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
October 13, 2025
On a cold February afternoon in 2018, we saw Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives at the Stoughton Opera House in Stoughton, Wisconsin.
It was a great show in a beautiful theater and it is one of Marty's favorites venues.
He was going to build his theater in Mississippi to resemble the opera house as much as possible. That's how much he loved it. During his performance that day he wouldn't bring out his Clarence White B Bender Fender guitar that was friend Clarence Whites from The Byrds.
My previous blog goes into that story with Clarence White.
Marty said that "it would blow the paint of the walls of the little theater"! I'll never forget that.
Marty is coming to our neighborhood to the Wilson Center for the Performing Arts on October 24, 2025 here in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Hope the B Bender comes out that night because he really plays it well and Clarence White would be proud of him.
Take a look at Marty Stuart and the Fabulous Superlatives. They are all fabulous musicians. "Cousin" Kenny Vaughan, "Handsome" Harry Stinson and Chris Scruggs whose dad and his grandfather ,Earl Scruggs, I've had the pleasure to meet and photograph. Even did an interview with Earl Scruggs many years ago who started an amazing musical family.
Hope you are coming to the show. I think and expect tickets are sold out.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
