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As the original lead guitarist of Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductees KISS, Ace Frehley has proven to be one of rock’s most influential guitarists. After all, Frehley has been cited as a major influence on members of Weezer, Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine, Pantera, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains. Also of note is that Frehley has also managed to have the most successful solo career of any KISS member, past or present.

The latest studio effort from Ace Frehley is 2018’s Spaceman. Released by Entertainment One Music last month, Spaceman features two songs co-written with fellow KISS co-founder Gene Simmons. It also notably includes a cover of “I Wanna Go Back,” a song first recorded by Billy Satellite, which Eddie Money helped make a big hit in the 1980s.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Ace Frehley himself by phone, and below are some highlights from that chat. As he noted, he was coincidentally wearing a New York Yankees shirt that day. More on the Spaceman himself can be found online at www.acefrehley.com.

Your last album was 2 years ago, which means that you are pretty prolific. Have you already started thinking about making another album?

Ace Frehley: I’m already working on Origins, Vol. 2.

If it’s Origins, Vol. 2, does that mean it’s another covers album?

Ace Frehley: Yeah. The whole concept is we do songs from bands that influenced me in my formative years as a guitarist. I’m going to try to stay true to that concept.

Speaking of guitar, I read that you don’t play every day. Is that true?

Ace Frehley: Yeah, I haven’t picked up a guitar since I got home from tour. (laughs) My daughter’s correcting me. (laughs) I bought 3 guitars in pawn shops while I was on tour. When they got here, I pulled them out of the boxes and played them for 10 or 15 minutes. But I normally don’t play that much unless I have an idea. I don’t normally sing, I never do warm-up vocals, I just do it. Same thing when I perform live. A lot of shows I get there 5 or 10 minutes before I go on, I just get up there and do it. That’s the kind of guy I am.

What are some of the things you like to do every day or almost every day? That you’re passionate about?

Ace Frehley: Eat. (laughs) What I do every day? I eat, I drink coffee, run errands, you know. I like to drive my Bentley or my Jaguar around, computer stuff…

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Singer Robert Fleischman will not take part in Vinnie Vincent‘s rescheduled comeback shows that were just moved from Memphis in December to Nashville on February 8 and 9.

Fleischman was the singer in the first iteration of the Vinnie Vincent Invasion from 1984 – 1986, Vincent’s first and most legitimate shot at parlaying his association with KISS into a free-standing career.

But Fleischman, who is also a former member of Journey, recently announced that he dropped out of the would-be reunion with Vincent after he started getting flashbacks to the end of his first tenure with the mercurial virtuoso guitarist.

“I think a lot of you know my history with Mr. Vincent [has] been a rollercoaster or two,” Fleischman wrote in a Facebook post.

He explained that “things were not feeling good on the business side…again” and that Vincent’s management made him a paltry offer. But that wasn’t all.

Fleischman also cited what he called “poor organization,” saying he was hardly in contact with anyone from Vincent’s team about the gigs since agreeing to take part. He wagged his finger at Vincent’s promoter for the way the Memphis shows were canceled earlier this month, noting that they had known “some time ago it wasn’t going to happen.”

He says he lost money by having to cancel his travel arrangements so soon before the shows, and he was also more than a little hurt to see he was apparently demoted on the new bill, which advertised drummer Carmine Appice and bassist Tony Franklin as being part of the “all star band. Fleischman noted that his name was relegated to “tiny little letters which would take a microscope to read.”

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