Apparently, even the Space Ace needs an occasional boost. When Ace Frehley began work on his latest solo record, the results, he admits, didn’t exactly put him over the moon.
“I REMEMBER COMING out of the studio, which is in my basement,” Ace tells Guitar Player.
“And I said to my fiancée, Lara, ‘The stuff that I’m recording is not knocking me out.’”
Fortunately for Ace, she had a suggestion at the ready: Call Steve Brown, former guitarist for Trixter and a huge Frehley fan. “She had been after me to work with Steve because she was a big fan of Trixter and was good friends with him,” Ace relates. “So she goes, ‘Do me a favor: Please call Steve Brown, because he’s a great songwriter, great guitar player, great person, great singer.’”
Ace took her advice, and the results can now be heard on (MNRK Heavy), his new album, co-produced and, partly, co-written with Brown. The title is an apt one. The record is Ace’s most powerful
