Guitarist noted at a given moment that it would work better if he developed his compositions alone
Ace Frehley has no problem exposing the bad situations that lived with the Kiss. The guitarist, who left the already closed group in the early 2000s, claims that the leaders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons They were controllers in the studio.
Recordings of a classic album represent the highlight of this problem. In particular, the arrival of a famous producer catalyzed the situation.
The musician talked to the magazine Goldmine about the experience brought by his 1978 solo album, from that moment, Frehley He realized that working alone could work better than his colleagues.
He recalls:
After the success of my solo album, it was clear to me. I realized that it was more creative far from those guys because they are controllers and like things the way they want. I don’t like to record the way they record. Sometimes they made 20, 25 takes of the same song and I said, ‘We’re kicking dead dogs here’. ”
The practice became even more recurring when the band first worked with Bob Ezrin – Notorious for commanding the recordings of Alice Cooper and Pink Floyd and others – on the album Destroyer (1976). The producer was better with the method of Stanley and Simmons.
Frehley comments:
This happened with Bob Ezrin working in Destroyer. If I’m working with a drummer, it’s just me and the drummer. If I can’t get it right at 3, 4, at most 5 takes, I’ll say, ‘Let’s try something else.’ After 5, 6, 7 takes, you start to lose spontaneity and get bored. Making 25 takes of a song is completely absurd. ”
The guitarist guarantees to have tasted his point in one of the songs of his own Destroyer. At the time, instead of insisting on several attempts, the band chose to shelve the idea and start the next day. It worked, according to Ace.
I don’t remember what song it was, but it was in one of the songs of Destroyer. I said to Paul and Gene: ‘Listen, why don’t we set it aside now and we try something else? We can come to the studio tomorrow and try again ‘. And behold, we went to the studio the next day and we did it in 2 or 3 takes because we knew the music, we knew what the obstacles and the mistakes we made were. We ended with spontaneity. ”
Kiss, Destroyer and Bob Ezrin
Fourth studio album of Kiss, Destroyer He was responsible for putting the band on a level above. After three little records, the success came with the live Alive! (1975). Bob Ezrin It was brought to ensure that the group continued in an upward career movement.
Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons would then describe the experience of recording with Ezrin As a “musical military camp”, with whistle hanging around the producer’s neck and music theory classes. The situation left Ace Frehley and the drummer Peter Criss Annoyed, as both preferred to work more relaxed.
Fact is that Destroyer became one of the greatest successes of Kisswith singles like “Detroit Rock City”, “Shout It Out Loud” and the ballad “Beth”. Ezrin again produced the group in two other very distinct moments: the controversial Music from ‘The Elder’ (1981), which marked the first farewell to Frehleyand the heavy Revenge(1992), very different discs from each other.
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Collaborated: André Luiz Fernandes.
Source: Rollingstone
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