Former KISS guitarist Ace Frehley will release his new solo album, “10,000 Volts,” on Feb. 23. Co-written by Trixter guitarist Steve Brown, Frehley calls it “probably the best record I’ve ever recorded.”
Frehley has stayed busy on the road in recent years, but he hasn’t toured Europe. In a new interview with Chaoszine, the guitarist revealed the reason he hasn’t been able to cross the pond.
“Well, there’s a good chance I can make it to Europe in late summer if I get my passport renewed,” Frehley said. “I’ve been having issues with renewing my passport because I have some problems with the IRS, and it’s not really the passport bureau but the IRS. Since I owe the IRS a couple of hundred grand, and they just instituted a new law that if you owe more than $50,000, they won’t renew your passport.”
Frehley hopes for a resolution soon so he can take part in the festival circuit this summer.
“Luckily, I have some really smart attorneys working on it, and there are ways around it, so hopefully I might be able to get my passport within two or three weeks,” he continued. “If that happens, I will be in Europe this summer. If it doesn’t happen, I will be in Europe next summer. But I’d love it to be this summer because it’s been too long since I did all the festivals there.”
Frehley also commented on his former bandmate Paul Stanley dissing him in an interview last year with Howard Stern.
“I don’t really understand what happened six or seven to eight months ago when Paul and Gene were in the midst of the “End of the Road” tour,” Frehley said. “They were saying really nice things about Peter and Bruce Kulick and me. They were saying, ‘We called Ace, we called Peter, and they’re going to be on stage with us and play a few final songs,’ you know, ‘brotherhood’ and all that bullsh*t. And then, the last month, once the show was sold out and they didn’t need our help to sell out any more tickets, Paul Stanley went on the Howard Stern show and said, ‘Well, if Ace and Peter got up on stage with us, you might as well call the band Piss.’ That was completely opposite from what he was saying 6-7 months ago, and I don’t know why he said it, but it pissed me off, and after hearing that, I decided I wasn’t going there. Even if he had invited me and given me a personal invitation after he had hit us below the belt with that comment, I would not have gone there. You know, I can play rings around Paul Stanley on guitar. I can even sing better than him and don’t have to use backing tracks.”
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