Ace Frehley is a greedy paranoid backstabbing junkie
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Not my words, Gene Simmons
Ace Frehley part 1 here: • Video
Peter Criss version here: • Peter Criss is a very ...
Gene Simmons looks like Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.
I thought the same thing!! Lol
"Your honor, I'm just a caveman. This music confuses and frightens me...sometimes i have to plug my ears so I can concentrate on counting the green paper..." lol
Hilariously true!
You sir are a genius
I honestly think this is the funniest RUclips comment of all time. I laughed so hard I almost threw up.
Ace definitely had serious issues, but Gene is such an incredibly self-obsessed individual that it's hard to believe anything he says.
ACE avrà dei difetti,come tutti e Gene è perfetto?
Without Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons would still be teaching 6th grade at P.S. 75 in New York City's Spanish Harlem.
Gene Simmons calling anyone greedy is beyond hypocritical.
Yeah I hate hypocrites. People who don't live by their own rules but they expect other people to live by them. And get mad and criticize them for not living by them.
I mean aren't all humans hypocrites to a certain point
Yes will all those farewell tours lol
Who gives a shit! We all are greedy bastards!
Yeah he is a greedy pos
No, actually I'm a plumber.
Hate you Ace. Haaahaaa
LOL
TELL ME ABOUT IT
I’m not the lead guitarist, I’m the trout player 😂
You're human debris...
Speaking as a guitar player, hate to break it to you Gene, but any kid including me that ever picked up a guitar was because Ace inspired us some way down the line, you didn't!!!!
can you be inspired by a demons clothes?
@@marial.rapaglia4041 I feel alot of new rappers are influenced by kiss, with there crazy dark black outfits.
Well if you listen to Gene he says ace never lived up to his potential. Gene understood ace was great.
Yeah well Gene influenced every greedy greasy corporate suit who wanted to milk fans for everything they are worth, so there!
I've never been inspired by ace but he is good
I find it hilarious that Gene Simmons is calling someone else greedy.
Whats hilarious is paul stanelys audio has him being the sober voice of reason. Lmao! What jokers
Greed is simply taking,mire than which you deserve. Otherwise,what you earn is what you deserve. Unless you believe that you deserve more.
The pot calling the kettle black huh Gene?
Who's jewing who here?
@@axeman2638
I like your axe. Which model is that? LOL
GENE has the nerve to call Ace and Peter insecure?? LOLOL This from a guy who has had LOTS of plastic surgery on his face, and who has a bad hair dye job that looks like a black cat died on top of his head.
Fuck Gene Simmons! By far, the least talented member of the band.
Yeah that's what I never got. Ace and Peter never start this shit.
So true
The thing is Gene and Paul wanted Ace to stay both times he quit lol the first time it cost kiss a lot of money and I think they still resent Ace for that but it’s like Ace said “what good is all that money if you’re dead?”
Gene faults Ace for not wanting to waste his time trying to trademark a lighting bolt? Maybe Ace just isn't as greedy as Gene is.
Right...I wonder why he would think anybody could get a patent on a lightening bolt...
@@jimcatmandude9316 if ace had trademarked jt he would’ve had more money to his name and maybe not be in debt.!
One thing I'll give Gene, he knows how to make a buck. But that's all I'll give him.
Egg zactly!
The most work Gene seems to put in is researching everything from hand gestures to orange juice to see if he can get a copyright on it.
You're precisely correct, Gene: you can't bullshit a bullshitter.
True
With all the money Gene has, you'd think he could find a better wig?
Kinda looks like a football helmet without the nose guard.
same thing with Trump, these guys have no self-awareness
@@tugger I don't think Trump's hair is a wig, he just has godawful hair.
@@tugger Trump has self awareness
@@creamcannon825 its a combover
I like how Gene ignores the fact Ace was right about 'The Elder'
He's a good guitar player. That doesn't happen through laziness, it takes a ton of practice.
You can be hard-working and disciplined for a few years and become lazy later in life. That’s probably what happened to Ace.
He's not a great guitar player by any stretch, but he's good and worked well that band.
He was talented. His creativity and ability to play interesting music diminished greatly once the made it big in the mid 70s and the drugs and booze took over. I saw him on his ‘07 solo tour. He had no merch for sale to speak of. One t-shirt was about it. Lost opportunities abound with this guy.
It takes practice and an ear for music & what sounds good. That is something that not everybody has. If you have no ear for music you cannot be a good musician period.
Being a good musician and being a good bandmate can be two different things.
-Ace may be crazy, but he's the guy who gave KISS it's "Rock" sound
Tommy is way better as an actual guitarist though,he is substandard as a guitarist truly. Joe satria I is a guitarist. Ace is a blues box beginner. My Nephew plays better than him on a bad day and he's played for a year,, truth hurts.
@@wavularBS….in 1975 he was doing things that every decent heavy metal guitarist was trying to emulate a decade later. He was more than a Blues box beginner…he was doing heavy metal licks before the term heavy metal was even being used.
At last somebody who tells it like it is. He is absolutely nothing special. You can't even compare him to Satriani.@@wavular
Heavy metal licks? Hahahahahahahahahahaah that's a good one mate.@@mackdeen7021
I agree, It was Ace and Peter that should have continued with Kiss
Ace's solo album was BY FAR the best of the 4... Oh and I also had the lightning bolt strap...
Lmao , I’m 55 and ace was my favourite
By far the best? Thats silly. He had snowblind, NY groove which isn’t his song and rip it out. And his awful vocals hurt those songs.
Paul was for me, 2nd was Ace, and Gene and Peter a tie
Gene calling somebody greedy is like Harvey Weinstein calling somebody a pervert.
Gene would not deny that. He was just stating a fact. Maybe Gene is greedy but with perspective. Ace just greedy beyond the rational limits of a given situation.
Gene, for the most part, took his role in Kiss professionally. Ace didn’t.
Do you believe in American justice system? What if Harvey was a scapegoat in order to take away our eyes from real criminals?
I didn't hear the word greedy in this. Was just click-bait from this RUclipsr.
Just because you are something doesn't mean you can't call it out when you see it. Like if someone is fat, they can note that someone else is fat
"Awwwk!" "13 for a dozen!" "I kills them all one by one!"
Bwahahahaaaa!
From ‘monkey’ ?
I have a friend who grew up in NY and hung out with ACE all the time, with his pocket book, he drank like a fish but that did not make him a bad person, he was a very nice guy when i met him over at the limelight, we have many memories, we used to go out during the late 80s with friends and hangovers as well, Ace never looked down at anyone and the only thing that seemed negative was when Ace cried at times, i started to realize that it was from drinking too much.
Bullshit
I would be a drunk too if I had to be around Gene
This comment seems to validate what Gene and Paul say about him.
Ace just wasn't driven by money in his early days, he just wanted to be a rock guitar player
He was driven by booze. Can't work with alcoholics.
Mission Accomplished, “ right away Ace broke every rule “. Legend 😂
Curious how Gene always comes out the hero in all his "stories"
Because he's his own biggest fan.
No that's Kanye west gene is more a business man
@@ihaveassaids2364 Gene Simmons is not a businessman. He just agrees to let people put the KISS name on all kinds of bullshit products.
It's no wonder he's a Trump supporter.
@@fivestring65ify - If he supported Hillary, he'd be your hero.
I was the biggest Kiss fan you could find and even I can admit Gene will say whatever he has to to make him look like the good guy.
Ace was the most talented musician in the band but he never liked the makeup and it only got worse as the band become more popular with kids.Ace wanted to be a rock star not a cartoon he just went about expressing his unhappiness in a very childish way.
Ace is a fucking whack job annnd if your such a fucking big kiss fan then you would know it was his idea some of he earlier interviews they all said that
Amen
Fr
He designed his own makeup and relished in it - don't let him fool you.
You're right I should have worded that differently.
In the beginning I think he was into it because it made Kiss different and unique but as time wore on it turned from a cool almost punk/we're different F you vibe to being a kids action figure.
“Auk, 13 for a dozen” will be my new catchphrase.
It must kill Gene that he's not being paid for this video
Hahaha shit man he invented the term monetize
@@scootmcgoot570 spot on you and Dr.Riddle
Is that you Ace?
Ace always be the best thing in KISS.
Wrong, he is.
Ace might have had substance problems while he was in Kiss but he was and still is a great guitar player
When it comes to Kiss I agree with you. Be that as it may when you have someone like so, who Is unprofessional and cannot do his job/perform, doesn't contribute much nor a partner of the band he becomes replaceable. Not the first, not the last.
He is?
And he is still broke, the idiot missed an opportunity of making $200 million dollars had he controlled himself
Ace was never great. Hes certainly not great now
No, he wasn't, and still isn't.
These stories just make me love Ace Frehley even more!
Yup
@Coogan But still the best musician in Kiss, at least up to that point.
Right on 👍 Ace rocks👍👍
Just as a band needs a parent or two, it’s also good to have a couple of children to keep things loose and a little wild. But when the wild child wants to sue the grown ups, well…
It seems to me Ace was doing the Keith Moon trip; but Moon learned pretty quick that he wasn’t smart enough to organize a trip to the bathroom, let alone negotiate like a diva or tell the band how to run things.
@Coogan the thing is, you don't have to be the best guitarist, you just have to be the right guitarist. Ace was the right guitarist for Kiss. There is a reason when you see bands cover Kiss songs it's never a post Ace/Peter product.
I'd be paranoid around Gene, and Paul .
Amen sista
That registers with me!
I must say that the best anecdote about Ace came from guitar builder Steve Carr, who was hired by the band to make them some custom instruments for the Dynasty tour. Among others, he made Ace' Black Smoker's Les Paul, Ace' rocket shooting Les Paul and Ace' Light chaser guitar which Ace uses in the video for "I was made for loving you" and has been using for live performances of "New York Groove". He also made Paul's rhinestone covered star shaped guitar and Gene's first axe bass.
Anyway, Carr recounted that he was flown over and went to the hotel the band was staying in during rehearsals for the upcoming tour and was brought by their crew to the racquet court where he had his first encounter with Gene who was "very articulate" and knew exactly what he wanted in a custom instrument.
As Carr and Simmons went back to the hotel to discuss the business of the custom instruments, how long did it take for Carr to build them, when the tour was due to start and that Carr would be granted access to the main stage instruments of Ace, Paul and Gene to take measurements. Carr's attention was taken by maniacal laughter, he looked over and saw Ace trying to stuff firecrackers in between the marble slabs which made up the floor of the lobby and igniting them.
Apparently Ace was told that since marble was stone, it simply couldn't be damaged and Ace decided to prove that theory wrong. Carr decided right there and then that since he and Ace had the same kind of humor, he had found his new best friend.
Maniacal laughter...love the Spaceman!!
Ace will always be my favourite and I’m not a big fan of Gene, but I have to give him credit for the awesome voice impersonation of Ace 😃
Gene and Paul thought they were the greatest thing. Peter and Ace probably got tired of it.
Ace was self conscious of his singing and writing. That's all. It's actually a very human trait. And by the way,....Ace's solo record was by far the best of the 4. Gene can't argue that. And as the other members had no hand in it whatsoever, Gene has to try to take credit as having suggested he record one in the dirst place. Ace's decision to part from the band may indeed have saved his life, ...and on more than one occasion.
Yea Ace drives a jag and lives on the shore, he'll be fine. Just glad he's sober and not dead.
He was the only one of the 4 to have a hit on their album lol
Gene was always very jealous of Peter and Ace. He's a very so so bass player. Of the 70s bands Era his name NEVER comes up as being even a good player. Ace was considered a great guitarist. Peter and Ace wrote there best and most valuable songs. Gene hated this fact. Gene and Paul treated them like roadies or groupies instead of band mates. Now they talk shit about them. They acted surprised they rebeled. Funny they like to call them both drug addicts but never mention Gene sleeping with girls that... let's say , wasn't old enough to drink alcohol or drive a car. Ppl who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Please. Did you forget about the drugs alcohol not showing up for shows or album recordings . Hes lazy and greeedy.
It's only an opinion that Ace's solo album is the best so Gene can argue with that.
Gene: “Ace is greedy.”
Says the man who sells his stage play basses for $12,000.
I've watched lots of ACE footage, during the reunion tour, meeting fans, doing interviews for local news stations, etc. He was there for over a hundred shows and the grueling tour. He sounded together and coherent. Same for Peter, who actually required surgery for carpal tunnel. So it leads me to believe that slimy Gene is bashing their character, when in fact he was mad that they wanted equal shares of the money. That's what it really comes down to.
Can't stand him and bitch ass paul
Wouldn't expect any less from this J
I don't believe Ace or Peter deserved an equal share of the money. They were both guaranteed to become multi-millionaires, which is exactly what happened. Shouldn't that be enough? Ace & Peter, having been out of the band for almost 20 years, that alone is enough to fairly let Gene & Paul earn more than them. Maybe I'm wrong, but logically it seems to make sense.
Gene and Paul have pretty much predicated their entire careers on the work the original lineup put out. They have done nothing that's approached that level since they essentially destroyed Ace and Peter.
@@crooked-haloLol they have literally not put out a new album in decades. An they play songs Ace and Peter made as well. That's funny. They haven't done anything with the imitation Peter and Ace they have now.
When Gene can play Ace's solo, I'll listen to him.
When Paul can play lead I'll listen to him too.
@MaryPussyPoppinswhen Gene can play bass I'll listen 😂.
Ace and Peter were the heart and soul of the band, and Ace's solo album was an instant hard-rock classic. Chaim is just very jealous.
Ace’s album was an instant classic? Then why didn’t it sell more copies, especially in 1978? Not so instant or classic.
Notice how Gene is *never* at fault. Gene Simmons is obviously an intelligent man but he also strikes me as an egomaniac.
To someone like Ace, I guess Gene Simmons seams like an egomaniac. When you are sober 10% of your life, I guess everyone does. Ace Frehley has totaled more cars then I will ever have. He has been hospitalized more then someone with cancer. Yea, I believe Gene Simons. Greedy? yea, but who isn't?
Has nothing to do with being greedy (or not) or sober (or not)? It has to do with accepting that he can't possibly be without blame.
Jupiter Botz to come up against Gene Simmons in a business way, you had better have your wits. Ace Frehley doesn't look like he can deal win Gene. Infact, he doesn't look like he deal with anyone. js.
The same thought I had. He never says 'I made a mistake' or 'I should have done X'...it;s always on someone else. His stories are about how someone else was a fuck up and never about himself being a fuck up. Gene has never made a mistake in his life according to the way he speaks. And it's always about money which just makes Gene look like such a jerk.
fatcatnwo I'm sure Ace could deal with anyone that dealt with him like a human being and not a product.
Gene Simmons is eternally unhappy. All the money in the world and he's still bitter with his false ego.
This story is hilarious & actually typical narcissistic Gene. It’s it funny how he & Paul were always so perfect 🤮
Gene is such an asshole, I mean he exudes it
Paul is a bit more honest than Gene. But I don't think any of the members of KISS are totally honest about really anything.
Of course that bunch never does anything wrong
I don't think they were perfect, they just weren't stoned, it's ALWAYS the dope......
@@l21n18 😅🤣😂
So.. Ace is human. And I thought he was a Spaceman.
And Gene, you and Paul .... Your no Angel.
I can see Gene moving his finger along the page with every word he reads. He reads like Forrest Gump walked with braces.
If Ace is a greedy paranoid backstabber, then he learned from the best - Gene and Paul!
I know Frehley went off the rails and probably had to be fired. But still, Simmons is a very hard man to like. He and Stanley aren't really musicians, they're businessmen. Frehley is a real musician and a creator of art. And he seems like a pretty decent guy.
robicenco1 he quit. Twice. Was never fired.
@Phoenix Girl Yup.Funny how they call him a piece of shit every time they talk about him but when he quit, both times, they begged him to stay. Not to mention first time he quit they promoted Creatures Of The Night with Ace's face on the album cover and credited him as Lead guitar despite him not being involved with that album at all. They even went to say that Vinnie was just a temporary replacement for Ace and assured everyone Ace was coming back. Same for Peter, when they went on tour with Aerosmith (After farewell tour) they knew the needed a highlight to sell better, since Ace was done with them, they went to Peter, and right after the tour they ditched him. Now Paul goes "The Aerosmith guys for SOME REASON wanted at least 3 original Kiss memebers" yeah right.
Gene has the gall to call ACE greedy and backstabbing? What a piece of work.
Being angry at Gene won't make Ace honest or a better guitarist.
If being a violent, unpredictable druggie doesn’t count as being a greedy backstabbing person. You might need to fact check
@@randomcore2927 Yet Gene did not acknowledge that Ace did clean up and wrote a book about his experience. Ace acknowledged that he fucked up and that Gene saved his life a couple of times included that bathtub incident. As far as I can remember Gene never displays any humility.
@@randomcore2927 Half of Gene's book is just him lying through his teeth lmao. He and Paul change their story every single time they tell it. Ace was a dickhead, but he was also the musical lifeblood of KISS
@@lespaul5628 Yea, it seems like Ace wasn't publicly rude to Gene until Gene basically shit all over him in an interview a few years back.
I just think it’s funny that Gene is calling someone else greedy. He is all the time calling Ace names about how he isn’t “trustworthy” because of his drinking problems. But Ace has been over 12 YEARS sober. Ace is the real musician of the band (besides Peter Criss and Eric Carr) because he actually played an instrument. I play myself and to be that good is a God given talent. The newest members of the band are only as good as they are right now is because their thrones were already made for for them by Ace, Peter, and Eric and no one can deny that. But Gene tends to run his mouth sometimes and to sabotage someone like that who was your FRIEND is just despicable. You think Gene would be a good man knowing what background he came from but some people never learn. Ace might have had drinking problems in his past but at least he wasn’t a womanizer like Gene. But Gene talks about how Ace stabbed him in the back, but Gene never bothers to mention how he groped Ace’s wife behind HIS back.
I never realized Ace was this cool.
Gene is all about the money. I seriously doubt he's so innocent in these stories
At least he's not trying to rip the band apart like Ace or Peter.
Yeah - KISS is just a _brand..._ always was.
Agree with you
This the only work Gene and Paul really care about!!! Bashing a living legend drummer and guitarist 🎸!!!@
🤦♂️
Ace has got all the respect.
Sounds like Gene is the greedy one by throwing his own band mate under the bus!
Shaine MacDonald No he’s just a jack ass.
But he did it for good reason. Didn’t you hear the man? He’s a druggie and a crazy person. He did it for a good reason, the end of the road tour was so dangerous, if he collapsed or stumbled just a LITTLE bit, he would have died
Ace has cleaned up and Gene Simmons hates it. Musicians such as Rob Zombie, Slash, Joe Perry, Bily Diffy from the Cult, Steven Adler to mention a few respect Ace. Gene Simmons has a big mouth and is NOT respected by anyone including paul Stanley.
Frosted Why would Gene hate that Ace cleaned up? I don’t believe Ace has cleaned up btw. He sounds drunk quite often to me, even in recent years.
Frosted 😋🤥🤥🤥🤥
Not even his kids respect him.
Why's there a giant moustache on his head?
I think he just described a rock star.
Yeah really...this went on with every rock band.
He described the public’s perception of rock star; real rock stars don’t act like this
@@tylurmackinnon6217 I think every single Rock Star except for Paul and Gene did this stuff
worst hair in Rock
cecilyt006 it's a wig you dork!
Nah. It looked like that before he got the wig.
Don’t forget Robby Krieger lmfao
Ace is the one musician in the band who inspired other people to pick up the instrument
Me as well...
Thanks ACE..AWK!!
Ace looked cool with his nonchalant style but he wasn’t the best guitarist
You dont say...@@TheGodYouWishYouKnew
@@Idreallyrathernotthanks Plenty of Aceholes think that he was an amazing guitarist, so don’t act like I’m just stating the obvious.
@@TheGodYouWishYouKnew I’m not even a real fan of Kiss and recognize Ace was a good guitarist. The best??? No. Who is? Haha. He was ahead of his time. So much of what he was doing in 1975 is what every inspiring heavy metal guitarist was TRYING to do in 1985! How do I know? I was one of them….untile I grew out of the whole heavy metal thing by 1986…😅. But he was a good guitarist…and I’d say very innovative for the time. He set the bar for guitarists who wanted play that type of music. Obviously better ones came later. But as non-kiss fan he to me was the best Kiss ever had.
Ace was the best thing that happened to you.
...and still is.
“It was a nightmare from the moment they joined the band.” And the reason why Gene and Paul kept Ace and Peter in the band????
Calling Ace the 'weaker" member is hilarious, he's the one half-decent musician in the band.
Half? Let's say one fourth.
Ace was my favorite actor on Phantom of the Park.
ACK
Hey Gene! Who played on Ace's solo album???????? Funny how it was better than most of the bands stuff.
Ace still has the best solo album
If you listen to the Paul Stanley version.. its almost exactly the same. Not just the same story. But using the exact same words and phrasing, like this is the ONE OFFICIAL VERSION of history that both of them agreed to both tell.
I'm sure Ace and Peter were probably difficult with the drugs and alcohol. But it also seems like Paul and Gene took advantage of the situation to boot them and get total control of the band once they became established.
23:22 "Ace always blamed anyone but himself." Pot, meet kettle.
Idiot, meet yourself.
No that would be Peter Criss. The biggest Drama Queen of Rock.
@@curtekstrom6600 Seriously, man. I lost it over how many times Peter threatened to quit KISS. We ALL have known someone like that hahaha So sad yet so accurate!!
@@curtekstrom6600 That would be all of them. Ace's drugs wouldn't have been a problem if Gene and Paul weren't weirdly straight edge (at least for Rock back then). Gene and Paul's high-strung nature wouldn't have been an issue if Ace wasn't out of his mind stoned all the time. They're just four dudes who make no sense together and caught lightning in a bottle. It's literally a mediocre guitarist with a high pitched voice, an israeli immigrant who sings about women despite being physically revolting, a drug addict guitarist with perhaps the most limited vocal range in music, and a bang average drummer who was playing jazz drums on hard-rock tracks.
KISS is such a mess now I'm entirely certain that their success was complete chance. They wrote some good songs, but let's be real, most KISS fans hate 95% of the music post 1982 and the two faces of the band (Paul and Gene) are almost universally despised by the band's hardcore following. It's like nothing else in pop culture lmao.
I think Gene and Paul felt very threatened by Ace from the start. Ace may have had his faults but at the end of day he is a musician , a star.
I think Ace and Peter rebelled against Paul and Gene because their crappy personalities.
Gene’s imitation of Ace’s voice is spot on.
If you looked up the definition of greedy in the dictionary you would find a picture of Gene and Paul. From the age of 10 I worshipped KISS. Getting Kiss Alive and Destroyer for Christmas changed my life. I was too young to see the band with the original members the first time around. I saw them on Animalize, Revenge, Physco Circus and the concert of all concerts. I was 10 rows from the stage at Tigers Stadium for the opening show for their reunion tour. Im just trying to explain what a huge fan I was. Later in life I unfortunately discovered the truth about 2 of my childhood heroes. Gene and Paul did Ace and Peter dirty and always thought they were the band and nobody else counted. Gene is a narcissist and a greedy one that destroyed friends and friendships. Then the disgusting way Paul and Gene treated Eric Carr made me sick. He was paid shit, wasn't allowed to play a single song with another musician, wasn't allowed to ride in the same limo with Gene and Paul, and then when hes dying from cancer just shit on him and act like he doesn't exist. I would never see kiss ever again and wouldn't give Gene or Paul another dime. Oh shit, how could i have forgotten the ultimate sin. Having other people wear Ace and Peters makeup. That is sacrilegious. Everyone always had their own persona. It makes me sick. I also heard that when Gene and Paul hang it up they want to find replacements for themselves and continue to tour while they take half the money. Gene is talking all this shit about Ace both past and present. Gene had been playing some gigs with his own band and Ace was there and played with them. This was arranged by Gene. So is Gene lying, just greedy, or both?
All these stories make me love Ace even more , now thats a Rockstar!!
Thank you Gene for saving Ace's life that night in the hotel 🙏
Ace has said he was difficult at times etc but he also said he found it very hard to work with Gene and Paul at times!! and found it hard to cope
Ace, undoubtedly , the coolest member of Kiss. On the MTV unplugged, when Ace came on, it was remarkable how much better Ace is the Kulick, amazing difference in talent, soul
What is the point after all these years Gene?Climb down off the Cross!
It's to sell an audio book and Ace is greedy. This just isn't cool, but damn, I keep listening.
Ace is a rock and roll legend! The other two are book keepers!
OUCH !!
Peter and Ace were by far the most important and talented in the band, period!!! They have admitted constantly to their drug and alcohol abuse, and literally regret it, I don't understand how they still beat a dead horse when these two legends have been sober for years literally!!! Disgusting
@@kevinchandler179 It's because outside of "we're straight edge and they did drugs" Paul and Gene don't have much of a leg to stand on.
In the late 70's, Kiss was my favourite band. I was in grade school when I first heard them. I had posters all over my bedroom walls. Ace is my favourite member.
It is really too bad Gene and Paul have to disrespect Ace and Peter so much. What happened between them is unfortunate.
Just remember "Do Ya" back in 1989 by Ace which hit the top 40 that year.
KISS make-up was the best thing that could happen to that face.
That face got ruined by booze
Why bash a guy that puts money in your pockets every day?
“Two weaker members in the band” haha funny you say that because they’re my two favorites
I’m going to have to wipe the grease off of my screen after watching Gene’s face for 5 minutes.
Hair stylist: So what do you want Gene?
Gene: Take that mop dip it in black hair dye and slap it on my bald as Kojack head! 👨🏽🦲
Lmao 😂 big time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ace inspired more guitar players then anyone! He is acknowledged as a Rock God! That must really sting Simmons and Stanley! They are known more for their greed and wigs!
Really? Ever heard of Eddie Van Halen..
Ever heard of Jimmy Page.
Ace, drug addict
@@johnbriggs7966 They were all addicts, but Page and Eddie could actually play guitar. Eddie could be 3 sheets and still play immaculately.
Ace frehley is a guitar GOD...keep on rocking...
Brothers, you know better than this...
Ace added a dynamic you had to have,
Realize it takes odd stuff to bring out good music.
Ace will always be an inspiration to all of us.
Yeah, it's like the Doors without Jim, or any of the members missing from the band for that matter. Wouldn't have been the same thing. A more stable Jim wouldn't have drawn the attention and fan base that the unpredictable Jim did.
Nope. It is empirically fact that most of what you think was Ace on those albums was a session musician. I have no problem with Simmons being greedy. He admits that. He carried Ace for decades and Ace could not see it. It is what it is for Ace. He was not a good guitarist and not a great talent in any sense. His drug abuse changed him from barely adequate to useless and that is entirely on him.
1.) Gene is reading off a script
2.) Gene sounds like a producer. Not a friend. Not a musician.
3.) This isn't greedy or ego. Its childish and moronic.
4.) I'm now and forever more not a KISS fan. Great idea making this recording Gene.
He's reading from his book ... this is just an audio book excerpt not an interview
Jim Halladay Hey Jim! I can't stand Gene but these facts, true or not seem to make sense with Ace's bad decisions that we all know about. Makes me sad, such a natural talent gone to waste. ~Dale
This sounds like he's reading from a book that someone else wrote, and not very well either. It's like hearing a story being told by an old Jewish robot. Quite strange. He should have Craig Gass read this as Gene Simmons, at least there would be some inflection.
Jason T. it must be and ebook version of his books
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To me it sounds like Gene.
Ace's playing was a big part of the classic Kiss sound, Alive! is full of Ace's great sounding riffs and licks but Kiss moved toward Paul's pop stuff like I Was Made For Lovin' You towards the end.
"Here is the truth and only the truth as I see it." Gene Simmons.
No matter what Frehley has done, this comes off as childish and arrogant by Simmons.
they were allowed to be childish & arrogant at that young age.
Those guys picking up aces stuff are called roadies, gene.
I'm not a Kiss fan at all but I am fascinated by personality dynamics in bands. If 4 or 5 guys have played for long enough they'll have a mountain of resentments toward each other. I think the truth may lie somewhere in between here. Probably Ace was a space cadet but egos like Gene & Paul would have been hard to live with. Similar to George Harrison in a band with John & Paul.
Ace was a sleazy drug addict who everyone likes and is a nice guy by all accounts. Paul and Gene were straight edge and "stand up" but everyone hates them because they're politicking assholes. Just how it goes.
I was in a band in college. Working with musicians is like working with toddlers who were raised by wolves.
Exactly
Everyone played in a band in college.
@@retrovi4128 I didn’t know that
they weren't "musicians" they were guitar players, bass players and drummers. big difference.
@@truescotsman4103 agreed.
Ace morphed into the cowardly lion on Wizard of Oz.
😂lol
"Ace Frehley is a greedy paranoid backstabbing junkie"
This would make for a great bumper sticker or t-shirt.
I'm sure Gene will copyright it
fuck you
stg5ive I’d love to see a picture of Ace wearing it! 🤣
There are many tracks Gene didn't play bass, so who's he to complain that Ace didn't always show up in studio? In the 80s he was hardly interested in KISS.
This bullshit sounds simple enough to me!!! Peter and Ace actually were the heart and soul of the original lineup, period!!! Paul and Gene are jealous because Peter wrote Beth and sung Hard luck woman two of your biggest hits ever!!! Ace was an amazing guitarist and Peter Criss definitely was a good drummer and amazing vocals, the best in the band, should have sung more of their songs if you ask me? Lol
What a joke Paul and Gene
Gene Simmons has worse hair than Richard Simmons
I love the "awwwk!" story, although it's hard to believe it's true.
Yeah, that just seems so batshit crazy that it has to be true though, right? That's the kind of thing you can't make up. I can totally see Gene blowing it out of proportion to make Ace look bad, but I would bet my life that Ace Frehley squaked at a Hanna Barbera Executive at some point.
Gene and Paul on their own were a failure band called" " Wicked Lester"..Ace and Peter join and in months were super Stars! FACT Ace designed the KISS logo,best selling single was Peters ! Best solo album was Aces!!
A couple years ago I read Genes, Paul’s, Aces and Peters books. It was amazing. If you didn’t know any better you’d think these 4 were all in different bands. Lol. But, I love KISS and will always be Kiss Army.
When did Ace Frehley turn into Danny Bonaduce?
fenderstratguy what do you mean
Who's that
Jericho Freman the drummer of The Partridge Family I believe
niiiiice!
He played guitar.
"we had yet to lose a suit" Yeah, you might want to lose the suit you are wearing in that picture, Gene.
Gene Simmons has the nerve to call someone greedy.
@ENOCH WAS RIGHT heyy that rhymed 👌🏻👉👉
You know how copper wire was invented? Gene and Paul fighting over a penny 😂😂😂😂
These stories only make me like Ace more.
Fucking A!!!!!!
same and hate gene even more
Vintage Mixer Kiss without Ace is Sikk
Vintage Mixer Easy to say when you didn't have to deal with him.
To know Gene is to hate Gene.
I have a feeling these stories didn't exactly go the way Gene says they did.
Gene's finest hour: Playing a radicalized Arab in Rutger Hauer's "Wanted Dead or Alive".
Wonder if he'll play Hitler next.