Ace Frehley Live guitar solo Kiss from San Fran in 1975 

I know this is about the great guitar work of Ace Frehley, but Pete Criss on drums only adds to the greatness of this solo.

Say what you want about Ace and his talent. He was the most talented member of the original line up. Had the most successful solo album. Lived the life of a huge rockstar with bands like Judas Priest and Van Halen opening up for him. And he just released a new album.

Ace's approach to using dynamics during his solos of going from fast-to-slow and using low-to-high phrasing is a cornerstone of the traditional lead guitar break. Such an ICON!!

Over the years, keyboard warriors have trashed Ace's guitar skills. In all reality, he was Shred Master General long before most of them were even a scratch in their daddy's nads.

When they were all still real hungry...Ace has a voice on guitar, even tho he's using the same penta licks of the day that everyone used, he found a way to sound like himself... he didn't set out to do it he's just got hella swagger and zero f's to give... and, it comes accross. Of the four original members Ace is the best musician hands down, peter could sing, Gene and Paul had their beatle thing but Ace? Had one purple and one orange sneaker... the dude was the 1970s .... one of my main musical dads! Long live ya' Paul (Ace) 😊

He was great here, sadly he no longer plays even close to this, but in his day, he was awesome!

1976 ACE shredded 'Eruption' with his the smoking Les Paul Custom and Influenced a boy named Eddy... History! That's Why ACE FREHLEY's absolutely a Guitar God.

ace influenced a hell of a lot of players.

At the pinnacle of his career!

I would say in the old days he was a great player

It's easy to forget how good they were at one time 74, and 75 just rock and roll as it should be!

Always killer. Always inspiring.

ACE IS A TRUE GUITAR GOD 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

You can't top the way he tapped rapidly and then gradually slowed down 👌😔

Ace and a Les Paul ….epic!!

Ace Frehley tapping in '75... who would have thought?

I wish he could still play like that.

ACE FOREVER !!!

Funny...in the 70's I totally followed Ace!!! Ace ruled!!

glad you liked it my dvd from the vault vids will continue !! the most interesting part of this one is Ace taps with his pick back in 75' a few years before the Van Halen tapping craze began....

Coming up on FIFTY YEARS ago! Long live rock 'n' roll!!

Tapping before EVH and everyone says Eddie started it. Nope

THE REAL ACE IS THE F'N PLACE .THANK YOU

Going to see Ace tonight in Sandusky Ohio at bike week 🤘

Ace Frehley tapping in 1975 #KISS50

AMAZING !!!!

Play it baby and your the greatest

Early Kiss is the best!

The REAL SPACEMAN!!!!! Ace !!!!!

Aewsome!!! From a fellow lefty!!!!!!!

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, KISS FOREVER❤

Space Ace !

Great stuff! ❤

nice to see your still around brother, more from my DVD Vault is coming !!

Raw AF !!!

Thank f""k we got the edited solos for both Ace and Peter on both the Alive albums......

Maestro!!!!!

I like KISS’s philosophy - they changed their guitars and basses to fit their look and sound. I think Ace even has his strap on “backwards” so the custom design he had done to it are more visible. It’s backwards, isn’t it? Correct me if I’m wrong. Ace (and to a slightly lesser extent Ted) started it all for me.

Just prior or just after the first major commercial breakthrough, the beginning of the end…

Ace definitely had the moves and the swag back then.

Absolutely when Kiss ruled the world, God ace was a God back then

Wow. Ok. I love Ace too, BUT it seems a lot of people here are misinformed about the origin of tapping, so feel free to look this up online for clarification. Neither Ace Frehley, OR Edward Van Halen originated the tapping technique. MANY guitar players (even some who primarily played acoustic) were doing limited tapping YEARS before either Ace or Edward. Angus Young for one, played a limited tap during "Baby Please Don't Go", in 1973, and Jimmy Page had been doing it since the mid-sixties. IN FACT, EVH himself said that it was after seeing Zeppelin in '72, when Page taps during the solo break in "Heartbreaker", THAT was what really inspired him to develop his own technique. The primary reason EVH is credited with originating tapping, is because when "Eruption" was heard by everyone for the first time, although many other guitarists utilized tapping in the technique, EVH was the first to do it for complex periods of timing and octave changes--orchestrating long runs that no one had ever heard before. He was FAR from being the originator of the technique though. As was Ace Frehley.

Wow he was so young

That line up of kiss in 75 was solid

I liked his suit!

From a technical standpoint it's nothing special, but he plays with great tone, pocket and phrasing. His usage of dynamics should be studied. Tension and release.

Lefty here too❤

agreed Parasite is one of the best Kiss tunes thanks for comment

❤heeeey,!!! Grandioso ,el mejor KISS ❤ SPACE ACE ❤por supuesto. ❤ A!!!!!CE FREHLEY ❤

Love, the fact that the camera was solely on Ace and Ace only. the other two clowns took away from Ace on stage. And ended up with all the money. In the end.

Ace ruled💯🤘🏼

Gene’s Grabber awesome.

I would like to see a video on how to play this solo. It is epic Ace.

hell yeah, make up, outfits, bombs,smoke, and Volume, Bang for your Buck..

ACE FREHLEY TAP MASTER!!!

2:22 I wonder if Gene tried to explain tapping to Ace after witnessing the master EVH?

Ace was a pretty good guitar player 😁👍🎵🎶🎶

Figaro

Back when KISS was hungry for success, unlike the Reunion Tour and everything that followed.

I find the way he holds the pick real unusual.I see others doing it this way but the only way I can hold it is with my other three fingers straight. I find it easier to control....

He sure was firing on all cylinders back in the day. Nowadays, not so much.

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Eddy Van Halen must have been watching this I was 9 jammin this like Live in my room my mom trashed my stereo it was in the can

And people give EVH credit for tappning while Ace ( the best guitarist of the 70’s) did it before EVH hmmmm

I was like 3 years old back then?

Ace...doing the "Tapping" technique in 1975.

Yes Sir me included !!

Simple, easy pentatonic licks....😂I learned this back in the 70s when I was 12......

Ace was so much better in these early days before he let the excesses of fame and fortune in the form of booze and drugs take over.

He taught Eddy how to play.

Hey Eddie. Ace Frehley just called and he wants his...

Kiss would not have reached half the fame they recieved if not for Ace!

What song is this?

I remember when kiss was cool This was it . After 1977 wtf happened?

was Ace tapping before Eddy ?

Ì realize it now. I've always failed to wear an upside-down triangle!!!

That's kiss alive 1

Kiss died when Pete and Ace left the group.

The only real musician in that band.

Wow ace tapping before evh, interesting. Turns out nothing evh did was original

Ace is finger tapping.

Frehley not Freeley

Sound a lot like eruption

Eddie Van Halen had nothing him.

I just realized Van Halen was probably heavily influenced by KISS

Ace invented 'tapping'...and Eddie stole it.

Eddie Van Halen did not invent tapping. Ace Frehley and Steve Hackett were pioneers. But Eddie did perfect it

Funny I read about how sloppy his guitar playing was. And yes it is very sloppy but he's made millions of dollars off of it lol. More than any of you haters here lol. Somebody bought thier records and gone to their concerts. The people were not forced to buy or go. So I don't understand all the hatred here. He was cool as fuck and me being 48 I still wanna be Ace Frehley.

Back when Ace was pretty badass, and not a fat, swollen, drunken buffoon.

Your not inspired to play. ? Why too many drugs

You got out a doll??? Are you an adult??

They broke up cuz a money, greed,paul,gene made the money more important than the music...killed kiss...

That was pathetic as a guitar solo. Peter Chris drums blow's that away!

Eddie Van Halen definitely didn’t borrow his sloppy moves

Van halen CHORRO

Eddie Va Helen said he invented tapping. I guess he didn’t! 😂

Sounds like a beginer

Para quem, não sabe , este guitarrista tocava tão bem que foi mandado embora , por inveja ,,, porém o guitarrista novo também é bom , paul , e gene ,, não são os melhores guitarrista da banda😐😎👽👽

Come in its pretty average really

Ace was always kind of a sloppy player and I mean that in a good way and that’s what makes his style so unique, it’s just a shame that Gene and Paul had to get so full of themselves and destroyed a once in a lifetime band.