This is a personal web page that highlights my production of a record called Return of the Comet.

The production involved members and former members of KISS, Presidents of the United States, Guns & Roses, Soundgarden, Frehley's Comet and others. I was the Executive Producer and sole financier on the album.

I built a tiny web site, called Frehley News in 1995, which was a web site dedicated to guitarist Ace Frehley. I had recently seen Ace Frehley in concert in Vancouver, BC and found the concert to be terribly fun. It reminded me how much I enjoyed KISS as a 12 year old kid, growing up in Montreal.

So I built this web site, called Frehley News fun, to teach me HTML, FTP etc. etc. One day, a guy from the KISSASYLUM.COM web site posted a link to the site and it received 300 hits in one day.

I was hooked to the attention after that.

In 1996, I was approached by Aure Prochazka, to team up and build the best Ace Frehley web site on the internet. His Ace Frehley web site had 'official' status from a phone call he made to the Ace Frehley fan club back in 1994. His proposal was to secure the AceFrehley.Com URL and then combine our skills to build the definitive fan site, to the Spaceman of KISS.

At first it was a lot of fun. We ran real audio radio shows, interviewing members of Ace's old band, Frehley's Comet and musicians like the drummer of Anthrax, who was a huge Ace Frehley fan. In AceFrehley.Com's 'hay day' we'd receive a million hits a month and registered over 10,000 unique users in an online database.

The KISS office called us, wanting us to send them information on internet traffic and the names and addresses of KISS fans for their direct mailings. We sponsored email digests and at one point archived about 300 MB of Ace Frehley images.

We sold around 1000 copies of Ace Frehley's Loaded Deck album in just two weeks time, a feat that impressed Megaforce Records, the company that produced the album.

Then in early 1997, I got the idea, that the web site could sponsor it's very own tribute record to Ace Frehley. I had no idea what it would cost, what it would involve and indeed had never produced a record album in my life.

Return of the Comet, was originally supposed to be fan-produced record, where Ace Frehley fans from around the world would produce tracks, dump them to DAT cassette and then send them to me for mastering.

But very early on, professional musicians began to express interest in the project. The key professional to come on board initially was John Regan of Frehley's Comet. John wanted to reunite old band members and re-record two old Frehley's Comet tracks that had never been released.

Now you have to understand the John has worked with the Rolling Stones, and Peter Frampton among many others, you don't just say 'no' to an opportunity to work with John Regan.

So, once John Regan came aboard, we decided to seek financing and approach other professionals to record tracks for us.

In the end, we wound up with 14 professionally recorded tracks and released one of the best, fan-produced tribute records in the history of KISS. The album received good reviews in Metal Edge and Hit Parader and most fans liked it.

The album sold about 5000 units independently, without a distributor or major label backing.

We spent too much money on the record and most especially spent too much money trying to promote the record at various conventions throughout the United States. The record went bankrupt in 1998 and eventually the Ace Frehley web site folded.

Still, Return of the Comet, stands as a testament to what fans and the internet can accomplish. It stands well against the KISS MY ASS tribute record that KISS themselves produced.

Here are three samples of songs from Return of the Comet, A Tribute to Ace Frehley.