The males of KISS are nonetheless preventing. After founding guitarist Ace Frehley issued a public ultimatum to Paul Stanley, the KISS frontman known as Frehley up and (allegedly) stated: “Fuck you, Ace.”
Let’s first rise up to hurry on what went down: In March, across the time that the band introduced their “final shows ever,” Paul went on The Howard Stern Show and talked about why he and Gene Simmons didn’t carry out when KISS was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2014. (The Rock Hall will solely let members from a band’s first lineup carry out at ceremonies, which might have included Frehley and Peter Criss, who left KISS within the mid-’80s.)
“And at this point, that would be demeaning to the band and would also give some people confusion,” Stanley stated. “‘Cause if you saw people on stage who looked like KISS but sounded like that, maybe we should be called PISS.”
From there, Frehley went on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk and informed Stanley to apologize in seven days or he’ll spill some secret KISS grime. Well, Stanley apparently did name Frehley, however solely to say: “Fuck you, Ace. I’m not gonna apologize.”
As Blabbermouth lays out, the unique KISS guitarist returned to Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk at this time (Wednesday) and talked about how Stanley known as him “not long after the show was over.” He continued:
And I used to be blindsided by the cellphone name as a result of I noticed his title come up on my cellphone. And I spoke to him 100 totally different instances on that quantity, and that may be verified by Verizon, who’s my cellphone service. I figured he was calling me perhaps to apologize or not less than clarify why he stated that. Maybe he meant it actually extra in the direction of Peter [Criss, original KISS drummer] than me, and regardless of the case could also be. But as an alternative of an apology, I obtained a five-second cellphone name which stated, ‘Fuck you, Ace. I’m not gonna apologize,’ and hung up. He wasn’t even man sufficient to let me give a rebuttal and clarify why I’m so upset or something like that… It wasn’t a textual content. It was a cellphone name. And the one motive I picked up it’s as a result of it stated ‘Paul S’. When it involves the blokes, I by no means write their full title [into my phone]. God forbid any individual finds my cellphone. They could not determine that it’s Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, and I might by no means give out their cellphone numbers.
Then, Trunk requested Frehley if he was certain the decision got here from Stanley, to which the guitarist replied:
Absolutely. And I did screengrabs from Verizon on… It’s the identical day as our [previous] interview, and it says [the call lasted] 5 seconds… Some fool on the market would possibly say, ‘Oh, well. Ace is a graphic artist. He’s actually good at Photoshop. He may have in all probability Photoshopped it.’ Well, guess what. It’s nonetheless on the servers, and I’m nonetheless gonna get a invoice from Verizon that’s gonna say a five-second cellphone name from ‘P.S.’, Paul Stanley. And God forbid I sue them for defamation of character, a decide can organize them to tug it off the servers, as a result of it’s nonetheless there.
Apparently Frehley has additionally been in contact with the band’s longtime supervisor Doc McGhee, who denied Stanley had known as. “I told Doc McGhee this whole story, and you know what he came back with? He said, ‘Paul said he never called you,’ number one. Number two, Doc said to me [Paul] uses AT&T — not realizing that it really doesn’t matter if he calls me from Tokyo from [some foreign] cell phone company,” Frehley stated. “My carrier documents every phone call I get. I can’t believe Doc said that to me. I thought he was a little smarter than that when it came to cell phones.”
Frehley added that he “would have been happy if Paul had just called me one on one like a man and apologized. That would have sufficed. But after cursing me out on the phone, the gloves are off… And I’ve known Paul for almost 50 years, and we’ve always had a really good rapport on the cell phone. But I recognized his voice. If you know somebody 50 years, you know their voice. I would never lie about something like that, and I can prove it. We’re living in a world with technology that has footprints.”
As for his risk to launch a “120-page manuscript” that might “ruin” Stanley and Simmons’ careers, Frehley has determined to not go that route in any case.
“I spoke to several good friends of mine who are God-fearing people and I go to AA [alcoholics anonymous] meetings with, and they said, ‘Don’t ever sink to their level. That’s what they do. That’s what they’ve been doing for years. Why are you goonna sink to their level?’” he stated. “So, then I got here to the conclusion that I don’t even need to carry up something that I’ve hidden away in my legal professional’s secure deposit field. I can simply discuss issues that they’ve stated about me in black and white. They can’t come after me after that as a result of they stated it — it’s in black and white.
Still, Frehley, who has reunited with KISS up to now, most just lately on the 2018 KISS KRUISE, admitted that he would carry out with KISS on the band’s closing exhibits in December if requested. “Money motivates me, just like it motivates them,” he stated. “But I don’t put money before God. If I got a quarter of a million dollars a night, and I can make half a million dollars for playing three or four songs, five songs, I’d take the money. [I’d] buy a Ferrari… buy a Maserati. [Laughs] I don’t really wanna play with those guys ever again after what they’ve done, but money can change my mind.”