The Kiss guitarist founded his 'solo' project while still with the NYC glam rockers. Hiring well-respected studio musicians and song writers (the Russ Ballard-composed New York Groove hit the Billboard top 20), Frehley was already well on his way when he had to retire from Kiss in 1983 due to drug addiction. He had also been involved in a near-fatal car accident in the same year. The band was initially simply named Comet.
His subsequent records languished in the Billboard 200 and with band members revolting the man was out of action until the next Kiss marketing blitz. Frehley had also dropped the Comet configuration after two albums. The band also released a live EP called Live + 1 in 1988 which was taped at a Chicago show. Loaded Deck is a sampler which also features several unreleased tunes.
Frehley joins the reformed original line-up of Kiss in 1996, but was again out at the turn of the century.
Frehley had earlier announced the reason his first solo album would take four years to appear was because having been under contract with Kiss, he would be obliged to pay that band royalties!