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Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley has thrown his hat into the ring over Gene Simmons' recent comments about depression, telling Simmons: "Hey Gene, you're shooting yourself in the foot."
The singer recently released his first solo album in five years, Space Invador, which features a cover of Steve Miller Band's 'The Joker' amongst its more left-field tracks.
In a recent interview, as well as declaring that he doesn't get along with his former bandmates, Simmons also said some incredibly insensitive things about depression in the wake of Robin Williams' suicide, including. "For a putz, 20-year-old kid to say, 'I'm depressed, I live in Seattle.' Fuck you, then kill yourself.
"I never understand, because I always call them on their bluff. I'm the guy who says 'Jump!' when there's a guy on top of a building who says, 'That's it, I can't take it anymore, I'm going to jump.' Are you kidding? Why are you announcing it? Shut the fuck up, have some dignity and jump!"
In an interview with Billboard, Frehley was asked about his relationship with Simmons, to which he replied: "The press make out like we hate each other, [but] I could go over to any of their houses and hang out. I try not to get involved with all the rhetoric, but sometimes I can't hold back. I mean Gene has the balls to go on the internet and say, 'Look, if you're a depressed person, kill yourself.'
"I don't think Robin WIlliams' family is too happy about his statements, you know? He used to say to me in the ’70s every time I did something stupid, like I crashed a car or I got loaded when I shouldn't, he'd say, 'Ace, you're shootin' yourself in the foot.' Well, you can print, 'Hey Gene, you're shootin' yourself in the foot a lot lately.'"
Space Invader, Frehley's sixth solo album, was release yesterday (19 August).
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