In 2013, Richie Scarlet toured with a band Frehley’s Vomit. In 2014, Regan and Howarth reunited in the band Four By Fate. The band played various one-off reunion shows in 2017 and 2018 with Frehley, Tod Howarth, John Regan, and Anton Fig together. As semi-tribute band, Return of the Comet…
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Frehley put his solo career on hold to rejoin Kiss in 1996. He has since resumed his solo career with Richie Scarlet back in his touring band. After touring Australia together with Gene Simmons and his solo band in 2018, Frehley fired his entire solo band including Scarlet with whom…
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In 1989, for Trouble Walkin’, his third studio release (produced by Eddie Kramer), Frehley dropped the Frehley’s Comet name. The name change was partially due to concert promoters referring to the band as “Ace Frehley’s Comet”. Tod Howarth was replaced by a returning Richie Scarlet, and Jamie Oldaker by ex-…
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Two studio albums and one live album were released under the “Comet” moniker ( Live+1 featured four songs performed live in concert and one original studio song). The last show under the Frehley’s Comet name was in August 1988, opening for Iron Maiden , and Howarth and Oldaker left before…
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Frehley’s Comet was supposed to simply be the title of Frehley’s next solo album, but Frehley decided to use that as the name of the band rather than release the record as a solo artist. Fig did not tour for the album and was replaced by Billy Ward as touring…
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In November 1986 Frehley signed a six-album deal with Megaforce Records . Sabino and Regan had left the band at that point but Regan returned from touring with John Waite and Patti Smith after the recording deal was signed. In December 1986, before they made their initial record, with producer…
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In May 1985, Frehley’s friend from the Bronx , Rob Sabino , who also produced one of Scarlet’s solo albums in 1984, replaced Stead (who went on to join Public Enemy ) on keyboards. British label Bronze Records reportedly offered the band a deal in the summer of 1985 but…
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During this time Ace put together a band for his solo work, the original lineup consisted of Richie Scarlet on guitar, John Regan on bass, Regan’s Peter Frampton bandmate Arthur Stead on keyboards, and former Kiss and Spider drummer Anton Fig . This band played live for the first time…
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Before forming a band for his post-Kiss career, Frehley had previously released a solo album in 1978 which was the most successful of the Kiss solo albums, and laid the groundwork for his solo career. Frehley left Kiss in 1982, but retained a one-quarter share in Kiss and could not…
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