“He came over and he said, 'You did a really good job up there.' I thought, 'Man, my guitar was off…’” Whitesnake’s Joel Hoekstra on the time Ace Frehley complimented his guitar playing… even though he wasn’t actually playing anything

Joel Hoekstra and Ace Frehley.

Joel Hoekstra says he understood Ace Frehley was a “larger than life rock star” after he was complimented by the KISS icon, even though he’d turned off his electric guitar.

The strange anecdote was detailed by the Whitesnake and Trans-Siberian Orchestra guitarist during an appearance on the Jay Jay French Connection podcast.