GOLDMINE: Ace’s 1978 solo album is always pointed to as the watermark of his career; what makes it a classic album?
I didn’t really know Ace before working with him on that album, and I also didn’t really know much about Kiss either. Kiss was just like an ad on the side of a bus in New York. I knew that they were a huge band, and so when I went up and played with Ace, I knew that I was playing with a big rock star. I didn’t know that he had something to prove with the record with the other guys in Kiss. To me, it was a very heartfelt record. It was just the two of us doing all the basic
