RIP Ace!

My friend in high school was a huge Kiss fan, and once he and his friends dressed up as Kiss and played a local school for the deaf. The kids loved it, they played loud (of course) and all the kids could dance to the show and vibrations. Good on him.
 
Headache said:
How I always think of Ace


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You can see him smokin it up like that in this clip from my home town way back in '77. Look right around the 32:00-36:40+ mark, Sick azz showmanship for sure. Smoke and all.
 
Col Mustard said:
I was never a KISS fan... nor was I ever a Les Paul guy.
But I wish all the fans well. It's hard to lose and icon.
This is how I always think of him... I never knew how he did it,
but I have read some about him and learned he had this feature
added to his custom Les Paul.
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I am aware of how many young guys were led to pick up a guitar after seeing and hearing
this. I had influences too, but from longer ago. *laughs

But anyway, rest in Peace, Ace... there ought to be some good jams in Rock Heaven.
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HAHA COL Mustard. If you want to talk influences, I still remember cutting my teeth so to speak on some of my Mom's Aunt's or Cousin's records they had at their house in Cleveland. Believe it or not, How Much IS That Doggie in the Window was one I remembered. Then I saw an ad on TV at their house for a record of cover songs, It is called Autumn '73, so I'd have had to been 9 years old. I asked my mom's Aunt if I could order it. I think it cost a whopping $1.74 or something like that back then. Shortly after that or around the same time, I was in my barber's chair in Baltimore near our house, and I heard Smoke on the Water for the first time on the barber's radio. So I guess you could say that was my musical roots. After these influences, I remember Brownsville Station, Grand Funk, BTO, 3 Dog Night, and even Cheech and Chong as some of my very first albums.

Forgive me but here is that 1973 Album. Col Mustard, I am sure you will recognize a bunch of the songs I first heard when I got this compilation.
 
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