Ever since Ace Frehley left the band Kiss in 1981 there have been curse words said about him by his former bandmates and Ace has said some things to. He rejoined in the mid ’90s only to leave again a few years later. The war of words continues as Paul Stanley was on Howard Stern (yes he’s still a thing) when Howard asked Paul about why Ace and former drummer Peter Criss weren’t invited to play with them at their Hall of Fame induction in 2014, “Because if you saw people onstage who looked like KISS but sounded like that, maybe we should be called Piss.”
Frehley struck back today during an interview on SiriusXM with Eddie Trunk saying, “Those guys have been badmouthing me since I quit the very first time in 1981, 1982, calling me a drug addict, calling me an alcoholic, saying I’m unemployable, I’m undependable…
“I’m going to make a statement to Paul Stanley right now… I’m telling you that I want a formal apology for what you said, and a retraction and an apology within seven days. And if I don’t get that within seven days I’m going to tell some dirt that nobody knows about Paul and Gene, that I’ve always kept to myself because I’m the kind of guy who doesn’t talk about this. I like to talk about positive stuff…
“My attorney has [a 120-page manuscript detailing unspecified misdeeds by Stanley and Simmons] in a safety deposit box. God forbid anything happens to me, my attorney is instructed to release it to The New York Times, Rolling Stone, AP, everybody. So they can’t intimidate me with trying to hurt me or saying ‘you better not say anything about me live on the radio,’ because then they’re totally screwed. Their careers will be ruined. … Those guys aren’t squeaky clean. You know how many lawsuits girls have had against Gene?”
But, despite this, Frehley says he’d still perform with the band at their final shows in New York in December.
“I was actually hoping that maybe they’d invite me to come back for a third time, not because I really wanted to play with them but because we created something really special and I’m the best fit in that band. Always will be. Do you think [guitarist] Tommy Thayer can do what I can do? Impossibility.”
