‘I Can Doctor It Up in the Studio, but All the Kids Are Going to Have the Original Concert, and They’ll Say, ‘This Isn’t Live”: Ace Frehley on Why He Refused to Do a New Live Album

Ace Frehley said he’s talked his record label out of doing a live album due to the omnipresence of fans filming shows with their phones and the inevitable surfacing of fan-filmed footage on the internet.

In the day and age when everyone and their grandmother has smartphones with competent cameras, the global music scene has been rife with discourse surrounding fan-filmed footage. While some still defend the concertgoers’ rights to capture snippets of live shows so they have something to remind them of the experience, others argue that the trend takes away from the “live” part of the show — which led some artists, with Jack White being one notable example, to introduce a “no phones” policy for their gigs.

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