105.5 WDHA Talks With Ace Frehley - PART 3 - video Dailymotion

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105.5 WDHA's Terrie Carr talks with Ace Frehley and Steve Brown.

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00:00We are back live in our WDHA Miller Lite Studios with the one and only.

00:04And everybody missed all those stories we just talked about.

00:07We were just telling some great stories off the...

00:09Well, we were talking about Anton Figg and your love for just hearing his drumming.

00:15And you said that originally there was somebody else on 10,000 volts.

00:18But in your mind, Ace, you heard Anton and you were like, you know what?

00:22I got to call him.

00:23Well, I know it was a special song.

00:23Yeah, yeah.

00:24And I said to Steve, you know, let's get the best drummer in the world as far as I'm concerned.

00:31And we gave it to Anton.

00:32And, you know, what was it?

00:34The eighth take?

00:35Yep.

00:36Take eight.

00:36He goes, take eight.

00:37On that video.

00:38It's on social media.

00:39I saw it.

00:40I saw it on Insta.

00:42It was magic.

00:44You know, and again, we had Joey Quesada, who's our drummer with the Eric and CJ and I.

00:48He's a great drummer too.

00:48And Trickster and Eric Martin.

00:49Take away from him.

00:50And Joey played on half the record.

00:52But there are certain things where Anton and Ace have such a chemistry.

00:55You know, Ace is the guy who discovered Anton Figg back when Anton was in the band Spider.

01:00And there's something about the way Anton plays.

01:03They don't even have to.

01:04Ace just goes, Anton, do your thing.

01:07And Anton knows exactly what to do to make the song.

01:11Yeah, we played so many.

01:12He recorded, what, four or five albums together?

01:15Yeah.

01:16Yeah.

01:16He was in Kiss for one day.

01:18Yeah.

01:18Right.

01:19I remember reading that, you know.

01:21Oh, are we live again?

01:23Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:24Yeah.

01:24When they decided to let Peter go because of, you know, what issues he was having, be that

01:31as it may, they knew I was working with Anton on my demos.

01:36And also, he played on all the tracks on my solo albums with New York Group.

01:42So, they said to me, why don't we get, I said, why don't we have Anton take over Peter's job

01:49since he was, so, you know, really want to make a change.

01:54So, they looked at me and they said, sure.

01:56So, I called up Anton, I said, you're in Kiss.

02:00He goes, are you kidding?

02:02I go, yeah.

02:03Paul and Jean just agreed to have you join Kiss.

02:07Then the next day, they called me up and they said, you know, we've been doing some thinking

02:11and we know that you and Anton left to party together.

02:14Oh.

02:16So, they said, that might be a little too much.

02:19So, he was out.

02:20Did you tell him?

02:20They said, we're going to do auditions.

02:23And then we ended up getting out of a car.

02:25Yeah.

02:26Did you have to call him and tell him that, Ace?

02:28I had to call him.

02:28You had to call him.

02:29And give me the bad news.

02:30I don't know how many people he called.

02:33Well, Anton also, you know, Anton played on Dynasty.

02:36He played on Dynasty.

02:37Yes, yes.

02:37And he played drums on Unmask.

02:38Yep.

02:39So, he's done well for himself.

02:41But we love Anton.

02:42And one of the coolest things about the Anton thing was when we were talking about getting

02:45Anton, we were at my house and I just made grilled chicken and asparagus for me and Ace.

02:51And just so you know, Ace likes a lot of butter on his vegetables and his chicken.

02:55So, he goes, Steve, give me more butter.

02:57And I go, dude, we got to call Anton.

03:00So, Ace calls Anton, leaves a message.

03:03I kid you not, two minutes later, the phone rings and it's just the three of us in my kitchen.

03:07Well, the two of us, the phone rings.

03:09Hey, Ace, it's Anton.

03:10And on speakerphone and I'm sitting there and again, little fanboy moment.

03:15I'm like the eight-year-old kid in me is like, you got to be kidding me.

03:18And they're talking about, hey, Ace goes, hey, Anton, I want you to meet Steve.

03:22Here he is.

03:22He's on the phone.

03:23He wants you to play on the record.

03:25And we got this great, and it was just surreal for me in one of those moments.

03:29Surreal.

03:29And you know, everybody knows Anton because even if you don't know everything that he's

03:33played on, I mean, he was in the late night with Letterman Band for so many years.

03:36And you've seen him and you know him.

03:38And I mean, he's just such a part, such an iconic part.

03:41And I love those musicians, those working musicians who are an iconic part of everything.

03:45And yet everybody may not know who they are.

03:48So, I mean, I just think it's so special when I saw that he was on.

03:51I keep forgetting, you know, I'm so old.

03:52And when I talk to people, I expect them to know the stuff I know.

03:56I was talking to Lars Kiz and we were watching The Wizard of Oz.

04:00And I said, you know, the guy in the Beverly Hillbillies, he was originally going to be

04:05the Tin Man, but he had an allergic reaction to the silver makeup.

04:09And they go, who's the Beverly Hillbillies?

04:11I'm surprised they knew The Wizard of Oz.

04:13I've never seen that show.

04:15You know, I keep forgetting the generation gap, but it was cute.

04:18Because Ace, you're like a 19-year-old guy now.

04:22Yeah.

04:22You know.

04:23He still is.

04:24I'm on a plane now and like, I'll ask a stewardess who doesn't know who I am.

04:28How old do you think I am?

04:29And she'll go 55.

04:31There you go.

04:33I have to pull out my license, you know.

04:35That's so funny.

04:36I'm a little older than that.

04:37That is so funny.

04:38You're 25 for life, man.

04:39So I'm a little kid.

04:40Music keeps you young.

04:42I'm convinced of that.

04:43All right.

04:43I'm going to take another quick break and then we'll come back.

04:47And I'm going to do a couple of listener questions and play some more tunes in.

04:51Because there's some good questions here.

04:53Otis hit me up and Debbie D's in Philadelphia and Michael.

04:58So chatting a little bit more.

05:00I want to talk also about Don't Let Me Forget the Carteret Pack Show.

05:03Yes.

05:04Because that's coming up.

05:04So I want to promote that.

05:05I want to talk about that a little more as we are hanging out with the iconic, the legendary,

05:09the one and only Ace Frehley live in the WDHA studio.

05:11That's the same thing.

05:17That's the same thing.

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