Ace Frehley believes the unique Kiss lineup was a sufferer of its personal success.

As the band’s first guitarist, Frehley’s preliminary tenure lasted from 1973 to 1982. That run included Kiss’ rise to worldwide fame and featured a lot of their most commercially profitable releases. Still, Frehley’s exit in 1982 was the results of rising tensions throughout the band, each on account of artistic variations and character clashes.

During an look on the Guitar Tales podcast, the guitarist mirrored upon his historical past with the band.

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“We created something that will endure way after we’re all dead and buried,” Frehley declared. “I try to let the negative stuff go and focus on the positive memories. We had a lot of fun. We used to really be very closely knit. And we’d have weekly band meetings and get the stuff off our chest that was bothering us.”

The guitarist then famous that issues modified when the band tasted success.

“Once we became rich, we all became millionaires, everybody started going their own way,” he confessed. “Everybody had their own limo. Everybody had their own bodyguard. So, you know, nothing can last forever.”

Ace Frehley Says Getting Rich Was the ‘Beginning of the End’

In a separate a part of the interview, Frehley mirrored upon Kiss’ early years, when the band’s members needed to maintain down day jobs to assist pay the payments.

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“Paul [Stanley] worked in a sandwich shop. I delivered liquor. I was a postman for six months. We did all sorts of jobs before we started making the big bucks,” Frehley famous. “In the early days, me and Gene [Simmons] used to room together in a Holiday Inn. And then after ‘Alive’ hit we each had our own suites. That’s when the band started, you know, everybody was going in their own direction. And it was kind of the beginning of the end.”

Frehley did return to Kiss for a second tenure, lasting from 1996 to 2002. Despite fan hypothesis that he might make a visitor look, the guitarist did not participate in any of the band’s live shows throughout their 2023 farewell tour.