Wasp demo with Ace Frehley 1982

[Rumy73]

Greetings. I have read over the years that Frehley produced Wasp's demo in 1982. I suppose it would have been contemporary to the Kiss Creatures of the Night sessions. Does anyone have any information on this beyond the Internet rumor? Is the demo available any where?

 

[DarkGuitarLord]

I doubt that is true. With WASP trying to succeed that early in their career they would have surely used Ace's name to their advantage. I actually would like to hear an Ace produced WASP song just to listen to how that would sound.

 

[wdiv]

From quick search, it looks like Blackie discusses the Ace connection in a number of interviews. Example:

I’ve got one more question from the past. Is it true that you were hanging with Ace Frehley and he really came very close to produce W.A.S.P.’s first album?

Blackie Lawless: Well, Ace and I were good friends even when I was a teenager. He was going to produce our first album, but he didn’t! he came to California, we talked about it for a while, and then he got busy doing a project, he had left KISS already, this was 1982, and he was starting to put his own band together and really what a lot of people don’t know is that when he came to California to see me, Bill Aucoin was with him. Bill Aucoin came very close managing the band, very close! Then I met Rod Smallwood, not long after that, and decided to go with Rod instead and we took a different direction, and as I said Ace was putting his own band together at the time, and that’s why it didn’t happen, but he came pretty close producing our first record…

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=10267668236&story_fbid=10151142066378237

 

[Rumy73]

From quick search, it looks like Blackie discusses the Ace connection in a number of interviews. Example:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=10267668236&story_fbid=10151142066378237

Thanks for the info. I was hoping for some stuff on their demo before the first album.