Ace Frehley‘s demise turned the rock ‘n’ roll world the wrong way up. The 74-year-old KISS co-founder and lead guitarist died after falling at house in October 2025, his household confirmed. As fellow musicians and friends preserve his reminiscence alive, Hollywood Life has compiled a couple of of the tributes devoted to Ace, together with from his former KISS bandmates.
KISS: Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley
Ace’s KISS bandmates Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley launched a joint public assertion, obtained by Selection, which learn, “We’re devastated by the passing of Ace Frehley. He was a vital and irreplaceable rock soldier throughout a few of the most formative foundational chapters of the band and its historical past. He’s and can all the time be part of Kiss’s legacy. Our ideas are with Jeanette, Monique and all those that beloved him, together with our followers all over the world.”
Paul Stanley
I keep in mind 1974 being in my room on the Hyatt on Sundown in LA and I heard somebody enjoying deep and fiery guitar within the room subsequent door. I believed “Boy, I want THAT man was within the band!” I appeared over the balcony… He was. It was Ace. That is my favourite photograph of us… pic.twitter.com/3ojMXqVkQr
— Paul Stanley (@PaulStanleyLive) October 17, 2025
Paul wrote a separate tribute to his late bandmate in an X put up alongside a black-and-white photograph that featured Ace.
“I keep in mind 1974 being in my room on the Hyatt on Sundown in L.A., and I heard somebody enjoying deep and fiery guitar within the room subsequent door,” Paul tweeted. “I believed ‘Boy, I want THAT man was within the band!’ I appeared over the balcony… He was. It was Ace. That is my favourite photograph of us…”
Peter Criss
I am shocked!!!
My good friend… I like you!#KissArmy #AceFrehley #Kiss#Spaceman😿😿😿😿😿😿 pic.twitter.com/8CfPJKY5aQ
— Peter Criss (@RealPeterCriss) October 16, 2025
Fellow KISS member Peter Criss additionally tweeted an previous photograph alongside the caption, “I’m shocked!!! My good friend… I like you! #KissArmy #AceFrehley #Kiss #Spaceman.”
Pearl Jam
Ace Frehley, Eddie, Me in awe…
📸: Danny ClinchI heard about Ace Frehley‘s passing from Rick Friel who I performed with in a band referred to as Shadow. Rick was additionally the primary man on the bus in 1977 with a KISS lunchbox to inform me about Ace…simply modified my life. I bought a guitar in 1978… pic.twitter.com/0oULzn0A5H
— Pearl Jam (@PearlJam) October 16, 2025
Mike McCready of Pearl Jam penned a touching tribute by way of X, calling the late KISS co-founder his “hero.”
“I heard about Ace Frehley‘s passing from Rick Friel who I performed with in a band referred to as Shadow,” Mike started. “Rick was additionally the primary man on the bus in 1977 with a KISS lunchbox to inform me about Ace…simply modified my life. I bought a guitar in 1978 to hitch Rick‘s band Warrior which became Shadow. We coated ‘C’mon and Love Me.’ All my associates have spent untold hours speaking about KISS and shopping for KISS stuff. Ace was a hero of mine and likewise I’d contemplate a good friend. I studied his solos endlessly through the years… Simply hearken to ‘Alive,’ I used his solo from ‘She’ as a template. Ace jammed on ‘Black Diamond’ with Pearl Jam at Madison Sq. Backyard…a dream come true for me. I’d not have picked up a guitar with out Ace and KISS’s affect. RIP it out Ace, you modified my life. Thanks. – Mike.”
