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“They counted me in and I ripped through the first solo that came to mind. They stopped the tape, and Paul Stanley went, ‘Dude… will you wear high heels?’” Steve Farris on his close call with Kiss before he formed Mr. Mister (who he might rejoin)

Starting out with a $5 guitar and spending $25 on a life-changing lesson from Joe Pass, Farris is no longer professional – but could be persuaded to go round again

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“I’ve never had a guitar lesson. I was born with a certain technique that many people, namely Tommy Thayer, can’t duplicate”: Kiss guitar icon Ace Frehley on why new album 10,000 Volts is the best he’s ever made – and a wake-up call for his ex-bandmates

With the help of Trixter’s Steve Brown, the Kiss guitar legend reckons he’s made the best record of his career. He explains why 10,000 Volts debunks his former bandmates’ claims, what made the Fender Strat a recording mainstay throughout his career – and why Yngwie Malmsteen and Eddie Van Halen’s…

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B-movie monsters, IQ tests and The Village People: 50 obscure Kiss facts only hardcore Kiss fans know

Kiss played their very first gig on January 30, 1973, in front of 10 people. Half a century on, here are 50 obscure facts about the Hottest Band In The World

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“I got a call: 'Peter Frampton needs a bass player. Can you do it?' This was Tuesday. By Friday, I was playing my first show”: Bass legend John Regan reflects on his career with Frampton and Frehley in his final interview

The Frehley's Comet bassist died in April 2023. Just three days before his untimely passing, he spoke to Bass Player about his remarkable career, including the highs and lows of working with Ace Frehley and his lifelong musical friendship with Frampton

Guitar World

“It looked like it was geared towards children. And it’s not rock and roll”: Ace Frehley isn't convinced by Kiss' plans for digital immortality through avatar tech

He's happy his former bandmates have closed the curtain on their final physical farewell tour, but Frehley admits he doesn't “get” the next phase of Kiss

Guitar World

“Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons have tried to destroy my reputation over the years. 10,000 Volts is going to make them look like imbeciles”: He may have missed Kiss’ last-ever performance, but Ace Frehley is set to make a statement with his new solo album

The former Kiss guitarist says he's “always been the kind of guy to let the music do the talking” – and that's exactly the plan for his forthcoming record

Guitar World

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including David Lee Roth, Ace Frehley, the Pineapple Thief and more

You wanted the best, you got the best: the hottest eight tracks in the world... Tracks Of The Week

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10,000 volt lead licks and the bluesier side of Peaky Blinders: This week's essential guitar tracks

Killer new cuts from Ace Frehley, Judas Priest, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Anna Calvi, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Alkaline Trio, and many more

Guitar World

A look back at 50 years of Kiss-tory as the legendary band prepares to take its final bow

Fifty years ago, four young New Yorkers dragged their guitars, amps and drums to a loft on 23rd Street in New York, dreaming of becoming the biggest band in the world

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“People don’t talk about Ace doing his pick-tapping thing. Considering this was ’77, before Eddie Van Halen did Eruption, it's even more mind-blowing”: Eric Johnson, Nuno Bettencourt, and 40 other guitar legends share their favorite Kiss guitar moments

Ahead of their very last show, an all-star cast of rock guitar luminaries reveal how they were influenced by the Hottest Band in the Land

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“They said they invited us to perform at that show. I never got a phone call. They just said that to sell tickets”: Despite reports, Ace Frehley says he hasn’t heard from Paul Stanley or Gene Simmons about joining Kiss’s last-ever gig

The glam rock heroes will take to the stage for the last time ever later this week – but Frehley won't be there

Guitar World

“Gene looked like a transvestite, Paul looked like some whore and Ace looked like Shirley Maclaine”: the outrageous story of Kiss’s first 12 months

Kiss’s farewell tour is fast approaching its end – but this is how it all started, way back in 1973

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10 cover versions that are way more popular than the originals (according to Spotify)

The Beatles, Bowie, Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder have all seen covers of their songs become more popular than the original version

Louder

"The whole vibe of Ace Frehley was really special to me. I was so small, and Ace was this larger-than-life figure… I didn't even think he was a real person": John 5 names the guitarists who shaped his sound

From shred titans to riff-masters to an obscure, blazing country picker he thinks every guitarist should listen to, the Mötley Crüe man names the players who forged his virtuosic, hard-charging sound

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Gene Simmons says that he's "totally open" to the idea of a future version of Kiss existing without any members of Kiss: "Why not pass the baton, pass the crown to four new, young people who are deserving?"

Kiss bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons says that the quartet's show at Madison Square Garden on December 2 will definitely be The End. But that doesn't mean their legacy can't be extended

Guitar World

“The solos are so perfectly composed... they remind me of what Bach would do if he had a Les Paul, a Marshall, and a space alien costume”: Paul Gilbert explains why he loves Ace Frehley’s playing

The shred guru picks out a recording of the band’s “infallible feedback magic” as his highlight of the hard-rock icons’ remarkable 50-year run

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"I've seen them and loved every over-the-top minute of it... but this album just doesn’t cut it": Alive II by Kiss - Album Of The Week Club review

One thing we can all agree on, surely: that inner gatefold is one of the great photographs in rock'n'roll

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10 brilliant Kiss deep cuts we’re begging them to play one last time before they retire

Detroit Rock City and Rock And Roll All Nite are great, but these are the lost gems we want to hear on their farewell tour

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“That’s amazing, dude! You just whipped that out!” Rivers Cuomo shreds Yngwie Malmsteen’s Far Beyond the Sun and floors Chris Shiflett

The Weezer frontman is the second guest on the Foo Fighters guitarist’s new Shred With Shifty podcast

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Peter Criss and Ace Frehley decline offer to return for last ever Kiss shows

Gene Simmons says estranged Kiss members Peter Criss and Ace Frehley have refused a request to play with band again

Guitar World

From rocket-shooting Les Pauls to 'bananas' Superstrats: 10 iconic Kiss guitars that powered rock's most outrageous band

10 bonkers guitars that chart the history of the American hard-rock institution

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Ace Frehley: the soundtrack of my life

Former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley picks his favourite songs, albums and musicians, and reveals his least favourite Kiss album

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Led Zeppelin and the shows that broke America (and blew Ace Frehley's mind)

The audience may not have been prepared when Led Zeppelin played the final shows of their first US tour... but the band were ready to explode

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Watch Kiss play a seven-minute version of She on The Midnight Special in 1975

More televisual gold emerges from the Midnight Special as Kiss make their second appearance on the show

Guitar World

John Regan, Frehley's Comet, Peter Frampton bassist, dies at 71

The veteran bassist also recorded with the Rolling Stones, and played on David Bowie and Mick Jagger's phenomenally successful 1985 cover of Dancing in the Street

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