Alice Cooper is one of the greatest performers of all-time, one of my favorites. His stage shows even in 2015 are still amazing and he is still putting out great albums as well. Rodgers is one of the greatest vocalists ever.
After listening to this interview, I can't help but have more love and respect for both Alice Cooper and Paul Rodgers. Giving back to the community like they do, impressed me very much. God bless the both of them. Great interview.
Paul Rodgers . Member of the Original boy band (free) WHO were all about 20 or younger !.. they wrote most of there Own stuff Right from the start Alice !!! Paul Rodgers has Got more soul in his voice than Lambert could ever imagine ...and the power to rock the arse Off any audience as Well ... fantastic guy and talent . Always one take recordings , gets the notes first time .. intonation perfect and phrasing spot on. By the Way Paul Rodgers sang all the Queen songs in the same key as Freddy . So respect for the guy please.
Can`t praise Paul Rodgers enough, best male singer ever for me, and Alice is just great, i love his personality, very entertaining and despite his image....normal! :-)
VERY nice interview with two of the all-time greats of rock -- love the mature conversational tone, with more depth than the usual sound-bite interviews nowadays. Enjoyed hearing Alice and Paul's thoughts and stories.
It is interesting to see people that we have admired showing their vulnerable side. They are just as star struck as we are when they share the stage with their idols. (Though I doubt I will ever have an opportunity to share the stage with a VIP). Though I have made a fool of myself when I had a conversation with a local NC celebrity once. The only thing missing was a shovel to dig a hole-tile floors make that difficult.
If you've never heard the British Rock Symphony, they put our our CD and it's amazing. Tom Petty also met Elvis when Elvis was filming a movie in Gainesville, and this was when Tom was 8 or 9. That single event changed his life.
Alice and Paul were not disrespectful at all to Queen and/or Adam Lambert. And I had the same reaction as Alice to seeing Adam with Brian & Roger on the Idol finale... I just felt it so strongly in my bones that Adam was destined to contribute to the history of my favorite band, Queen.
I still have to put that free live cd in every once in awhile. Have to, I crave it once a year or so. So good and gritty. I always thought it was the Fking rent also.
Enjoyed this conversation between two great performers. But might mention, while PR is a superb singer, he wasn't the best fit for Queen. Saw the show with Lambert and he synced perfectly with B&R and Queen's music. Another thing - Lambert, while paying respect to FM, definitely was his own man on stage - saw no evidence of any imitating or copying - a unique performer in his own right -
2039marl Me 2, I have seen Adam Lambert with Queen and PR with Queen. Adam Lambert was a WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! better fit for Queen: range, personality and look. Exactly what Alice Coper said, 100 % true.
I will go out on a limb and say that by Alice saying Adam did it like Freddie, Alice may have meant that the music was recognizable and in the spirit of Freddie, sung and conveyed to the audience the way that Freddie would have done it - with style and flamboyance, etc; not necessarily an exact imitation (vocal or otherwise). This was his way of differentiating Adam's interpretation from Paul's. I look at what Alice said as positive for Adam - that Adam was closer to the true spirit of Freddie and Queen. But that's just me :)
Am I the only one who thinks Alice Cooper should be the Vocalist & the catalyst for a YARDBIRDS reunion featuring Jeff Beck/Jimmy Page/Jim McCarty/Chris Dreja(and if Chris can't do it?how about Paul Rodgers on Bass & Backing vocals)?
Ed9870 He's a smart guy, too. I'm from Michigan and enjoyed him for years. I'm enough of a traditionalist that I'm still a little uneasy at the gender-bending "Alice" thing ("I really wouldn't understand" . . . I suppose), but there's no denying he has an amazing oeuvre and was a truly legendary showman.
What they thought about Adam is inaccurate (38:00). Adam did not do it like Freddie did, in fact, IMO, he 'interpreted' it better than what PR could. What Adam does is far more complicated, and his delivery of the intentions of the songs are on point! He breathed life and theatrics back into the songs (Dragon Attack at Hammersmith, Killer Queen during the Q+AL tours etc), and he could hit every note on The Show Must Go On and Who Wants To Live Forever. I think Brian and Roger found the perfect piece of puzzle with Adam. I have seen both PR and AD with Queen. PR didn't feel right, in many ways whereas Adam fits Queen like a velvet glove. He's an interpretive genius!
I went to listen to Dragon Attack and Killer queen sung by Adam Lambert. ....I want to say first of all that he is a good singer. However, Adams delivery is feminine. Fredie Mercury was a very masculine singer regardless of anything else. He was raw and had a bit of that "metal" feel of rage and anger. Lambert appears to be a prancer. To a masculine man that is something that doesn't connect. His moves made me cringe in all honesty. Overall, he puts in a decent effort but his stage persona does not connect with me at all. ...Again not hating..just one mans opinion. Take it for what its worth.
personally I found the televised Queen/Adam show a massive turn off ( literally ) . I didn't particularly like Paul fronting them either. the only vocalist who has done them justice was George Michael. His version of " somebody to love " was as good as the original.
Tom Chaplin knocks A.L. into a cocked hat for me. Non of your Lambert vocal affectations and over singing. I quite liked Pauls take on things too. . . . . . . very different, well it would be wouldn't it?
This must be hell on earth for these guys, A CRUISE for "rock legends"? So during the day we can go bother them, pool side, for autographs? We get to see our hero's in speedos in the pool? Then later in the buffet line in-between Mable and Charlie from the Mid-West? This whole concept is SO wrong on so many levels!
Interesting divergence of opinion on the relative merits of Paul Rogers or Adam Lambert as a front man for Queen. Obviously some Queen diehards on this thread here preferred Lambert. I'm not one of them. In my opinion Lambert couldn't hold a candle to PR as a vocalist, the power, the range, or the stage presence. PR is a rock legend. Lambert obviously has talent, but his performance comes across as much more 'manufactured' in comparison to PR. Maybe that is an unfortunate by-product of these woefully synthetic talent shows, like 'American Idol', that somehow pass for 'live' entertainment these days. I can understand some Queen fans thinking Lambert was a better interpretative fit for Queen, but as a front man/vocalist he's honestly not in the same ball park as either PR or Freddie.
I like Alice and all, very charismatic and funny and a legend. As it happens I"m a meat eater myself but it's pretty hypocritical of him to agree with Paul about not hurting animals when he said himself elsewhere that he got his snake live white mice cos the snake wouldn't eat dead ones. I hate these fucking hypocrits who go on about animal cruelty so long as the animal being mistreated in question is cute, domesticated or a typical pet. If it's a mouse it doesn't matter. It is so hypocritical. And before anyone says '''you're a meat eater yourself and you criticize Alice for hypocrisy!''. But I'm not going on about cruelty to animals like I'm a kind considerate animal welfare hero and then hurting them.
I don't agree slynnc kitty. Not 'really' cruel? Nature is really cruel but that's nature and there's nothing we can do about it. However, engineering cruelty is another thing as of buying mice specifically for the purpose of feeding a pet and then saying don't be cruel to animals ie 'other' animals so long as those other animals don't include mice which will feed my snake!
Whether that snake is in the wild or captive, he will want to eat the same thing. Would you like the owner to starve him or give hime veggies that he will never eat? Even dinosaurs were divided into carnivores and herbivores. I guess perhaps Mother Nature is the cruel one. I love animals. I volunteer at a no kill humane society and I foster kittens. A few years back I rescued a praying mantis. Kept him in a fish tank and fed him crickets. That's what they eat. Not my choice, his.
We are just going to repeat ourselves here. As I've said, purposefully feeding animals to animals is cruel and hypocritical of Alice. I consider that a fact whatever reason or excuse you give slynnc kitty. We'll simply have to agree to disagree. Not being sarcastic with this but happy Xmas to you.
You can disagree all you want, but you will never get a carnivore to become a herbivore. You're disagreement is not with me, but with Mother Nature. Good luck and Merry Christmas to you as well.
SomethingEveryone I've never seen this. In his two documentaries he has everything is about the same. The only thing that is different is 1. Alice said he randomly thought of his name and in the newer version he said him and his band mates asked what his name was in a past life. 2. He said he just drank a lot when actually he was doing a lot of cocaine. Otherwise I think he has been pretty consistent.
+linda white actually cooper is one of the most iconic rockers in history. Also the very first musician to ever appear on Forbes magazine. Alice cooper can compete with anyone and everyone.
Alice Cooper is one of the greatest performers of all-time, one of my favorites. His stage shows even in 2015 are still amazing and he is still putting out great albums as well. Rodgers is one of the greatest vocalists ever.
There needs to be so much more of this..how many great musicians never cross paths enough to discuss things for the fans pleasure?
I'm in tears laughing at Alice's story of meeting Elvis. Priceless. He's such a great story teller.
After listening to this interview, I can't help but have more love and respect for both Alice Cooper and Paul Rodgers. Giving back to the community like they do, impressed me very much. God bless the both of them. Great interview.
Arguably, two legends? I doubt anyone would argue this.
Paul Rodgers . Member of the Original boy band (free) WHO were all about 20 or younger !.. they wrote most of there Own stuff Right from the start Alice !!! Paul Rodgers has Got more soul in his voice than Lambert could ever imagine ...and the power to rock the arse Off any audience as Well ... fantastic guy and talent . Always one take recordings , gets the notes first time .. intonation perfect and phrasing spot on. By the Way Paul Rodgers sang all the Queen songs in the same key as Freddy . So respect for the guy please.
Paul Rodgers ROCKS!!!
Greatest Rock vocalist of all time
Two of the good guys they still put on a great show 👍
Can`t praise Paul Rodgers enough, best male singer ever for me, and Alice is just great, i love his personality, very entertaining and despite his image....normal! :-)
My very first concert a week after I graduated from high school in 1979....Los Angeles Forum....BAD COMPANY!!!
Been hooked ever since.
A really good interview. Intelligent, engaging, insightful and fun. Well done to all those involved.
VERY nice interview with two of the all-time greats of rock -- love the mature conversational tone, with more depth than the usual sound-bite interviews nowadays. Enjoyed hearing Alice and Paul's thoughts and stories.
It is interesting to see people that we have admired showing their vulnerable side. They are just as star struck as we are when they share the stage with their idols. (Though I doubt I will ever have an opportunity to share the stage with a VIP). Though I have made a fool of myself when I had a conversation with a local NC celebrity once. The only thing missing was a shovel to dig a hole-tile floors make that difficult.
Two legendary rockers!
If you've never heard the British Rock Symphony, they put our our CD and it's amazing.
Tom Petty also met Elvis when Elvis was filming a movie in Gainesville, and this was when Tom was 8 or 9. That single event changed his life.
Absolutely love Paul Rogers...top 5 vocalist ever...but can’t help how he looks like Ernest T. Bass from the Andy Griffith Show dressed like that.
It's me its me it's ERNEST T!!!
@@robertsettle2590 "i got me a uni-form!"
He does favor Ernest,a KILLER lyricist
Alice and Paul were not disrespectful at all to Queen and/or Adam Lambert. And I had the same reaction as Alice to seeing Adam with Brian & Roger on the Idol finale... I just felt it so strongly in my bones that Adam was destined to contribute to the history of my favorite band, Queen.
Alright now ! and Schools out ! Two legends of the music world, side by side.
Alice is a great storyteller he’s cracking me up!
2 cool dudes!
What a fun interview...
I still have to put that free live cd in every once in awhile. Have to, I crave it once a year or so. So good and gritty. I always thought it was the Fking rent also.
Enjoyed this conversation between two great performers. But might mention, while PR is a superb singer, he wasn't the best fit for Queen. Saw the show with Lambert and he synced perfectly with B&R and Queen's music. Another thing - Lambert, while paying respect to FM, definitely was his own man on stage - saw no evidence of any imitating or copying - a unique performer in his own right -
2039marl Me 2, I have seen Adam Lambert with Queen and PR with Queen. Adam Lambert was a WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! better fit for Queen: range, personality and look. Exactly what Alice Coper said, 100 % true.
i love queen but the fans are nuts .people die
Great, thank you so much :)
2.der grossen Legende der Rock Musik..
I will go out on a limb and say that by Alice saying Adam did it like Freddie, Alice may have meant that the music was recognizable and in the spirit of Freddie, sung and conveyed to the audience the way that Freddie would have done it - with style and flamboyance, etc; not necessarily an exact imitation (vocal or otherwise). This was his way of differentiating Adam's interpretation from Paul's. I look at what Alice said as positive for Adam - that Adam was closer to the true spirit of Freddie and Queen. But that's just me :)
Not in a million light years is Adam close to Freddie in spirit! Not even close.
@@papabearM3 read again.. it says closer...
Am I the only one who thinks Alice Cooper should be the Vocalist & the catalyst for a YARDBIRDS reunion featuring Jeff Beck/Jimmy Page/Jim McCarty/Chris Dreja(and if Chris can't do it?how about Paul Rodgers on Bass & Backing vocals)?
Alice tells a wonderful story
Vince is such a funny guy.
Ed9870 He's a smart guy, too. I'm from Michigan and enjoyed him for years. I'm enough of a traditionalist that I'm still a little uneasy at the gender-bending "Alice" thing ("I really wouldn't understand" . . . I suppose), but there's no denying he has an amazing oeuvre and was a truly legendary showman.
Fact: Elvis had a black belt in martial arts.
Alice and Paul seem very laid back. Alice is a pretty funny guy if you think about it.
What's arguable about it? They are both legends. Rodgers even more so.
6 from 10 is always in my car.
I love it!!! I run it all the time!
Loyal rockers and yet I wonder why I'm not with them. I wish I could know what year they recorded this interview.
February 22, 2015. It's in the description.
Paul is great!
What they thought about Adam is inaccurate (38:00). Adam did not do it like Freddie did, in fact, IMO, he 'interpreted' it better than what PR could. What Adam does is far more complicated, and his delivery of the intentions of the songs are on point! He breathed life and theatrics back into the songs (Dragon Attack at Hammersmith, Killer Queen during the Q+AL tours etc), and he could hit every note on The Show Must Go On and Who Wants To Live Forever. I think Brian and Roger found the perfect piece of puzzle with Adam. I have seen both PR and AD with Queen. PR didn't feel right, in many ways whereas Adam fits Queen like a velvet glove. He's an interpretive genius!
I went to listen to Dragon Attack and Killer queen sung by Adam Lambert. ....I want to say first of all that he is a good singer. However, Adams delivery is feminine. Fredie Mercury was a very masculine singer regardless of anything else. He was raw and had a bit of that "metal" feel of rage and anger. Lambert appears to be a prancer. To a masculine man that is something that doesn't connect. His moves made me cringe in all honesty. Overall, he puts in a decent effort but his stage persona does not connect with me at all. ...Again not hating..just one mans opinion. Take it for what its worth.
personally I found the televised Queen/Adam show a massive turn off ( literally ) . I didn't particularly like Paul fronting them either. the only vocalist who has done them justice was George Michael. His version of " somebody to love " was as good as the original.
@@richardtofts8546
Have you seen Marc Martel’s version? Check it out, mate.
One was a drama performance the other was a rock performance. It goes to which you prefer.
I am a rocker with Paul.
Hilarious to see Alice ok imitate Bob Dylan
Maybe one reason that the Yardbirds songs were so different is that they were covers of a 16 year old songwriter called Graham Gouldman!
Alice Cooper is a true Rock"er
one is a legendary singer/songwriter the other a decent songwriter with loud voice. Legend being Paul Rodgers.
Agree that Paul Rodgers is a good singer but, Alice Cooper is known world-wide and people can name his tunes. I doubt that PR is as recognizable
Tom Chaplin knocks A.L. into a cocked hat for me. Non of your Lambert vocal affectations and over singing. I quite liked Pauls take on things too. . . . . . . very different, well it would be wouldn't it?
Very entertaining.
Nice Mullet
I think if Vincent Furnier hadn't been involved with rock,he might of been a comedian.
This must be hell on earth for these guys, A CRUISE for "rock legends"? So during the day we can go bother them, pool side, for autographs? We get to see our hero's in speedos in the pool? Then later in the buffet line in-between Mable and Charlie from the Mid-West? This whole concept is SO wrong on so many levels!
Cruise is another name for prison ship
Interesting divergence of opinion on the relative merits of Paul Rogers or Adam Lambert as a front man for Queen. Obviously some Queen diehards on this thread here preferred Lambert. I'm not one of them. In my opinion Lambert couldn't hold a candle to PR as a vocalist, the power, the range, or the stage presence. PR is a rock legend. Lambert obviously has talent, but his performance comes across as much more 'manufactured' in comparison to PR. Maybe that is an unfortunate by-product of these woefully synthetic talent shows, like 'American Idol', that somehow pass for 'live' entertainment these days. I can understand some Queen fans thinking Lambert was a better interpretative fit for Queen, but as a front man/vocalist he's honestly not in the same ball park as either PR or Freddie.
Cooper never shuts up
I like Alice and all, very charismatic and funny and a legend. As it happens I"m a meat eater myself but it's pretty hypocritical of him to agree with Paul about not hurting animals when he said himself elsewhere that he got his snake live white mice cos the snake wouldn't eat dead ones. I hate these fucking hypocrits who go on about animal cruelty so long as the animal being mistreated in question is cute, domesticated or a typical pet. If it's a mouse it doesn't matter. It is so hypocritical. And before anyone says '''you're a meat eater yourself and you criticize Alice for hypocrisy!''. But I'm not going on about cruelty to animals like I'm a kind considerate animal welfare hero and then hurting them.
Mice, reptiles, insects, etc are some of what snakes eat in the wild so it's not really cruel. Is it cruel when a lion kills another animal for food?
I don't agree slynnc kitty. Not 'really' cruel? Nature is really cruel but that's nature and there's nothing we can do about it. However, engineering cruelty is another thing as of buying mice specifically for the purpose of feeding a pet and then saying don't be cruel to animals ie 'other' animals so long as those other animals don't include mice which will feed my snake!
Whether that snake is in the wild or captive, he will want to eat the same thing. Would you like the owner to starve him or give hime veggies that he will never eat? Even dinosaurs were divided into carnivores and herbivores. I guess perhaps Mother Nature is the cruel one. I love animals. I volunteer at a no kill humane society and I foster kittens. A few years back I rescued a praying mantis. Kept him in a fish tank and fed him crickets. That's what they eat. Not my choice, his.
We are just going to repeat ourselves here. As I've said, purposefully feeding animals to animals is cruel and hypocritical of Alice. I consider that a fact whatever reason or excuse you give slynnc kitty. We'll simply have to agree to disagree. Not being sarcastic with this but happy Xmas to you.
You can disagree all you want, but you will never get a carnivore to become a herbivore. You're disagreement is not with me, but with Mother Nature. Good luck and Merry Christmas to you as well.
I wonder if anything Cooper has ever said is true?...
+SomethingEveryone anything he said referring to what?
Anything, literally!
He seems to be a compulsive liar! lol
SomethingEveryone I've never seen this. In his two documentaries he has everything is about the same. The only thing that is different is 1. Alice said he randomly thought of his name and in the newer version he said him and his band mates asked what his name was in a past life. 2. He said he just drank a lot when actually he was doing a lot of cocaine. Otherwise I think he has been pretty consistent.
@@SomethingEveryonehe was part of Hollywood vampires drinking club in late 60 s/70s. All these guys know each other
neither ,of these 2 could compete with karevick /lambert/khan/ kiske/ and 100 others
and they dare to diss
+linda white actually cooper is one of the most iconic rockers in history. Also the very first musician to ever appear on Forbes magazine. Alice cooper can compete with anyone and everyone.
how you gonna see me now destroys your comment.
Lady your off your rocker....When adam lambert writes a song that people still sing 40-50 years later come talk.
bodeswell35 only to joke people....
you got shit for brains or what?