Ace Frehley has accused his former bandmate Paul Stanley of not even singing parts live during performances. In addition, he stated that a lot of KISS fans aren’t the brightest people.
During a recent interview on Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk, Frehley once again criticized his former band, who had guitarist Tommy Thayer playing the role of Frehley‘s Spaceman and Eric Singer taking on Peter Criss’ original role of the Catman from 2004 until the just-completed “End of the Road Tour.”
Ace Frehley highlighted that many casual fans may not have been aware that the current lineup of KISS for the past two decades did not include all of the original members.
He said: “A lot of KISS fans aren’t the brightest people of the world… I mean, Ace fans are sharp. As little as a few years ago, I used to get phone calls from people and they would ask for KISS tickets. And I said, ‘You know I’m not playing in the band anymore.’ And a lot of people don’t even know it.”
Ace contnued: “When I quit the band the second time [in 2002], they kind of buried it and really didn’t make a big press release about it – because Tommy was wearing my makeup, and they kind of just wanted people to think that maybe it was still Ace Frehley.”
He aslo was not impressed with what he saw and heard while watching a recent KISS performance in Indianapolis on YouTube.
I think the fans go for ‘the show.’ But now with the canned vocals… I mean, I couldn’t believe it – Paul Stanley was doing ‘Detroit Rock City’… no, he was doing ‘Love Gun’. He wrote that song – he’s not even singing on the choruses. He was like, dancing around on this platform. And that’s absolutely bewildering to me. How you could write… that’s like me performing ‘Shock Me’ and not singing it, y’know?”
On Saturday night (December 2), KISS concluded their “End Of The Road” farewell tour with a final performance at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
