Ace Frehley's fellow founding Kiss bandmates, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, have broken their silence following the guitarist's death at age 74. Simmons, 76, and Stanley, 73, paid tribute to their late bandmate, who died on Thursday, October 16, in a joint statement shared with The Hollywood Reporter later that day. "I am devastated by the passing of Ace Frehley. He was an essential and irreplaceable rock soldier during some of the most formative foundational chapters of the band and its history," Simmons and Stanley wrote in a joint statement.