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Ace Frehley has been kicked out of Kiss for several years now.
Or let's put it this way, after Kiss's commercial records, Ace preferred to leave.
Better to get smashed on whiskey than to get bored to death.
And so in 1984, he founded his first band, Frehley's Comet.
He takes it easy and it takes a good 3 years to release the first album, and I imagine Ace in recording studios amidst drugs, alcohol, and all sorts of shenanigans.
Ace is like that. I realize that Kiss is either loved or hated, but Ace is not up for debate.
The rocker who influenced generations of guitarists with melodic and repetitive solos that can't help but stick in your ears.
And here is the vinyl spinning. Actually, let's put the needle directly on the last track “Fractured Too”.
An instrumental piece that is so simple yet pleasant at the same time. The classical guitar looping in these over 3 minutes. While the electric guitar, with tiny strokes, gradually causes cracks and crevices and makes its way without force in this cyclical whirlwind.
This piece alone would earn a 4 for the album, but there's more because you can feel a certain energy.
It's a pity for the album's opening track, not for the music itself but for the truly banal vocals. But here is the second track, Breakout, where the true soul of this work begins, with a gritty voice, driving bass and drums, and a solo that demonstrates all of Axeman's compositional abilities.
And so on with all the other tracks, which overall still float.
But the gem of this album, beyond the goosebumps-inducing finale, is the track "Calling to You," a song that can be listened to and replayed multiple times because it has a modern structure even though 30 years have passed. No kidding, the sung arpeggio that launches the solo is pure genius.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Rock Soldiers (05:06)
It was back in the summer of '83
There's a reason I remember it well
I was slipping and sliding, drinkin' and drivin'
Bringin' me closer to Hell
And the Devil sat in the passenger's side
Of Delorean's automobile
He said: Hey Frehley, Frehley let's not be silly
There's a life out there to steal
Rock soldiers come
And rock soldiers go
And some hear the drum
And some never know
Rock soldiers! How do we know?
Ace is back and he told you so.
With a trooper in the mirror
and Satan on my right
We went the wrong way down a one way road
Hitting everything in sight
I cried "I am invincible"
Said I was high above the law
But my only high was just a lie
And now I'm glad I saw
Rock soldiers come
And rock soldiers go
And some hear the drum
And some never know
Rock soldiers! How do we know?
Ace is back and he told you so
Calling rock soldiers
You! Rock soldiers
Calling rock soldiers
Hard rock soldiers
Friends say they'll stay with you
Right through that danger zone
But the closer you get to that fiery hole
You'll have to make it alone
When I think of how my life was spared
From that near fatal wreck
If the Devil wants to play his card game now
He's gonna have ot play without an Ace in his deck!!
Rock soldiers come
And rock soldiers go
And some hear the drum
And some never know
Rock soldiers! How do we know?
Ace is back and he told you so
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