Members Of ACE FREHLEY's Solo Band Announce September 2026 Australian Tour Celebrating Late KISS Legend
Архив новостей | Русская версия
The four musicians Ace Frehley handpicked for his Australian tour in 2018 — Philip Shouse on bass, Ryan Spencer Cook on guitar/vocals, Jeremy Asbrock on guitar/vocals, and Christopher Williams on drums. — are returning to the country where it all began, this time to honor the legendary original KISS guitarist himself. They will perform Frehley's 1978 solo album in full, along with KISS classics, FREHLEY'S COMET anthems, other Ace solo songs and the deep cuts for the diehards. Support on the trek will come from KISS KLASSIC, Adelaide's elite collective, assembled only for occasions of this scale with deep-rooted connections to the KISS universe (they have played with both Bruce Kulick and Paul Stanley),playing a carefully curated set of Ace deep cuts. Also appearing on the bill will be KISSIT, one of Australia's most respected KISS tributes from Brisbane, playing a 1982-1992 set.
Australian tour dates:
Sep. 11 - Perth - Rosemount
Sep. 12 - Adelaide - Lion Arts Factory
Sep. 17 - Brisbane - Crowbar
Sep. 18 - Sydney - Crowbar
Sep. 19 - Melbourne - Max Watts
Shouse, Cook, Asbrock and Williams will also play a Frehley tribute set on April 17 at Eastside Bowl in Madison, Tennessee.
In 2018, Asbrock, Cook, Shouse and Williams performed with KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons as the GENE SIMMONS BAND. The foursome were then invited to join Ace's band as Simmons was scheduled to return to KISS to prepare for the "End Of The Road" tour. Asbrock, Cook and Shouse accepted the invitation, but Willams could not do so due to a prior commitment with the German metal band ACCEPT.
"Gene [told Ace], 'If it's okay with them, it's okay with me,'" Asbrock, who played with Frehley for seven years, recalled in an October 2025 interview with Rolling Stone. "Later on, Gene pulled me into his dressing room, and the KISS Kruise was coming up, and he told us that Ace was going to ask us to do the cruise. Then we went to Japan from there with Ace and he asked us to be the band. I joined in September of 2018, so I've held the guitar-player position longer than any musician he's had, consecutively."
Shouse, who played bass in Frehley's solo band from 2018 to 2022 until he took a full-time gig as the guitar player in ACCEPT, told Rolling Stone about the KISS guitar legend: "Ace taught me how to play lead guitar. I was taking guitar lessons and learning the scales, but nothing sounded like music to me. It never made sense until I heard Ace, and that was in 10th grade. When I heard his solos, it all clicked."
Frehley passed away last October at the age of 74. The founding KISS guitarist died of blunt-trauma injuries to his head due to a fall, the Morris County Medical Examiner confirmed in a report. The manner of death was ruled an accident.
According to the report, a CT scan of Frehley's head revealed multiple contusions, bone fractures to the back of his skull, hemorrhages, and a subdural hematoma (the type of bleeding that occurs in a person's brain after a head injury). Additional bruises were found on the musician's hip, thigh, and abdomen. The report also noted that Frehley had suffered a stroke.
A separate toxicology report on Frehley's blood at the time of his death has not yet been released.
Frehley's longtime manager John Ostrosky confirmed to the New York Post that the late KISS icon was laid to rest at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York.
The legendary musician was buried on October 22 following a private memorial on October 21 at Sinatra Memorial Home in Yonkers, New York.
(Source: www.blabbermouth.net)
