In a new video he shared on his Instagram account, Ace Frehley revealed what made his first Led Zeppelin show embarrassing.

“I was at Led Zeppelin’s first New York appearance at the Filmore East,” the guitarist started his words. “They were opening up for Iron Butterfly. I think I was 17 years old, 16 or 17. After Led Zeppelin went off, half the people left the Filmore East.”

He continued, “I felt so sorry for the… embarrassed for the headliner because I mean who you know… People usually come to see the headliner not the opening act but I think there was a real buzz in New York City about this new band, Led Zeppelin and the word was out.”

“And the Filmore East isn’t that big of a venue. So a lot… I think I noticed when I looked around, there was a lot of older people there, well-dressed. It wasn’t a normal rock and roll crowd. So I think there was a lot of record executives and people in the music business that came to see them,” Frehley explained.

KISS and Led Zeppelin were rivals at one point as they emerged in the music scene during similar periods. In a previous interview, Eddie Turnk asked Frehley, “I don’t know if you remember this, but back in the ’70s, when KISS was ranked the biggest band in the world. Back in those days, there would be magazine covers that would say stuff like ‘KISS versus Zeppelin – Who’s better?’ Do you remember that stuff back then, like that sort of rivalry that existed, at least in the press?”

Ace replied by saying, “I don’t remember that rivalry, but obviously, the Zeppelin kicked our a**, hands down. I mean, musically and all that. We were more of putting on a big show, but Zeppelin musically kicked not only our asses but everybody else’s in those days. Nobody could come close to Led Zeppelin.”

In a 2023 chat with Goldmine, Frehley named Led Zeppelin’s debut as one of the albums that impacted him. He praised Jimmy Page’s guitar work. Frehley noted that Zeppelin influenced KISS in songs like ‘Cold Gin’ and ‘Black Diamond.’

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In a new interview with Paul Salfen of AMFM Magazine, former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick revealed that he is planning on working on his autobiography in 2025. He explained (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I amassed a lot of materials from [my] era [of KISS]. When I first started a book with a guy in the industry back in ’99, there were a lot of interviews done, and I was able to get all those tapes digitized because that’s important, to spark my memories and stuff. I have notes of subjects.

“It’s certainly gonna be a really in-depth discussion of my life as a musician with, of course, hefty amounts on my KISS years, ’cause I know that the fans are gonna wanna get my thoughts on how it felt and what I did,” he continued. “It’s certainly not gonna be some salacious slam book. It’s not me. But I do have a lot of stories that I never really discussed that I think are gonna be really fun for people to read about and fascinating for them to see.

“Everything was, in many ways, a very interesting journey, and there were many [instances] of where you fall in the ditch, but you’ve gotta pull yourself out — that kind of thing.”

In a separate interview with Loaded Radio, Kulick was asked why he wasn’t ever approached to rejoin KISS after Ace Frehley left for good back in 2001. He responded: “That’s a great question. And not everyone’s aware of some of the backstory. I would hear things about them having problems with Ace and Ace was getting erratic or difficult. And [later KISS guitarist] Tommy Thayer was actually tour managing with them; he was on the road with them. Because even during my era, he was involved with the band, helping with ‘Kisstory’ and doing things for the group. He wrote some songs with Gene [Simmons, KISS bassist/vocalist] and was always part of the inner circle, shall I say. So from what I understood, there was one or two things that KISS did — not a concert, even though once Ace was almost not gonna make it and they made Tommy get the outfit on. [He had a] similar build — tall and thin — and Ace made it to the show. But there were a couple of other things they needed to do. I believe ‘That ’70s Show’, when they were taping, Ace didn’t show up. ‘Tommy, get the outfit on.’ And then I think there was a private gig, too, that no one would really know about — one of those things where you go to an island and play for some rich people. And Ace wouldn’t go. And KISS wasn’t gonna say, ‘All right, we’re not gonna take the gig.’ So if they ever had a thought of me, I think they would have known that that probably would have been a lot harder. Tommy was younger, there already, if you know what I mean, working with them. And Tommy, not everybody knows that he was in a tribute band for fun at times called COLD GIN as Ace Frehley.”

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