Kiss: Gene Simmons invites historic Ace Frehley to participate in a farewell tour show

While there are still fragmented performances of kiss, last weekend in Argentina, the band continued to say goodbye to horseback riding from their epic End of Road World Tour -included Eric Singer Y Tommy Thayer In the role of Peter Criss and Ace Frehley. And now a last minute invitation has emerged from nowhere Gene Simmons.

“Happy birthday Ace. And many more … Invitations are still open, join us on stage for encores. fans will love it”, Simmons wrote in a tweet dedicated to who was Kiss’s first original guitar, which had just turned into candy 71 years.

Looking for a symbol of peace

Things aren’t going well between them, considering that Frehley didn’t respond to the message and that in recent years the biting eyebrow has crossed. “(Frehley and Criss) went out and came back three times for drugs, alcohol, bad behavior and unprofessionalism”, Revealed, in 2019, the famous bassist rumored to World of Guitar.

Ace answered him with a vague criticism: first he called him a “fool”, but then he called him. “sex addict”. However, as he recalls rolling stone, Frehley courted the return under his own rules. which one That he will only take the stage with the group if he is allowed to claim his identity as Spacemanbecause he occupies, in his same peeling-you -and awakening to the feeling of permanent guilt- the goodness of Thayer.

“It’s complicated when you think about the story,” Ace said. “I have left the group twice. I think maybe they didn’t want to ask me to come back for the last tour because I stopped twice. Maybe they were afraid I would leave in the middle of the tour. I want to do things my way, like Frank Sinatra. “

Is it possible to meet again at some point in the last tour? How about Criss or news? Let us remember that the Kiss of the beginning, the real one, toured before the new century and landed -Farm of the River- on our pampas with four original members.

Ace’s entry and exit

After recording nine studio albums with Kiss, Frehley left the band in 1982 to begin his solo career on the project. Frehley’s comet.

In 1996 he returned to his band on the occasion of the reunion of the original formation. Two years later, the album was released Psycho Circuswhere “Extraterrestrial” contributions are minimal.

In 2002 he again left the group after the tour Farewell Tour. Since then, he has just lost the urge to continue his solo career where there are albums like Abnormal (2009), the celebrated invader in space (2014) at Source, Vol. 1 (2016).

Last year, Ace revealed that he was currently in “good relations” with his former colleagues and touched on his possible return: “That’s the first question a lot of people have asked me in recent years:‘ Considering- Do you want to meet Kiss? ‘. And I say:’If money is good and it was shown to me in the right way, anything can happen … ‘

For now, in the next few hours Kiss will be saying goodbye to Latin America on their tour end of the road, which stopped in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Colombia. But it will continue on other continents, perhaps with Ace at some point.

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