Ace Frehley Dies: Kiss Founding Guitarist Was 74
Ace Frehley, who co-founded the rock band Kiss and was its lead guitarist for eight years and nine studio albums and two live discs, died October 16. He was 74.
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R.I.P. Ace Frehley (Kiss)
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He was by so much and by far the most talented of the group. All one has to do is listen to the four solo albums to make that abundantly clear.
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Agreed he was the most talented of the original 4 KISS members. He just had too many demons back then, otherwise we might have gotten more KISS with Ace. Still, his solo stuff was damn good too.
Sad to hear. He may not have been the most technically proficient guitarist ever but he played what was required for the songs, he wrote great riffs and he inspired countless young fans to pick up a guitar.
Kiss were the first band I ever saw live (Springsteen the first act, and I saw Kiss a few months later). By then, he had long been out of the band and this was the Bruce Kulick days (crazy nights tour) but it seems pretty clear that to hardcore fans nobody ever really replaced the Spaceman.
I always thought his surname rhymed with freely but now that I realise it rhymed with gaily or daily, I can appreciate what a cracking pun the name of his solo band, Frehley’s (like Halley’s) Comet was.
Kiss were the first band I ever saw live (Springsteen the first act, and I saw Kiss a few months later). By then, he had long been out of the band and this was the Bruce Kulick days (crazy nights tour) but it seems pretty clear that to hardcore fans nobody ever really replaced the Spaceman.
I always thought his surname rhymed with freely but now that I realise it rhymed with gaily or daily, I can appreciate what a cracking pun the name of his solo band, Frehley’s (like Halley’s) Comet was.
I like Frehley's Comet and Ace Frehley. I never went to one of Kiss's tours unless all of the original four were playing, so I saw him twice.
I was too young to attend their 70s shows and had no older sibling to take me (imagines Mom at the Alive tour when pot began to burn around me and many, many bobbing tits were revealed like in the mid 90s when I saw them
) , so I made do with listening to Alive and Alive II until I attended that forementioned reunion tour in the mid 90s.
I saw the original four on the Dynasty tour. 
While he might not have been the most technically proficient guitar player to make it big, it's worth noting that he never had a lesson in his life. He was entirely self-taught, playing it by ear, by touch and by feel. When I was a kid, his Fractured Mirror was an almost spiritual experience for me. The Anulindale if Melkor never introduced the disharmony and discord into the song. (Of course I wouldn't have described it as such at the time. I didn't read The Silmarillion for decades after that.
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This compilation of the four instrumentals in his "Fractured" series popped up in my feed today.
I love the Biff Tannen thing he has going with the titles. Fractured Mirror, Fractured Too, Fractured III and Part 4: Quantum Fractured.
While he might not have been the most technically proficient guitar player to make it big, it's worth noting that he never had a lesson in his life. He was entirely self-taught, playing it by ear, by touch and by feel. When I was a kid, his Fractured Mirror was an almost spiritual experience for me. The Anulindale if Melkor never introduced the disharmony and discord into the song. (Of course I wouldn't have described it as such at the time. I didn't read The Silmarillion for decades after that.
)This compilation of the four instrumentals in his "Fractured" series popped up in my feed today.
I love the Biff Tannen thing he has going with the titles. Fractured Mirror, Fractured Too, Fractured III and Part 4: Quantum Fractured.
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Now there's an analogy I did not see coming!
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