“Paul and Gene had their nose in the air” Ace Frehley on why the success of Kiss’s Alive! album was “the beginning of the end”
Kiss’s 1975 album Alive! may have propelled them to stardom, but Ace Frehley argues that record’s massive commercial success had, in fact, marked “the beginning of the end”.
In a recent chat with the Guitar Tales Podcast, Frehley shares how the success brought about by the much-lauded live album had caused the original Kiss lineup to fall apart.
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“In the early days, me and Gene [Simmons] used to room together in Holiday Inn. And then after Alive! hit, we each had our own suites,” Frehley explains [via Ultimate Guitar]. “Everybody was going in their own direction, and it was kind of the beginning of the end. I saw it happening.”
“And plus, with the success of my solo record [1978’s Ace Frehley], I realised I was a lot more creative away from Paul [Stanley], Gene and Peter [Criss] than I was around them.”
The guitarist also claims that unlike himself, his bandmates had refused to hang out with the staff Kiss employed on tour, saying: “When I was in Kiss, for example, Paul and Gene would not associate with the roadies or the truck drivers. They had their nose in the air.”
“I used to sit and play poker with the truck drivers. And hang out with my roadies, and we’d go to pawn shops together. I was accessible. Because I grew up on the streets, and I know what it’s like not to have money. So I don’t judge people by how much money they have. It’s about their character and their personality and whether or not they’re good people.”
In other news, Gene Simmons recently picked 1981’s Music From “The Elder” as Kiss’s worst record, saying: “I take the blame for it, because it was my idea.”
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