Ace Frehley LP

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Michael Mars

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My wife and I were at the Hard Rock NYC on Halloween (our wedding anniversary), and they have this Ace Frehley LP at one of the tables. I asked for that table because dispite the talent level of Kiss, they've always been like the Bastard child of rock to me. Not so much the music as the fascination of how that band made anything work.

I love Gibson, so I'm sitting at the table fantasizing about smashing the glass and trying it out. Say what you will about Ace, it must be cool as shit to have Gibson put your image on one of their guitars, and the lightning bolt inlays.

We saw Ace perform at Virginia Beach a year earlier, and he's just a weird dude. He's got a good vibe though, just a cool kind of guy.

Hard Rock NYC has some really cool guitars hanging. Not as awsome as LA which I've never been to, but just heard about.

Even been up close to celeb guitars?


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The case is plexiglass you couldn't break it w/o the right tools.
I have a love / non love thing for AF.
He's kinda cheesy & kinda cool but in the 70's they ruled.
All the teen magzines offered million dollar rewards if you could take a pic of kiss w/o makeup back then.
 
Did Ace really play that particular guitar? I ask that because a friend of mine got one of those some years back. I got to play it. It was just an okay Les Paul. I didn't find anything magical about it. They could have just got their hands on one that Ace hadn't ever touched and put it on display. I honestly thought the guitar had more cool factor for a display piece than for playing.
 
The plate in front of the guitar said it was used on the reunion tour. I think it had dates too. I wish I had taken a pictuee pf that too.
 
We went to the Hard Rock Cafe in Denver when we lived there, and I saw some guitar owned by Glenn Tipton with a Kahler on it. What blew me away was the saddles we're all the way up! Sure, that's the only way to get sustain with one of those things, but then, I wonder how the hell it stayed in tune. I had a Kahler that I tried to set up like that, but the tuning stability decreased the more I increased the break angle.

Anyway, the place was cool overall; many interesting guitars on display. Can't remember the food at all!
 
duzie said:
Yeah Ace was up there as far as inspiring people to pick up a guitar!!!
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I sometimes watch Vinyl Obsession's YT Channel and he has
musicians pick out there top 5 LPs of all time. It is nuts how
many guitarists choose KISS. It's like KISS and Van Halen's
1st album---and then everyone else. :LOL:
 
Stone said:
Seems that KISS is in yours and Cheech's Wheelhouse
:grin
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It sure was during my high school years Mike!
1975-1979
At that point Sabbath and Aerosmith were kinda meandering along in my opinion.
Kiss and Ted Nugent filled the gap for my testosterone raging antics.
Many of my school chums were listening to
Bee gee’s
Cool and the gang
KC and the sunshine band
I just couldn’t stomach that 😂
 
duzie said:
It sure was during my high school years Mike!
1975-1979
At that point Sabbath and Aerosmith were kinda meandering along in my opinion.
Kiss and Ted Nugent filled the gap for my testosterone raging antics.
Many of my school chums were listening to
Bee gee’s
Cool and the gang
KC and the sunshine band
I just couldn’t stomach that 😂
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I liked all of that.


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