Ken SharpSocial Links Navigation Latest articles by Ken Sharp “What impressed me the most was, at 72 years old, the guy still gets excited like a little kid, like a true rock fan... He had a lot of ideas”: Steve Brown details the inspiring process of working with Ace Frehley on his shocking new album, 10,000 Volts By Ken Sharp published 13 March 24 The Trixter guitarist reckons that the one-time Kiss guitarist's new LP is his “best all-around songwriting record,” featuring the “best vocal performances he’s ever had on record” “It’s mind-blowing to know I was a huge influence on a new crop of guitar players in the same way that Hendrix, Page, and Beck had an impact on me”: Ace Frehley on the creation of his new solo album, and the '59 Les Paul he'll forever regret selling By Ken Sharp published 8 March 24 Ace Frehley is back with a shockingly rocking new album in 10,000 Volts. Here, he tells GP about collaborating with Trixter's Steve Brown, re-working 40-year old demos, and the more unlikely guitars in his enviable collection "It’s not what you play, it’s what you don’t." Paul Rodgers – the singer's singer who played with the guitar player's guitar players – on what he learned from the likes of Paul Kossoff, Mick Ralphs and Jimmy Page By Ken Sharp published 26 January 24 Paul Rodgers on his charmed guitar life, his famous axe partners, soloing on Can't Get Enough and the stroke that nearly killed him "I feel like George Lucas, where you helped create this thing that becomes not just movies and stuff but a culture. We created a culture with Kiss…" The Gene Simmons interview By Ken Sharp published 12 December 23 As Kiss bring their career to a rousing end, the Demon reflects on their 50-year journey from New York City punks to global superstars Six By 5: John 5 picks his 6 favorite Paul Stanley guitar solos By Ken Sharp published 10 December 23 Kiss put John 5 on his guitar journey and turned him into a huge Kiss Kollector. We asked him to choose his six favorite Paul Stanley solos “I didn’t want to be the flashy lead player. Whether it was Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, David Crosby or Richie Havens, what the left hand was doing was more fascinating to me than what the right hand was doing": The Paul Stanley interview By Ken Sharp published 8 December 23 As Kiss hang up their guitars, Paul Stanley looks back on the instruments and musicians that shaped his musical personality “Any good guitar player will tell you his vibrato is as sweet as honey…” Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, Joe Perry, Tom Morello and many more on what Paul Stanley’s playing brought to Kiss By Ken Sharp published 8 December 23 Better call Paul! As Kiss hang up their guitars, we asked Kiss members past and present – plus friends and admirers – what mades Paul Stanley’s signature sound so special “First of All, There Was No Guitar Player Who Had Ever Played Like That”: Van Halen Producer Ted Templeman Tells ‘GP’ How It All Began By Ken Sharp published 28 September 23 Van Halen might not have been the same group without Ted Templeman, the man who discovered and signed them, then produced their greatest albums “I’d Never Heard Anything That Brilliant, and Ed Said, ‘No, It’s Nothing’”: Producer Ted Templeman Reveals How He Helped Turn Eddie Van Halen’s “Warm Up” Into One of the Greatest Solos of All Time, “Eruption” By Ken Sharp published 1 September 23 “He said, ‘It’s just something I warm up with before each show.' And I said, ‘Donn, roll tape!’” recalls the hitmaker MOST READ1Jimmy Page reflects on the Yardbirds, and his short-lived two-guitar tandem with Jeff Beck 2Jackson Browne, John Mellencamp, Mavis Staples honored by Bruce Springsteen at second annual American Music Honors 3Peter Frampton reveals the stories behind five of his classic tracks4PRS SE CE24, SE Custom 24 Quilt and SE Swamp Ash Special review 5How a deeply personal twist of events brought a beloved 'Burst into Vince Gill's life
“What impressed me the most was, at 72 years old, the guy still gets excited like a little kid, like a true rock fan... He had a lot of ideas”: Steve Brown details the inspiring process of working with Ace Frehley on his shocking new album, 10,000 Volts By Ken Sharp published 13 March 24 The Trixter guitarist reckons that the one-time Kiss guitarist's new LP is his “best all-around songwriting record,” featuring the “best vocal performances he’s ever had on record”
“It’s mind-blowing to know I was a huge influence on a new crop of guitar players in the same way that Hendrix, Page, and Beck had an impact on me”: Ace Frehley on the creation of his new solo album, and the '59 Les Paul he'll forever regret selling By Ken Sharp published 8 March 24 Ace Frehley is back with a shockingly rocking new album in 10,000 Volts. Here, he tells GP about collaborating with Trixter's Steve Brown, re-working 40-year old demos, and the more unlikely guitars in his enviable collection
"It’s not what you play, it’s what you don’t." Paul Rodgers – the singer's singer who played with the guitar player's guitar players – on what he learned from the likes of Paul Kossoff, Mick Ralphs and Jimmy Page By Ken Sharp published 26 January 24 Paul Rodgers on his charmed guitar life, his famous axe partners, soloing on Can't Get Enough and the stroke that nearly killed him
"I feel like George Lucas, where you helped create this thing that becomes not just movies and stuff but a culture. We created a culture with Kiss…" The Gene Simmons interview By Ken Sharp published 12 December 23 As Kiss bring their career to a rousing end, the Demon reflects on their 50-year journey from New York City punks to global superstars
Six By 5: John 5 picks his 6 favorite Paul Stanley guitar solos By Ken Sharp published 10 December 23 Kiss put John 5 on his guitar journey and turned him into a huge Kiss Kollector. We asked him to choose his six favorite Paul Stanley solos
“I didn’t want to be the flashy lead player. Whether it was Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, David Crosby or Richie Havens, what the left hand was doing was more fascinating to me than what the right hand was doing": The Paul Stanley interview By Ken Sharp published 8 December 23 As Kiss hang up their guitars, Paul Stanley looks back on the instruments and musicians that shaped his musical personality
“Any good guitar player will tell you his vibrato is as sweet as honey…” Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, Joe Perry, Tom Morello and many more on what Paul Stanley’s playing brought to Kiss By Ken Sharp published 8 December 23 Better call Paul! As Kiss hang up their guitars, we asked Kiss members past and present – plus friends and admirers – what mades Paul Stanley’s signature sound so special
“First of All, There Was No Guitar Player Who Had Ever Played Like That”: Van Halen Producer Ted Templeman Tells ‘GP’ How It All Began By Ken Sharp published 28 September 23 Van Halen might not have been the same group without Ted Templeman, the man who discovered and signed them, then produced their greatest albums
“I’d Never Heard Anything That Brilliant, and Ed Said, ‘No, It’s Nothing’”: Producer Ted Templeman Reveals How He Helped Turn Eddie Van Halen’s “Warm Up” Into One of the Greatest Solos of All Time, “Eruption” By Ken Sharp published 1 September 23 “He said, ‘It’s just something I warm up with before each show.' And I said, ‘Donn, roll tape!’” recalls the hitmaker
