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Final month, rock legend Ace Frehley handed away on the age of 74.
Colleagues and music followers world wide expressed their grief over the lack of the beloved KISS guitatist.
However now, in an sudden flip of occasions, Frehley’s most well-known bandmate is making disparaging feedback about his late colleague.
Ace Frehley preforms with Gene Simmons at The Kids Matter Profit Live performance That includes Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, Don Felder And Low-cost Trick on September 2, 2017 at CHS Subject Stadium in St Paul, Minnesota. (Photograph by Hannah Foslien/Getty Photos for The Kids Matter)
Gene Simmons says Ace Frehley ‘refused advice’ within the years earlier than his loss of life
Not like many rock stars of his period, Simmons is a tee-totaler.
However Frehley struggled with dependancy — and apparently Simmons nonetheless bears a grudge towards him due to it.
Frehley died of blunt drive trauma after struggling a fall at house, and despite the fact that there’s no proof that medication or alcohol performed a job in his loss of life, Simmons has jumped to his personal conclusions.
“He refused [advice] from people that cared about him — including yours truly — to try to change his lifestyle,” the KISS frontman instructed The New York Submit this week, including:
Musician Ace Frehley attends the sixth Annual Revolver Golden Gods Award Present at Membership Nokia on April 23, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by Frazer Harrison/Getty Photos)
“Out and in of unhealthy choices. Falling down the steps — I’m not a health care provider — doesn’t kill you. There could have been different points, and it breaks my coronary heart.
“The saddest factor ––you reap what you shall sow, sadly.
“It breaks my heart. Peter Criss, our founding drummer, Paul [Stanley] and myself went to the funeral, open casket,” Simmons continued, including:
“Saddest of all perhaps is that Ace just couldn’t stay alive long enough to sit there proudly at the Kennedy Center and listen to – I can’t even tell you who’s going to come out … really impressive people, just to say how much Kiss meant to them. What can you say? Sad.”
Inductees Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, Ace Frehley and Gene Simmons of KISS attend the twenty ninth Annual Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Barclays Heart of Brooklyn on April 10, 2014 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Michael Loccisano/Getty Photos)
Bizarrely, Simmons was within the behavior of bad-mouthing his former associates and bandmates (drummer Peter Criss additionally handled substance abuse points) for his or her struggles.
Requested about in 2019 about the opportunity of a KISS reunion tour, Simmons blamed Frehley and Criss for the truth that it was an impossibility.
“Not on your f—ing life,” he instructed Guitar World, including that Frehley and Criss each been fired 3 times “for drugs, alcohol, bad behavior, being unprofessional [and] not carrying their load.”
As many have identified, Frehley introduced in 2008 that he’d gotten sober, and there was by no means any indication that he had relapsed.
Many have additionally identified that Simmons practically drove off a cliff after shedding consciousness behind the wheel again in October. However perhaps that’s a dialog for an additional time.
