Concert Review: Ace Frehley @ Nokia Theater (Times Square, NY)

Backed by a great tour band with resumes' of their own; bass-Anthony Esposito (Lynch Mob), guitar-Todd Youth (Danzig) & drums- Scott Coogan (Brides of Destruction). They played,harmonized & shared some lead vocals, sounding much like Mr. Stanley & Mr. Simmons.

There were two opening acts Acey Slade whom we never saw & the Dark Party whom I thought were pretty good. They were pretty much a 70’s hard rock/punk style band, who’s best song of the night was a cover of The Cult’s -Sanctuary. The show started later than most of us wanted it to (Ace came on at 9:30), and ended late for a Sunday (1130).
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Surprisingly he only did two songs from the latest Anomaly album, Sister & Pain in the Neck “dedicated to you know who” (his ex wife Jeanette of course). It was the first time this song was played live. We got a pleasant surprise from what I thought was another of the night’s best songs, Into the Void, from 1998’s Physco Circus.

The final five songs
were all Kiss classics, he started out by saying the line of the night “I got electrocuted in 1976, it was the best thing that ever happened to me!” As a result he wrote Shock Me which blew the house down in Times Square 34 years later. He followed that with a fantastic guitar solo complete with smoke bombs!! As he finished the solo with the outro from Let Me Know, he led into the finale’ Shout It Out Loud.

The encores consisted of three more Kiss classics, Deuce, Love Gun, (where he thanked Paul Stanley for writing a great song) & the classic he wrote on the subways of the Bronx; Cold Gin, one of my all time favorites.
Quite a show, it was like seeing one of your pals playing in a club and having a good old time.
set list 3/21/10 New York City
Parasite
Snow Blind
Sister
Pain in the Neck
Into The Void
Speedin' Back To My Baby
Rock Soldiers
Rock Soldiers
Love Her All I Can
Talk To Me
2000 Man
Strange Ways
New York Groove
Rip it Out
Hard Times
Hard Times
Shock Me
Guitar Solo (Let Me Know -outro)
Shout It Out Loud
Encores: Deuce
Love Gun
Cold Gin