Ace Frehley - Origins Vol. 2
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When a Rock’n’Rock Hall of Famer (which he was inducted to in 2014 as original KISS member) is releasing a new album, you always expect a notable result. Ace Frehley, the legendary guitar player, returns to the record stores on 18th September 2020. His album Origins Vol.2 showcases songs originally performed by other artists. Here is my review.
Ace Frehley – About The Artist
Daniel Paul “Ace” Frehley was born in on 27th April 1951 in The Bronx, New York City, USA. There is a lot of musical talent in his family. In 1964, he got an electric guitar for Christmas. His nickname “Ace”, by the way, grew in high school years, when he was a real ace to date girls. He played in multiple bands, some of them even had limited commercial success. In 1972, he was casted together with Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and Peter Criss for the band, which named itself KISS in 1973. Frehley left the band in 1982 (and returned for a six year period in 1996), aiming for a solo career. At that point in time, he already had released his debut album, Ace Frehley, in 1978. His first solo album after splitting up with KISS was Frehley’s Comet in 1987. At the end of the 1980’s, Frehley stopped recording albums, but came back with that in 2009, when he released Anomaly. Origins, Vol.1 has been released in 2016 and featured three tracks from KISS as well as bands like Steppenwolf or The Troggs. Origins Vol.2 is his ninth album.
Ace Frehley – Origins Vol. 2 – Track by Track
The twelve song album lasts 47 minutes.

1. Good Times Bad Times (Led Zeppelin)
Ace Frehley starts the album with a Led Zeppelin classic: Good Times Bad Times has been released in 1969 originally. The sound is wider, more powerful than the original – a strong statement at the beginning of these Origins.
2. Never In My Life (Mountain)
The second track is following a similar concept: a hard rock classic brought back to the 2020 Frehley world – a lot of power, more presence – and of course, excellent guitar play. Nice one!
3. Space Truckin’ (Deep Purple)
The pre-released single Space Truckin’, originally by Deep Purple (1972) is a great example to explain the spirit of the album: whether you like the original more or whether you prefer this Ace Frehley rock jamming, may be a matter of taste. The polish of the original tunes definitely gives a new and cool touch – but the interpretation is still close to Deep Purple. Nice!
4. I’m Down (The Beatles)
I’m Down might not be the biggest Beatles classic, but Ace Frehley definitely understands to keep the surfing song character one the one hand, but on the other hand let the guitars play. One of my favorite re-interpretations.
5. Jumpin’ Jack Flash (The Rolling Stones)
It is so amazing how Frehley just adds nuances to the original songs – Jumpin’ Jack Flash feels to be like a powerful Stones (maybe on-stage) version here.
6. Politician (Cream)
I am not too much a fan of the orignal Politician by Cream. The way the album is set up, you can more or less tell before listening that it likely implies that I do not like this new version too much as well. Unfortunately, this is the case – the powerful guitar interlude gives some increased sympathy, though.
7. Lola (The Kinks)
Not just as it is the original to Weird Al Yankovic’s Yoda, I was looking forward to Lola. The 2020 version feels significantly darker, the guitars also turn the quite melodic original into a headbang track and hard rocker. Go to Yoda and he’ll show the Force? There is a lot of metal force in Mr Frehley alternatively.
8. 30 Days In The Hole (Humble Pie)
30 Days In the Hole, originally performed by the Humble Pie in 1972, is to me one of the tracks which profited most from the re-arrangement and rock upgrade. Great new interpretation.
9. Manic Depression (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
Similar to Politician, Manic Depressionis not my favorite as an original – and it is also too chaotic to me in the new version. Still, you have to admit that Frehley created a successful transformation of this song.
10. Kicks (Paul Revere & the Raiders)
Fun fact about this song: while the original song is just some 2:30 minutes long, the Ace is giving us additional some 30 seconds. A lovely, very melodic rock track. Really fun to listen.
11. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (The Animals)
With that cover of an The Animals original, the album finishes its original runtime. Very melodic and powerful – a great listen!
12. She (KISS)
The bonus track is a KISS classic.Quite close to the original sound – not too surprisingly…
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Ace Frehley – Origins Vol. 2 – My View
I feel it is very difficult to judge on albums like Origins Vol. 2. Definitely, Ace Freshley adds value to these songs (so it is not a cheap bootleg). There is a lot of power added and the overall sound is much more modern than the original arrangements. I also liked that he tried to stay close to the original sound. On the other hand, this also means that we talk about wisely selected, minimal adoptions of the song. I thus feel that Origins Vol. 2 is a good listen for classic hard rock fans, definitely.
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Four girls and hard rock? Thundermother is definitely a cool bunch of ladies. On 31st July 2020, they released the ...
When I read about the collaboration, I knew I just had to do a review of this project: one of ...
Beyond The Black got some additional focus in Germany when their lead singer Jennifer Haben joined the popular TV format Sing ...
Three years after their previous album, Asking Alexandria released another studio album, Like A House on Fire, on 15th May 2020. The ...
From time to time, Flyctory.com needs to care about the dark tunes in music as well. The British Gothic Metal ...
60 years of Axel Rudi Pell - one of the big names in the German metal scene is celebrating this ...
Nightwish are somehow the undisputed kings of Finnish metal (even though I personally prefer Lordi). Being in the business since the ...
It is really tough to select the right achievement to describe Joe Satriani's career in one fact. Over ten million ...
The Swiss band Gotthard is something like their nation's national monument in the Hard Rock genre. They publish music since the ...
Time for some discussions in the German music scene - the Böhse Onkelz released their 17th studio album on 28th ...
Likely, being an Ordinary Man is one of the attributes you would least assign to Ozzy Ozbourne spontaneously. Nevertheless, the former Black Sabbath ...
I happened to run into the front lady of the Seven Spires, Adrienne Cowan, when Tobias Sammet chose her as ...
Sepuiltura are true Heavy Metal legends - with Quadra, the Brazilians already released their 15th studio album, 24 years after their ...
What does a musician give himself best as a birthday present? Richie Kotzen went for a new album on 3rd ...
Athens, Greece, 20th May 2006 - a day that did not only change my life, but the life of a ...
24th January 2020 felt to be the "Metal Heroes do solo album" day of the year. Shortly after I had ...
The majority of the music community likely knows Marko Hietala as the bassist of Nightwish. In 2019, he released his debut ...
Due to my contacts to the Greek metal scene, which really seems to have a lot of musical talents, I ...
Due to my contact to a Greek metal music promotion agency, I ran into another Greek metal album. The band ...
Project Renegade are the first Greek act I am reviewing on Flyctory.com. The metal quartet present their debut album Order Of ...
There is not just Vivaldi and Pavarotti - Italy also has quite a strong Metal scene. One of the key ...
If you record songs like Death to All But Metal or Bukkake Tears and you do it good, you may make it big ...
I saw the Black Star Rides some years ago as a support act of Def Leppard and Whitesnake on their ...
Tarja Turunen - the Finnish Opera and metal voice became a legend with Nightwish. After the split from her band ...
Sometimes, Flyctory.com is covering quite a range of topics within one day: while I started the day with the review ...
Avantasia, one of the most successful German music projects, released their seventh album (eighth, if you count in a live ...
Doro Pesch is back - before she will tour in late 2018/early 2019, she just released a double album: while ...
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On my last Pittsburgh Penguins tour in April 2024, I also visited the away match at the New York Rangers ...
The World Floorball Championship Qualifications are in focus of my coverage this weekend. Nonetheless, I try to provide you with ...
has come to an end - and my Best of posting is the one which is "traditionally" concluding the year. The ...
The first one of my Best of postings at the end of the year is always reserved for looking back to my ...
New York City is full of iconic and strange places. Undoubtedly, the Museum of Sex in Manhattan is one of ...
Being on some sort of Lufthansa farewell tour after I decided not to prolong my Senator status gave me an ...
It's less than two weeks until I see Jessica Lynn live on stage again. Towards the end of the year, ...
Radio City Music Hall - if you played a show as an artist in this iconic place in the heart ...
Let's close the weekend with some goth metal. On 1st November 2024, the US-American project Neon Nightmare released their debut ...
Even though I was traveling on a sightseeing pass, I also visited some additional attractions during my time in New ...
I already took you to the American Dream in New Jersey twice. The iconic and very modern shopping mall features ...
There is a sheer countless list of reasons why one might want to visit New York City. The spirit of ...
Jordan Rudess is looking back to an amazing musical career (so far). The US-American artist, originally from New York City, ...
Even though the Grand Central Terminal (or: Grand Central Station) in New York City is a popular touristic attraction, it ...
This week is in focus of Jessica Lynn. I saw her show near Cologne on Monday and visited another concert ...
After featuring the Giovanni Zarrella concert the week before, another very special show was on my list on 12th August ...
I had three matches with the Pittsburgh Penguins in April 2024. While the first match at Madison Square Garden was ...
The same procedure as every year. The day when the NHL is releasing their match schedule for the upcoming season ...
Hotel pricing in New York is weird. It is very hard to spot a reasonable place for 250 USD per ...
The Ride NYC is a very fancy combination of exploring New York City - at least regarding their marketing. They ...
This week, I am in Munich, watching a couple of Rock of Ages shows. The week is more busy and demanding ...
He is a four time Grammy Awards winner and wrote global hits like Fly Away, Again, American Woman or Are You Gonna Go ...
Returning from the World Floorball Championships in Finland, heading directly to a business trip to Paris - this week was ...
The still rather cheap flight prices from Europe to New York City are tempting. However, if you book too early, ...
Hotel prices in the USA are getting more and more ridiculous and this require to go for some strategy and ...
There are several signs of Jewish culture in New York City, indeed. One of the most prominent ones is indeed ...
If you read the band name Folterkammer, which is German and translates to "Torture Chamber", you rather think that this ...
The Broadway is one of the key global centers for theatrical entertainment. With all the tourist attractions New York City ...
I spend so much time trying to get perfect shots for everyone else - this is how Sam Evian describes ...
From jazz to folk and country tunes - the range of music by nine time Grammy Award winner Norah Jones ...
Three times Grammy Award winner Bruce Hornsby meets the chamber ensemble yMusic. What started as a five concert series in ...
With 10,000 Volts, Ace Freshley feels to present a rather energetic album release. On 23rd February 2024, the former KISS ...
January 2024 has already passed and we are running into the first February 2024 edition of my weekly release radar ...
The Christmas weeks are typically the ones with the lowest number of releases. Unfortunately, quite the majority of the songs ...
After my previous Songs of the Week editions were rather pop-alike, I was rather surprised that my release radar this time is ...
If you solely take the ease of traveling as a criteria, I definitely took the wrong choice in regards of ...
Nowadays, you should definitely do one thing before you head to New York City as a tourist and explore the ...
I spent almost the entire week at work in Dublin at one of our offices. Quite an intense time, which ...
Maybe, due to the national holiday in Germany, the list of new songs was rather short on the platform I ...
September 2023 will be a quite busy monh. If I finally receive all press passes I envisage to get, there ...
Especially as a German aviation enthusiast, being on board of an aircraft carrier is just a cool experience again and ...
While I had quite an intense week in regards of scanning country music new releases, the German and international music ...
Learning by reviewing: I have to admit that I haven't been aware of the heavy metal subgenre of sludge metal, ...
Last week, the NHL released their schedule for the 2023-24 season. This typically means a bunch of work to me, ...
The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City also calls itself A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. Even though I ...
When my wife and I headed to American Dream Mall in East Rutherford, we just aimed to enjoy the view ...
Through a German promotion agency, I ran into the US-American indie-pop duo Overcoats. The songs of the two female artists ...
If I could wish to see an artist live on stage for the first time, Sophie B. Hawkins would definitely ...
My March 2023 flights to some Pittsburgh Penguins matches had a nice highlight from an aviation point as well. For ...
After staying at the Conrad New York Midtown for two nights, my wife and I went for a more economic ...
Manhattan offers a lot of skyscraper platforms to enjoy the view of New York City. Some of them are or ...
Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, USA, Canada - and of course Germany lay ahead of me for the ...
Even though one of my early Flyctory.com posts was about my B777 Singapore Airlines First Class experience, it took me ...
When did Finnish game designer Jaakko Iisalo and Roivo Entertainment have a first feeling that their Angry Birds will become ...
The last posting of the year - Best Ones 2022 is introducing you to my best experience last years (as ...
Since I started working with Flyctory.com, I present you a list of my favorite songs at the end of every ...
While Madame Tussauds London is the heart of the wax museum empire, their outlet in Manhattan is likely not less ...
Rockefeller Center is an iconic place in New York City - not only before Christmas, when they put up the ...
Even though it nominally was the lowest standard hotel of my short trip, I was really looking forward to the ...
Once upon a time there was an above-average bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey, right on the opposite site of the ...
Manhattan is somehow the ultimate and maybe best known skyline in the world. Not too surprisingly that all around New ...
Starting a short trip to New York in style: Majorly due to the great location next to Carnegie Hall, my ...
Classic rock meets funk - that's about the concept behind the Moon City Masters. On 4th November 2022, they are ...
Being in a room full of projections of pictures painted by Monet of Van Gogh became a global attraction. It ...
The last three months of the year are about to start. Traditionally, the focus is rather on well-known artists, their ...
After I gave you an overview of 2022 European appearances of my favorite musical Rock of Ages, I felt to ...
Sometimes, I just need to dare doing something new on Flyctory.com. Like this review. Jeremy Black is doing experimental electronic ...
New York LaGuardia Airport (LGA) is not regarded to be the nicest way of air traveling in and around the ...
For the very first night of my Weird Al Yankovic trip in April 2022, I needed to have a reasonably ...
The last entry of my (multi-day) trip reports is typically a bit of boring. Getting to the airport, flying back ...
First day of my Weird Al trip in April 2022. I was initially even thinking about merging it with Day ...
Sharing my travel experience following Weird Al Yankovic on tour in North America is somehow traditional on Flyctory.com. Even though ...
The very first night of my Pittsburgh Penguins trip in March 2022 lead me to New York City. Finally, my ...
Some two years after I reviewed his album Shapeshifting, Joe Satriani is back with a new album, Elephants of Mars. I was ...
Jon Spencer is definitely not regarded as an introvert artist. He is doing songs somewhere between blues, punk, garage and ...
Already right on the very first day of my Pittsburgh Penguins trip in March 2022, I visited the new home ...
Day 2 was just so exciting to me: the first time being back in Pittsburgh since two and a half ...
Time to see my hockey team again! The first day of my Pittsburgh Penguins trip to the States did not ...
Two years without visiting the United States are about to come to an end: in March 2022, I had planned ...
SMKC is a magical abbreviation in rock music business. It merges guitar giant slash, legendary Myles Kennedy and band member ...
Rickie Lee Kroell, the second time: I just introduced you to the pop artist and her new EP Hauptsache was mit ...
In later 2021, I ran into the music by German-American artist Rickie Lee Kroell by a contact to her promotion ...
Jeffrey Mitchell Ross wrote music history as the lead guitarist of Lou Reed. That's quite a while ago and Ross ...
After I have already been struggling with the idea of the Songs of the Week, the feedback on my previous edition ...
I typically don't like to review three song EPs. But in some cases, I am just too curious - or ...
The Altas Underground series continues: just some six weeks after Tom Morello released The Atlas Underground Fire, which was full of amazing ...
Synthpop? Post-Punk? New Wave? It is really hard to describe the genre created by the duo X: THC. They reached ...
Bruce Springsteen, Bring Me The Horizon or Chris Stapleton - already the list of guest musicians of Tom Morello's 2021 ...
Echo Bloom is a very interesting band project. They released three albums so far, each dedicated to an individual genre ...
When I ran into the debut album by Ben Rice, Future Pretend, I initially thought he is a blues musician ...
An Overview On Phaenomenal Nature - when I read about Cassandra Jenkins 2021 EP, I just felt this could be ...
Using tennis language, Haley Mae Campbell was some sort of lucky looser of my review selections on 12th February 2021 ...
It has been a bit tricky to search for Patty Smyth's 2020 album It's about time. Smyth has been a music ...
After Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open 2020, charts like the one by below by the German Data Journalist Felix ...
Meeting Carolyn Miller and seeing her playing live on stage at the BB King was one of the hightlights during ...
Dion is one of the best singers in the world of music. The Rock'n'Roll Hall of Famer released a very ...
Lady Gaga is one of the very, very big names in music industry. You just do not have to introduce ...
It is really tough to select the right achievement to describe Joe Satriani's career in one fact. Over ten million ...
I have to admit that American Airlines Admiral Club Lounges are not really my favorite place. Some are functional, some ...
30th August had quite a couple of album releases. While I published my view on Sheryl Crow's Threads and Tarja's In The Raw ...
After two days of Weird Al Yankovic concerts and a memorable Day 4 with my sports idol Leander Paes and ...
The first entry of a trip report is typically full of stories about airports, airlines and flying. My trip to ...
Can you imagine what the highest-rated attraction in Germany, according to Tripadvisor, is? Cologne Cathedral? Wrong! Neuschwanstein Castle! No! And ...
After I had to book another hotel right across the street for the first night to get a low airfare, ...
Many of you might watch the Tennis US Open at Flushing Meadows on TV. Some take-outs like interviews on the ...
I was looking forward to my second day of visit at the US Open. Divij Sharan's match was of course ...
My fifth visit at the tennis US Open is the shortest one - arriving on Thursday afternoon by British Airways ...
British Airways flight BA 1 has always been on my bucket list. The very special connection between London and New ...
On my Easter trip with Sarah, we had the opportunity to test Polish LOT's Premium Class, their interpretation of Premium ...