him, but then added something of his own and himself became one of these influential players. And hey, you must be a brave man to “challenge me/my arguments”, have you not better things to do than go on a forum like this one and “challenge” people to make yourself feel good? Is this a war of arguments or something? Come on. You are taking yourself and the discussing here much too seriously. Kiss is about rock’n roll which is about fun.
I’m not trying to pick on you schocoman,
I am trying to provide balance to the arguments you’ve made. If you think I am coming across too strong, maybe you should consider some of your comments. I don’t do this to make myself feel good, I do it because this is supposed to be a debate where we acknowledge each others point of view instead of blasting someone for his/her opinion. I understand Tommy wearing Ace’s makeup is upsetting to you and many others, but when you make statements that are inaccurate, be prepared to defend you position. I am in this for fun, not as a bully or tying to make you feel bad. You’ve made many comments that I cannot reply too–I mean, I can’t click on REPLY and answer some of your challenges. And that is what you are doing schocoman. You are challenging me, which is why I responded. You made a comment about “statistics” and I thought that kind of (if it were true) put others at a disadvantage. I don’t believe you did some professional research on any of this. Even if you are a singer–and I’m not saying your not–it does not mean I can’t challenge your claim that Paul Stanley’s voice is shot. I can hear just fine and he sounds good–as good as anyone out there. There’s no cotton in my ears.
Sorry Mike, but calling Paul’s vocal performance on an average day (let alone on a bad day, cf. American Idol, even ouside the strenous tour schedule!) of today and maybe the last few years “good” is just denying a fact that everyone, musician or not, Kiss fan or not, can plainly see and hear. It is a shadow of what it used to be, and it used be great, which makes the decline even more sad to witness, and I know that BECAUSE I have done the research, because I know so many YT videos, and because I saw this happen bit by bit on every gig they had over here in Europe from the reunion on, and I went to every tour since then. I find it sad too but there is no use in denying it. Face it and then decide whether you wanna spend serious money on a ticket and play Russian roulette if Paul has one of his better days so that his probably subpar performance would not make you sad or cringe when you are supposed to be having fun attending the concert. Let us just accept that they are old now, which wouldn’t be a problem if Paul did not talk into every camera and claim and brag about how big they still are and how they are still giving the fans 100% – when it is just not true, not possible. (Gene btw still has the voice but only 20% of his stage moves left in him compared to a concert i went to four yeras ago …) People critizing Paul or Gene are easily called haters but they are mixing up criticism and insult. If you spend money on this, and emotions too, you are allowed to be critical. Without Eric on lots and lots of backvocals it would be even more obvious to the fan who has no insight because he is not a musician. (I am not a singer btw and did not say so). Watch the videos out there, Paul is not singing whole choruses anymore. Why? Because his voice is still good??!! Tommy in make-up btw is not upsetting me like many others, I just that I find it lame that T and E were not given the chance to create something of their own, like Bruce. It is lame to on the one hand constantly dimish Ace’s and Peter’s contributions, but then tell the employees to copy what these guys did note for note. It is called hypocrisy, or marketing, if you like that one better. I went to see Kiss with T and E several times, was OK. I would prefer Ace, but that would be unrealistic. So I go see him on his solo tours. So if the cotton is not in your ears, I’d say Paul sometimes sounds if he had a mouthful of cotton making him fail on all the high notes. The question I am asking myself is, why did he not stop touring at least for a year or so, why did he keep on playing 40 something gigs every year when he knew that his voice was fading? I can think of a couple of reasons, but that is another topic and has already been much debated in the wake of the RRHOF induction.
I gotta say that I dig that tune, and I can’t wait for the whole album to come out. To begin with, I thought that “Anomaly” was an ok album at best. I think this is one is gonna Rock.
His vocals do sound a bit different, but hey he ain’t getting any younger, but his voice is still much better than a certain other Paul..
It’s Ace, and it sounds like his back! Thank God!
Sounds great … Tommy should cover this on the next KISS record.
Love the vocal and gtr solos. Chorus is kind of weak but I am really digging it overall!