Alice Cooper on How He Became Alice Cooper | The Big Interview
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- @AliceCooper, singer of beloved tracks like "School's Out," "No More Mr. Nice Guy," and "I'm Eighteen," talks with Dan Rather about how The Beatles pushed him toward a career in music, forming a band with his school friends in Arizona, getting a big break thanks to Frank @zappa and more on The Big Interview.
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Alice Cooper disturbed me a little as a kid. Turns out he's a true gentleman, and pretty dang smart too. And he loves his parents to boot. A great American.
Judging a book by the cover. 😏
1 ALMOST SHIT MY PANTS. WHEN I HEARD HE PLAYS GOLF HA HAHE HA. FUCKIN FUNNY. IMAGINE BEING ON THE GOLF COURSE. NEAR NIGHT TIME. AND SEEING THIS GUY IN MAKEUP. BEHIND YOU. YA TURN BACK AND HES TGERE WITH HIS EVIL GRIN WITH HIS HAT. PLAYING TO FAST AND FUCKIN UO YA HOLES. CAUSE YATRYING TO GET AWAY. FUNNY
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I. LOVE IT LOVE❤ IT. ME 2. SCARY DUDE. MY 1ST CASSETTE EVER. WOW. GREAT. BUT WHEN YA SEE IT ON THE PHONE OR WAY BACK ON MTV. ITS 👍 LIKE. WHAT THE FUCK. HOLY SHIT. HE IS PERFECT GENTLEMAN. AND SPEAKS VERY ELOQUENTLY. WITH A HIGH CABULARY. JEKLE AND HYDE ? IS HE LIJE THAT WHEN HE DRINKS. ? OR DOES HE SWITCH ? SICK. VERY WONDERFULL UNIQUE FOR SURE INDIVIDUAL. NIGHTFENCER GATEKEEPER. BOSTON. BRAINTREE. LOVE THIS MAN HES SO KOOL. LIKE RINGO?
Met him twice, genuinely nice guy
Alice fan for a very long time. His onstage persona is totally stage. This man is so different than people expect. Avid golfer/athlete, family man married now 48 years, private but charitable. Behind that freak rock n roll stage show is a true gentleman.
He's strangely opposite to the stage persona. He's a devout Christian, a devoted husband, a great golfer, and generous personality. The list goes on and on. About the stage act, he says, "It's all show business", so he must be a fairly brilliant businessman also as well as a talented performer.
The guy is awesome.. I love his music and the fact that he never took himself too seriously...that, I think was the key to his success. A little humility can go a long way.
True...but getting sober shouldn't make you play golf with Republicans.
@@geoffreylogsdon162 True. Only high morals and excellent taste could do that.
@@ron.v "high morals"... you make me laugh! :)
Just a quick, funny story in case Alice Cooper reads these comments!
My mom was 15 in 1972, and my grandfather purchased a new car with this new 8 track player! She wanted to practice driving so he would let her drive it up and down the driveway by herself, but she wanted to listen to music too! Well my grandfather took her to the mall to the record store to buy an 8 track tape for the new car but he would not let her buy any of that "rock and roll crap" so she said I just want this Alice Cooper 8 track and he said "that name sounds like a nice young lady, you can get that one!" I miss you mom! Love you!
Nice young lady!
beautiful
I love it! ❤️
🤘❤
!!!!!!!! To your Mom!!!!!
Alice Cooper is probably one of the biggest almost-forgotten rockers of all-time! People forget how big he was in the early 70s! "Welcome to my Nightmare" was incredible!
Welcome to My Nightmare is the debut solo studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released on February 28, 1975.
Welcome to my nightmare was the end of rock Alice and the beginning of stage show Alice.
“Welcome to my nightmare” is a masterpiece!
I got for Christmas welcome to my nightmare an bungle in the jungle as my first two albums Vincent Price was the man from then on watched every movie I could find waited my whole life to hear Vince talk about working with him
Their best album was Billion Dollar Babies period.
Alice is a very good human being, a very intelligent, incredibly talented guy, who sounds exactly the same as he did 50 years ago.
My mum's name was Alice Cooper before she married 😂🙌
@Alicecooper-fd8dk she looked like you Alice and could fight blokes 😂
I met Vincent Furnier little over 20 years ago at a Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale Arizona. He was putting up his 1970 Shelby Mustang up for auction at the time. I happened to have suffered a torn calf muscle playing tennis just a few days earlier at the hotel I was staying at. One of the goals of my trip was to attend my first Barrett-Jackson auction. But being on crutches, going to a show of that nature was very daunting. Because I had so looked forward to attending my first Barrett-Jackson, a local friend of mine offered to drive me to the sight and of course I accepted without even realizing this would be at best quite a physical challenge.
When we got there, I hobbled out on to the field where the cars were stored prior to being auctioned, I saw the Shelby and wanted to get a closer look at it. As I was gingerly poking my head into the open drive's side window I heard a voice from behind me that asked "you like that car?" I replied yes I do and as soon as I finished saying that I slowly pivoted around on the crutches and there he was. I asked "hi what do I call you?" He replied "call me Vince." He immediately took pity on me and asked what happened and I explained it and he went on to say something to the affect that at our age we should be playing golf instead and I totally agreed with him.
From that point on we talked mostly about antique cars and golf for a few minutes (never even spoke about music) then he asked if I need assistance in getting back to the pavilion where the auction was taking place. I replied thanks but I needed to practice on using the crutches. He said ok but if I need assistance he showed me what I needed to do to get some.
I echo the words of the comment immediately before me in this thread in that he is a true gentleman and a smart man all around. If you are reading this Vince, thank you so much for taking the time to make me feel good when I needed it most and above all keep on rocking!
You're calling him "Vince" but that's not a name he goes by any longer. It's a statement he's made repeatedly
I have his lps and listen to them to this day. I'm 74. The music today sucks.
Two gentlemen having a cultivated conversation. What a delight!
Do you mean "cultured", maybe?
Say what you want about Alice, but he is unique, smart, a class act, and his head is in the right place. A true, American success story!👍🇺🇸❤️
He introduced theatrics to R&Roll, before Kiss, even more so than Little Richard...
@@petersonlafollette3521 He got the idea from Screaming Lord Sutch. "During the 1960s Screaming Lord Sutch was known for his horror-themed stage show, dressing as Jack the Ripper, pre-dating the shock rock antics of Arthur Brown and Alice Cooper."
Since B$b but I returned when you released Lost in America
‘lost in america” really floored me, and "Poison" ...the fright show chemistry was still there...
Alice?????!!!!! Really??? Man, I’ve been a fan since 1975- the year I graduated! Dug your music, and thought you were just a cool guy. Saw the black widow video in the theater I believe in 1978? Thereabouts. Was crazy!! I admire you, brother. I’m nobody to admire. Just a fan.👍🎸🥁🇺🇸❤️
This made me miss Frank Zappa even more. I'm SO Glad Alice Cooper is still with us.
Alice is a class act all the way, a true original.
Alice Cooper is one of my favorite people, really nice, smart and great sense of humor too! Forgot to mention he rocks too!!👍🥰
@StevenTyler887 you don’t have no common sense
Humour*
So many of these successful rock'n'rollers are hilariously well-educated gentlemen when it's time to calmly sit and speak as themselves. I like the fact that Alice freely admits he had a happy, secure, conventional childhood, and did not get into rock because he was angry but because it was funny and fun.
I saw him last night along with Motley Crue and Def Leppard. I have to say I’ve never seen a musician on stage pull off an act like he did. Blew my mind. Not to mention my favorite act out of the three of them. No offense to the other bands, because they were awesome too.
Alice always steals the show 😁
I've never told this story before.......saw alice opening for the crue hollywood bowl 7 years ago. I always knew his hits my teenage years in the 70's but didn't really care for his music. He walks on stage doing hello hooray and i've never been so blown away in my life, and ive seen everyone!
I Was there to
Great interview. Always enjoy listening to a chat with Alice!
I'm Eighteen and Schools Out........ That did for me.
Alice
One morning a couple of years back, I walked into the pro shop at our golf club and the Pro hangs up the phone, looks at me and says “that was Calloway Golf setting up a tee time, do you want to play golf with Alice Cooper on Tuesday morning”! Couldn’t say yes fast enough. We had a really nice time, great guy, easy and interesting to talk with. My lucky day.
Alice is always a pleasure to listen to.Use to listen to his radio show and found his recall fascinating, he was hanging out with all the big guy's in the business but never comes across as boastful I could listen to him for hours, obviously highly intellectual. Great songwriter and singer, he's one of the " one offs" that come along every now and then and are sadly fading from the music business.... enjoy him while he's around he's a class act !!!!!!
Came off so cool and smart- he is the R&R version of the Rat Pack...
Been an Alice Cooper fan since I was 14. And I am now 66 and I still love him!!❤❤ God bless you, Alice!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Alice and Glen Campbell were neighbors, and golfing best friends in Phoenix!
…and attended church together.
His band was the house band at the EastTown in Detroit. This was before the makeup and stage show. Their lighting was Christmas tree lights. They were the first or second to go onstage with usually a three group lineup every weekend. When they hit it big with Schools Out, I was at an auditorium early on the day of the night show. The roadies were setting the stage and I'm like the only one sitting in the auditorium seats. Alice comes over and sits next to me and introduces himself as Vince and after asking how I was doing, asked if there were any good golf courses in the area. I actually played at the time and relayed all I knew about local courses. I thought that was a weird request but one day I was laying on the couch and a ProAm golf tournament was on TV. There he was in red pants and shirt and was obviously a scratch golfer. The announcers had no clue and were flabbergasted. His team won.
Uh, yeah, goshure said my mom.
@@matsumoku1 Your mom have better grasp of English than you?
Cool story!
I've seen and heard "a few"... as of now, this is by far the best Alice interview ever. Ever. Thank you so much! Alice Cooper for ever!
I was never a real big fan of Alice Cooper until I started listening to his Nights with Alice Cooper radio show. He turned me on to music that I had never heard before. He also really answers the questions you leave on the website. He has answered several of my questions and It's cool to hear your name and his take or answer to my questions.
I love Nights with Alice Cooper!
Billion Dollar Babies is one of the best albums ever made!
Agreed!!
Alice Cooper reminds me of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Very smart individuals. Great Make up. It worked!!
I have seen Alice Cooper in concert twice . Once in 1981 and once in early 2000s . Still puts on a great show . 🙂
I have huge respect for this man.
His music always had a Great BITING Guitar and catchy vocal Hook ! Under My Wheels (Hooked Me) I still sing it when in my 69 442 Convertible 4 speed
Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits
“Welcome to My Nightmare” (1975)
“Elected” (1972)
“Under My Wheels” (1971)
“Poison” (1989)
“No More Mr. Nice Guy” (1973)
“Billion Dollar Babies” (1973)
“School's Out” (1972)
“I'm Eighteen” (1971)
If you were a teenager in the early 70's Alice Cooper was just as important to listen to as Led Zeppelin or The Stones! I was 12 in 1970 in the Hudson Valley, NY. About 2 hrs. north of NYC., with radio and the local record stores we grew up pretty fast lol
I was 12 in 1970, too. And lived just North of NY in Westchester Co. Wild times.
Best friends with Glen Campbell?! Very underrated voice too
Certainly he is gem in Arizona. If you ever get a chance to meet him you will see he is a genuine gentleman.
Lucky his parents weren't strict preachers, loved rock'n roll, and he was well influenced by Fab Four like Brad Delp did.
@Alicecooper-fd8dk i listen various performers. And watching since almost 30 years.🇮🇹
@Alicecooper-fd8dk i do not have it for sure, the latter. I connect with Zharoff, remembering Sinead
I could listen to him talk all day.
Saw him in Germany in 1975, welcome to my nightmare...GREAT SHOW!
Alice Cooper is definitely one of the worlds greatest performers.
Plenty of entertainers play villains but hold Godly beliefs... Vince Furnier (Alice Cooper) is a fantastic example of this.....I think he's greater at being a "Chameleon" than even the Great David Bowie.
I wonder if Alice ever saw a performance by England's horror themed rocker Screaming Lord Sutch.
Oddly Enough I Never Got
The Panties
Being in a Record Club I Learned You Can Not Take These Albums Even if Brand New and Sealed in Cellophane Too Licorice Pizza They Will Not Give You Credit
Because All The Columbia House Records Had Fine Print On The Album Cover
Columbia House Records
This is Even More Diabolical
The Record Artist Was Not Getting Paid For These Records The Record Label Considered Record Clubs as Promotional….So it Was
Rod Stewart Who Put a Stop To That Nonsense and Had His Contract Stated That He Got Paid For Every Record Pressed Not Every Record Soled
So The Book Keepers Manufacturing Rod Stewart Albums Had Too Show Albums Pressed Not Albums Sold
And The Panties I Could Only Imagine What They Smell Like Now
Thank You In The Mysterious World of
TH-cam For Your Thumbs Up Alice Cooper Kool
and Not Ray Miland in The Lost Weekend
Also I Mean Peter Lawford
Not Lorie
My poem dude is back!! (And by the way his name is Peter Lorre, not Lorie...but props for even knowing who he is!).
Please post more comments, these are great!!
I always loved him as an artist, but his appearance in Wayne's World opened my eyes to what a great PERSON he is.
I wonder if his old friends still call him Vincent, or do they use his stage name?
I've always loved Alice Cooper.
My favorite artist of all time. I've been lucky enough to see him 4x & I will go everytime he's close.
What a guy! The first LP I bought with my own money was "Love it to death". It is still one of my favourites.
Even as a kid Alice intrigued me and I loved his Horror-Humorous style even as a pre-teen. I was lucky enough to see his show in Denver at a place that's no longer there!
McNichols?
My very first Rock n roll album was Billion Dollar Babies.
My pleasure to have seen him twice. Unbelievable
Reply How Long a Fan
It Was The Schools Out
Album And Hearing
West Side Story
“”When Your a Jet
You’re a Jet All The Way
From Your First Cigarette
Too Your Last Dying Day””
When I Heard That
That’s When I Became a
Life Long Fan….Some Of The Album He Talks Too You About His Family and Dad…..My Mom Was Over The Top Evangelical Yet She Was Also Hip Because
We Had Andre Cruoch
The Be Song Was “”I’ve Got Confidence “”
Yet We Could Only Listen To Man of La Mancha Oklahoma and West Side Story…..Yes Alice Cooper Was Hanging With John Lennon and Peter Lawford
Harry Nelson and Right There Was Alice Cooper And The Star Actress In Jackie Brown Pam grear I Markered My Sisters Barbie With Alice Cooper Eye Liner I Would Buy Used Dolls and Eye Line The Eyes 👀 and Put The Heads on The Antennas of Our Car
Then in The Mid 70’s Alice Was Hanging With Groucho Marx What a Kool Cat I Mean We All
Watched All
those Old Marx Brothers Movies 🎥 Yes
I’ve Been a Fan Since Schools Out Thanks Too The Columbia House Record Club
Sincerely yours
Mike and Glenn made Alice Cooper with the songs Mike wrote. Alice Cooper would be nothing with out them boys. I personally think Alice shit on them guys.
In the late 70’s my oldest brother turned me on to Alice Cooper and Frank Zappa. I was only 11-12 years old. I remember thinking these guys are whacked out. I still love them both today.
Bad title...there was NOTHING in the interview about "how" Alice became Alice Cooper. Wahi' Valleys
I met him on golf course in Canada. Good shot, nice guy too
My uncle used to watch them play on the roof of the house in high school.
I have Love it to Death in the glove box. Had a newspaper article from his Toronto concert 1970 over our window. Thanks Alice Cooper.🤔🌍✌
Have the very highest regard for Alice Cooper. A true gentleman and wonderful musician.
Love Dan Rather's interviews and Alice!
Great interview 🤘🇺🇲Alice Cooper is a legend an God fearing man the way ur supposed to be❤️🥰😘😘
What in the hell is "God-fearing" supposed to mean? If he is all loving and wonderful, why should anyone be afraid of him?
Aren't l supposed to be afraid of Lucifer??
If both of these dudes are supposed to scare the shit out of me, what is the point?
He was my gateway Goth band back in the early seventies. Well, him and KISS... then Bowie.
Seen Mr. Cooper 3 times. Wish it was 33 times! Alice at the Palace!
The story of Alice is like a lot of others getting knocked back all the time. The difference is Alice didn't listen to the people that said no.
He is an inspiration .
I was lucky enough to see Alice in his "Welcome to my nightmare" tour in Western Australia in 1977..., just brilliant. 🥰
Back in the '60s Alice Cooper was on Teen Beat (KPHO),my Mother watched the show to see watch 'her' sing.
I thought this was gonna explain why he called himself Alice.. The story he told on a TV documentary called Super Duper Alice Cooper... Was that he had a dream where he in a former life was a female witch being burnt at the stake and her name was Alice Cooper
I saw them in Shreveport, La. When they did the Billion Dollar BBies tour. Rode 90 miles to get there in a Volkwagen with only the emergency brake to stop with. Best 6 bucks I ever spent. Man, those were the days!!!
How did he become Jill Biden
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It was the group’s name and then he became Alice. He went to do a solo album without the band. He and Shep kept the name and Dennis, Michael, Neal and what was left of GB faded away. Most people don’t even know that it was the groups name and that they had an incredible run of albums from Love it to Death to Billion Dollar Babies (even though BDB was the sellout album that killed the group).
The group was one of the best.
i saw Bill$Babe @ Lawrence KS - 3 story high platforms, like in construction - the band played up there as Vincent Furnier did his dramatic schtick all along the stage!
Even Pretties For You and Easy Action had some redeeming moments. Billion Dollar Babies was a great album and Muscle Of Love was a good album. What killed the group was the constant touring and pressure from the record company, Warner Brothers, to keep coming up with another album. The band was tired, there was infighting, Michael Bruce and Bob Ezrin had it out, Alice had a desire to move on so he legally changed his name to Alice Cooper. Billion Dollar Babies wasn't a sellout, it was a great album. The band's true rock album is Killer.
@@gregorylapointe4157 it’s good, but very polished and the beginning of the end. Killer might be the peak. It’s unfortunate, but most great bands are lucky to have a run like they did. Even if they’d stayed, Alice’s late 70’s thru early 80’s crash would’ve killed the group anyway. I just think the band members don’t get nearly the credit they deserve. Michael Bruce seems to have taken more writing credit than was due, and he did want to make a solo album after Muscle of Love. I totally get having it out with Bob Ezrin. I would’ve punch him for the way he treated a lot of those bands he produced. He blew a whistle and acted as coked up drill sergeant to Kiss. Illini Dollar Babies is one of those victory lap records. The band doing what it’s already done (literally with Elected) but in a more polished, make way for the mainstream way. The Alice Cooper movie didn’t help. Alice was going Hollywood wether the band liked it or not. They were a band greater than the sum of its parts. They were truly great musically for awhile. The theatrics kind of got in the way of the musical reputation, but they influence that era of the band had on metal, punk, grunge, etc was so big that the legacy lived on. People wrote about those albums and people that weren’t even born when the group was going have been discovering them over and over. I don’t know that the original group could’ve been saved, but o think the way the group and name got highjacked and they were left in the dust was callous, especially considering that they’d been friends since childhood. Dennis pulls plenty of punches in his book, but even with that mindset of protecting “Alice’s” reputation, he says they were blindsided by the Welcome to my Nightmare special, the high jacking of the name (completely at this point), and claiming in the press that they didn’t want to do theatrical performances anymore, which he says wasn’t true. They deserved better. They arguably came up with more of the Alice persona than Vince did. They wrote most of the lyrics and came up with all of the music. They also came up with many of the stage concepts. He did a brilliant job making that character come to life, but it was a group creation that he and Shep ran off with. Did they pay the other 4 members for their share of the Alice Cooper group? No. They were sneaky about it and screwed those guys. Without that era of his career and those songs, there would be no Alice Cooper tours or mid 80’s comeback in hair metal.
Well said. It’s amazing how Vince gets such a smooth ride from the press. They never do any research and have been swallowing his and Shep’s bullshit for years.
It always surprised me that he and Glenn Campbell were best friends. They met in rehab.
Dan Rather injects his own opinions into the questions. Alice does a great job of dealing with it.
He DJ's on one of our rock stations five nights a week (M-F) and he is in concert at one of the Casinos. He is an excellent DJ, just wish the station would let him play any songs he wants.
Don't capitalize "casinos."
@@guyrabinowitzThe name of a particular casino and a town called Casino are capitalised.
I think it's amazing how many successful artists from that generation credit seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan as the spark that got them into being in a band.
Love the Coop. An amazing show , real showmanship and panache. Schools out is one of my favourite albums
I love “School’s out”, but even better is the story behind it! Alice Cooper is the real deal!
Been a fan since my early teens along with most of the neighborhood I grew up in. I’ve seen Alice 3 times. The Warehouse in New Orleans for the Flush The Fashion tour probably 1980 or 81. Then at UNO early to mid eighties. Great show. Then the House of Blues mid 90’s. Killer and Love It To Death are 2 of the best rock and roll albums ever recorded. Every song on them is great.
Hey folks HIS NAME IS NOT ALICE COOPER. That is the band name
It's both. It started as the band name, and then he adopted it as his stage name.
Always thought A C was 100 times better then Kiss couldn't understand why later KISS was brought back as great and not A C .
1000 times better than KI$$ my Azz
@@ScarlettFire341 I just didn't want to get over the top, but I agree with you.
I was a teenager in the 70s and l always thought Kiss sucked ass. I still think so. Talk about flash and no substance, that is them. Their music is garbage. So said 14 year old me, and still says 60 year old me.
When he and his band were first starting out I would 'sneak' into many of their concerts. I was 17, had lots of long hair, and dressed and looked pretty cool. I 'blended'. I'd stand on the side of the stage, and watch him and his band perform. They were always consummate professionals. From where I stood I could look out at the audience and see their thousands of faces looking up at him, with big smiles. (Some did stare at me, wondering, I am guessing, who I was...) It was all great fun, and I probably owe Alice Cooper a bag full of money for all the entrance tickets I never bought. But it was just so much fun to sneak in the back door and look like I was 'with the band'.
I never really saw him do this thing, I just really liked the music
Dan didn't ask him why the singer's name was Alice. I guess listen baby, you really wouldn't understand
@StevenTyler887 you don’t have a sense
The first time I saw Alice Cooper, (Welcome to my Nightmare Tour) in 1975, I was blown away my the theatrical show he put on. It was the first time I had seen a early attempt (and it was awesome) at multiple medium show. So simple yet so awesome .
It started out with a large white sheet with slits in it. (It was already up when we got to the venue). As the concert music started we could see fairies dancing on the screen. When the fairies jumped from the video to the stage in person (hence that it why the sheet had slits) They did there dancing in stage and at the endings of the song they just back into the screen and went off to another land. Absolutely mind blowing we were we not stoned 😅. That was just the beginning of one of the most awesome shows I had seen for decades.
Ditto to all of above, However I was stoned. What a blast.
I saw him do that show in Boston, Suzi Quatro was his opening act. Alice put on a great show although I had really wanted to see the original band. I remember before Suzi came out on stage Elton John's The Bitch Is Back was playing over the Boston Garden loud speakers.
@@aussiefarmer8741
DITTO DITTO Boston Garden 1975 we we up front and blown away - and the guillotine scene at the end - WOW - Music was Very Loud & Clear too
This guy is an impersonater! I saw Alice die in the electric chair in 1970!
Hahaha
When i was a bairn , i was listening to " id like to teach the world to sing" by the new seekers, and " tie a yellow ribbon" by dawn, then one day my big sister Annie leant me a listen to her new LP "billion dollar babies" by alice cooper, "unfinished sweet" and " i love the dead " ,i didn't stand a chance , i was lucky enough to see them live in the 80s "nightmare returns" tour , it can only be described as a theatrical extravaganza, ther is nothing about alice cooper not to like , what a precious human being, 🏴 happy healthy peace ✌️
He worships death and bloodshed. ..yet he claims to be Christian...they don't mix. ...Alice
I'm not an Alice Cooper fan but the man was a genius
Damn Good Interview.
Cooper stabbed his band in the back and signed a solo contract, completely forsaking the band he made it to the top of the rock mountain with. Then, after a couple of hits, his career went lame. Alice Cooper the band is far more memorable than anything Alice Cooper the man did! Ask people who were around then! Ask them if they liked Alice Cooper. Just about all of them would say yes and just about all of them would be referring to the band!
The band were clearly burned out on Muscle Of Love, in addition to the serious alcohol problems in the band (most people don't know that the last AC album Glen Buxton played on was Killer, because he was so fucked up all the time). Please see the thank yous to Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter on BDB, and l think both of them again on MOL along with Bob Dolin.
"Supposedly", WTMN was going to be an Alice solo album, and the band was "supposedly" going to regroup after everyone got their shit together.
Personally l don't believe this story for a second, and even if he was unloading the band for a solo career there was absolutely no reason to throw his best friend and one of the best rock bassists in the world, Dennis Dunaway, out with everyone else.
"Nightmare" was a fine album and fantastic live show, but in case you weren't there, that was as big as Alice got by himself. Goes To Hell was a serious disappointment after that, and the diminishing returns continue to this day.
Extraordinary that the last good record the guy made was 48 years ago and he is still going.
If you like anything he has done since 1975, please go ahead and enjoy it!
As a guy who got to live through the 70s as a teenager and watch Alice, Aerosmith, Nugent, and so many others lose their mojo in real time, all of that later stuff to me is just horrible to listen to.
Then again l also think AC/DC's last good album was Powerage, and l was also a Gentle Giant and Tull freak so maybe l am the one who is messed up 😊
Also when Vince and Dennis were teenagers both of them were Salvador Dali maniacs. Years later when the band was still together Alice got invited to a soiree where he hung out with Dali and pounded a case or two of Bud, and didn't even bother to invite Dennis to go with him.
Band or no band, that was a shitty thing to do to your best friend.
Just saw him at a packed arena last week. Seems to me his career has done just fine.
The story behind the band name Alice Cooper is great too, totally not how I originally thought it was
Alice Cooper should run for President as an Independent....he wants to be elected, after all....
I first saw Alice in Birmingham Al in 1970 at a state fair in a tent. Then two years later at the Birmingham Auditorium
Don't cave to the woke makeup company... like Carlos Santana!!!!!
Well,i love Alice,but the fair thing would have been to name Arthur Brown as a huge influence...
I met Alice Cooper's father in the early 80's when he was an engineer working for Goodyear Aerospace. I had no idea at the time that he was Alice's father.
Alice Cooper the entertainer is a persona. Actually a very kind, intelligent and Christian man.
Saw Alice live at Firebird raceway outside of Emmett, Idaho when I was in high school. Great show.
This man is a gorgeous surprise! ❤
Glad he's a Christian now
I hope there’s more to come.I would like to chime in with I couldn’t care less about the horror stage show.The hits were fantastic records.Even many of the album cuts that weren’t singles could’ve been.
I have 2 older brothers that were into music back then. And the 1st time I heard Alice I was hooked, I think I was 9. Forever a fan.
Great entertainer great showman.
I have never been a big fan of Alice's music, but he seems like a decent guy who is also very intelligent and I can appreciate what he brought to rock and roll.
Good interview but there's nothing on how he became Alice Cooper.
I remember as a teen in 1969 forming a heavy rock band. We'd never heard of Alice Cooper then but the lead guitarist suggested we call ourselves a name that people would think was a girl folk singer so the audience would not expect us. The name he suggested was Vera Dodd!
We didn't take him up on it
@Alicecooper-fd8dk We did a gig at a school just after the first moon landing. We'd recorded the last 60 seconds of the launch countdown, stood on a blacked out stage and as "We have ignition, we have lift off" came over the speakers the lights came on and amid clouds of CO2 from dry ice nicked from the school lab we launched into Hawkwind's Silver Machine. We were 15 and thought we were cool. Oh well.
@Alicecooper-fd8dk Originally mid Essex now in Cornwall.
@@carolramsey6287 how about a cozy conversation outside TH-cam