October 27, 2025

Very sad to hear that we lost one of the founding members of the band KISS, "Ace" Frehley on October 16th.

Always wanted to photograph KISS but never got the chance. I did get to photograph Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley in 2021 at Summerfest.

He was a great guitarist who played with KISS from 1973 to 1982. He also played the farewell tours in 1996 and 2002.

"Ace" never took guitar lessons but he came from a family of guitar and piano players. His father also played the church organ.

In 1978 "Ace" did a solo album that went Platinum and then did a few more solo albums in addition to a few with his band Frehley's Comet.

His Gibson Les Paul  guitar had smoke coming out of the neck and it had a spinning pyrotechnic feature.

We will miss the Space Ace or Spaceman as he was called when he was with KISS.

Enjoy some photos from 2021.   I  have one of those guitar picks from that night

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann