During a recent interview with Cassius Morris, Ace Frehley (ex-KISS) was asked about his recording career and how it has outlasted the recording careers of Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley. The guitarist says his sobriety helped him move forward and that his new album “10,000 Volts” (out February 23) is “gonna embarrass” his former bandmates.
Frehley said the following:
“Well, getting sober was probably one of the major stepping stones for me to keep myself going. I’m much healthier now than I was 10, 15 years ago.
But Paul and Gene, over the years, have always kind of dragged my name through the mud. To try to validate the fact that they had Tommy Thayer in the band, they used to make statements.
You can look ’em up in videos — there’s dozens of ’em — where they say, ‘Oh, Ace wasn’t up for the job.’ ‘Ace was unemployable.’ ‘He was always late.’ And that got to me. And to this day, it still bothers me, but it doesn’t hold water.”
He also added:
“I made this statement before [‘10,000 Volts’] even started. I said, ‘This album’s gonna embarrass them,’ because they can’t do a record this good. I dare them to.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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