Ace Frehley At Guitar Center 

Ace told me years ago that it can be sloppy, miss a note or three, but don't lose the feeling or the groove. Sometimes he misses notes, I don't care it still sounds awesome!!

Many people don't understand the influence Ace had on so many guitar players and bands. The simple fact is back in the 70's and 80's so many people had a go at guitar because of Ace. His playing sounds cool. He has a style, look and sound that's simply him. He doesn't copy other artists and stays true to his art. Sure I'm a Ace fan but I know a real rock star when I see one.

Ace is like your cool uncle that teaches you valuable life lessons......but still tells you dirty jokes when your mom leaves the room

He is 63 years old, he is a really big icon in rock&roll history, he rocked the world, when he learned to play guitar wasn't guitar virtuosos, shred stuff, programs, internet, guitar pro, instructional videos, fast neck guitars or fancy gear, more than 40 years playing guitar and still he is doing it? give him a break! i wish i can be doing the same in 30 more years (im 34) who gives a shit if he don't have a perfect technique, accurate picking, sound, etc... HE IS ACE FUC... FREHLEY, and he did A LOT MORE than any looser sitting behind a computer here writing stupid comments (And i know how to play guitar, if you want check my channel) thx for make me learn to play electric guitar when i was just 16 years old Ace!

One of the things Ace left out. For a long time, MSG had these huge 50 posters on the front of the building, each one representing the different types of events the venue hosted. An NBA basketball player, an NHL hockey player, a boxer, etc. and a picture of Ace with his smoking guitar was the picture representing rock concerts.

Using the volume knob for solo boost is such an old school trick. And having used that at practice and live I gotta say, it just plain works

If there was no Ace Frehley, there would be no dimebag Darell

If I had a dollar for every time I heard Ace tell the E chord story I’d probably be a millionaire

Ace you're a living legend. Glad to have you with us.

Very underrated and unique player. I've been listening to a lot of early KISS and his guitar really brings the whole sound together. SPACE ACE FOR LIFE!

First time I saw Ace with the smoking guitar I was completely blown away !! I had NEVER seen anything like it before lol I was like WTF

Say what you want, over the decades he has some of the most icon guitar solos in history. When you can take 3 dozen solos and cut them out of a song, play just that part and people can tell you the name of the song and the guitar player, that's a legend.

A truly genuine, talented and humble individual. Never mind the bollocks Ace, you are still the man!

Several of the most memorable riffs and solos, and a great showman with his own style, what else do you really need?! Legend.

That's so awesome man! So great to see Ace jamming!... I'm a long long time old school fan!

Any Ace haters or shit-talkers can line up for a beating...

Ace is one of THE great rock stylists of all time! He has great taste, plays what fits the song, and his bends and vibrato are out of this world! plus he's a great showman and entertainer!

Ace plays with a great R&R attitude. Yes, he plays largely the same scales & patterns, but that's what also makes Angus Young & Joe Perry so cool. Swagger, attitude & groove are an important part to appreciating his legendary style. Ace rocks !!

I wish all the young guitarist's and technical guru's would go watch/listen to Ace playing live back in his heyday 76-78? He had an excellent flow/tone/vibrato and squeezed every ounce a feel tone and emotion from every note he played? His harmonic picking style mixed with his deep vibrato made him stand out amongst other guitarists of the time using his limited technical ability and speed. His leads / solos were like another vocal part of the song and could pull you in like they were words. Obviously drugs and alcohol and lack of practicing stopped him from progressing and left him sounding the way he does now. And that's fine he has nothing to prove he already did back in the day. I strongly advise even the most proficient musicians to go back watch what he did live, see and feel what he was doing? and actually try to learn something from him to make yourselves better lead guitarist's. There's something that almost all technical guitarists are missing and that's learning to breathe and give air and space between notes? It's more how you say it? Than how technical or fast? A solo or lead is nothing if it can't be hummed or remembered? Anyhow yes I do not like seeing Ace doing these videos nowadays it does make me cringe but I dare any of you technical musicians to make a video of yourself standing up with your guitar strap down lower not hiked up to your chest, and look straight ahead moving around and play one of his live solos to any song you like and let's see how you sound? It doesn't count if you just play the notes you have to show that you can pull off what he did straight through Marshall no reverb or effects and get the results he did live. Big tasty bends, pinch harmonics that fall off a ghost bend and do the trills and alternate triads and make it all flow. 👍 Please post on comments

Ace's solo on Strange Ways is the best hands down.

3 nights sold out in a row at Madison Square Garden is certainly something to be proud of! Ace is great, I could watch him tell stories for hours.

That’s pure practice finding your own style and being original. Dimebags favourite guitarist 🤘🏼

Some guys here comenting on how bad he sounds, honestly, this guy has a huge legacy, sold millions of albuns in one of the biggest bands ever, he influenced a lot of the virtuosos we adore, but technique isn't all, i don't like Kiss, not a bit actually, but i do respect this guy for his lagacy as a fellow musician and songwriter, keep on bitching on how superior you are as technical players, in your bedrooms, music is not technique, is about how you touch people's hearts, bedroom players.

I don't care what anyone says Ace is a rock and roll icon he's part of American history! He influenced me to play guitar in 1977 I was like 15 his solo album was bad ass! I still play everyday! Sold many platinum albums and the dude is still ROCKIN ! 🚀 SPACE ACE 🥊 ROCKS

These threads always surprise me in how many people come on and are insulting towards people like Ace. If you don't like his playing, go play your guitar instead of bagging him. Regardless of his ability (and perhaps it is a bit suspect these days after all his health issues), he's still a part of Rock and Roll history and earned his place.

I bought my first guitar today and I was playing a few riffs from KISS songs and my dad said “you could be Ace” and I just laughed saying “it would take me a few months to get a lot better than I am and Ace has his own style where he just wings it”

Ace always has been and always will be my rock-n-roll hero. I've been lucky enough to meet him three times, and each time I was that little kid who used to stare at his KISS bubble gum cards while listening to KISS albums on his Winnie the Pooh record player (there is NOTHING more metal than a Winnie the Pooh record player).

Ace Frehley joined us At Guitar Center to share his history + play some riffs on his Gibson #LesPaul featuring music from Frehley's latest album, Space Invader available now. bit.ly/WV5VZv

Space Ace gettin' his props. Well deserved.

Rock and roll isn't about playing perfectly or playing shredding solos. Ace is still one of my favorite guitarists and one of my main influences. I love how he has a blues style of playing that's primarily based on feel and not virtuosity.

If you watch Ace in the 70s he was amazing. Gave kiss there sound and had a style no one had. Top 10 of rock guitar players of all time in my book.

Guitar players like Ace makes wanna plays with the guitar all time 👏🏻

Marty Friedman (one on the greatest guitars players I know of) has high praise of Mr. Frehley. Picked him over Page .. I will take his opinion over anyone here bashing Ace. What have you done ? Ace is a Guitar God Nuff said ! Friedman states that Ace took a limited vocabulary and did more with it than many of his peers during that time. He mentions that Ace's solos had direction whereas Pages solos a lot of the times were random. That if you needle dropped, you would know its Ace...and that with many other guitarist during that time, they were all interchangeable. I know what I hear for myself...and I will again, take the opinion of a technical giant like Mary Friedman over a bunch of never has never will bes Lol. Love Ya Ace..The Real Deal !

I went to see KISS in Los Angeles when they were touring behind their first album -- I was in high school. They put on a mind blowing show! I am sure they scared the hell out of a lot of the other acts at that time. Sadly, I've read a lot of negative comments here. Remember this: Everyone has their time to shine. I enjoyed the band's showmanship back then. Thanks, Ace!

I am just one of the countless guitar players who first picked up a guitar wanting to be Ace. let us say a collective thank you.

I’m 22 and Ace is the one who inspired me to learn how to play. Rock on Space Man 🤘🌠

Ace Frehley joined us At Guitar Center to share his history and play some riffs on his Gibson Les Paul featuring music from Frehley's latest album, Space Invader available now. bit.ly/WV5VZv

His vibrato on his first solo record is really unique....

63 years old and plays the same tried and true licks....damn!

Ace frehley truly is one heck of a guitar player talented and definitely creative

He's there amongst the greatest in the business. 👏🏻

Ace fan for life. I would not be a guitar player if it wasn't for him. Long live the Spaceman!

Here's the simple truth ..without Ace Frehley, Kiss would have simply been a bunch of clowns! Ace plays better now than forty years ago! His solos kick ass! The man is such a true star...humorous...intelligent...truthful...and knowledgeable! Ace's latest Spaceman is fantastic! Criminally underrated!

He plays and we all know he is Ace Frehley playing. That is to succeed, like it or not.

I love to hear the beginning experiences of my musical influences. To imagine that first moment where Ace, or Eddie Ban Halen, or Dimebag picked up a guitar, the very first time. What an amazing moment

Didn't we all want a sunburst because of this man?!!

Absolutely one of my biggest guitar heros. His style is so old-school bluesy and ballsy! I love how he is having several minor mishits and not everything is in perfect time and sloppy, etc. which gives it that real and authentic rock sound and feeling. I see so many musicians these days focusing way too much on clean picking, speed, theoretical right but predictable soloing and technique over the human feeling!

Ace helped me co-write my/our song (Baby, I love you) Give it a listen . . . you'll DEFINITELY hear what I'm talking about. Met Ace twice, met him a million times! He's THAT easy going!

ace was the reason i bought a les paul way back when i was a kid

This man is huge, unique and infinitely influential.

Ace rules. Period.

There is only one Ace Frehley, he is truly one of a kind. Pure raw electric guitar.

I find it hard to believe there's haters on here. But I'm not surprised either. Can't we just respect and honor a super cool rock god elder who happens to also be a really nice guy? You have to look at this in perspective. Here's a guy who was a rather accomplished guitarist. He was in one of the biggest selling bands of all time and was able to sell out arenas anywhere, any night, anytime around the entire world. Quite impressive by any standards. My challenge to the haters who can shred better than him is to accomplish what he has and then when you're 63 (with arthritis) get up there and shred for us on RU-vid with Guitar Center interviewing you. Let's see if you can make it happen. ready set go...

Ace Freyley, Jimi Hendrix, and jimmy page are the best lead guitarists in the world.. in my opinion❤️🤍💛🇺🇸

All i can say is i have seen him live 2 times and both times i was blown away some of the best lead solos ever !

I JUST GOT BACK HOME FROM SEEING ACE AT THE NJ STATE THEATER, AND IM STILL SMILING ... FTW !! YOU KNOW WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS FROM YOU NOODLING AROUND AT GC, AND ACE ??? HE IS IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND IS CURRENTLY TOURING, AND YOU'RE NOT.

I love the simplified approach! "The guitar shows 3 pickups, but there's only one connected because I always use the treble pickup...through a Marshall amp...without a lot of effects, usually when I'm playing live I'll have my volume down to 7 or and when it comes time for a solo I'll turn it to 10, and the sound's there."-Ace Frehley

I enjoy watching how he picks the guitar it is very unique!

I have serial number 016! Best guitar I’ve ever played and never considered selling it. Ace kept the first 12 so mine is 4 after his👍🤘

you can practice all you want, but you have to be born with this charisma... :-)

One of my biggest inspirations for playing guitar!

Amazing the number of people dissing on Ace's playing, yet when I watched and re-watched the video he's playing as clean and fast as I've seen him in quite some time. For a dude in his mid 60's who I'm sure has lost some dexterity over the years, as we all do with age, I'll take him over all of his contemporaries (save Alex Lifeson from Rush) who are still out touring.

I'm mid thirties and all of my guitar influences growing up can be traced back to this guy. Its insane.

Ace is the reason I started playing

Thanks Ace! You influenced a lot of guitar players, made us want to play the guitar. I wish you would have mentioned drugs and told everyone what a waste of time they are.

01:10 - Sounds like being in Guitar Center all right.

I love Ace

Ace is a legendary Rock Icon,people constantly knock him, I think he's playing fine. Many rock guitarists have been playing similar riffs for many years. Ace took it to the next level. Many here say they can play better, make a you tube video, let's see what you've got. Ace has been playing since the 1970's so many of you have heard similar riffs. In that time it was a big thing, today it's common and don't forget, Ace created some awesome riffs that he's recognized not only in the USA for but also around the world.He's a cool guy and knows and has played with other rock icons on stage. Some here want to talk about sloppy guitar playing. Pick an artist, they all have had an off night ! Ace Frehley, one of my all time favorites !

Ace is my favorite guitarist of all time!

he loves his first pentatonic box so much ;-)

met him in 2017... was speechless. but I got to thank him for his influence...that was top of my bucket list...

Ace is why I fell in love with the Les Paul.

SPACE ACE THE LIVING LEGEND LIVES ONNNN!!!!!!!!!

So Inspiring. Ace is always impressive 👍

Say what you want about Ace or KISS as a whole, the man is a legend 🤘

Awesome ace again .I've been a kiss fan since I've been five .that's 1975 friends. Ace Is a metal god....

much love Ace

It's 2020 and Ace is still hitting that E chord in every interview.

So much has been said by so many, and not all of it good. But for me, as a kid in the 70's, seeing and hearing this band and this guitarist.........fricken ecstasy man.....

Ace is the best!! just listen to the first 3 KISS albums and Alive...his solos are so rememberable

That is the most beautiful guitar I’ve ever seen,

Space ace one of my biggest heroes over and out...1311

I cant tell you how many times I headbanged to the solos in like, Calling Dr. Love. The riffs like Watching you. Great stuff.

Not everybody can be Steve Vai. A wise, older musician once told me that all the money is made on the first three frets of a guitar. There are a lot of people who can sling arpeggios and fast licks all day long, between slinging drinks or burgers... but writing great riffs and playing with a great sense of melody and feeling are what people really want to hear, and Ace is a great example of that. If you want speed licks and sweeps, listen to Yngwie.

Ace is the man

Ace is the number #1 reason I picked up a guitar. Still play to this day. Ace, Clapton and Michael Schenker.

Ace is still one of the greats, and always will be!

He’s rock and roll no doubt about it

I love Ace 💙

The criticism of ACE is beyond old. He and KISS are part of the reason I started playing guitar when I was 12 years old. I have a handful of friends who have the same story. There's a reason why Dime had a tattoo of ACE on his chest...💚🎸

ace is a legend! he's awesome and,plays very very well. I challenge anyone on hear to play a,solo on a,les Paul like,he,does at age 66. the ppl. downing his ability are,jealous rock on Ace

The most underrated guitarist ever!

This man plays with his heart and soul

Ace Frehley 👍👍👍👍👍

Ace is my number two for me right after Mr.Blackmore.

People tend to forget that Ace is 70 years old now....when he was in his prime he was bad ass...go back and listen to some of his work on his solo album with kiss..or even better his work on trouble walking....he could really cut a swath....🎸🎸🎸

No matter how many times I see that Les Paul, I always feel butterflies. What a beauty

Ace Frehley is a legend

It's not how good or bad you play it's the whole package that matters. With or without the guitar if you're hang'n with Ace it's going to be a great time.

At 0:59 it reminds me of his Dunkin Donuts commercial. "I'll give ya the P&L statement!"