The Spaceman

I know this blog is typically about and for the NJ cover band scene for the most post. But I wouldn't be doing my due diligence as a music blogger if I didn't mention a major loss in the rock 'n' roll world yesterday of someone in a band I have loved most of my life.

Yesterday we lost Ace Frehley...a rock legend. Co-founder and lead guitarist of the one and only KISS. According to a statement from his family, he passed away after injuries sustained from a fall a few weeks ago. He was 74.

My social media feed was flooded with this news and tributes to Ace. Rightfully so. As a Gen Xer, you better believe I grew up listening to KISS. I loved it. It was fun. It was pure rock 'n' roll. It was also confusing around 1983 when they stopped wearing makeup. I can remember seeing them for the first time without makeup on MTV in their video "Heaven's on Fire" in 1984. I was nine years old. I can clearly remember my dad saying you are not allowed to watch that video. As a mom now, I can understand why!

Then one day I became a mom and my kid saw KISS in Scooby Doo and then again during the Loud House as "Smooch." She even had me buying her KISS tees. Then in 2019, at seven years old, she begged me to go see KISS in concert. She was too scared to get on the train with her babysitter so I went without her and met up with friends and saw one of the most amazing concerts of my life.

So KISS has been ingrained in my music life for five decades at this point. Ace Frehley is part of that for me. My biggest regret is when he was performing earlier this year as a solo act in NJ and I didn't go because I had no one to go with. Ace was an essential part of KISS. He may have come and gone from the band time and again but along with Gene, Paul and Peter he helped created one of the most iconic and influential rock bands that ever existed.

RIP Spaceman. Hope you are rockin out up there.

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