Ace Frehley Got a ‘F— You’ but No Apology From Paul Stanley

Ace Frehley mentioned he heard from Paul Stanley shortly after demanding an apology from his former Kiss bandmate final week — but all he acquired was a “Fuck you” throughout a five-second cellphone name.

As promised final week, Frehley returned to Eddie Trunk’s Trunk Nation immediately to supply an replace on his ongoing disagreement with Stanley and Gene Simmons. The Spaceman beforehand threatened to air “some dirt” on his ex-colleagues if Stanley didn’t apologize inside a week for the disparaging remarks he made throughout a latest Howard Stern interview.

When requested if Stanley contacted him, Frehley mentioned, “Yes, he did, not long after the show was over. I was blindsided by the phone call. … But instead of an apology, I got a five-second phone call which said, ‘Fuck you, Ace. I’m not going to apologize,’ and hung up. … He wasn’t even man enough to let me give a rebuttal and explain why I’m so upset or anything like that.”

Frehley mentioned he has been in contact with Kiss supervisor Doc Mcghee “at least three or four times” because the cellphone name. “I told Doc McGhee this whole story, and you know what he came back with? He said, ‘Paul said he never called you.'” The guitarist additionally despatched screenshots of his cellphone name log to Trunk to substantiate the dialog happened, which Trunk verified.

Despite not receiving his apology, Frehley opted to not air any dust on his former bandmates in spite of everything.

“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 going to sink to their level?'” Frehley mentioned. “So then I came to the realization that I don’t even have to bring up anything that I have hidden away in my attorney’s safety deposit box. I can just talk about things that they’ve said about me in black and white. They can’t come after me after that because they said it. It’s in black and white.”

Frehley’s present feud together with his ex-bandmates erupted final month when Kiss appeared on The Howard Stern Show. When the radio veteran requested why Stanley and Simmons refused to play alongside fellow founding members Frehley and Peter Criss on the band’s 2014 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, Stanley replied, “Because if you saw people onstage who looked like Kiss but sounded like that, maybe we should be called Piss.”

Frehley responded to those feedback throughout final week’s Trunk Nation look and reiterated a lot of his factors throughout immediately’s follow-up name. “Those guys have been bad-mouthing me since I quit the very first time in 1981, 1982,” he mentioned. “Calling me a drug addict, calling me an alcoholic, saying I’m unemployable, I’m undependable.”

The guitarist moreover famous that he is maintained a multi-decade solo profession, has been sober for almost 20 years and has launched extra new music in that point than his previous band. He then issued an ultimatum to Stanley.

“I’m going to make a statement to Paul Stanley right now… I’m telling you that I want a formal apology for what you said, and a retraction and an apology within seven days,” Frehley declared. “And if I don’t get that within seven days, I’m coming back on Ed Trunk’s show — if you’ll have me, Ed — and I’m going to tell some dirt that nobody knows about Paul and Gene, that I’ve always kept to myself because I’m the kind of guy who doesn’t talk about this. I like to talk about positive stuff.”

Frehley added that he is written a 120-page manuscript detailing Stanley and Simmons’ alleged indiscretions. “My attorney has it in a safety deposit box,” he mentioned. “God forbid anything happens to me, my attorney is instructed to release it to The New York Times, Rolling Stone, API, everybody. So they can’t intimidate me with trying to hurt me or saying, ‘You better not say anything about me live on the radio,’ because then they’re totally screwed. Their careers will be ruined. … Those guys aren’t squeaky clean. You know how many lawsuits girls have had against Gene?”

Despite their ongoing feud, Frehley reiterated throughout his newest Trunk Nation name that he may nonetheless be satisfied to hitch his ex-bandmates onstage at Kiss’ ultimate exhibits at New York’s Madison Square Garden this December — for a value. “Money motivates me, just like it motivates them,” he mentioned. “Look, if I got a quarter of a million dollars a night [for the final two shows] and I can make a half a million dollars for playing three or four songs, five songs, I’d take the money.”