“Some nights on stage were extremely surreal,” says rhythm guitarist Jeremy Asbrock, who played with Frehley until his death last week at age 74.
When Ace Frehley played what would be his last show last month, he took the stage next to a rhythm guitarist who had been with him longer than anyone else in his solo bands: the virtuoso of Nashville Jeremy Asbrock. Together, they blasted Kiss classics like “Devil” AND “Cold gin“, hits from his solo career Frehley Pleases “The rhythm of New York” and the enduring anthem of Frehley’s Comet“Rock soldiers“.
Asbrockwho had already played in bands like The Shazam and with Giovanni Corabi before joining the guitarist Astronaut From Kiss in 2018 he was the rock soldier par excellence. Call play with Frehleydied on October 16 at age 74, due to a “dream job” for a superfan of Kiss like him.
“Ace It’s not just my influence. He is the person who paved the way for me when I was four years old. I never wanted to do anything else and he introduced me to all this,” he said Rolling Stone. “Some nights on stage were extremely surreal, especially when he was having a really inspired night: he would get into that position and start doing what only he could do. It was like, ‘Man, there he is. He’s right there, next to me.'”
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Furthermore Asbrock‘s latest solo band Frehley also including the musician of Nashville Ryan Spencer Cook at the bottom and Scott Coogan on the battery. Irony or not, the group was born from the band Gene Simmons. Asbrock says they were playing with the bass player of Kiss on a tour of Australia, in which Frehley it was the opening show, when the guitarist asked Simmons if he could “lend” his musicians.
“Gene said, ‘If it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for me,’” she recalls. Asbrock. “After, Gene He called me into the locker room and told me the cruise Kiss was coming, and that the Ace he would invite us to participate. Afterwards we went to Japan with the Aceand officially named us his band. I joined in September 2018, so I’ve had the guitar role longer, continuously, than any other player I’ve had.”
Also Nashvillian Philip Shouse he played bass in his solo band Frehley between 2018 and 2022, until taking a permanent position in the German metal band Accept. Him, Asbrock AND cooked they are longtime friends and central figures in Nashville’s vibrant rock scene: for years they have organized a weekly event called Your Rock N Roll residencea hard rock showcase with surprise appearances from names like Alice Cooper, Lzzy Hale (from Stormy storm), Robin Zander (from Cheap makeup) and other musicians from the local community.
House says I’m going on tour with Frehley it was an opportunity to see the guitarist’s peculiar sense of humor up close. “He was really funny. Really silly, in the best sense of the word. Sometimes it was like, ‘Wow, he’s really from another planet, right?'” Shouse says. “He had a mannerisms that were unlike anyone I had ever met.”
Just like the friend Asbrock, House credit to Frehley his decision to become a guitarist. “Ace he taught me to play lead guitar. I took lessons and learned scales, but nothing felt like music to me. Nothing made sense until I heard the Ace — he was in my sophomore year of high school,” he says. “When I heard his solos, everything fell into place.”
Asbrock AND House – who also lost his father a few months ago – are still trying to understand the world without “Space ace“. But Asbrock says fans need to know how much Frehley he was a normal guy behind the makeup.
“He was totally human. We had conversations where he was very vulnerable with me – conversations between real people,” she says. “Gene wouldn’t call me to talk about life stuff. AceYES.”
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