KISS bandmates Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, as well as Bret Michaels and Mike McCready, are among those paying tribute to rock icon Ace Frehley.

The sharply painted stars helped transform this workaday club musician into the superhero known as the Spaceman or Space Ace. Mr. Frehley, who died on Thursday at 74, saw himself as an alien from the planet Jendell in the Klaatu solar system and spoke in jovial interviews of wanting to live far from Earth.

Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss and others paid tribute to the original KISS guitarist, who died at the age of 74.

Notable reaction to the death of Kiss founding member Ace Frehley who died Thursday at 74.