cool eyes, electric thighs

Ace Frehley live in 1979, taken by Ross Halfin.

rest in power to one of the greatest metal guitarists I've ever seen

Monica Vitti for On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... (Pasquale Festa Campanile, 1967)

hi again 🖤

Happy birthday, C.C.

Rest in peace, Jeff. (November 17, 1966 - May 29, 1997)

The group is KISS. The label is Casablanca. And the ultimate payoff? A staggering $40 million, pure platinum… But there’s more to this than money-making machines and mass-produced music: there’s hard marketing, too. In the case of KISS, each member of the four-man group competes alone with his own solo album. And that’s unheard of in any business other than this. But here’s the bottom line: the KISS versus KISS gimmick is a qualified runaway success. Each album is well passed the million mark, headed for two, maybe even three before it’s over. (x)

Ace Frehley plays Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction for Loudwire. (x)

❝Before you guys came on, they gave me a little sheet on each one of you to read… And the note said, ‘Now Ace seems to be the most laidback of the four. And he’s the one who’ll probably be the hardest to make talk.'❞ – Tom Snyder, The Tomorrow Show

Happy 64th birthday, Ace! (born April 27, 1951)