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, he 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 (and put a promising art career on the back burner). 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 until 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 (Mötley Crüe, etc.), 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 mudslinging 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 1996-1997 Alive Worldwide Tour.
Frehley continued as a member of Kiss until the end of their Farewell Tour (lasting longer than fellow original member Peter Criss, who dropped out in 2001). 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 that 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 was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, before August brought the release of Space Invader, a solo album that took a heavier approach than Anomaly. Released in 2016, Origins, Vol. 1 was an all-covers album featuring songs from Ace's favorite bands, up to and including Kiss, with new versions of "Parasite" and "Cold Gin" sitting next to songs from Thin Lizzy and Cream. The following year, Frehley joined Kiss bassist/vocalist Simmons on-stage at a Hurricane Harvey benefit for the Children Matter organization in St. Paul, Minnesota. It was the first time the former bandmates had performed together in over 16 years. In 2018 Frehley issued his eighth solo long payer, Spaceman, which featured a power pop cover of Eddie Money's "I Wanna Go Back" and the rowdy single "Rockin' with the Boys," the latter of which was written during Kiss' '70s heyday.
In the fall of 2018, Frehley revealed that he was changing his entire solo backing band from guitarist Richie Scarlet, bassist Chris Wyse and drummer Scot Coogan to Gene Simmons‘ solo band members consisting of Philip Shouse on guitar/vocals, Ryan Cook on guitar/vocals, Jeremy Asbrock on guitar/vocals, and Christopher Williams on drums.
He then released a second covers album, Origins, Vol. 2, in September 2020.
Biography by Greg Prato
Website: http://www.acefrehley.com
Ace Frehley (1978)
Frehley's Comet (1987)
Second Sighting (1988)
Trouble Walkin' (1989)
Anomaly (2009)
Space Invader (2014)
Origins Vol. 1 (2016)
Spaceman (2018)
Origins Vol. 2 (2020)
10,000 Volts (2024)
Outer Space
Ace Frehley Lyrics
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To be your party your gain
But when I came from above
I looked around but you turned away
And now you are scratching and crawling
Your way up from the grave
You should have stayed in the dirt girl
It's like I told you
It's like a told you
I came from outer space
That's how I know your name
Just like a told you
I came from outer space
I wanna take you away
You took a drink of my sweet love
And then the poison took
You hooked me up to your sick machine
And then I blew you up
You were one in a billion
Before the button was pushed
You should have stayed in the dirt girl
It's like I told you
It's like a told you
I came from outer space
That's how I know your name
I'm sick and tired of the human race
I want to take you away
It's like I told you
I came from outer space
That's how I know your name
I'm sick and tired of the human race
I want you by my side
I want to take you to heaven
Take you away from this hell
I want to take you to heaven
Take you away from this hell
It's like a told you
I came from outer space
That's how I know your name
I'm sick and tired of the human race
I want to take you away
It's like I told you
I came from outer space
That's how I know your name
I've given up on the human race
I'm gonna blow 'em away.
So let me take you to heaven
Take you away from this hell
I want to take you to heaven
Take you away from this hell
I want to take you to heaven
Take you away from this hell
The Earth is rollin' a 7
This place is gonna be fine
The lyrics of Ace Frehley's song "Outer Space" are about an extraterrestrial being who comes to Earth and experiences rejection from a person that he wanted to love. This person turned away from the extraterrestrial, and the being is left feeling frustrated with the human race. The lyrics suggest that the person who rejected the creature is now trying to crawl their way back because they realized their mistake. However, the extraterrestrial tells this person that they should have stayed in the dirt, as if they were dead.
The song's lyrics express the extraterrestrial's desire to take this person away from the negative aspects of life and to bring them to heaven. The individual who was rejected is referred to as being poisoned by the alien's sweet love. The being explains that it is frustrated with the human race, and ultimately wants to "blow them away." The lyrics of "Outer Space" contain heavy themes of rejection, love, and frustration with humanity.
Line by Line Meaning
You said you wanted my love
You expressed your desire for my love
To be your party your gain
You wanted my love to be a source of entertainment and benefit for you
But when I came from above
But when I came here from a higher place
I looked around but you turned away
I searched for you, but you intentionally ignored me
And now you are scratching and crawling
And now you are struggling and making significant efforts
Your way up from the grave
To get out of the grave you buried yourself into
You should have stayed in the dirt girl
It would have been better if you had decided to stay buried
It's like I told you
As I already mentioned earlier
I came from outer space
I am an extraterrestrial being
That's how I know your name
That's how I am aware of your identity
You took a drink of my sweet love
You experienced the taste of my affection
And then the poison took
But eventually, its detrimental effects began to show
You hooked me up to your sick machine
You lured me into your twisted game
And then I blew you up
But in the end, I destroyed you
You were one in a billion
You were an exceptional person
Before the button was pushed
Before I activated my plan of attack
I'm sick and tired of the human race
I am fed up with humanity
I want you by my side
I desire your companionship
I want to take you to heaven
I want to take you to a better place
Take you away from this hell
To rescue you from this miserable existence
The Earth is rollin' a 7
The planet Earth is doing well
This place is gonna be fine
Everything is going to be okay here
I've given up on the human race
I no longer have any hope for humanity
I'm gonna blow 'em away.
I am going to destroy them
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: CORY THOMAS GADDIS, DAVID BROOK, MAT SHERMAN, SAMUEL ., WES JONES
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