105.5 WDHA's Terrie Carr talks with Ace Frehley and Steve Brown.
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00:00That is Ace Frehley and 10,000 volts, 105.5 WDHA, The Rock of New Jersey, live in our
00:07WDHA studios.
00:08It's such an honor to have Ace hanging out.
00:12It's my rock royalty.
00:13It's my honor, too.
00:14Rock royalty times 5,000.
00:17So talk to me a little bit about that tune.
00:19That tune's got a lot of amazing love on it.
00:22Stevie, you played on it.
00:24Our good friend PJ, of course, from his trickster days.
00:27Now he's in Fozzie.
00:28Peej is on the bass there.
00:29So who else do we have on that track?
00:31Well, we have the great on drums.
00:33The one and only.
00:34The one and only Anton Figg.
00:36You know, Anton just bought a house 40 minutes from me.
00:41No.
00:41He's just south of Nyack and then some...
00:44Pyramont.
00:45He's in Pyramont, New York.
00:46So yeah, he's close by.
00:47He is.
00:47I mean, Anton's the guy where you go, all right, who hasn't he played with?
00:51Because it's easier to answer that question.
00:53He just played at Wembley with Eric Clapton.
00:54Yeah, he plays...
00:54Exactly.
00:55He's played on everything.
00:56Doing a tribute to Link Wray.
00:57No, that was he played at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
01:00I didn't even know about it.
01:01We didn't even know.
01:02I texted Ace in the morning seeing Anton playing with Jimmy Page.
01:05He's everywhere.
01:06Yeah.
01:06Oh, absolutely.
01:07I was like, dude.
01:08Absolutely.
01:08That's one of Aces.
01:09Jimmy Page taught me how to play a guitar.
01:11But he never met Jimmy Page.
01:12Now with Beck, Clapton, and Pete Townsend.
01:14You got to introduce Jimmy Page to Ace.
01:18Oh, Ace.
01:19Yeah, I don't think I've ever met Jimmy.
01:20Now, Ace, well, before we get back to talking about who played on the record, Ace is so interesting,
01:26too, because he comes from this musical family, musical background, yet you are not necessarily
01:32like a trained musician, so you come in and you just created that whole Freely style.
01:39I mean, you just created it from-
01:42I always forget who I am, you know?
01:44You do?
01:45I mean, when I'm home, it's like, you know, like he just reminded me, you know, when we
01:50were pulling in, I go, who are these people?
01:52You know what I said to him?
01:53I said, you're Ace Freely, man.
01:56You're Ace.
01:56I don't think of myself as this famous person.
02:00You don't?
02:01I don't.
02:02No.
02:03He's a normal dude.
02:04I grew up in the Bronx.
02:05Somebody told me-
02:07Drive the cab, they just published my hack license online.
02:11Well, somebody told me they saw you Christmas shopping at the Rockaway Mall.
02:14Was that true?
02:14Were you at the Rockaway Mall Christmas?
02:16At the Rockaway Mall.
02:16Were you at the mall Christmas shopping?
02:18Oh, sure.
02:18Yeah, yeah.
02:19Yeah, I was buying something for Monique.
02:22Your daughter?
02:22Something for Laura.
02:23Yeah.
02:24Yeah, yeah.
02:25I did my final Christmas shopping there, and there's a guy there.
02:28He's giving me 50, 60% off.
02:32He says, all I have to do is take a photo with him.
02:35What?
02:35Oh, that's-
02:37That's fantastic.
02:38The Ace discount.
02:38The Ace Freely New Jersey discount, baby.
02:42All right, listen, we got to take a break.
02:44We'll come back.
02:45We'll play some more music and chat with Ace.
02:48I have some listener, a couple of listener questions, too.
02:51I figured I'd do like two or three of these because, you know, listeners get very-
02:58We're not in any, Harry.
02:59They get possessive of their favorite artists, too.
03:01So people will say to me, you got to ask him this.
03:04You got to-
03:05So what I always say is I don't ask any personal questions, no family questions, but I do have
03:10some that are pretty, you know, pretty cool and pretty something I would have asked.
03:16Let's just say that.
03:16People want to know about the band.
03:18We got a show coming up, a Carteret Pack we got to talk about.
03:20You bet.
03:21That's coming up in the new year, and I think the openers on this show is pretty cool.
03:27It is.
03:28We're doing some reunions here.
03:30So, yeah, lots to talk about.
03:32Ace Freely, live in our WDHA studios, and just having a great day.
03:36It's Ace.
03:37It's Ace.
03:40It's Ace.