Alice Cooper - Who Do You Think We Are - Paris 1981
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- Alice Cooper - who do you think we are and You're a movie as performed in Paris 1981
I have included the interview & two tracks missing from other versions, I have included the original titles, which are at the end as most people will not watch them. Presented in correct 4.3 aspect ratio, most other versions on TH-cam are stretched to 16.9. Received from a contact at a Scandinavian TV station in 1997 on Maxell HGX Black VHS tape, PAL Hifi, recorded at SP. Tape archive 1567 saved to DVD 4002
Alice Cooper a Paris (more commonly known as Alice in Paris is a French television special starring Alice Cooper. A series of music videos of songs from his then-current album Special Forces with a few songs from Flush the Fashion and some older hits mixed in, several songs were re-recorded for the special ("Only Women Bleed", "I'm Eighteen", "Billion Dollar Babies", "School's Out") and have shown up as B-sides of singles with crowd noises mixed in to give the illusion that they were live recordings. The songs are performed in English, but one brief split-screen sketch features French dialogue as radio disc jockey Vincent Furnier (Cooper's real name) interviews Alice.
There has never been an official release, copies have been circulating amongst Alice Cooper fans for decades. Most copies are missing opening credits, (Present in this video) leading fans to refer to it under a variety of incorrect titles, including Alice in Paris, The Paris Special and 16 Tracks.
Who Do You Think We Are 01:15
You're a Movie 04:01
Original Titles 07:22
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Alice is the MAN. 🖤✒🃏🏴
Thanks for watching and commenting John
@@ScottishTeeVee Thank you for posting this great video!
His blackout lyrics and stage presentation are better than most straight edge, teetotaller artists!!
Well yeah, duh. Straight edge is boring af.
@@gurnblanston5000 It’s crazy how so many people are still in denial over Alice’s partaking of massive quantities of cocaine during this period. I still see it and hear it from people all the time… “no, Alice never touched anything but booze”… even years after Alice himself had admitted that he was freebasing coke on a regular basis during the early 80’s. He was seriously off his f’n head at this time. Looked like a painted corpse that suddenly sprung to life. It was arguably the most interesting point in his entire career, even though musically I’m much more partial to the original band (early 70’s). I’m glad he survived it.
Coked out Alice was something else
Like death eating a cracker.
Alice in punk / post nuke!
I like this period
The album Special Forces is underestimated, 41 years later, it is easy and original to listen to, a mixture of punk rock with a new wave, Alice Cooper reincarnation
Special forces is a brilliant criminally underated album, but it has to be listened to a few times to get it. On first listen it's a complete shock to any long time Alice fan. It's just so weird and different, but like a vintage wine it matures with age and it's a cooper classic. One of his best
@@laurencelevene4333 I don’t know. I got it right when it came out. After Flush The Fashion it wasn’t really much of a shocker. I could already tell it was kind of headed in that direction. What did catch me off guard was a couple of years later, when DaDa came out. To this day that album is really hard to classify. It’s a real standalone in Alice’s discography, even by “blackout” standards.
@@Shikta-poobah67 Dada is definitely one of Alice coopers best albums. It's in my top ten Alice albums of all time. Shame hardly anyones ever heard it
@@laurencelevene4333 I would say that aside from the very first album (Pretties For You), it’s without a doubt his most bizarre and uncategorizable album. It’s generally included with the “blackout” era, but like I said I see it as completely it’s own thing. Alice says he has no memory of recording it whatsoever, which only adds to the mystique.
Punk + New Wave = Cyber Punk
This is great
Special Forces Alice is the scariest Alice.It actually reminds me of my old mans 2nd wife.
And even scarier than that was Zipper Catches Skin era Alice, which unfortunately wasn’t really documented much at all. He was at his absolute worst during the recording of that particular album from what I understand.
I love how in recent years more and more stuff from this period of Alice keeps surfacing. There’s been a big resurgence (or perhaps I should just say “surge”) of interest in the blackout era lately. It’s definitely an interesting chapter of his career. Much more interesting than either of the eras that it’s sandwiched between (the muppet era and heavy metal Alice).
Anyway, this is the first I’ve seen of this. Good stuff.
Comedian Freddy Lewis used to blare this 8-track in his 1981 Datsun for yeeeeaaaaarrrrsss!
Never heard of him, so I googled him, nothing, other than a basketball player of the same name
@@ScottishTeeVee He was a renowned legendary comedian from San Francisco, famous for his shows at The Holy City Zoo. He was friends with Robin Williams and even appeared in a documentary about Robin. He's been in several indy films over the years.
@@rockinyouallnight Thanks for that info, I looked him up and recognised him only from the movie Tin Cup, I will look further into his work. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
This is so rad!!
Thank You!
Thank you for watching and commenting
During “You’re A Movie” he’s bizarrely almost channeling Mark E. Smith from The Fall with his adding “ah” at the end of his verses…
Glad you mentioned it as I thought I was the only one who may ever notice that.
Little known fact: Comedian Freddy Lewis’ fave Alice album is “Special Forces”! xoxo The Clarences
I have never seen this before today ! Thank you for sharing this video with all the extra information, done very well like a pro👍🏻 My first concert in the 60’s was
The Monkees with the great Jimmy Hendrix ! My two hippie uncles were in charge of babysitting us lol. Who knew that would include concerts 👍🏻 Then my first concert in the 70’s was Alice Cooper with the hard core band Judist Priest !!
Yet I never heard of this, thank you for taking the time to put this together, better than the pro’s did 😎 Very well done, now time to watch it again…..
Thanks for watching and commenting David. What a great first concert you had, wish I'd had such cool uncles. 😎
Great comment! It doesn't get any better Alice Cooper and Judas Priest if you ask me!
Thanks for uploading this, for those that could not see this tour. Really appreciate it.
Our pleasure!
His best classic rock LP.
Special Forces is my favorite Alice Cooper album.
A masterpiece!
A masterpiece from Alice cooper and criminally underated
My 1st and still favorite! Aggressive!!
It may be my favorite of his solo albums, or at least 2nd favorite… but compared to the original Alice Cooper band it doesn’t even come close… except for possibly Muscle Of Love.
I actually really love Alice's "black out" period! He has many underated tracks during that time,as he's said he wouldn't mind going back and redoing or at the very least remixing some of those albums!
Zipper / DADA / Special Forces, the holy trinity of Alice!!
Absolutely agree. HALLELUJAH!!!
Flush the Fashion is my favorite.
Generation Landslide!!! A classic!!!
Never paid much attention to this era. Got a big Michigan sound. Iggy and MC5. I dig it.
0:00 Interview
0:30 Who Do You Think We are
4:02 You're a Movie
Thanks for commenting 🙂
I wish Alice would do the "Flush the Fashion" to "Zipper catches skin" era as a concert tour. I love every song and album he did during this era.
Songlist:
1. Who do we think we are!
2. Talk Talk.
3. Clones.
4. Prettiest Cop on the Block.
5. You're a movie.
6. Model Citizen.
7. You want it, you got it.
8. Pain.
9. Leather boots.
10. Skeletons in the Closet.
11. Adaptable (anything for you).
12.Nuclear Infected.
13. Make that Money (Scrooge's song).
14. No Baloney Homosapiens.
15. Asprin Damage.
16. Vicious Rumours.
17. I better be good.
18. I am the Future.
Encore:
No more Mr Nice Guy.
Schools out.
I don’t know what this guy did with Alice, but I liked him, I liked him a lot.
Alice at this time (after Lace and Whiskey) and especially here during the title song, looks like he was somebody else, almost as a stand-in for Alice Cooper, a doppelganger/surrogate/body double - But I'll be damned if the "blackout" albums aren't bangers in their own right! Hate em or love em (I choose the former). I wish he would bring some more stuff from them back to his shows now, although I could see how he has mixed feelings - Thanks for the upload!
I really like Flush the Fashion, Special Forces and Zipper Catches Skin. I also think DaDa is a masterpiece! I lost interest from Raise Your Fist and Yell onwards.
@@patrickhopkinson1851 I do like Special Forces a lot
Dada is a personal favourite
@@patrickhopkinson1851 dada is one of true Alice fans favorites. Real gem
ITS HOT TONIGHT off lace is heavy!!
С момента выхода этот альбом вот уже более сорока лет со мной.🎉
Actuality Special Forces and Zipper Catches Skin have great songs and lyrics are hysterical and witty.
Love this period of Alice's career
Special Forces and Dada are criminally underrated! There are lots of Alice albums to ignore - not those!
And Flush the Fashion
DaDa is fantastic
@@valeri-eb7vs I was gonna say. However I’m glad he left out Zipper Catches Skin. That one’s not even good for novelty purposes.
Those are definitely the two best albums from the “blackout” era, in my opinion. I would include Flush The Fashion, but in truth there’s really only 3 songs on it that I like (though Clones is hands down one of his all time greatest singles). Zipper Catches Skin is a total waste. Definitely not essential. DaDa is amazing. It takes several listens before it gets it’s weird hooks in you, but once it does it never lets go. That album is easily the most unique and uncategorizable thing he’s done as a solo artist (Pretties For You is even more unique, but that’s the original band). It was also the last decent album he made for a very long time. I wasn’t a fan of his metal era.
@@Shikta-poobah67 yes! Dada is amazing!! I regret not giving it a shot years ago. I’ve been a fan since being a little kid in the 70s but I slept on these records. There’s great material throughout!
Very reminicent of Devo. Very's 80's. At the time I did not like it at all. I think this may have been a turning point in that he started to adopt the sounnds of the times rather than make the sounds of the times. This of course continuses to this day, which is why he never could be as big as the Original Group or the Nightmare and Lace & Whiskey albums. Even the Goes to hell is too disco, but still very original given Wagner and Hunter.
At the time, I didn’t even know what to make of this. It was just… fucking weird. I mean, it’s still weird, but in hindsight it now makes a lot more sense since it finally came to light that Alice was freebasing cocaine daily (more like hourly) from roughly 1979 to 1983. Back then we had no idea, since Alice was somewhat famous for being a “booze only - no drugs” kinda guy. Personally I used to wonder if he was in the late stages of cancer back then. It was just all so bizarre in real time.
Special Forces rules. All these years, and I'm just NOW getting accustomed to the "Blackout Era". You're a Movie and Scrooge's Song are damn good considering he can't remember them.
cocaine is a helluva drug....
I would like to buy some of your glass.
Гений
Lace and Whiskey has good songs also, but Special Forces was my 1st A C. albums.. MC5 influence on that song. I have to check DaDa, Zipper, Prince of Darkness, and the 2000 to current albums now!!! From the Inside was epic, Flush was bizarre as a kid. Good times!!
Thanks for watching and commenting, so few AC fans ever do
@@ScottishTeeVee Yeah, us older folks forget to do more than thumbs up.
@@gurnblanston5000 🤣I'm with you, I often look in the refrigerator and wonder what I'm looking for or what my name is🙃
@@ScottishTeeVee 👍
brilliant your a movie movie movie what a song thank you for the upload
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for commenting
I can see how Marilyn Manson was influenced by this era.
Would have loved to have seen this entire album live. It was weird in a cool way.
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And cool in a weird way.
Thank you so much for this. Loved this Cooper era always wanted to see it live!!!
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I saw this tour in Saginaw Michigan. Alice and the band played great. But Alice looked like death warmed over. I also saw him the year before on the Flush the Fashion tour. Good days back then. I'd have to look but I think I paid like $9.00 for a ticket.
Saw the tour in Cleveland,loved it
@@jppagetoo He fell hard on coke during this period.
Thanks so much for this!
You're so welcome!
Comprei este disco na época e o meu favorito
Super Great Man & Super Great Music all the time FOREVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ........alex vitebsk Belarus. 🎩
I don't hate the blackout albums, but Alice looking like that should be mandatory for "Don't do drugs, kids" ads.
More like don’t drink booze. Drugs are fine.
No drugs just alcohol
@@TH-camIsRanByFagsandCommies He was doing cocaine here…
@@clinteastwood6875 you did too when filming Rawhide
@@gurnblanston5000 That’s why I know
This was my 1st AC concert it was in the States in Philly i seen him 5 times the Trash tour i had 2nd row seats center :) thanks for the upload
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Bless his heart. This is when he was so sickly on coke and alcohol.
Wonder where he was getting coke in France...I mean I know he'd score here and there...but any significant amount would be difficult and dangerous to obtain in a foreign country... I would assume
I think Alice was listening to a lot of DeVo , which is alright with me because DeVo were making great records at the time
perhaps 🙂
@@ScottishTeeVee this really sounds a lot like some of the the material from DeVo's Are We Not Men album. Which in my opinion is one of the most original and outstanding albums of the era. I don't know if Alice's hardcore fans would agree but I think this is some of his strongest material
@@PlayerToBeNamedLater1973 As log as you enjoy it, then that's all that matters. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment
Good stuff! Thanks for the upload!!
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment, much appreciated🙂
C'est une période très intéressante. Mal perçue à l'époque. Par contre ,j'ai beaucoup de mal avec la suite heavy métal des albums suivants. Ceci dit , c'est une immense star . Son nouvel album " Détroit story's " montre qu'il est toujours là et qu'il faut compter avec lui.
I wonder where he had his cocaine connection over in France...
His 4 blackout albums are actually some of his best work, no seriously!
Thanks for watching and commenting James
🤣🤣🤣
He won't even touch or acknowledge them😂
@@jonowens460saw him do “Pain” in 2017 I think. Somewhere in there. It was at Pantages in Hollywood.
Agreed.
G.R.E.A.T!!!!
Awesome 👏
Thanks 🤗
He looks sick in this so dang skinny and all. It must have been his drug days. So sad he looks better now at 75 then in this..😞😞😞😞
Agreed, he does not look great here. At this point in time, if I had brought Alice home, the first thing my gran would have done is sat him down and made him eat dinner 🤣 And yes he does look better now and is thankfully still with us 🎸
Alice was always boney. True he had was on a slow return to health, but he never lost his mojo.
He is way too thin here. What’s with the chopsticks in his hair?
He’s a dodo, oh no, you didn’t hear it from me….
не пиодор!!!!!
I wish they'd release this.
Surprised at how good this was.