Ace Frehley

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Artist: Ace Frehley
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1997-09-16
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Soundtracks:
  1. Rip It Out
  2. Speedin' Back To My Baby
  3. Snow Blind
  4. Ozone
  5. What's On Your Mind?
  6. New York Groove
  7. I'm In Need Of Love
  8. Wiped-Out
  9. Fractured Mirror

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Free Music Review: Better without KISS
Hit: 5 Stars

I'm being serious about this. If he isn't better, he's at least just as good by himself. I feel that without Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley definitely had more creative control with this album. He probably had just about all of it, and the creative control that he didn't have, he probably offered freely.

Back in the late sixties, when Ace Frehley first heard Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced? album, he would carry it wherever he went, under his arm. If I was alive and around the right age back then, that would be what I'd be doing. Instead, I just copied the album onto my iPod.

As I said, I think that it's much better than the stuff he's done with KISS, as much as I love their stuff. He does all of the guitar playing on it, a lot of the bass playing on it, and all of the lead vocals. Anton Fig was also a great help for him.

Ace Frehley wrote songs for KISS including the classic "Cold Gin," as well as other instant classics such as "Parasite," "Strange Ways," "Getaway;" he co-wrote other classics including the instrumental "Love Theme From KISS," the unrecognized, but thanks to MTV Unplugged, incredible tune known as "Comin' Home," the well-known "Rock Bottom," and "Flaming Youth." However, he had only been heard doing lead vocals for two songs, when this album came out; the first one was "Shock Me," from the legendary Love Gun album, which I highly recommend, and "Rocket Ride," one of the studio tracks from Alive II, which he co-wrote with Sean Delaney.

Although that equals up to being exactly an entire KISS-albums worth of songs, Gene Simmons had participating in writing more than half of that amount of songs, and Paul Stanley had participated in writing more than three times that amount; Peter Criss might have not had as much input in songwriting as Frehley had, Peter Criss had done much more lead vocals for KISS, including their biggest selling hit, "Beth," which Criss had written. Where the spaceman had been commonly noticed with KISS was with his guitar solos.

The original plan was for KISS to do a movie and to release a big double album, which would probably include the best tracks off of each of these albums performed by KISS, but for obvious reasons, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss wanted to do solo albums. Although a lot of people dislike the other albums, and from the tracks I've heard from them, I can somewhat understand why, especially in comparison to Love Gun, Alive!, and the other KISS albums that had been released at the time.

This album has the guitar playing that Ace Frehley was known for, and the singing and songwriting that people were a bit more curious about. Each song on the album is a real treat to listen to. I can't really say which song is a highlighting point because they're all highlights. However, the instrumental "Fractured Mirror" definitely stands out in that it's softer than the other tracks, and it's an instrumental tune. "New York Groove" was the hit single, so when hearing the album, one would expect it to heavily stand out, but I noticed it, having heard it, yet it went perfectly well with the rest of the album. "What's On Your Mind" is also great, "Rip It Out" is another one I love, "Ozone," "Snowblind," and I really can't single out any specific track and say it was the highlighting point. This is an actual album.

Ace Frehley's guitar playing, his singing, and his compositional work (songwriting) really make this album fantastic. Paul Stanley himself commented that he really liked Ace doing songs because Ace was really good. I still don't understand why he didn't do more, if Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley said that they weren't egotistical, they just wanted the best. They probably were a bit egotistical.

I don't like to favor members of bands, but I can't help but favor Ace Frehley over the rest, so I found it a bit weird that my favorite KISS album was Creatures of the Night. However, the fact that I find this album just as good, if not better than Creatures of the Night makes up for it. Well, at least I hope it does.
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