He always seemed like a relatively decent guy to me.
seriously have no idea what you would base this on, everything I know about him = colossal asshole.
his 70s stuff is awesome obvy
― winoa ryder sexes creatures of the night (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 27 June 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I read his book on golf (laugh all you want). He came across as a decent guy. For me he doesnt come across as an asshole, like say Lars Ulrich or Ted Nugent or even Bruce Dickinson do.
― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Monday, 27 June 2011 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I wouldn't put him quite in that league (altho I dunno what there is to hate about Dickinson?)
― winoa ryder sexes creatures of the night (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 27 June 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
He seems like a dick. Maybe he can come off the list. Ulrich and Nugent are enough to get the point across.
― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Monday, 27 June 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Codger, i mean, classic rock is full of tomfool old white guys on the far right. They're the ones who never got invited to play Jackson Browne festivals or No More Nukes. Skunk Baxter was another notorious guitarist to the far right of things. Someone in Montrose, don't remember if it was RM himself or Sammy Hagar, was a gold bug fiat money conspiracy theory kook all wound up about the US going off the gold standard in 1971.
― Gorge, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't understand how he could have created this amazing freak persona in the early 1970s and then everything he's said or done since then has been to disown that persona, trying to reassure us all that he's just a regular beer-drinking, golf-playing, prude, Bee Gees-enjoying, conservative family man. It smacks of some kind of guilt complex.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I caught part of Alice's radio show not long ago, and he went on this rant about how rock 'n' roll allows you to sing about whatever you want. OK, sure, but he underscored it by saying, "Don't listen to all those people who say, [adopts whiny voice] 'Let's write songs about flowers!'" All I could think was: who exactly is saying that, Alice?
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Bobby Vinton?
― Josefa, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Seriously, fucking Vinton has a stranglehold on popular culture right now.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
everything he's said or done since then has been to disown that persona, trying to reassure us all that he's just a regular beer-drinking, golf-playing, prude
Well, I got the impression back then that he just wanted to be golf pals in Palm Springs with Bob Hope. And be on Hollywood Squares with Paul Lynde, Joanne Worley and Arte Johnson.
And he was a serious white knuckle alcholic, for a time using it as a de facto endorsement of Budweiser. There were lots of promo photos of him always with Budweiser and even one notably pic of him carrying an entire case as he walked across the runway getting off some tour plane.
Billion Dollar Baby, which I read, did communicate the image that behind the stage shtick, Vince and his bandmates were pretty square middle American guys. There wasn't any revolution on their minds. But MichaelBruce and ol' AC together could write some catchy hard rock tunes Bob Ezrin was able to develop on three and a half LPs, the debut on Warners, Killer, Billion Dollar Babies and a bit of Muscle of Love. Plus one classic single, "School's Out" on an album that was crap compared to the others.
The other claim to single fame is "I'm Eighteen." The first two Ezrin-produced albums areabout perfect.
― Gorge, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 05:50 (thirteen years ago) link
would somebody cop this and tell me if it's any good or exactly what you might expect
http://www.metalmachine.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/AliceCooperW2MNFinalCover.jpg
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Cooper’s widely anticipated new album, Welcome 2 My Nightmare, will be released September 13, 2011, by Universal Music Enterprises. Recorded with longtime collaborator Bob Ezrin, who produced the original multi-platinum Welcome To My Nightmare album in 1975, the album picks up right where they left off, with Alice trapped in his own warped mind.
The original release is an all-time rock classic that spawned a worldwide theatrical tour and pioneering U.S. TV special, and certified Alice Cooper as a visionary trailblazer whose influence persists today in rock, metal, pop, punk, theatre, television, film and much more.
More than 35 years later, Alice and Ezrin have resurrected the horror and humor for a new generation.
“This is Alice’s nightmare 35 years later,” explains Alice, “Bob and I created this character and we know how to write for him. I play the part but we’re not writing for me, we’re writing for Alice. We kept the first Nightmare album very personal to us, on this one we found more humor and we were more open. This was our world and we want to present it to the fans. The original album was my first solo album after all those huge hit records with the original band and now that nightmare is exposed, this one can be a little bit more open. The music crosses all sorts of boundaries; we went where the lyrics took us.”
There is an array of collaborators on the new album, including original Alice Cooper members Denis Dunaway, Michael Bruce and Neal Smith reunited on 3 tracks; global pop superstar Ke$ha, who affectionately calls Alice “dad”; and legendary Alice and Lou Reed guitarist Steve Hunter, who is part of Alice’s current touring band and featured prominently on the first Nightmare album. Musically, the album ranges far and wide, from trashing disco to garage punk, pop balladry to a rocking number, very much in the spirit of the Rolling Stones. And then there’s the ballad “Something To Remember Me By,” described by Alice as “the prettiest song we have ever released.”
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
*groans* the title of this album has a faint whiff of 'naff straight-to-video low budget sequel to Hollywood blockbuster' about it. Part of me is excited (especially at the prospect of the original Alice Cooper band members on there), but mostly I'll be going into this one with caution.
― Turrican, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
especially at the prospect of the original Alice Cooper band members on there)
^my excitement at the original members is tempered by the inclusion of KeSha
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I can't deny I have similar feelings over that!
― Turrican, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
There are some great, great tunes on here, that filthy rock 'n' roll stuff he hasn't done since the early-'70s (the first half rocks), but this album really suffers from the lack of shock rock/psychodrama. It might quote "Steven" in the overture at the beginning, but there's nothing that goes in a similar direction as that song. But it's still his best album since Trash.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
But it's still his best album since Trash.
ooh boy ;)
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
sampling on iTunes now...first track opens with some vocoder/autotune action that sounded awful but then it opens out onto...something that sounds like a left-out ballad from the last Ozzy album
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
it's safe to say from just a few samples that whatever underlings engineered this for Bob Ezrin have no vision at all, and that Bob Ezrin straight just doesn't give a shit what a record sounds like any more
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw Alice a couple weeks ago at a small community theater in the town i live in. He was fantastic. he had three guitarists, including Hunter. Nobody from the original band however. It was essentially a greatest hits show, some stuff I didnt expect to hear like "Halo of Flies".
― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
"Halo Of Flies", to me, is the crowning achievement of the original Alice Cooper band, and it's probably the best track Alice Cooper was involved in overall. Amazing track.
― Turrican, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
That song definitely rules.
― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i can't stop listening to this super extendo gravedigging version of "is it my body" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRHFIVJtqpc
pls post more awesome live alice cooper youtubes here
― the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Friday, 11 November 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
that screenshot is him stripping down from his silver hooded jumpsuit to a pink leotard and black tights
― the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Friday, 11 November 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
you know what's weird is i love "billion dollar babies" but have never bothered listening to any of his other albums. i probably should.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 11 November 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
this one is from the same session apparently -- he's still wearing the leotard, but now he has a red hood and a pitchfork
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klbJQrguTV8&feature=related
― the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Friday, 11 November 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
bodies need restwe all need our rest
― the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Friday, 11 November 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
here comes the cake!
― henry s, Friday, 11 November 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
speaking of which...(3:45 onwards)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA3qo5L1eLE
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Friday, 11 November 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
apparently detroit was full of snakes in 1986
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yZmOpafga0&feature=related
― the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Friday, 11 November 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
Glad this thread was revived since I keep forgetting to do it ever since I got a fantastic Alice comp last Saturday.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 November 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO7-RLbpjHA&feature=fvsr
― the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Friday, 11 November 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
beheading a mannequin(some good shots of pre-veneered teeth here, coincidentally)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWU7FxQIsoM
― the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Friday, 11 November 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
identity cris-es
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--0vdeoudq8&feature=related
― the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Friday, 11 November 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
bwaaaa was just gonna post the i love the dead video
― arby's, Friday, 11 November 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
the silver jumpsuits are killing me
where do i get five
― arby's, Friday, 11 November 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
xp - oops that was supposed to say crisis-esbut this is a good opportunity to note that monster dog was written and directed by claudio fragasso, the mad genius who brought us troll 2
― the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Friday, 11 November 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
i had a leotard/tights combo like that when i took ballet in gradeschool
it was the required uniform!
man, "Identity Crises" sounds like confused early eighties New Pop.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 November 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
this one is great toolike if the lawrence welk show was for awesome people instead of old peoplehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaOV0XkXwvM&feature=related
― the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Friday, 11 November 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
want these
http://midnighttosix.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8345d478953ef01310f3e6354970c-800wihttp://midnighttosix.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8345d478953ef0120a8d7a680970b-800wi
― arby's, Friday, 11 November 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
ok these are so sick. love the guitar playing/sounds on these too.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 11 November 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
What are those two things.
― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Friday, 11 November 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
uh just for clarification my "these" was referring to the youtube videos, not to arby's things which i don't know about
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 11 November 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
The silver jump suits were made by Cyndi Smith, Neal's sister and Dennis Dunaway's wife.
― henry s, Friday, 11 November 2011 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
A skilled designer, for sure!!
― the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Saturday, 12 November 2011 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
Alice Cooper is hosting Never Mind The Buzzcocks on BBC2 tonight at 10PM.
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Monday, 14 November 2011 08:44 (twelve years ago) link
"What are those two things"
Following the link back, looks like a couple of boot DVDs, from a company specialising in such things:
http://midnighttosix.typepad.com/midnight_to_six_rare_vide/2010/03/alice-cooper-caught-in-a-dream-19691972.html
http://midnighttosix.typepad.com/midnight_to_six_rare_vide/2010/03/alice-cooper-is-it-my-body-19691972-volume-2.html
― Wandering Boy Poet, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
Have there been any plans to release remastered editions of the early material? I have Billion Dollar Babies as a deluxe 2cd but haven't come across the earlier 70s lps remastered since the late 80s/early 90s. Or at least not legit world catalogue. Have Flacs of some Japanese remasters but would love a decent cd of Love It To Death & Killer, possibly School's Out.I know the first 2 of those are classic anyway.I think the Straight lps were remastered a few years ago, possibly this side of the millenium.
Not been sure when he fell off/jumped the shark. But was pleasantly surprised by Killer which I listened to earlier. had mainly been looking out for a decent version of Love It To Death up til then.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 25 March 2012 09:27 (twelve years ago) link