And this is an exact copy of my 1959 Les Paul.
Well they they gave me 12.
I used to have 150.
They're colorized.
Hey everyone, I'm Katie Daryl
and today we are with Ace Frehley of KISS.
How are you Ace?
Hi, Katie.
It's a pleasure to be here on AXS TV.
Let's go ahead and play,
we do a game here it's called Rock & Tell.
It is like show and tell,
but with rock memorabilia.
What can you show us today?
Well this is my favorite Les Paul
and this is an exact copy of my 1959 Les Paul
that I bought.
Can you hold it up a little bit higher for us?
And this one was made by the custom shopping
Gibson custom shop and if you look at it,
you can see that it's aged.
And they age the guitars and
they make the - everything's nickel silver,
but it looks old.
Right.
You look at the back you see scratches here
And is this your favorite guitar?
Well they they gave me 12.
Whoa.
It's nice to be you.
I was in Vegas with my girlfriend
and we came home and there was 12 Les Pauls
in my lobby of our penthouse and
I opened them up and I lined them all up
and took pictures of them.
Wow. I played them all and this
was the best sounding one.
A lot of them, I sold a bunch of them.
Peoople put give me fifty thousand dollars
a piece for them.
Wow.
I just sold a guitar the other day
and I took the money and I'm buying a Jaguar
and I'm going to Kentucky this weekend
to pick it up.
Isn't that nice just toss a couple on eBay.
I have like 75 guitars so I mean,
one guitar less here or there.
What would you rather have,
a double neck or a Jaguar XK 2015?
Which is the last year they made it
in mint condition.
Well it's funny we - I did an interview
like this with Bruce Kulick and
he had all his guitars laid out
and it was it was like a maze.
I mean truly there were so many,
he was stepping over them.
I mean there's an abundance of
guitar wealth in his house.
Yeah I used to have 150.
That was about my limit.
Then when I left KISS,
I sold a lot of them because
there were some lean years there
before I started touring and
put together Frehley's Comet,
but right now I have about 75.
Hey - that's about about 74 more than me.
But all right, let's continue.
There's about 10 that I use,
I use repeatedly.
I use for recording, my favorites.
Sure, sure, sure,
the the sound you can trust, right?
Yeah.
What else do you have?
I know you were showing us your,
the cup that your girlfriend made for you.
Do you have any other Rock & Tell items?
I've had about six studios,
every time I move some place,
I build a home studio,
whether it be in a spare bedroom
or basement or whatever,
but I always hang this above the toilet.
That's nice.
So it's kind of a vintage picture
of girls that's been colorized in bathing suits.
So when it's above the toilet so
when guys are taking a leak they
can stare at this picture and
do something, do whatever they want,
I don't know.
Yeah, your bathroom decor,
I love it, but all right.
Well thank you Ace.
I really appreciate you hanging out with me.
Make sure you watch The Top Ten Revealed
to see the destination list song
and good luck with the album.
I'm really looking forward to it coming out.
Thank you so much.
Tt was great talking to you.
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