Ace Frehley/Frehley's Comet Stuff

ozone73 · Post by **ozone73** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:37 am

Some Ace Frehley/Frehley's Comet stuff I've saved over the years.

-Frehley's Comet/Ace Frehley fan club newsletters
-Frehley's Comet pin
-Frehley's Comet foam frisbee (it says Paul Frehley on it instead of Ace)
-Red Tod Howarth guitar pick and black Ace guitar pic
-Frehley's Comet Into The Night/Fractured Too 45 (record)
-Some Ace action figures
-Frehley's Comet bandana
-Ace Is Back bumper sticker

Nothing major. Just wanted to share. I have some old Frehley's Comet shirts that I should add as well.

poserboy71 · Post by **poserboy71** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:15 pm

Post by **Genebaby** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 5:30 pm

I was in the fan club back in the day. I think I missed out the issue where some internal troubles caused problems.

doublev2 · Post by **doublev2** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 8:47 pm

Such an exciting time when ace came back. Not that he set the world on fire but great times for kiss fans. 87 was a great year.

wolfgang161272 · Post by **wolfgang161272** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:14 pm

I've heard the song "Rock Soldiers" and thought "Boah, what a killer tune Ace made" and you haven't had itunes or the internet so I don't see Ace about 5 years. And then I looked on the album and see his face and great condition. That was amazing for me in this time I remember very well this time...
Wolfi

doublev2 · Post by **doublev2** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:10 pm

Yeah rock soldiers is amazing. If it had been a kiss tune it would still be played today I think.

erg2 · Post by **erg2** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 1:19 am

I think Frehley's Comet was a bunch of missteps IMO.
- Wrong record company. (Didn't have the funds or the muscle to make a big noise.)
- Wrong songs. (I love most of the songs on the album, but I've also heard all the bootlegs and there are a TON of unreleased songs that were better material than what ended up on the first album.)
- Wrong lead single. (The song is a little clunky. Rock Soldiers should've been the lead.)
- Releasing the Live +1 album? I love it, but it's half a concert at best and the record company didn't promote it at all!
- The live video? No promotion. I had to special order it because nobody was carrying it.

I think when the first album tanked, Ace was done. He reverted back to his HEAVY drinking and drugging, which resulted in SECOND SIGHTING being a major disappointment.

ozone73 · Post by **ozone73** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 1:17 am

erg2: You're talking about Live ...+4? I have that. I remember when it first came out I begged my mom for it. I have a video I bought where Ace is filming on the way to that show and around the hotel and back stage and stuff. The Ace Vision video tape I have is good. I don't remember much about it except he's playing in a small place and does a sit down interview in between songs.

genebaby: The internal problems you mention ... is that the deal with Gordon G.G. Gebert supposidly ripping the fan club off? I remember the original Frehley's Comet fan club closed and later they started the Rock Soldiers fan club which I guess Gordon G.G. Gebert was running. They sent me stuff all the time asking me to join. I finally send money to join and I never got anything at all in return. So for many years I thought Ace ripped me off. It wasn't until a few years ago that I found out on an Ace Frehley fan site/message board that it was actually Gordon G.G. Gebert who did it to a lot of people. Anyways, that's what I was told and who knows if it's the truth. I'm a huge Ace Frehley fan so it's easier for me to believe it wasn't him that did it lol.

erg2 · Post by **erg2** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 1:56 am

Yup. Live...+4. (Which was originally to be titled Live In London. Do you know how many places I looked for a video called Live In London before a nice clerk told me that it was just the Live +4 video?)

I never joined any of the fan clubs. But I did want to see that AceVision video but could never find it in a store.

poserboy71 · Post by **poserboy71** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 5:09 am

Ozone, ACE ripped you off. GG proves it in his books and John Regan confirmed it to me in person.

erg2 · Post by **erg2** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 6:57 am

By everyone else's accounts, Ace was (still is?) a total and utter dirtbag...and I use that adjective very specifically.

ozone73 · Post by **ozone73** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:03 am

erg2 - Before I sent money to join the Rock Soldiers fan club I ordered a shirt and that Ace Vision video. That's where I got it from. I finally got a tape to dvd thing so I should burn it on to dvd before it gets ruined.

Post by **Genebaby** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:22 am

There is a funny video, I think it's Acevision, where Ace is being explained financial things, like where the money goes and why am I not rich. That's my hazy memory of it, I should try and find it. I think John Regan was there, the poor guy, he suffered with Ace. It's too hard to respect Ace these days.

poserboy71 · Post by **poserboy71** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:51 am

Regan isn't TOTALLY innocent . He was BANKING on a KISS reunion. He was putting his stock into Ace and lost.

That is why Ace didn't give him any shit for releasing 12 Picks.

doublev2 · Post by **doublev2** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:46 am

I sent checks to both ace and vinnies fan clubs.. both cashed the checks and I received nothing. I sent two checks to.vvs fan club in Maryland , one in 87 and one in June 88 . Nothing !!!
I heard Dave was over vinnie by summer 88 anyway.

doublev2 · Post by **doublev2** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:49 am

I saw that video with ace .. not for a while though. At least ace tours and puts out material.

doublev2 · Post by **doublev2** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:50 am

I also think trouble walking and the first frehleys comet was way better than most kiss records of that time. Second sighting I never cared too much for.

ozone73 · Post by **ozone73** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:07 am

Here's a few Ace/Frehley's Comet shirts I have and a Second Sighting poster I have.

Post by **Genebaby** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:45 am

I have the Ace Is Back and He Told You So t-shirt, used to wear it to high school. Kiss and Ace were not popular at all back then here. It was Metallica, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Motley Crue.

doublev2 · Post by **doublev2** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 4:10 pm

Yeah I had the bottom two shirts, I guess they are still in my dads storage .
Vic , yeah not many high school kids liked kiss, I have no idea who asylum, crazy nights and hits when platinum.

Post by **Genebaby** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 4:25 pm

They were all closet Kiss fans! It took guts to wear a shirt to school.

poserboy71 · Post by **poserboy71** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:57 pm

doublev2 wrote:Yeah I had the bottom two shirts, I guess they are still in my dads storage .
Vic , yeah not many high school kids liked kiss, I have no idea who asylum, crazy nights and hits when platinum.

Damn Dino, I wanna go to that storage locker and loot it. All those cool guitars and stuff like this !!!!

doublev2 · Post by **doublev2** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:42 am

My parents divorced in New Orleans and I had to move with my mom and left most things with my dad. He says he hasn't thrown this stuff out.
If I had known t shirts would be worth something I would have been more on it.

doublev2 · Post by **doublev2** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:46 am

Like I said the band shot shirt of frehleys comet was for the live plus 4 gig in London in march 1988. I don't think it was used for the second sighting tour.

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