10,000 Volts Ace Frehley

• 1 10,000 Volts 03:24
• 2 Walkin’ on the Moon 03:44
• 3 Cosmic Heart 03:53
• 4 Cherry Medicine 03:39
• 5 Back Into My Arms Again 03:36
• 6 Fightin’ for Life 03:20
• 7 Blinded 03:53
• 8 Constantly Cute 03:38
• 9 Life of a Stranger 03:57
• 10 Up in the Sky 04:27
• 11 Stratosphere 03:05
• Total Runtime 40:36

Info for 10,000 Volts

KISS, ALICE COOPER, DEF LEPPARD, MOTLEY CRÜE Der Grammy-nominierte Rock + Roll Hall of Fame-Mitglied und Gitarrenlegende Ace Frehley kündigt die Veröffentlichung seines neuen Studioalbums"10.000 Volt" an, das am 23. Februar 2024 erscheinen soll. Produziert von Ace und Steve Brown (Trixter), spielt Ace auf dem 11-Track-Album "10.000Volts" elek- trisierenden, knallharten, rifflastigen Rock'n'Roll. Rock 'n' Roll und Heavy Metal würden ohne Ace Frehley einfach nicht so klingen, aussehen oder sich so anfühlen. Neben Hunderten von Auszeichnungen wurde er 2014 in die Rock + Roll Hall of Fame als Mitgründer und origineller Leadgitarrist von KISS aufgenommen. Guitar World wählte ihn in die Top 15 der "100 größten Heavy-Metal-Gitarristen aller Zeiten" und setzte "Shock Me" auf die Liste der "50 größten Gitarrensoli aller Zeiten".

Ace Frehley

Ace Frehley
Born Paul Frehley on April 27, 1951, in the Bronx, New York, Frehley began playing guitar when he received an electric six-string for his 14th birthday in 1965. Already a big fan of The Rolling Stones, Frehley was blown away when he caught a multi-band live show in N.Y.C. in early 1967, featuring both The Who and Cream, among others, which solidified his desire to pursue rock guitar more seriously.

Frehley began playing in local bands soon after, adding both Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix to his influences and around this time, adopted the nickname "Ace". Although none of the bands he played with had taken off, he answered an ad in a local paper for a new hard rock, theatrically based group in early 1973.

A few weeks after his initial tryout, Frehley was hired as the lead guitarist for the new quartet, joining bassist/singer Gene Simmons, rhythm guitarist/singer Paul Stanley, and drummer Peter Criss to form the band KISS. By year's end, the greasepaint and costume-wearing band was signed to Casablanca Records, and by 1978, had become one of the world's top hard rock bands.

A string of platinum albums and sold-out tours lasted from 1975-1979, until the trappings of fame threatened to break up the band. Frehley's best friend in the band, Criss, left KISS in 1980, as the group unsuccessfully experimented with non-metal styles. Ace Frehley's use of alcohol and drugs increased due to his ever-increasing unhappiness in the band, and, by 1982, he'd exited KISS.

Within a year or two after his split from KISS, Ace began putting his own solo band together, Frehley's Comet. The band played local N.Y.C. clubs, but failed to issue a record until 1987's self-titled debut for Megaforce Records. Instead of following the heavy metal direction of his exceptional 1978 solo album, Frehley's Comet tried to keep pace with the current pop-metal movement issuing two other albums (and a live EP) by 1989.

Around this time, Frehley put his old art talents to use once again through computer graphics, with a few of his images even being featured in an art exhibit. Despite mud slinging in the press between Simmons/Stanley and Frehley in the early '90s, all four original KISS members made up in time to reunite for a 1995 taping of MTV Unplugged. The taping was such a success that it led to a full-blown reunion of the original lineup, resulting in the massively successful '96-'97 Alive Worldwide Tour.

Frehley continued as a member of KISS until the end of their Farewell Tour. Live appearances, including gigs at the massive Rocklahoma festival, kept Ace busy until 2009 when he released the album Anomaly on his own label, Bronx Born Records.

In 2011, he published No Regrets, a detailed and frank memoir which recounted, among other things, his aforementioned struggles with alcohol and cocaine addiction.

In 2013 he celebrated seven years of sobriety and spent much of that year appearing at horror, sci-fi, and pop culture conventions. The following April, after a long wait, KISS were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, before August brought the release of Space Invader, a solo album which took a heavier approach than Anomaly.

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