Last year in March, Kiss Paul Stanley was asked by radio host Howard Stern why he and Gene Simmons did not perform with Ace Frehley and drummer Peter Criss during the Rock Hall induction in 2014.
Ace said:
“(The Rock Hall organizers) were demanding, quite honestly, that we play with the two original guys, Peter and Ace, and at this point, that would be demeaning to the (current Kiss) band, and also would give some people confusion. ‘Cause if you saw people on stage who looked like Kiss but sounded like that, maybe we should be called Piss.”
Paul Stanley’s comment about the 2014 Rock Hall performance made him angry and in a new interview with the “Rock Of Nations With Dave Kinchen And Shane McEachern” podcast, Ace Frehley said:
“I don’t know what caused or went through Paul’s head when he made that statement, if me and Peter performed with them on stage, we’d sound like piss. But it really aggravated me and I got really mad and I went on the Eddie Trunk show and promised to come back in a month or two weeks and spill some dirt.
”And speaking to my attorney and my manager and my agent and my close confidants, they all said, ‘Why don’t you take the high road?’ And I did. And I really didn’t spill anything that most people didn’t know already.”