{"id":35673,"date":"2024-01-31T13:48:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T21:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=35673"},"modified":"2024-01-31T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T21:48:47","slug":"kiss-legend-ace-frehley-on-his-regret-at-not-being-asked-to-close-the-live-chapter-with-his-former-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/kiss-legend-ace-frehley-on-his-regret-at-not-being-asked-to-close-the-live-chapter-with-his-former-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiss legend Ace Frehley on his regret at not being asked to close the live chapter with his former band"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cI WOULD HAVE LIKED TO GO ON THE ROAD WITH KISS ONE LAST TIME, BUT IT WASN&#8217;T TO BE.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-35674\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1-COVER1-741x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"828\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/buXF-vxP9m8?si=rEzj2YlK5gv49HD5\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nRock Candy Magazine Issue 42 Out Now Featuring ACE FREHLEY<\/p>\n<p>JANUARY 31, 2024 &#8211;\u00a0Speaking exclusively to Rock Candy Mag as part of an in-depth 14-page cover story, founder member and much-loved guitarist Ace Frehley explained to writer Andrew Daly why he never made it on stage one last time with Kiss for their final show at Madison Square Garden last December after last leaving the band back in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFans would constantly reach out to me and say, \u2018Ace, please come back to the band,\u2019 Frehley explained. \u201cSo the fans were and are my primary motivators, and I want them to know that I did try, but I couldn\u2019t make it happen. They never asked me.\u201d Frehley dismisses the idea that his well-documented troubles with drugs and alcohol could ever have been a reason for former bandmates and Kiss leaders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley not reaching out to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sober, and all my friends and associates will tell you as much,\u201d he states categorically. \u201cI got to the point in life where drugs and alcohol had taken me over, and I\u2019m just so happy to be away from all that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the much-reported rifts with Simmons and Stanley over many years, nevertheless Frehley insists that he still has affection for both of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want people to know that I do love Paul and Gene,\u201d he says. \u201cI wish things would have been different, but it wasn\u2019t to be\u2026\u201d Nor does Frehley hold any animosity towards his replacement Tommy Thayer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a good guy and deserves a break. He\u2019s not me, but he was never going to be me. In a lot of ways, his task was impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy new music will be a smash hit,\u201d he insists. \u201cThe cheques might not be flying in, but I\u2019m satisfied with what I\u2019m doing musically. I can wake up each day and know that my soul is mine\u2026 I got my soul and my music back.<\/p>\n<p>You can read our 14-page Ace Frehley special, together with many other fascinating stories about Megadeth, Foghat, Madam X, Damn Yankees, and more in issue 42 of Rock Candy Mag. For more details visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockcandymag.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.rockcandymag.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT ROCK CANDY MAG<\/strong><br \/>\nRock Candy Mag is a 100-page, full-colour bi-monthly rock mag, created in the UK. It covers the sights, sounds and smells from the greatest era in hard rock music, the \u201970s and \u201980s. The brainchild of: respected UK rock journalists Derek Oliver, Howard Johnson and Malcolm Dome \u2013 all frontline writers for the legendary Kerrang! magazine in the golden era.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rockcandymag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rockcandymag\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockcandymag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockcandymag\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RockCandyMag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RockCandyMag<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCBjkpEXB53nRCs_yhEClGhg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCBjkpEXB53nRCs_yhEClGhg<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For all inquiries, contact:<br \/>\nMICHAEL BRANDVOLD MARKETING &amp; MANAGEMENT<br \/>\nMichael Brandvold | me@mikebrandvold.com | 415-200-8483<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Michael Brandvold is a freelance music industry consultant based in Northern California. Having launched Michael Brandvold Marketing to leverage his years of experience to provide direction to large and small clients in the areas of online &amp; social marketing as well as e-commerce and customer acquisition and retention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gene Simmons of KISS first tapped Michael\u2019s skills as a pioneering online marketing strategist to launch and manage all aspects of Kissonline.com\u2019s multi-million dollar enterprise, including their ground-breaking VIP ticket program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Michael has also managed the online efforts for Jordan Rudess, Greg Kihn, KISS, ACCEPT, SOiL, Tantric, Killer Dwarfs, Dream Theater, Little Caesar, Narada Michael Walden, Motley Cr\u00fce, Rod Stewart, Madonna, Ozzy Osbourne, Madonna and Britney Spears to name only a few.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you are interested in speaking with Michael about what he can do to assist with your marketing needs contact him online at\u00a0me@mikebrandvold.com | 415-200-8483<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI WOULD HAVE LIKED TO GO ON THE ROAD WITH KISS ONE LAST TIME, BUT IT WASN&#8217;T TO BE.\u201d Rock Candy Magazine Issue 42 Out Now Featuring ACE FREHLEY JANUARY 31, 2024 &#8211;\u00a0Speaking exclusively to Rock Candy Mag as part of an in-depth 14-page cover story, founder member and much-loved guitarist Ace Frehley explained to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1209,"featured_media":35674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3355],"tags":[3608,3607,98,3360,3362,3361,3363,41,2901,3375],"class_list":["post-35673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-marketing-2","category-press-releases","tag-000-volts","tag-3607","tag-ace-frehley","tag-announcements","tag-client-announcements","tag-client-news","tag-client-press-releases","tag-kiss","tag-press-releases","tag-rock-candy-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1-COVER1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35678,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35673\/revisions\/35678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}