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{AP 16 October} ‘Ace Frehley, Kiss’ original lead guitarist and founding member, dies at 74’
Rest in peace, Starman. At this point in my life, I would almost sooner endure Chinese water torture than listen to KISS and their hair-band ilk. Once upon a time—when youth dulled discernment—I lapped up that racket with the same appetite I brought to fast food and the ceaseless blare of televised idiocy. But age, misophonia, and the daily parade of performative imbecility—from the corridors of power down to the trailer park—have conspired to render me a broken-down, jaded 47-year-old, sick to death of all the noise that passes for culture.
Still, fairness demands its due: Ace Frehley was perchance the most competent musician in that crew during the ’70s, and ‘New York Groove’ is better than reason or lineage might allow; a melody whose vulgar birth cannot efface its strange vitality, and superior by a good margin to the rest of the KISS catalogue. The manner of his death—a fall last month leading to a brain bleed—is unsettling, particularly for those of us with parents north of seventy and maybe not always steady on their feet. Life is perilously fragile.
Fragility is the only constant. Godspeed. —Arthur Newhook, 16 October 2025.
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