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7 июл 2026 :	GENE SIMMONS: 'If You Don't Like America, Please Go Back To Where You F***ing Came From'
4 июл 2026 :	GENE SIMMONS On Political Polarization In The U.S.: 'People On Both Sides Of The Fence, I Believe, Have Gone To The Extreme'
23 июн 2026 :	Watch: GENE SIMMONS Joined By KERRY KING/Ex-MACHINE HEAD Guitarist PHIL DEMMEL For 'War Machine' Performance
16 июн 2026 :	Watch: GENE SIMMONS And His Solo Band Perform KISS Classics In Indio
6 май 2026 :	GENE SIMMONS Regrets Not Staging An Intervention For ACE FREHLEY Decades Ago: 'It Was A Stupid And Shameful Decision On All Our Parts'
17 мар 2026 :	GENE SIMMONS Looks Back On Making Of 'Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park' Movie: 'We Didn't Have A Clue What We Were Doing'
4 мар 2026 :	Watch: GENE SIMMONS Performs KISS Classics On Pool Deck Stage During 'Rock Legends Cruise XIII'
28 фев 2026 :	Watch: GENE SIMMONS Performs KISS Classics On 'Rock Legends Cruise XIII'
26 фев 2026 :	Watch: GENE SIMMONS And His Solo Band Perform ACE FREHLEY-Written Songs 'Strange Ways' And 'Rocket Ride' Live For First Time Ever
18 фев 2026 :	BLACKIE LAWLESS Rips GENE SIMMONS For Suggesting ACE FREHLEY's Death Was Result Of 'Bad Decisions': 'That Was Totally Uncalled For'
11 фев 2026 :	GENE SIMMONS Explains Why Rap Music Doesn't 'Speak' To Him Like Great Rock And Roll Does
22 дек 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS Explains His Capitol Hill Testimony On Pay For Artists From Radio Plays: 'It's An Injustice That Has Long Been Overdue'
18 дек 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS Says Artists Are Treated 'Worse Than Slaves' Because Radio Doesn't Pay Them: 'Slaves Get Food And Water'
16 дек 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS Says 'A.I. Is A Concern If Left Unregulated': 'The Government Must Get A Federal Law That Encompasses All Of A.I.'
14 дек 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS On Being Recognized At 2025 'Kennedy Center Honors' Without ACE FREHLEY: It Was 'Heartbreaking'
8 дек 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS To Testify Before Senate To Support Artist Radio Play Compensation
7 ноя 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS: 'I Love Cake. Cookies, Chocolates, Cake. It's About As Much Fun As I Can Have With My Pants On.'
10 окт 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS 'Recovering At Home' After Being Hospitalized Following Malibu Car Crash
26 авг 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS: 'I've Got My Finances In Such Order That The Next Two To Three Generations Are Taken Care Of'
30 июн 2025 :	Watch: GENE SIMMONS BAND Performs At Opening Of 'Rock & Brews Restaurant And Concert Bar' In Oklahoma
7 июн 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS: 'THE BEATLES Are Above And Beyond Anything That Anybody's Seen In Music Over 200 Years'
19 май 2025 :	Watch: GENE SIMMONS BAND Performs In Niagara Falls During Spring/Summer 2025 U.S. Tour
7 май 2025 :	Watch: GENE SIMMONS BAND Performs In Red Bank, New Jersey During Spring/Summer 2025 U.S. Tour
5 май 2025 :	Watch: GENE SIMMONS Plays First Two 2025 Shows With His Solo Band
29 апр 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS Says 'Astronomical' Insurance Costs Are Why He Is Charging More Than $12K For One Fan To Be His 'Roadie' For A Day
20 апр 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS Reflects On His Decision To Call His Second Solo Album 'A**hole': 'I Don't Have A Problem With It'

6 май 2026

GENE SIMMONS Regrets Not Staging An Intervention For ACE FREHLEY Decades Ago: 'It Was A Stupid And Shameful Decision On All Our Parts'

In a new interview with the Inside Of You With Michael Rosenbaum podcast, KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons was asked if he had any "good conversations" with late KISS guitarist Ace Frehley before Ace died last October at the age of 74. Gene responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "It's been up and down for 50 years with Ace. And the fans often would hate me for telling the truth. When the kids are at home and there's mom and dad and all of a sudden dad gets thrown out of the house, the kids don't understand — they love mom and dad — why mom kicked dad out of the house. And she tries to explain to them: 'He was a drunk, he was a loser, he was late, didn't show up on time, didn't do what he was supposed to do, was barely around the kids, but he's your father.' And the fans are like kids. They don't know."

Gene continued: "If you would've met Ace at the beginning [of KISS] — God bless him — you would've fallen in love with the idea, who he is and all that. And then [as Niccolò] Machiavelli [said], [when you] have power, [you must sometimes] abuse it. It affects all of us in different ways. Me too. But Ace turned to beverages and chemicals. Early on, he wouldn't show up… I mean, he wouldn't show up to do his guitar parts on even 'Destroyer' early on. And the fans don't like to hear this because he's so talented and everybody, all the new guitar players, were influenced by him and all that. Yeah, but when you're together in a band, you're together more time than your family members or your wife or kids. So he'd be late and all this stuff. And Peter [Criss, original KISS drummer], we love him, and God bless, he's still around, but really from the early days, as soon as the money and the fame came in, it was like the dark cloud came over. And they were both in and out of the band three separate times. And the fans just couldn't understand it."

Offering an example of how unreliable Frehley was, Simmons said: "We were doing the Eurovision contest, and we were the headliners. People in America don't know what that is, but 600 million people at that time, now a billion people, tune in to the Eurovision where all the countries in the world basically send their representatives and it's music based. It's one of the few times such a large audience in the early days would tune in. Ace didn't show up. We had to do it as a trio. It just went on and on and on… And had we not been as popular, we would've asked Ace to leave. But strangely, the first time Ace left, he turned to us, and it's sad, and said — this is a quote; he said it to me two times, twice — 'I'm leaving the band. I'm gonna have a solo career.' And we tried to talk to him — I know I did — in front of the manager and everybody else: 'Stay in the band. Have your solo career. Have your cake and eat it too. We don't want anything from you. If you're not happy, do other stuff, but don't break up the band. That's lunacy.' And he just never made smart decisions. So, he said on the way out, 'You just watch. I'm gonna sell 10 million copies of my solo record.' That's a quote. And we said, 'No, don't do that. Just stay in the band.' And he said, more than once, 'If I don't leave the band and if I do another tour, I'm gonna kill myself.' So whatever was going on, it breaks your heart."

Gene went on to say that despite Ace's issues with substance abuse, he was one of the most influential guitarists of his era.

"You look at his body of work, and guitar players from Eddie Van Halen to — who's the kid from METALLICA? God, I just forgot it — they point to Ace, or Tom Morello and everything, 'I cut my teeth on guitar by listening to Ace.' Of course," Simmons noted. "And he was so proud and so happy to hear from the White House — not from the president — that KISS had won the Kennedy Center awards thing [last year]. And he so much looked forward to [being honored last December]. As a kind of a street kid joins a band and goes to the highest level of American — I don't know — awards. And he just didn't make it."

Asked what he would tell Frehley now if he had a chance to address him, Simmons said: "I should have, and could have, but I should have, a long time [ago], when you see the disease starting to get ahold of him, I should have, decades ago, took, took him aside — it's called an intervention — and forced him to understand he's not just hurting himself by his lifestyle choices, but his family, his child and the fans. It was a stupid and shameful decision on all our parts — I know mine too — is, 'No, you don't wanna get the fans upset. Let's make believe he's in the band and everything's okay at home.' And it it's tough. It's really tough."

Gene continued: "Right now the fans who are gonna listen to this are gonna [say], 'Prick Gene, he never says anything [positive].' … But the kids at home don't understand [what it was like when Ace was loaded on drugs and alcohol]. They never met and spent time with Ace. When he's straight — lovable, everything's great. Early on, and when the stuff started to take hold, it was Jekyll and Hyde. You just can't make smart decisions when you're drunk or high."

After podcast host Michael Rosenbaum noted that it's obvious how much Gene loved and cared about Ace, Simmons said: "Look, over the years, whether it was up or down, he'd call and ask for my favor: 'Can you come up and write some songs with me?' At the height of me telling him, 'You're a moron. You're making horrible life decisions' and stuff. But he calls: 'I'm doing a new record. You wanna write some [songs with me]?' 'Sure.' I got in my car, drove out to the desert where he was, and we wrote two new songs."

Asked if writing songs with Ace again was an enjoyable process, Gene said: "Sure. Because Ace was focused. He cared and was committed to him, which is understandable. We all love our stuff. But when it came to being around other guys… And when it came to guitar, nobody touched him. But when it came to songwriting, unfortunately, there were other guys — Paul [Stanley, KISS guitarist/vocalist] and myself — that wrote most of the stuff [in KISS]."

Last December, Gene apologized for suggesting Ace's death was the result of the guitarist's "bad decisions". Simmons took to his social media at the time to write: "On reflection, I was wrong for using the words I used. I humbly apologize. My hand to God I didn't intended to hurt Ace or his legacy but upon rereading my words, I see how it hurt everyone. Again, I apologize. I've always loved Ace. Always."

The founding KISS guitarist died of blunt-trauma injuries to his head due to a fall, the Morris County Medical Examiner confirmed in a report. The manner of death was ruled an accident.

According to the report, a CT scan of Frehley's head revealed multiple contusions, bone fractures to the back of his skull, hemorrhages, and a subdural hematoma (the type of bleeding that occurs in a person's brain after a head injury). Additional bruises were found on the musician's hip, thigh, and abdomen. The report also noted that Frehley had suffered a stroke.

A separate toxicology report on Frehley's blood at the time of his death has not yet been released.

Frehley, whose real name was Paul Daniel Frehley, passed away peacefully surrounded by family in Morristown, New Jersey. He reportedly died nearly two weeks after a second fall at his home, which led to him being placed on life support after a brain bleed. The musician's family made the heartbreaking decision to take him off the ventilator.

Ace co-founded KISS with Paul, Gene and Peter in New York City in 1973. Frehley appeared on KISS's first nine albums, and returned for the band's 1998 reunion album, "Psycho Circus", only to leave again. He was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame with the rest of KISS's original lineup in 2014.

Frehley first left KISS in 1982. He rejoined in 1996 and parted ways with the band once again in 2002 after the conclusion of KISS's first "farewell tour." Since his departure, guitarist Tommy Thayer had assumed the role of the Spaceman.

Frehley had a rocky relationship with Simmons and Stanley whom he blamed for exacerbating his abuse of drugs and alcohol because they allegedly minimized his contributions to KISS.

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6 май 2026

Corpsegrinder04

"Как там зовут этого парня из METALLICA? Боже, я забыл..."
Вот это зачётно ! ))

6 май 2026

WahrandPhain

Corpsegrinder04, потому что кисс реально великая хуйня, киссомания была настоящей шизой в 80-е, все собирали значки Кисс, даже будущие блэкарята. Что-то я не припомню металликомании.

6 май 2026

VAMPCUT

WahrandPhain, в школе в 90-е куча народу ходила в футболке со смертью с розой c рынка. Которая в оригинале была картинкой Alchemy gothic.

6 май 2026

Corpsegrinder04

WahrandPhain, "Что-то я не припомню металликомании. "
Ну тебе "запрограммированному" простительно, ведь в то суетное время ты люто бухал.

6 май 2026

WahrandPhain

Corpsegrinder04, не отрицаю, и даже футболку анфогивен носил)

7 май 2026

Nameless Faceless

WahrandPhain, факт. Помнится, значки, фоточки и постер были и у меня, но самих записей почему-то не было. Ни одного альбома я так и не слышал ни тогда, ни теперь, знаю только несколько песен, что услышал в качестве каверов.

7 май 2026

WahrandPhain

Nameless Faceless, у меня не было ни значков ни плакатов, узнал про них из чтива про норвежский и финский блэк. Почти все музыканты как один твердят про эти ебаные значки и как все были ими одержимы)

"Мы участвовали в конкурсе "Евровидение" и были хедлайнерами"

А это ещё что? Понятно, что в самом конкурсе Kiss участвовать не могли. Тогда о чём это буровит старик Хаим?

7 май 2026

mohnatiy

Nord61, хедлайнеры на Евровидении, лол. Ну подпизднул старый, с кем не бывает)

7 май 2026

Nord61

mohnatiy, ну да, надо же оправдывать репутацию Mr. Long Tongue. xD

8 май 2026

Nord61

mohnatiy, о, нашёл, о чём вёл речь Симмонс.
Kiss пригласили выступить под фанеру не на Евровидении, а на музыкальном фестивале в Сан-Ремо в 1982-м. И именно там Эйс не появился, поэтому Джин, Пол и Эрик Карр выступали втроём.

Вот оно: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FCXs3S5ZZI

6 май 2026

overgrin

Оч много букв
"Никто не влиял на его игру на гитаре"
тут больше и добавить нечего
Есть гитаристы которые 2 ноты не могут связать
А тут уникальный чел-он не мог никогда 1 ноту взять,хотя есть последователи,да и в то время тоже были :-)

7 май 2026

Family Ghost

overgrin, особенно учитывая, что это кривой перевод. Ибо в оригинале Джин сказал "And when it came to guitar, nobody touched him" (типа "Что касается игры на гитаре, ему не было равных")

7 май 2026

timekiller61

Группа Kiss не участвовала в «Евровидении». «Евровидение» (Eurovision Song Contest) — это ежегодный конкурс песни, который проводится европейским вещательным союзом (EBU). Группа Kiss не была представлена в списке участников этого конкурса. Ну и кто на веществах-или трудности перевода? Грэмми мож?

7 май 2026

mohnatiy

Правда! Живите по правде!

8 май 2026

R0ck_N_R0lla

mohnatiy, -В эфире передача "живите по правде" и наши гости : Джин Симонс,Дейв Мастейн и Сергей Бадюк. Итак, Джин, вам слово
-Да, спасибо. так вот, в тот год мы были хэдлайнерами Евровидения...
-Подожди, не припомню, это в каком году было? Когда я выгнал всю Металлику? или когда я учил весь Биг 4 играть на гитаре?
-неее, Дейв, ты путаешь, это был год когда я впервые стал абсолютным чемпионом Земли по всем стилям карате

Бля,вот такую бы передачу организовать, ветра было бы - все кальянные обзавидывались