Ace Frehley

Ace Frehley is a 1978 solo album from Ace Frehley, the lead guitarist and vocalist of American hard rock band Kiss. It was one of four solo albums released by the members of Kiss on September 18, 1978. The album featured Anton Fig on drums…

As a 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Ace Frehley continues his reflections on a lifetime in music with "Origins, Vol. 2." No stranger to cover versions throughout his musical history — having recorded, rebranded and repossessed such notable nuggets as "New York Groove," "Do Ya" and "I Wanna Go Back" over the course of his eight previous studio efforts — this new collection presents a thoughtful and exciting selection of songs that inspired and helped shape the legendary guitarist. Foremost of importance to the original Spaceman is delivering an album his fans will enjoy, but one where every song also has a place in his life's jukebox. As the second volume focusing on his musical origins; Ace has also grown since "Origins, Vol. 1" was released in April 2016.

Frehley's Comet is the second solo release by American musician Ace Frehley, former lead guitarist of Kiss. Frehley also named his band after the title of this album, and in this way, it is also considered the self-titled debut album credited to Frehley's Comet, as opposed to a Frehley solo release. It was the first album that Frehley released after leaving Kiss in 1982.

Building off a creative surge that started with 2009's Anomaly and the 2011 autobiography No Regrets: A Rock 'N' Roll Memoir, Ace Frehley returns with solo album number eight, a nine-track pick slide of a record that looks to the past, specifically his 1978 solo debut, without feeling mired in sweaty desperation. Of all the members of Kiss, Frehley has always felt the most relatable, and his goofy charm and Bronx-born swagger help to crystallize the unapologetically nostalgia-driven Spaceman into something more than just a ham-fisted cruise down memory lane. There was always an affable blue-collar dude beneath the greasepaint and platformed boot-bolstered persona of Space Ace, and that workmanlike authenticity shines through on standout cuts like "Bronx Boy," "Your Wish Is My Command" (featuring bass from Kiss bandmate Gene Simmons, who also played bass – and nabbed a co-writing credit – on the opener, "Without You I'm Nothing"), and "Rockin' with the Boys," the latter of which was conceived during Kiss' '70s heyday.

Loaded Deck is a greatest hits compilation of Ace Frehley's solo career released in 1997, after the widespread Kiss reunion tour. It includes some of Frehley's greatest hits such as "New York Groove", "Rock Soldiers", and a cover of The Move's "Do Ya". Combining six previously released songs with two unreleased songs and four live tracks, Loaded Deck is actually more consistent than some of the official studio albums Ace recorded during the '80s. Re-converted Kiss fans curious about Frehley's solo career may want to check this out, since it's as good a place as any to catch the highlights.

Grammy® nominated Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and guitar legend Ace Frehley announces the release of his new studio album, 10,000 volts, due out on February 23, 2024. Produced by Ace and Steve Brown (Trixter), the 11 track 10,000 Volts sees Ace perform electrifying, hard hitting, riff heavy rock'n'roll. Rock ‘n’ roll and heavy metal simply wouldn’t sound, look, or feel the same without Ace Frehley. Among hundreds of accolades, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame® inducted him in 2014 as a co-founder and the original lead guitarist of KISS. Guitar world named him in the top 15 of its “100 greatest heavy metal guitarists of all time” and plugged the lead from “Shock Me” on the “50 Greatest Guitar Solos of all Time.”

Released to coincide with Kiss' successful 1996 reunion, 12 Picks contains six highlights from Ace Frehley's late-'80s solo albums, plus six live tracks featuring the guitarist running through Kiss classics with Frehley's Comet. It might be a ripoff collection – after all, a compilation that baits casual fans into believing that it contains the original hit versions is just as bad as one that baits fanatics into purchasing material they already have by adding new, previously unavailable live tracks – but it nevertheless consititutes the best, most consistent album in Frehley's solo catalog, since it captures all of the fire of his work with Kiss and distills the best of his solo albums to a manageable collection.