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Ace Frehley Releases New Track Rockin’ With The Boys

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Ace Frehley Photo Credit Jay Gilbert
Photo Credit Jay Gilbert
Fri Aug 17, 2018
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Founding KISS guitarist and Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame member, Ace Frehley, has released a new song called Rockin' With The Boys. This is the second song Frehley has released this year, from his forthcoming all-new Spaceman album, due October 19, 2018, via Entertainment One (eOne). Frehley previously released the track, Bronx Boy, in April.

Spaceman, Frehley’s eighth solo LP, features nine new original tracks including a cover of Eddie Money’s, I Wanna Go Back, a ripping power pop makeover of the original.

“No need to worry, I’ll be home soon, ’cause I’m rockin’ with the boys,” Frehley sings on Rockin’ With the Boys, which tells the tales of life on the road. Ace says he wrote the original version of the song back in KISS’s heyday in the ’70s. Both Rockin With The Boys and Bronx Boys are available on all streaming platforms today and are iTunes instant grat tracks for fans who pre-order the album.

In addition to Ace's distinctive guitar sound on each track, Ace played bass on all of the songs on Spaceman except for two. The listener might recognize the mighty dinosaur growl of a bass tone belonging to Gene Simmons on the album opener, Without You I’m Nothing, which Gene also co-wrote, and Your Wish Is My Command. Both songs were recorded at Frehley’s home studio in Rancho Santa Fe, California.

Ace’s reconnection with Simmons and fellow KISS vocalist-guitarist, Paul Stanley (who joined Ace on a cover of Free’s Fire and Water, for 2016’s covers LP Origins, Vol. 1), might be chalked up to the fact that Frehley has been sober for more than a decade (he celebrates 12 years of sobriety in September). Ace’s clean living no doubt has a lot to do with his productive streak, which began with the release of his top 20, Anomaly album in 2009.

Spaceman (a title suggested by Simmons, himself) serves as the first collection of all new Frehley-penned material since 2014’s Space Invader, which debuted at #9 on the Top 200 Chart. The LP scored the highest charting position of any former or current KISS band member ever and marked Frehley's first return to the Top 10 since KISS's 1998, Psycho Circus, reunion album.

Space Invader received praise from critics. Rolling Stone wrote, "Gene Simmons has claimed Ace Frehley doesn't deserve to wear Kiss' Kabuki clown paint, but the former Spaceman's first solo LP in five years says otherwise," while Associated Press hailed, "...the original Kiss lead guitarist has recorded his best solo album since his groundbreaking self-titled album in 1978."

Widely known as the original “Space Ace" and founding guitarist for 16 cumulative years (over 2 tenures) of the multi-platinum selling rock band KISS, Frehley is demonstrably the most popular original member. In addition to having the best-selling solo album career (vintage or current) among the original foursome, Frehley’s self titled Ace Frehley, released in 1978, went on to sell over one million copies, producing the only Top 40 single, New York Groove, from any of the legendary KISS solo albums (peaking at #13).

TOUR DATES:
August 9 – Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up Tavern
August 10 – Las Vegas, NV – The Pearl at the Palms Casino
August 12 – Los Angeles, CA – The Greek Theater
August 17 – New Hope, MN – New Hope Cinema Grill – An Evening with Ace Frehley
August 18 – Detroit, MI, Hart Plaza – Motor City Music Festival
August 28 – Adelaide, SA, Australia – Adelaide Entertainment Centre
August 30 – Melbourne, VIC, Australia – Margaret Court Arena
August 31 – Sydney, NSW, Australia – Enmore Theatre
September 1 – Brisbane, QLD, Australia – The Tivoli
September 3 – Tokyo, Japan – Billboard Live (2 Shows)
September 4 – Tokyo, Japan – Billboard Live (2 Shows)
September 5 – Tokyo, Japan – Billboard Live (2 Shows)
September 6 – Osaka, Japan – Billboard Live (2 Shows)
October 31 – November 5 – Miami to Key West and Nassau, KISS Kruise VIII
November 9 – Clearwater, FL – Capitol Theatre
November 10 – Melbourne, FL – King Center for the Performing Arts
November 11 – Miramar, FL – Miramar Amphitheatre

For more information visit www.acefrehley.com

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