The guitarist noticed at a given moment that he would have worked better if he developed his compositions alone
Ace Frehley has no problems exposing the bad situations that lived with the Kiss. The guitarist, who left the group already closed in the early 2000s, says that leaders Paul Stanley AND Simmons Gene They were controller in the studio.
The recordings of a classic album represent the highlight of this problem. In particular, the arrival of a famous producer catalyzed the situation.
The musician spoke with the magazine Gold mine on the experience brought by his 1978 solo album, from that moment, Frehley He realized that working alone could work better than his colleagues.
Remember:
After the success of my solo album, it was clear to me. I realized that he was more creative away from those guys because they are controllers and likes things as they want. I don’t like to record the way they record. Sometimes they did 20, 25 shots of the same song and I said: “We are calculating the dead dogs here”.
The practice became even more recurrent when the band worked for the first time Bob Ezrin – Notorious to command the recordings of Alice Cooper AND Pink Floyd and others – on the album Destroyer (1976). The manufacturer was better with the method of Stanley AND Simmons.
Frehley Comments:
This happened with Bob Ezrin work Destroyer. If I am working with a drummer, it is just me and the drummer. If I can’t take it well at 3, 4, at most 5, I will say: “Let’s try something else”. After 5, 6, 7 filming, you start losing spontaneity and bored. Making 25 filming of a song is completely absurd.
The guitarist guarantees that he has tasted his point in one of his songs Destroyer. At the time, instead of insisting on several attempts, the band chose to set aside the idea and start the next day. It worked, second Ace.
I don’t remember which song it was, but it was in one of the songs of Destroyer. I said to Paolo AND Gene: ‘Listen, why don’t we put it aside and try something else? We can come to the studio tomorrow and try again ‘. And here, we went to the studio the next day and did it in 2 or 3 shooting because we knew the music, we knew what were the obstacles and errors we made. We have finished spontaneity. ”
Kiss, Destroyer and Bob Ezrin
Fourth studio album of Kiss, Destroyer He was responsible for putting the band at a level above. After three small records, the success came with the live Live! (1975). Bob Ezrin It was brought to ensure that the group continued in a career movement upwards.
Paul Stanley AND Simmons Gene would therefore describe the experience of registration with Ezrin Like a “military musical field”, with a whistle hanging on the producer’s neck and music theory lessons. The remaining situation Ace Frehley and the drummer Peter Criss Annoyed, as they both preferred to work more relaxed.
The fact is that Destroyer it became one of the greatest successes of Kisswith singles like “Detroit Rock City”, “Shout it aloud” and the ballad “Beth”. Ezrin Again he produced the group in two other very distinct moments: the controversial “The Elder” music (1981), which marked the first farewell to Frehleyand the heavy Vendetta(1992), very different records from each other.
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Source: Terra
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