Ace Frehley‘s dying turned the rock ‘n’ roll world the other way up. The 74-year-old KISS co-founder and lead guitarist died after falling at residence in October 2025, his household confirmed. As fellow musicians and friends preserve his reminiscence alive, Hollywood Life has compiled just a few 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 an important and irreplaceable rock soldier throughout among 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 liked him, together with our followers world wide.”
Paul Stanley
I keep in mind 1974 being in my room on the Hyatt on Sundown in LA and I heard somebody taking part in deep and fiery guitar within the room subsequent door. I assumed “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 publish 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 taking part in deep and fiery guitar within the room subsequent door,” Paul tweeted. “I assumed ‘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 buddy… 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 buddy… 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 known 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 acquired a guitar in 1978… pic.twitter.com/0oULzn0A5H
— Pearl Jam (@PearlJam) October 16, 2025
Mike McCready of Pearl Jam penned a touching tribute through 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 known 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 acquired a guitar in 1978 to affix Rick‘s band Warrior which was Shadow. We lined ‘C’mon and Love Me.’ All my mates have spent untold hours speaking about KISS and shopping for KISS stuff. Ace was a hero of mine and likewise I’d contemplate a buddy. I studied his solos endlessly over time… Simply take heed 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.”