In a recent chat with “Talking Wax With Adika Live!”, Kiss’s Gene Simmons talked about lack of involvement of Ace Frehley and Peter Criss on new Kiss documentary “Biography: KISStory”.
The bass player said:
“God love ’em, both Ace and Peter, in the beginning of the band, were just the best thing that ever happened to us.
”But they made such horrible choices in their life. And they continue to do that — they continue to make really bad choices, not just in terms of their health and what you ingest, but career choices. Like, we just had this documentary that came out that’s a headlining thing at the Tribeca Film Festival, and, of course, without even thinking twice about it, we reached out to both Ace and Peter, ‘Hey, come and be part of this thing.
”You helped create the band. No question about it.’ And they refused. Ace wanted certain… ‘I want this. I want that. I want editing rights,’ and that kind of stuff. And God love him, that wasn’t gonna happen. I didn’t get those rights and didn’t want them; I just wanted to throw caution to the wind and get the thing done. So they barely appear in it.”