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He has said himself that he wished that he practiced more, now realising how influential he had become. Most technical guitarist was something that he never was, and he indirectly agrees. But he's still among my favorites, if not the favorite. I mean, this is a person who had a guitar as a 13-year old boy and learned how to play it all by himself, just listening to other music and not even knowing what names all the chords he was playing had.

He isn't even in the top 50 of guitarists!
BUT.he WAS the reason MANY top guitarists of today picked up a guitar in the first place!
My Best of all time is the much missed Randy Rhoads

I don't think he is the best of all time, but despite that, he is my favorite of all time. I give the nod for best to Buddy Guy.

He's no Chuck Berry.
"Charming company you keep."

I would say that Ace is arguably the most INFLUENTIAL guitar player of all time.
He was the reason that many of our current guitar heros took up the instrument in the first place.
His trademark smoking guitar is one of the coolest things ever created in rock stage performance.
As previously mentioned Ace himself freely admits has never been the most technically proficient. He has written some of the best Kiss songs and written some great solos.
I saw him on his current solo tour, now clean and sober, and I have never heard him sound better playing wise.
"We're all afraid of the dark inside ourselves."

Let's get real people. Loving KISS is cool. I have been a fan since 77. Had a massive collection of merch. back in the day. And they were and will always be the most UNIQUE band ever in the history of music.
But Ace as the BEST Guitarist EVER? I agree he is the BEST guy to be the guitarist in KISS. But he is far from the BEST guitarist in the music industry.
The guy above me mentions Y. Malmsteen, dude can play circles around Ace. And I don't think Ace would disagree.
For me, there are several others up top. Eric johnson, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, John Petrucci. the list is long my fanatic KISS Army friends.
Besides, I don't think Ace really ever wanted to be the Best guitar player. He just wanted to jam and have fun.
I love Ace, but lets not get myopic.
My $0.02

I love Ace, truly, but what about Yngwie Malmsteen?
"Is that you crawling up my stairs?"

IMO, he's not the best, but is in the top 10 rock guitarists (I don't know enough about the old-time blues guys, so I'm limiting this to "rock"), and probably the most overlooked and underrated of those 10.
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Page
Eric Clapton
Eddie Van Halen
Jeff Beck
Brian May
Ace Frehley
Pete Townshend (this is strictly guitarists, not packaged with songwriting)
Chuck Berry
Ritchie Blackmore
and props to Dave Davies (not one of the best or having a long career, but he probably invented the hard-rock riff)
Where's Keef? Where he belongs - a few slots behind Mick Taylor!

Ace is the best!! beep those who think Kurt Cobain is the best in the world.. he's dead and he was never that great.
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I agree. My sisters boyfriend said. "NO, Hindrix is."
I had a Nightmare on Elm Street, on Halloween, next to a SAW, in Detroit Rock City.

Tony Iommi > Ace Frehley
Although there's no denying Ace's heavy influence in today's metal/hard rock music.
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Ace Frehley is a musical genius.

He's pretty but I do not like to overrate people !

I completely agree with you "Deadtotheworld9025b410" Ace is the greatest one and no one could never replace him.

Ace is one of the greatest but the best of all time will always be Jimi Hendrix.
"Boll's so bad that even if he would direct a porn movie,the only holes in it,would be plotholes"

Huston Texas, The Summit- 77', Ace's guitar solo on Shock Me gets me going everytime
There are no indisputable truths, and their aint no fountain of youth

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Ace Frehley = Best guitarist on the planet!!!
"I'm gonna talk us!" "Siegfried & Roy, masters of the um.Yes the impossible!!!"

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I'm right there with you and you gotta see him in Remedy. He also rocks as an actor.