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ACE FREHLEY!
As weird as it seems now, the beginning of our relationship with Ace and the band had an incredible "rocky start"! The first time I ever heard of the name "KISS" was when I was walking through Strings and Things one night after closing and noticed that there were these bumper stickers with the name KISS on 'em stuck all over everything. I ask one of the salesmen "Who the heck is KISS?" and he said they were in the store earlier and that they were playing down at the Ritz, a local rock club. He told me they did some kind of weird act and wore some make up. Well, the rest is history and I guess you'd have to say their act worked!
It was a few years later when they came back in Strings and Things and they had hit the big time. In walked Paul Stanley and Ace Frehley with a limo driver and a bodyguard the size of Godzilla. One of the shop guys suggested that I get some pictures of them because they didn't have their make up on and supposedly there had never been any photos of them published without make up on. "Great!" I said, and I grabbed my camera and headed to the show floor. I stood across the drop and raised my camera for the big shoot when all of a sudden Godzilla starts heading straight for me screaming "put that camera up before I stick it up your !&?ft$%!! (along with a few other choice words).

I proceeded to tell him to "get out of the store before I call the police" and then I had a few choice words for him. About that time, Paul Stanley jumped in and asked everybody to calm down and asked me if I would please put the camera up. He was so nice about it that I immediately put the camera up and we've been friends ever since. They hung with us all afternoon just messin' around with guitars and telling us what all they and the rest of the band had been up to. Their tour was kickin' and the crowds were huge!

Wait! There's More ...  
See Ace Frehley's Customized
"Double Cutaway" Les Paul

Read about Ace's "Smoke Bomb" Guitar
and the night they almost missed the show!
Ace's Custom Axe (and the rest of the story)

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