NAMM 2012 PRESS RELEASE: Gibson Custom, a division of Gibson Guitar, today announced the release of the Signature Series Ace Frehley Budokan Les Paul. For the new recreation of this one-of-a-kind instrument, Gibson Custom worked directly with the current

01/27/2012. Ace Frehley band guitarist Todd Youth is the featured guest on episode of the Talking Metal podcast. Todd is currently in the Ace Frehley band and is an ex-member of Danzig, Murphy's Law, Glen Campbell's band, D'Generation and Chrome Locus

Welcome to Dissected, where we disassemble a band’s catalog in the abstract. It’s exact science by way of a few beers. In his 2006 review of The Doors: Perception box set, Pitchfork’s Stuart Berman wrote, “The Doors aren’t so much a band as a phase you g

Ace Frehley may not be sharing the stage with Paul Stanley and the other original members of Kiss anymore, but thanks to a pair of new custom guitars being produced by Washburn and Les Paul, you can relive your memories of the band’s glory days with some

When KISS hit the stage at Nippon Budokan in Japan in 1977 with guitarist Ace Frehley behind a Cherry Sunburst, three-pickup Les Paul Custom, the entire package — band, guitarist, guitar — embodied the height of glam-rock excess and success for the '70s.

It is the dream of Kiss tribute bands all over the planet – and Lord knows they are legion: This week 20 semi-finalists have made the cut in an official international Kiss tribute band contest , including Montreal’s very own KISSed. A public vote that en