Here Today... Gone To Hell!

It's entitled The Eyes of Alice Cooper, it came out this past Tuesday, and it must be purchased by all rock n roll fans!  I am listening to it now, and it is a kickass album, definitely in the Alice Cooper tradition!  Good to see that one classic rocker hasn't compromised his sound to adhere to contemporary trends.    : ok:

Former Slash's Snakepit alumni Eric Dover and Ryan Roxie are the guitarists on the album, and it was recorded in the home studio of Gilby Clarke.  Also, Eric Singer (Kiss) played drums.  So Alice's band consists of a reputable, all-star lineup.

That's cool. Guess I'll have to get a copy.

I didn't know...thanks for the info...loved Alice Cooper for over half my life...first ever rock concert I had the pleasure of attending, over 22 years ago....

thanks for the info dude im off to get it now : ok:

     I agree! This CD is the best Alice CD in years! There's only one song on the CD that's average and that's Be With You Awhile. Unfortunately, the record label he's on doesn't promote anything but I think songs like Novocaine and Man Of The Year could be really good singles. Here's a review:

What Do You Want From Me - a great way to reintroduce the old Alice. This song is pure awesome.

Between High School & Old School - This song is about what type of songs he should make - new metal or his old rock & roll

Man Of The Year - Pure Brillance! This song makes me tink it's 1972 again.

Novocaine - Awesome song and really, really, catchy.

Bye Bye Baby - Awesome song. Reminds me of Under MY Wheels

Be With You Awhile - This song is the average song on the album.

Detroit City - Sweet Song

Spirits Rebellious - This song is one of the most hard rocking songs in Alice's career.

This House Is Haunted - Steven all grown up! This song reminds me of a mix of Steven and Years Ago

Love Should Never Feel Like This - Great Song

The Song That Didn't Rhyme - The funniest song in a while by Alice. The song is really catchy and the lyrics are brilliant (The melody blows, in a key that no one can find).

I'm So Angry - Speed and Anger! This song is awesome.

Backyard Brawl - Awesome song with a catchy chorus.

I think this album rocks. I think The Song That Didn't Rhyme is brilliant. The fact that most of the lyrics actually rhyme, make it just that more clever.

i agree 100%. awesome album.

i'm going to see him in atlantic city this coming saturday (AC in AC). i'm looking forward to it, i've never seen him live before.

a new band from philly is opening up for him on this tour. they're called Silvertide. they kick serious ass!

Now i have to hear this whole album.

I heard novocane, and thought it was good.

It will be my next CD purchase...thanks for the info

Thanks for the info Dizzy. I did not know intill now that Alice Cooper had a new album coming out.  :o I'm not a die hard fan of him but I'm sure this CD will be a lot better than must of the shit out their now.  : ok:  

This is an awesome cd!

source: www.pollstar.com
Here are the dates as of present.....



Fri 06/04/04  Dublin, IRE  Olympia Theatre  

Sun 06/06/04  Bologna, ITA  Parco Nord  

Tue 06/08/04  Thessaloniki, GRE  Pele Axiou  

Wed 06/09/04  Athens, GRE  Petras Theatre  

Fri 06/11/04  Essen, GER  Grugahalle  

Sat 06/12/04  Lichtenvoorde, NET  Arrow Classic Rock Festival  

Sun 06/13/04  Rastatt, GER  Baadenerhalle  

Tue 06/15/04  Dresden, GER  Alter Schlachthof  

Thu 06/17/04  Ringsted, DEN  Kongrescentre  

Fri 06/18/04  Oslo, NOR  Oslo Spektrum  

Sat 06/19/04  Goteborg, SWE  Metal Town Festival  

Mon 06/21/04  Munich, GER  Tollwood Festival  

Wed 06/23/04  Vienna, AUT  Gasometer  

Fri 06/25/04  Balingen, GER  Bang Your Head  

Sat 06/26/04  Dessel, BEL  Graspop Festival  

Sun 06/27/04  London, UK  Carling Apollo Hammersmith  

Fri 07/09/04  Beloit, WI  Beloit Riverfest  

Sat 07/10/04  Seymour, WI  Outagamie County Fair  

Sun 07/11/04  Lansing, MI  Common Ground Festival  

Fri 07/16/04  Comstock, NE  Second Wind Ranch  

Wed 07/21/04  Windsor, ON  Chrysler Theatre  

Thu 07/22/04  Toronto, ON  Molson Amphitheatre  

Fri 07/23/04  London, ON  Rock The Park  

Sat 07/24/04  Montreal, QC  Bourbon Street North  

Sun 07/25/04  Quebec City, QC  L'Agora Du Vieux Port  

Sat 08/07/04  Bethlehem, PA  Bethlehem Musikfest  

Sun 08/08/04  Champion, PA  Seven Springs Resort  

Tue 08/10/04  Columbus, OH  Ohio State Fair  

Mon 08/16/04  Detroit, MI  Michigan State Fair  

Wed 08/18/04  Escanaba, MI  Upper Peninsula State Fair  

Fri 08/20/04  Thunder Bay, ON  Community Auditorium  

Sat 08/21/04  Thunder Bay, ON  Community Auditorium  

Sun 08/22/04  Winnipeg, MB  Winnipeg Arena  

Fri 10/15/04  Tacoma, WA  Emerald Queen Casino  

Mon 10/18/04  Redding, CA  Win River Casino  

Fri 10/22/04  Los Angeles, CA  Greek Theatre  

Sat 10/23/04  Henderson, NV  Sunset Station Hotel / Casino  

Sun 10/24/04  Phoenix, AZ  Arizona State Fair  

Fri 10/29/04  Kelseyville, CA  Konocti Harbor Resort & Spa  

Sat 10/30/04  Reno, NV  Silver Legacy Casino  

Sun 10/31/04  San Jacinto, CA  Soboba Casino  

thats the U.K dates? man, he must be trippin  :hihi:

im maybe going on the norway show  :peace:

Alice Coopers kick ass i love his shows....hes one of the best singers these days....

Alice rocks, his stage shows are superb, highly recommend, I hope to hit the Dublin show as it opens the tour, you just never know what the 1st show of a tour will throw at you from Alice...any other Gunners headin?

Here's an updated version of the tour dates:

2004 City Venue  
June
4  Dublin, Ireland Olympia Theatre
6 Bologna, Italy L'Arena Parco Nord
11 Germany
 Essen Grugahalle
12 Holland Arrow Festival
13 Germany Rastatt, Badner Halle
18 Norway Oslo Spektrum
19  G?teborg, Sweden Bananpiren
21 Munich, Germany Olympic Park
25  Germany Messegel?nde Balingen
26  Dessel, Belgium TBA
27  London Hammersmith Apollo
July
16  Nebraska Comstock Rock Festival  
21  Windsor Canada TBA
22  Toronto Canada TBA
23 London, Ontario TBA
24 Quebec Canada TBA
August
10 Columbus, OH TBA
16 Detroit, MI Detroit State Fair
20  Ontario, Canada Thunder Bay
21  Ontario, Canada Thunder Bay
October  
22  Los Angles, CA  TBA
     
     
     
     
     
TBA = To Be Announced

i saw Alice Cooper last in 2001 and Teddy Zigzag was on the keyboards, i wounder if he's still with him.

y'know, last time he was in norway (01 or 00 maybe?) mr. dizzy reed was playing the keys! a friend of mine saw him and she was a big GNR fan and freaked out the day after when she found out it was dizzy fucking reed!

No shit hey, Dizzy Reed in Alice Cooper. ;D
Maybee Dizzy had no time eventually and recommended Teddy. I remember Alice said the drummer was from Megadeth...shit, cant remember the rest.
anyway thats cool as :peace:

Hey, the world tour starts tonight in Dublin.....I shall be going down along with quite a few guiness...any other gunners going?? I dont think Ive ever been to the opening night of any tour but I believe the 1st and last dates are best due to the unknown factor...and with Alice that could mean anything!! :beer: Once I sober up I may report if anyone is interested. Cheers.

Add Peterbourgh,Ontario to that list Oct.3 me and 20 of my buddies r goin...has anyone been to the shows or has a review from one of the shows on this tour?

Yeah, I remember reading a quote by Bob Dylan saying Alice is one of the if not the most underrated lyric writers of all time.

HADDAM, Conn. -- Alice the albino python had a little too much to eat for dinner.

Just hours before its owner, rocker Alice Cooper, was to take the stage at the careerbuilder.com Oakdale Theater in Wallingford, the 8-foot-long snake ate a live rat and then mistakenly swallowed a 12-by-14 inch heating pad, wires and all, left in its cage by mistake.

Before Saturday night's show, Cooper's roadies saw the snake's unusually large bulge and called at-risk snake helper Alison Sloan, who directed Alice to Higganum veterinarian Richard Jacobs.

Jacobs performed emergency surgery on the python for two hours this week, carefully slicing it open and removing the heating pad.

"It was absolutely an emergency," Sloan told The Hartford Courant on Thursday, noting the wires could have ruptured Alice's intestines or other organs with fatal results. "She's a very lucky snake."

Sloan, director and owner of Ashleigh's Rain Forest in Essex, allowed Cooper to borrow a yellow anaconda for Saturday's show to replace the python, which undulates onstage with Cooper during his performances.

Alice the snake was resting comfortably at Jacob's office on Thursday.

The operation involved sedating the snake and inserting a tube to help it breathe during surgery. Jacobs said he cut a 5-inch-long incision along a row of scales and maneuvered the heating pad out.

"That's an outrageous X-ray," Jacobs said Thursday, looking at the pre-op picture of the snake that showed the wires and contacts from the heating pad - plus a rodent. "It's probably the most astonishing X-ray I've taken in my career."

Cooper was unavailable for comment. Sloan said the rocker thanked her for her help and paid $1,000 for the surgery. He is also allowing Alice to semi-retire to Sloan's rescue and rehab.

"Alice Cooper stepped up to pay the vet bill and let Alice live in our rain forest," Sloan said.

Sloan said Cooper might call on Alice to make stage appearances during future performances in the Northeast.

Yep, Alice still puts on a great show. He's currently been writing and recording the follow-up to "Eyes". If it can surpass "Eyes" it would blow away my expectations!

Is that his yellow snake he had with him recently. I just seen him in July and he had his yellow python.

Is there anyone opening for alice?

In anyone lives close to these places. Defintely check out a band called Supagroup these guys are awsome...

www.suagroup.com check out thier cd

Here's some dates they are doing with Alice Cooper

Thursday, October 21 - Anaheim, CA
The Grove of Anaheim w/ Alice Cooper - 7:00 PM

Friday, October 22 - Los Angeles, CA
Greek Theatre w/ Alice Cooper and Misfits - 7:00 PM

Tuesday, October 26 - Ventura, CA
Ventura Theatre w/ Alice Cooper - 7:00 PM

Friday, October 29 - Kelseyville, CA
Konocti

Alice Cooper is dead cool  : ok:

Supercrew opened for alice in peterbourgh on oct.3

Im getting my platinum Alice Cooper tix next week so im real excited atm. Many Alice Cooper fans here?


 :peace:

I fucking LOVE Alice Cooper. I was just listening to "A fistful of alice" all day at work (featuring Slash on 3 songs). I have been a fan of his since I was a little kid. He's an amazing song writer, that gets overlooked alot because of all of the theatrics (which he invented-not KISS). His voice still sounds great on newer stuff too. Alot of stuff he did in the 80's I dind't care for because I thought he was trying to stick with the times too much but anything from the alice cooper band and his solo stuff in the 70's is amazing and his more recent albums have been awesome. The last Temptation is one of those albums you listen to and just can't comprehend how it didn't sell ten million copies or you never hear anyone talk about it. Ya wanna just force it on everyone you have ever met so it's appreciated.

Very underrated singer/songwriter. I Listen to him all the time.

god the guys great

I LUV ALICE COOPER! OVER 27 ALBUMS AND HIS MUSIC STILL GR8! HE IS A REAL LEGEND! I LOVE TEENAGE LAMENT '74 AND POISON, HEY STOOPID AND WELCOME 2 MY NITEMARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 According to a post at SickthingsUK, ALICE COOPER will premiere another track, "Steal That Car", from his upcoming album, "Dirty Diamonds", Friday night (April 29) on his radio show, "Nights with Alice Cooper". Last week, Cooper previewed the song "Woman of Mass Distraction", which was said to be ? as Alice promised ? a slice of AC/DC-like rock and roll. Cooper has previously said that there is a lot of diversity on the new album, with some songs not sounding like anything you would expect from Alice Cooper.

"Dirty Diamonds" is tentatively scheduled for release this summer through an as-yet-undisclosed label. The CD, which is said to be a continuation of the more organic approach found on Cooper's last effort, "The Eyes of Alice Cooper", was overseen by Steve Lindsey, who co-produced Cooper's 2004 duet with rapper XZIBIT, "Stand" (off the official Olympics Games album, "Unity") and has worked with Elton John, Luther Vandross and Leonard Cohen.

I started listening to Alice Cooper since i heard "The Garden" i mean his voice was so creepy that i  told myself i gotta listen this freak!    ;D

well, i ve been downloading his albums and he is great , his concerts are terrific!


   "I got a baby's brain and an old man's heart
   Took eighteen years to get this far
   Don't always know what I'm talkin' about
   Feels like I'm livin in the middle of doubt
   Cause I'm

                Eighteen
   Eighteen
   I get confused every day
   Eighteen
   I just don't know what to say
   Eighteen
   I gotta get away"    : ok:

...I'm 25 tho  ;)

Alice Cooper's a rock n roll legend, up there with Ozzy and the likes, although he doesn't get enough credit.

Alice is a God. However, his "Flush the Fashion" album was pretty wrecthed....

I cant wait. I get to meet him in a little over a month.
Anyone else met him, or going to on this tour?


 :peace:

I've always loved Alice, and after seeing him finally live in person, last summer, singing in the rain and yelling out "Michigan you are all poison" and playing poison as his encore made be fall in love with his ballad.  Man to think of all them times I seen strippers dancing to that song and I still enjoyed it so much more seeing Alice sing it live.

A) I thought Alice denied the new album was called Dirty Diamonds?

B) Alice's band (or the one at the time, I guess) has said that every stripper they ever met has danced to Poison.

Yes I have heard Alice say every stripper he has met has danced to that song too.  Poison never really ment that much to me through until I seen Alice playing live in the rain

He said it was, then he said he wasnt sure..Now hes saying it is

ALICE COOPER and CHEAP TRICK will be embarking on a joint U.S. tour beginning in late August. Confirmed tour dates so far are as follows:

Aug. 20 - Cincinnati, OH @ US Bank Arena
Aug. 21 - Detroit, MI @ State Fair
Aug. 25 - Vienna, VA @ Wolf Trap
Aug. 26 - Atlanta, GA @ Chastain Park
Aug. 28 - Brookhaven, NY @ Brookhaven Amphitheater
Aug. 29 - Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
Aug. 30 - Syracuse, NY @ NY State Fair
Sep. 01 - Rockford, IL @ On the Waterfront
Sep. 02 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Van Andel Arena
Sep. 04 - Loveland, CO @ Harley Rally/Bud Events Center
Sep. 05 - Pueblo, CO @ Colorado State Fair
Sep. 09 - Grand Junction, CO @ Rock Jam
Sep. 10 - Albuquerque, NM @ New Mexico State Fair
Sep. 14 - El Cajon, CA @ Concerts in the Park
Sep. 16 - Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre

ALICE COOPER's new album, "Dirty Diamonds", is tentatively scheduled for release this summer through an as-yet-undisclosed label. The CD, which is said to be a continuation of the more organic approach found on Cooper's last effort, "The Eyes of Alice Cooper", was overseen by Steve Lindsey, who co-produced Cooper's 2004 duet with rapper XZIBIT, "Stand" (off the official Olympics Games album, "Unity") and has worked with Elton John, Luther Vandross and Leonard Cohen.

Anybody know if Alice will be touring Europe as well as America this year?

He is right now

Well, touring Ireland; cos I haven't heard any news of him coming over here.

 According to a post at SickthingsUK, Classicsdujour are reporting that the new ALICE COOPER album, "Dirty Diamonds", will receive a U.S. release on August 9 via New West Records. While the date is officially unconfirmed, this is a month AFTER the previously quoted German release date. New West Records have a web site here and appear to be predominatly a small country label so it does seem an odd match for Alice.

"Dirty Diamonds", which is said to be a continuation of the more organic approach found on Cooper's last effort, "The Eyes of Alice Cooper", was overseen by Steve Lindsey, who co-produced Cooper's 2004 duet with rapper XZIBIT, "Stand" (off the official Olympics Games album, "Unity") and has worked with Elton John, Luther Vandross and Leonard Cohen

The New York Post's "Page Six" reports: A novel take on the Michael Jackson trial, from rocker Alice Cooper: "He can't possibly go to any jail that exists right now," Cooper tells itv.com. "My idea was that they build him a fantasy jail like Captain Hook's ship because he's so into this Peter Pan thing." Cooper also reckons Jacko should tone down his wacko court garb. "He goes into court with red lipstick on, and I'm going, 'You're fighting for your life here, son, come on.'" Yes, that's Alice Cooper criticizing someone for wearing make-up.

When is the last time you saw AC wear make-up on the golf coarse?.

I don't know, I gotta disagree with that. I actually liked Flush the Fashion - Talk Talk, Clones, Model Citizen are all real good tunes IMO. I saw Alice on the Flush the Fashion Tour at the Palladium in NYC, they opened up with Model Citizen, they were smokin'.? ?

"In the heart of Texas...."

 According to a post at SickthingsUK, New West Records has set an August 2 release date for the new ALICE COOPER album, entitled "Dirty Diamonds". The following press release has been issued by the label;

After 30 albums and some of the most famous rock songs ever recorded, you'd think Alice Cooper's demons would've been conquered by now ? or maybe locked in a cage and fed undercooked meat. But the man who changed the course of rock music in the '70s with bloody guillotines, sparking electric chairs, slimy boa constrictors, and a little blood and eyeliner still has more to slay in 2005. Alice Cooper is master at re-inventing himself, shedding his skin like one of his snakes to become everything from a mascara'd grave robber to a leather-wrapped street hooligan, a film noir detective, insane asylum honor student, and nihilistic dada-ist. 2003's "Eyes of Alice Cooper" saw another of these shape-shifts, grinding musical gears with back-to-basics garage rock. Wrapping his famous sneer/snarl around a fistful of power chords, Alice ? lean and mean ? pumped the adrenaline to toxic levels. With the release of "Dirty Diamonds", Coop is back in even finer form, promising more thrills, chills and doctor bills.

"'Dirty Diamonds' sounds like 'Eyes of Alice Cooper' with more polish on it," says Alice. "On 'Eyes' I wouldn't allow the band to do overdubs. We did everything in the studio: write, record it and put it to bed. I don't want a QUEEN album or a DEF LEPPARD album that's perfectly recorded. They're terrific, you can't knock those albums, but that's not the sound I'm looking for. I'd much rather have the sound of an early STONES album." And that's exactly what "Dirty Diamonds" is ? a nod to the British Invasion past while acknowledging the Nu-rock WHITE STRIPES/JET present. Guitars and solos are strip-searched of effects, giving sharp bite to songs like "Woman of Mass Distraction", a smoker's cough sheen to "Your Own Worst Enemy" and testosterone feistiness of "Steal That Car". "This whole album takes you in a lot of different directions," he says, "yet it still really sounds like an Alice album." His roadmap this time takes you through glam-trash ["Dirty Diamonds"], last call blues ["Six Hours"], all-purpose punk ["Steal That Car"], country & western ["Saga of Jesse Jane"], New Orleans' swampy mugginess ["Zombie Dance"], and undiluted south-of-the-belt-buckle, STONES hard rock ["Sunset Babies (All Got Rabies)"].

And there's no shortage of razor-tongued, phrase twisting ? like his famous black eyes, another Alice plot device. In "Run Down The Devil", when he catches Satan ("the ultimate road kill") in his headlights, he promises to "take him to the Mercury grill" and "kick his future up his past." He even punks Chihuahua-toting Paris Hilton types in "Sunset Babies" with the line, "I'd buy her a diamond collar, if she'd only throw me a bone." "The art of the lyric is something I spend all my time on," says Alice. "I love the idea that a song will throw a lyrical curve at you or at least make you go, that's an Alice lyric. I learned to write lyrics from listening to Chuck Berry who is maybe the best rock lyricist. I always said an Alice lyric should always be a cut above everyone else when it comes to clever. If I can make myself laugh, then I know it's a good lyric." A prime example comes in the form of a country western ballad, "The Saga of Jesse Jane", whose cross-dressing main character finds himself jailed in a Texas town "in my sister's wedding gown." The song asks, "Are you just a normal guy who dresses like a butterfly?" "I say we should release that to country & western radio and not tell anybody who it's from. [laughs] I tried to make it sound like Johnny Cash. I can hear this playing in a truck stop jukebox. The idea that it has clever lyrics shouldn't take away from the fact that the song is actually a catchy number."

Of the many standout tracks, Alice professes fondness for the song, "Perfect". While its middle-finger guitar riff and lyrical swagger points a straight line back to "Love It To Death" and "Be My Lover", Alice says it has more in common with Meet THE BEATLES. "I just absolutely pride myself on that song. Wouldn't it be great to be able to write 'I Saw Her Standing There' or 'You're Gonna Lose That Girl'? Any three-minute BEATLES song. I finally wrote something I feel could've been a BEATLES song at one point, even if it was a BEATLES song they would've thrown away.

One of the album's more deceptive tracks is "Pretty Ballerina", a dark ballad imbued with Alice's eerie softer voice, veiled in classic Cooper unease. "That was originally written by a band called THE LEFT BANKE who had a hit with 'Walk Away Renee', says Alice. "'Pretty Ballerina' was their second hit. I heard it when I was a kid in 1965-66. It's just such a great curveball; it sounds a little bit like 'Only Women Bleed'. It has that delicacy and darkness, even though when you listen to it it's just a love song. The way it was written really appeals to that darker romantic side of me."

Writing and recording "Dirty Diamonds" with Alice is his band, longtime guitarist Ryan Roxie, recent addition guitarist Damon Johnson (best known for his band BROTHER CANE), bassist Chuck Garric and drummer Tommy Clufetos. Unlike Alice's 2003 album "The Eyes of Alice Cooper", which featured the band and only the band with virtually no overdubs, "Dirty Diamonds" has a more arranged and produced feel to it, and features additional contributions by a host of highly regarded L.A. musicians and writers, including guitarist Rick Boston (RICKIE LEE JONES), bassist Mike Elizondo (EMINEM, 50 CENT) and keyboardist Teddy Zigzag (who has worked with everyone from GUNS 'N ROSES to CAROLE KING).

"I really look at 'Dirty Diamonds' as an Alice gem. There are no fillers. Pick any song you think might be a single and I'm happy with that song representing the album. That to me is quality. Every track has got to be a great song, which is something I learned from Bob Ezrin." (producer of the Alice Cooper platinum classics "Love It To Death", "School's Out", "Billion-Dollar Babies", and "Welcome To My Nightmare", as well as PINK FLOYD and KISS). Co-produced by Steve Lindsey (who has worked with everyone from Leonard Cohen to Elton John) and Rick Boston, the minimalist "set it and forget it" approach captures Alice Cooper in all his timeless black humor and raw wound glory. "With Steve we were able to write it, record it and move on to the next song," says Alice. "He's one of those guys who has the same kind of music pedigree as Ezrin. We were on the same page as far as the kind of music we were talking about." The only song that indulges mapped-out production is the title track, with a movie soundtrack horn section that recalls the "West Side Story" spin of "Gutter Cats Vs. The Jets". "Almost everything through Alice Cooper has had a cinematic sound to it. Think of 'Dirty Diamonds' as being a James Bond movie. That's something that Alice does that nobody else does," he says.

"Dirty Diamonds" is pure Alice Cooper. He's still and forever rock's reigning shock rock icon. "I always treated Alice as a dignified criminal, like Hannibal Lecter," he says. "Lecter would never lower himself to use bad language. Alice was always too much of an elegant gentleman; He wouldn't swear?but he'd slit your throat."

ALICE COOPER fan site SickThingsUK has uploaded the official "rough mock-up" of the new ALICE COOPER album cover using old photo of Alice. The actual "Dirty Diamond" cover will include a new Alice Cooper picture.
(http://www.alicecoopertrivia.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/cutenews/data/upimages/dirtydiamonds.jpg)
As previously reported, "Dirty Diamonds" is scheduled for release in the U.S. on August 2 via New West Records.

"Dirty Diamonds", which is said to be a continuation of the more organic approach found on Cooper's last effort, "The Eyes of Alice Cooper", was overseen by Steve Lindsey, who co-produced Cooper's 2004 duet with rapper XZIBIT, "Stand" (off the official Olympics Games album, "Unity") and has worked with Elton John, Luther Vandross and Leonard Cohen.

"Dirty Diamonds" track listing:

01. Woman Of Mass Distraction
02. You Make Me Wanna
03. Perfect
04. Dirty Diamonds
05. Pretty Ballerina
06. Sunset Babies (All Got Rabies)
07. Zombie Dance
08. The Saga Of Jesse Jane
09. Six Hours
10. Steal That Car
11. Run Down The Devil
12. Your Own Worst Enemy
13. The Sharpest Pain (Bonus)

I never knew it was Bob Ezrin who produced those songs - very cool.  VR really should have used him to produce contraband!



I'll try to catch him on Sept 16!

Awesome can't wait The Eyes of Alice Cooper was one of his best ever albums and certainly his best in years i hope it continues with the great sound.  Ok everyone what are your top ten Alice Cooper tracks, mine are;
1. Might As Well Be On Mars
2. He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)
3. Hey Stoopid
4. Poison
5. No More Mr. Nice Guy
6. Under My Wheels
7. Be With You Awhile
8. Only Women Bleed
9. I'm Eighteen
10. Hello Hurray

IM GOING to see ALICE!!! on the 28th June!! Woot woot!! one month!!! Im so excited! hes such a god!! *woship him*

AUSTRALIA

June 21 Newcastle, Civic Theatre
June 23 Sydney, Enmore Theatre
June 24 Sydney, Enmore Theatre
June 26 Penrith, Evan Theatre
June 27 Gold Coast, Twin Towns
June 28 Brisbane, Convention Centre
June 30 Melbourne, Palais

July 1 Launceston, Silverdome
July 2 Adelaide, Thebarton Theatre
July 4 Perth, Burswood Theatre
July 5 Perth, Burswood Theatre

EUROPE - More shows to be announced

July 9 Lisbon, Portugal Freeport Plaza
July 11 Paris, France L'Olympia
July 12 Montreux, Switz Festival
July 14 Linz, Austria Clam Castle
July 15 Freiburg, Germany Tent/ZMF
July 16 Wuppertal, Germany Unisporthalle
July 18 Groningen, Holland Martiniplaza
July 19 Berlin, Germany Columbiahalle
July 21 Torino, Italy Chico Bum Festival
July 23 Emsdetten, Germany Emshalle
July 24 Bremerhaven, Germany Stadthalle
July 27 Valencia, Spain, Jardines de Viveros
July 28 Ciudad Real, Spain
July 29 Barcelona, Spain Razmatazz
July 30 Pamplona, Spain, Anaitasuna

Aug 1 Monte Carlo Sporting Club
Aug 6 Tampere, Finland Icehall
Aug 7 Haapsalu, Estonia Haapsalu Castle
Aug 9 Stockholm, Sweden Arenaen
Aug 10 Gothenburg, Sweden Liseberhallen
Aug 11 Skanderborg, Denmark Smukkeste Festival
Aug 13 Reykjavik, Iceland Kapplakriki

North America and Canada - More shows to be announced

Aug 20 Cincinnati, US Bank Arena
Aug 21 Detroit, State Fair
Aug 22-23 Toronto, The Docks
Aug 25 Vienna, VA, Wolf Trap
Aug 26 Atlanta, GA, Chastain Amphitheatre
Aug 28 Farmingville, NY Brookhaven Amphitheatre
Aug 29 Holmdel, NJ, PNC Bank Arts Center
Aug 30 Syracuse, NY, State Fair

Sept 1 Rockford, IL, On The Waterfront
Sept 2, Madison, WI, Alliant Energy Center
Sept 4 Loveland, CO Thunder In The Rockies
Sept 5 Pueblo, CO State Fair
Sept 9 Grand Junction CO, Rock Jam
Sept 10 Albuquerque, NM, State Fair
Sept 14 Alpine, CA Viejas Concerts in the Park
Sept 16 Los Angeles, CA, Greek Theatre
Oct 17 Las Vegas, The Joint
Oct 19 Vancouver, BC Orpheum Theatre
Oct 21 Calgary, AB Jubilee Auditorium
Oct 22 Edmonton, AB Winspear Centre
Oct 23 Red Deer, AB The Centrium
Oct 24 Lethbridge, AB EMAX Arena

(http://www.alicecoopertrivia.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/albums/page_images/a-dirtydiamonds.jpg)

The full track list appears to be:


1. Woman Of Mass Distraction
2. You Make Me Wanna
3. Perfect
4. Dirty Diamonds
5. Pretty Ballerina
6. Sunset Babies (All Have Rabies)
7. Zombie Dance
8. The Saga Of Jesse Jane
9. Six Hours
10. Steal That Car
11. Run Down The Devil
12. Your Own Worst Enemy

In addition there appear to be two bonus tracks, 'The Sharpest Pain' and 'Stand', although where they will appear is unconfirmed. 'Stand' is the title of the track previously released on the 'Unity' Olympics album earlier this year which featured rapper Xhibit. It's listed on the UK promo that has appeared.

Currently release dates are set as July 4th for Europe and August 2nd for North America although of course this could change.

My favorite Alice Cooper song is I'm Eighteen.  The lyrics are brilliant.  I also love Teenage Lament '74 - more great lyrics!  Billion Dollar Babies, How You Gonna See Me Now, and Desperado are my other favorites.  I also like the video for the song Welcome to my Nightmare.

 According to a post at SickthingsUK, the ALICE COOPER movie "Good to See you Again, Alice Cooper", featuring footage of the Billion Dollar Babies tour in 1973, is tentatively scheduled for release on DVD in the U.K. on September 12.

Filmed in Dallas (April 28) and Houston, Texas (April 29) in 1973, "Good to See you Again, Alice Cooper" was in limited release in the theaters back in the mid-'70s. The film, which was directed by Joe Gannon and produced by Penthouse magazine, was shot on 16mm and then blown up to 35mm.

Ok last tuesday was the best. for 4 years I have been saying that AC/DC put on the best show ever but that all changed on tuesday night at the civic theatre Newcastle when Alice Cooper took the stage. I got to Meet Him after the show and get a photo with him and had a little chat. The only dissapointment was that Teddy Zig Zag was not on the tour but I got over that real quick.


 :peace:

 According to a post at SickthingsUK, ALICE COOPER will be filming their upcoming show in Switzerland for a possible DVD release later this year. "No official confirmation as yet and it's probably a ways off but still something to look forward to!" the post adds.

Fans of '70s-era rock can look forward to a double dose when Alice Cooper and Cheap Trick  join forces for a late-summer run through North America.

The veteran rockers have lined up a co-headlining trek that kicks off Aug. 20 in Cincinnati and is so far scheduled to run through mid-September. Aside from their joint venture, both artists also have some of their own headlining dates lined up. The itineraries are included below.

Tickets for a number of shows are on sale now. Hard-core Cooper fans can purchase premium-ticket packages for most dates; details are available at Cooper's website.

The outing follows the Aug. 2 release of Cooper's new studio album, "Dirty Diamonds," which follows 2003's "Eyes of Alice Cooper." Cover art for the new set is posted at Cooper's website.

Cooper--born Vincent Damon Furnier--has been cranking out albums since 1969, the year he issued "Pretties for You." He scored his first hit with the cut "Eighteen," featured on 1971's "Love It to Death."

Cheap Trick's most recent studio collection is 2003's "Special One." The group has reportedly finished recording a follow-up set, but no release date has been announced.

Formed in the early '70s, Cheap Trick--vocalist Robin Zander, guitarist Rick Nielsen, bassist Tom Petersson and drummer Bun E. Carlos--released its self-titled debut album in 1977. Two years later, the group scored a Top 10 hit with the cut "I Want You to Want Me," featured on 1979's "Live at Budokan." That album remains the band's most commercially successful release.

Alice Cooper / Cheap Trick

August 2005
20 - Cincinnati, OH - U.S. Bank Arena
22, 23 - Toronto, Ontario - The Docks
25 - Vienna, VA - Wolf Trap Filene Center
26 - Atlanta, GA - Chastain Park Amphitheatre
28 - Farmingville, NY - Brookhaven Amphitheatre
29 - Holmdel, NJ - P.N.C. Bank Arts Center
30 - Syracuse, NY - New York State Fair

September 2005
1 - Rockford, IL - On the Waterfront Fest
2 - Madison, WI - Alliant Energy Center
4 - Loveland, CO - Budweiser Events Center
5 - Pueblo, CO - Colorado State Fair
9 - Grand Junction, CO - Festival Grounds (Rock Jam)
10 - Albuquerque, NM - New Mexico State Fair
14 - El Cajon, CA - Concerts in the Park
16 - Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre


Alice Cooper

September 2005
7 - Topeka, KS - Landon Arena
28 - Orlando, FL - Hard Rock Live
29 - Clearwater, FL - Ruth Eckerd Hall

October 2005
4 - South Bend, IN - Morris Performing Arts Center
7 - Cleveland, OH - Tower City Amphitheater
17 - Las Vegas, NV - Hard Rock Hotel/The Joint
19 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Orpheum Theatre
21 - Calgary, Alberta - South Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
22 - Edmonton, Alberta - Francis Winspear Centre for Music
23 - Red Deer, Alberta - The Centrium
24 - Lethbridge, Alberta - Enmax Centre


Cheap Trick

July 2005
14 - Walker, MN - Moondance Jam
16 - Comstock, NE - Second Wind Ranch (Comstock Rock)
17 - Cadott, WI - Rock Fest
19 - Central Point, OR - Lithia Motors Amphitheater
21 - Hershey, PA - Hersheypark
22 - Fond du Lac, WI - Fond Du Lac Fair
29 - Grand Beach, Manitoba - Manitoba Summer Fest

August 2005
5, 6 - Reno, NV - Silver Legacy Casino
11 - West Allis, WI - Wisconsin State Fair
13 - Malone, NY - Franklin County Fair
14 - Springfield, IL - Illinois State Fair (w/ REO Speedwagon)
18 - Louisville, KY - Kentucky State Fair

October 2005
6 - Biloxi, MS - Hard Rock Hotel/Casino
8 - Marksville, LA - Paragon Casino Resort

These are the dudes that opened for Alice in Newcastle Australia http://www.hellcityglamours.com/

 In a recent online interview conducted by Rock N Roll Universe , original ALICE COOPER GROUP drummer Neal Smith (BOUCHARD, DUNAWAY & SMITH) spoke about the possibility of a reunion of the original band with Alice Cooper. An excerpt from the interview follows:

Rock N Roll Universe: How realistic is it for fans to hope for any kind of reunion?

Neal Smith: "All I can say is there's always a chance that something can happen. Realistically or not, nobody's ever going to know. Let's put it this way, as long as I'm alive, I will always be one of the people trying to negotiate something that maybe could make that happen. Whether it's putting the right elements together, or helping the right elements or if the elements were put together that I would be there. Dennis and I have always offered to talk about a reunion since the band broke up. I told Alice in '75, if you ever need my help call me, and in 1985 he came up to Connecticut and he did all the pre-production work for the 'Constrictor' album at my studio at my home with Dennis and I and Kane Roberts, who played guitar on it. Our doors are and have always been open."

Rock N Roll Universe: So, the ball would be in Alice's court at this time?

Neal Smith: "Well, the ball's in Alice's court, yes, and no, it would have to be a group decision. Michael would have to want to do it, Alice would have to want to do it, I would have to want to do it, and Dennis would have to want to do it. I don't see a full-scale world tour, but do I see the possibility of like CREAM playing the Royal Albert Hall in London for a consecutive number of nights at the same venue. I don't see why that couldn't happen. All I know is there's more support as the days roll by than not. As long as I'm alive, I'll never turn a deaf ear to the possibility, and there's only one reason I want to do it, two reasons actually, in honor of Glen (RIP) and because our fans deserve it."

 According to Video Business, ALICE COOPER's July 12 performance in Montreux, Switzerland was filmed by more than 20 high-definition cameras for DVD release sometime next year.

Alice Cooper
Dirty Diamonds
Release date: August 2, 2005

After 30 albums and some of the most famous rock songs ever recorded, you?d think Alice Cooper?s demons would?ve been conquered by now?or maybe locked in a cage and fed undercooked meat. But the man who changed the course of rock music in the ?70s with bloody guillotines, sparking electric chairs, slimy boa constrictors, and a little blood and eyeliner still has more to slay in 2005. Alice Cooper is master at re-inventing himself, shedding his skin like one of his snakes to become everything from a mascara?d grave robber to a leather-wrapped street hooligan, a film noir detective, insane asylum honor student, and nihilistic dada-ist. 2003?s Eyes of Alice Cooper saw another of these shape-shifts, grinding musical gears with back-to-basics garage rock. Wrapping his famous sneer/snarl around a fistful of power chords, Alice?lean and mean?pumped the adrenaline to toxic levels. With the release of Dirty Diamonds, Coop is back in even finer form, promising more thrills, chills and doctor bills.

?Dirty Diamonds sounds like Eyes of Alice Cooper with more polish on it,? says Alice. ?On Eyes I wouldn?t allow the band to do overdubs. We did everything in the studio: write, record it and put it to bed. I don?t want a Queen album or a Def Leppard album that?s perfectly recorded. They?re terrific, you can?t knock those albums, but that?s not the sound I?m looking for. I?d much rather have the sound of an early Stones album.? And that?s exactly what Dirty Diamonds is ? a nod to the British Invasion past while acknowledging the Nu-rock White Stripes/Jet present. Guitars and solos are strip-searched of effects, giving sharp bite to songs like ?Woman of Mass Distraction,? a smoker?s cough sheen to ?Your Own Worst Enemy? and testosterone feistiness of ?Steal That Car.? ?This whole album takes you in a lot of different directions,? he says, ?yet it still really sounds like an Alice album.? His roadmap this time takes you through glam-trash [?Dirty Diamonds?], last call blues [?Six Hours?], all-purpose punk [?Steal That Car?], country & western [?Saga of Jesse Jane?], New Orleans? swampy mugginess [?Zombie Dance?], and undiluted south-of-the-belt-buckle, Stones hard rock [?Sunset Babies (All Got Rabies?)].

And there?s no shortage of razor-tongued, phrase twisting?like his famous black eyes, another Alice plot device. In ?Run Down The Devil,? when he catches Satan (?the ultimate road kill?) in his headlights, he promises to ?take him to the Mercury grill? and ?kick his future up his past.? He even punk?s Chihuahua-toting Paris Hilton types in ?Sunset Babies? with the line, ?I?d buy her a diamond collar, if she?d only throw me a bone.? ?The art of the lyric is something I spend all my time on,? says Alice. ?I love the idea that a song will throw a lyrical curve at you or at least make you go, that?s an Alice lyric. I learned to write lyrics from listening to Chuck Berry who is maybe the best rock lyricist. I always said an Alice lyric should always be a cut above everyone else when it comes to clever. If I can make myself laugh, then I know it?s a good lyric.? A prime example comes in the form of a country western ballad, ?The Saga of Jesse Jane,? whose cross-dressing main character finds himself jailed in a Texas town ?in my sister?s wedding gown.? The song asks, ?Are you just a normal guy who dresses like a butterfly?? ?I say we should release that to country & western radio and not tell anybody who it?s from. [laughs] I tried to make it sound like Johnny Cash. I can hear this playing in a truck stop jukebox. The idea that it has clever lyrics shouldn?t take away from the fact that the song is actually a catchy number.?

Of the many standout tracks, Alice professes fondness for the song, ?Perfect.? While its middle-finger guitar riff and lyrical swagger points a straight line back to Love It To Death and ?Be My Lover,? Alice says it has more in common with Meet The Beatles. ?I just absolutely pride myself on that song. Wouldn?t it be great to be able to write ?I Saw Her Standing There? or ?You?re Gonna Lose That Girl?? Any three-minute Beatles song. I finally wrote something I feel could?ve been a Beatles song at one point, even if it was a Beatles song they would?ve thrown away.

One of the album?s more deceptive tracks is ?Pretty Ballerina,? a dark ballad imbued with Alice?s eerie softer voice, veiled in classic Cooper unease. ?That was originally written by a band called The Left Banke who had a hit with ?Walk Away Renee,? says Alice. ?Pretty Ballerina? was their second hit. I heard it when I was a kid in 1965-66. It?s just such a great curveball; it sounds a little bit like ?Only Women Bleed.? It has that delicacy and darkness, even though when you listen to it it?s just a love song. The way it was written really appeals to that darker romantic side of me.?

Writing and recording Dirty Diamonds with Alice is his band, long-time guitarist Ryan Roxie, recent addition guitarist Damon Johnson (best known for his band Brother Cane), bassist Chuck Garric and drummer Tommy Clufetos. Unlike Alice?s 2003 album The Eyes of Alice Cooper, which featured the band and only the band with virtually no overdubs, Dirty Diamonds has a more arranged and produced feel to it, and features additional contributions by a host of highly regarded LA musicians and writers, including guitarist Rick Boston (Rickie Lee Jones), bassist Mike Elizondo (Eminem, 50 Cent) and keyboardist Teddy Zigzag (who has worked with everyone from Guns N Roses to Carole King).

?I really look at Dirty Diamonds as an Alice gem. There are no fillers. Pick any song you think might be a single and I?m happy with that song representing the album. That to me is quality. Every track has got to be a great song, which is something I learned from Bob Ezrin.? (producer of the Alice Cooper platinum classics Love It To Death , School?s Out, Billion-Dollar Babies, and Welcome To My Nightmare, as well as Pink Floyd and Kiss). Co-produced by Steve Lindsey (who has worked with everyone from Leonard Cohen to Elton John) and Rick Boston, the minimalist ?set it and forget it? approach captures Alice Cooper in all his timeless black humor and raw wound glory. ?With Steve we were able to write it, record it and move on to the next song,? says Alice. ?He?s one of those guys who has the same kind of music pedigree as Ezrin. We were on the same page as far as the kind of music we were talking about.? The only song that indulges mapped-out production is the title track, with a movie soundtrack horn section that recalls the West Side Story spin of ?Gutter Cats Vs. The Jets.? ?Almost everything through Alice Cooper has had a cinematic sound to it. Think of ?Dirty Diamonds? as being a James Bond movie. That?s something that Alice does that nobody else does,? he says.

Dirty Diamonds is pure Alice Cooper. He?s still and forever rock?s reigning shock rock icon. ?I always treated Alice as a dignified criminal, like Hannibal Lecter,? he says. ?Lecter would never lower himself to use bad language. Alice was always too much of an elegant gentleman; He wouldn?t swear?but he?d slit your throat.?

Alice is definately worth going to see!  :yes:  He puts on as good a show now as he did 20 years ago.  I've seen him several times.  I may go to the Fair in Syracuse that day to check him out again.

Billboard magazine is reporting that ALICE COOPER has his highest-charting album on The Billboard 200 in 11 years.

"Dirty Diamonds" (New West) opened at No. 169 in the week ended August 7. That's COOPER's highest-debuting and highest-charting set since "The Last Temptation of Alice Cooper", which debuted and peaked at No. 68 in July 1994.

"Diamonds" is the 23rd chart album of COOPER's career, which began with the debut of "Pretties for You" in June 1969. That LP reached No. 193. The most successful ALICE COOPER album is "Billion Dollar Babies", which spent the week of April 21, 1973 at No. 1

Alice Cooper is taking his Dirty Diamonds tour to the world, supporting a new New West release of the same name that represents a real return to Detroit rock form.

The vibe of "Dirty Diamonds" recalls Cooper's classic 1971 album "Killer," which include such gems as "Be My Lover", "Desperado" (not to be confused with the Eagles' song of the same name) and "Dead Babies."

"The new album was pretty much going back to that era," Cooper tells Billboard.com. "The last three albums [I did] were all pretty modern, industrial kind of Alice rock albums, big story albums, [with] apocalyptic, end of the world things going on, real heavy story lines."

After those three albums and tours, Cooper says he wanted to go back to a "live-in-the-studio" sound, with no overdubs. "I was thinking let's not spend a lot of time on production, let's spend our time writing the song and performing the song, rather than layering it," Cooper explains. "We actually did the album in about 15 days. We went in the studio, wrote the song in the morning, took a lunch break, and then recorded it that evening."

Dirty Diamond cuts like "Perfect" fit nicely alongside early gems like "Be My Lover" in the Cooper canon. "When ['Perfect'] came along, we were worried that it was a little light, and I said, 'you know what, in my early albums we had songs like that, songs with a little Beatles flavor to them," Cooper says. "As long as the lyric and the storyline and Alice's attitude are right, it can be like that. 'Be My Lover' was not a heavy song. I don't mind a little glam in Alice Cooper, because we were at the beginning of glam. We were pre-Bowie when it came to glam."

Cooper says many of his main influences, then and now, were cinematic. "When I first fashioned 'Desperado' I was thinking of Robert Vaughn's character in the 'Magnificent Seven'," he says. "He was the gunslinger that was lightning fast, the guy who could kill you at any second. On top of that, he was kind of a Jim Morrison character. He had that black suit on with a little white lace on the sleeves, which made him like the gentleman gambler that could blow your brains out."

Cooper says what's old in rock is now new again. "I've been listening to a lot of cutting edge bands right now -- White Stripes, the Vines, the Strokes, Jet -- and every single one of these bands are retro bands. They're all garage bands, 1968 Detroit garage bands. And I'm right at home with that because that's where I lived in 1968. We were doing shows with the Stooges and the MC5 back then."

Cooper's 28-song setlist on the tour is light on ballads, as is the new record. "I always believe you have to put one ballad on an album," Cooper maintains. "You're supposed to break the girl's heart at least once on the album."

The current tour includes such traditional Cooper set-pieces as guillotines, strait jackets and "female vampire whip dances," but he says perception has always been more over-the-top than reality for the shock-rocker.

"If you asked 10 people in 1975 to go to an Alice Cooper show and do a two-page report on what they saw, you'd get 10 different shows," he says. "People saw things that weren't there. People say 'when you threw the chicken out' and 'when the snake came out' and I went 'we didn't use the snake tonight.' We haven't used the chicken since 1967."

Cooper shows offer sensory overload, he says. "When you've bombard an audience with images ?- there's crutches, there's guillotines, there's strait jackets, there's manikins that come to life, there's garbage cans, there's swords, money, jewelry thrown in the audience -? at the end of the show they'll tell you the most amazing story you've ever heard. And I'll think about half of that really happened."

Over the weekend, Cooper wrapped a European tour with a show in Iceland. A U.S. run, during which he will share stages on many occasions with Cheap Trick, opens Aug. 20 at the U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati. A Canadian stint is on the books for October, followed by November U.K. dates.

TheRockRadio.com is reporting that a rare ALICE COOPER concert film will make its first appearance on home video in November. "Live 1973: Billion Dollar Babies Tour", which played theatres that year in limited release, will arrive on DVD on November 8. The DVD includes 14 songs, plus a new interview with Cooper, the original theatrical trailer for the film, and biographies of the original band members.

Some of the footage was previously included on the "Billion Dollar Babies Deluxe Edition" CD that was released in 2001.

Cooper is touring to promote his new album, "Dirty Diamonds", and performs on Thursday, September 1 with CHEAP TRICK in Rockford, Illinois.

KISS drummer Eric Singer, who is currently touring with CHEAP TRICK as part of ALICE COOPER's backing band, has posted the following message on his official web site:

"The tour is going really well... CHEAP TRICK is great to watch/hear every night.

"I got the privledge of seeing Bun. E's [Carlos, CHEAP TRICK drummer] private drum collection at his home in Rockford the other day. Wow, what a great collection of vintage drums in some of the coolest colors every seen!! Mostly Ludwig (of course...)? He really has a passion for this, which I can relate to, since I feel the same way about watches :-)

"The same night, after the Rockford show, I went to Rick's [Nielsen, CHEAP TRICK guitarist] house and got to see some of his vintage guitar collection!! Some really rare collectable stuff. And he has such great artifacts from his career as well that he was kool enough to share."

Launch Radio Networks reports: Putting ALICE COOPER and CHEAP TRICK together for a late-summer tour might seem odd to some, but not to the musicians themselves. Cooper told Launch that he's glad to be out with his old friends, since his history with CHEAP TRICK dates back to some recording sessions in 1978. "When I was doing (the) 'From the Inside' album, I did a song called 'Serious', and I listened to Rick (Nielsen)'s guitar playing, and I said, 'I really want this guy to play on this record,'" he said.

The COOPER/TRICK tour hits the Rock Jam in Mack, Colorado, tomorrow (Friday, September 9). They wrap things up next Friday (September 16) at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, then both move on with their own touring plans.

DEEP PURPLE and ALICE COOPER will be teaming up for a German tour in February 2006. Unconfirmed dates are as follows:

Feb. 06 - Max Schmeling Halle - Berlin, GER
Feb. 07 - Ostseehalle - Kiel, GER
Feb. 09 - Arena - N?rnberg, GER
Feb. 10 - Westfalenhalle - Dortmund, GER
Feb. 11 - Schleyerhalle - Stuttgart, GER
Feb. 12 - Messehalle - Erfurt, GER
Feb. 14 - Arena - Trier, GER
Feb. 15 - Mittelhessen Arena - Wetzlar, GER
Feb. 17 - SAP Arena - Mannheim, GER
Feb. 18 - Olympiahalle - M?nchen, GER

 According to a posting at SickthingsUK, Shout! Factory has set a November 8 release date for the DVD version of the ALICE COOPER film "Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper". The movie, which captures the original band lineup in the middle of the legendary 1973 "Billion Dollar Babies" tour, has never before been available on home video or DVD.

The DVD will feature the original cut of the film (including skits featuring the band) which was given a very limited theatrical run-mostly at midnight screenings-in the mid-'70s. This is the early cut, predating the Holywood version. Now available for the first time since the theatrical release, "Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper" boasts a new high-definition film transfer as well as a new Surround Sound mix created from the 16-track master tapes, plus a multitude of extras, including movie-length commentary by Alice himself. "The film that out-grosses them all" ? as it was originally billed ? is back, looking and sounding better than ever.

Track listing:

01. Hello, Hooray
02. Billion Dollar Babies
03. Elected
04. I'm Eighteen
05. Raped And Freezin'
06. No More Mr. Nice Guy
07. My Stars
08. Unfinished Sweet
09. Sick Things
10. Dead Babies
11. I Love The Dead
12. School's Out
13. Under My Wheels
14. The Lady Is A Tramp (studio)

Special Features:

* Audio Commentary by Alice Cooper
* Anamorphic Widescreen & 5.1 Surround Sound
* "Play concert only" viewing option
* Original Theatrical Trailer and Radio Spots
* Deleted Scene and Outtakes
* Easter Eggs
* Poster Gallery with Original Promotional Material
* Band Biographies

Alice Cooper, who is about to wrap up a string of co-headlining dates with Cheap Trick, will remain on the road as he continues to support his recently released album, "Dirty Diamonds."

September 2005
14 - El Cajon, CA - Concerts in the Park (w/ Cheap Trick)
16 - Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre (w/ Cheap Trick)
27 - Hollywood, FL - Hard Rock Live
28 - Orlando, FL - Hard Rock Live
29 - Clearwater, FL - Ruth Eckerd Hall
30 - Naples, FL - Hayes Hall

October 2005
1 - Jacksonville, FL - Florida Theatre
4 - South Bend, IN - Morris Performing Arts Center
6 - Mount Pleasant, MI - Soaring Eagle Casino
7 - Cleveland, OH - Tower Amphitheater
8 - Atlantic City, NJ - House of Blues
9 - Erie, PA - Warner Theatre
10 - Peoria, IL - Peoria Civic Center Theatre
12 - Joliet, IL - Rialto Square Theatre
13 - Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center
17 - Las Vegas, NV - The Joint
19 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Orpheum Theatre
21 - Calgary, Alberta - Jubilee Auditorium
22 - Edmonton, Alberta - Winspear Centre
23 - Red Deer, Alberta - The Centrium
24 - Lethbridge, Alberta - ENMAX Arena
25 - Salmon Arm, British Columbia - Sunwave Centre
27 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theatre
28 - Eugene, OR - McDonald Theatre
29 - Tacoma, WA - Emerald Queen Casino
31 - Anaheim, CA - The Grove of Anaheim

 As a result of Eric Singer's touring commitments with KISS (related to their Honda Fest appearance last weekend), the last three shows of ALICE COOPER's current tour have featured the welcome return of Tommy Clufetos to the drum stool. Tommy, of course, played on the 2004 tour and is the drummer on COOPER's latest CD, "Dirty Diamonds" (despite not being pictured on the sleeve), and has spent most of this year touring with ROB ZOMBIE. Singer is scheduled to return to the ALICE COOPER tour momentarily and is expected to take part in the U.K. dates in November (also featuring TWISTED SISTER).

When considering metal luminaries who manage to outshine even the most intense light cast by legend, Alice Cooper indisputably stands as a beacon to all who  love music. Face it, one could easily put him right alongside such influential frenetic vocalists as Ozzy or Dio and say, ?hard rock wouldn?t have been the same without him.? When Vincent Furnier first created the persona of Alice Cooper, there was nothing like him. The make up, bloody guillotine and sense of vaudevillian humor he introduced was revolutionary enough, but?let?s face it, theatricality minus the quality music is basically Mudvayne or Slipknot. The component that has set him apart and has given Cooper the greatest staying power has indisputably been the memorable songs. Without classic tracks like ?Billion Dollar Babies?, ?School?s Out? and ?I?m Eighteen?, Alice would have quickly been relegated to the status of mere gimmick, and if that had been the case, he certainly wouldn?t still be releasing records as consistent as Dirty Diamonds or managing to tour the country at venues most bands who accept limping through their latter stages couldn?t even begin to hope to fill.

Where Vince ends and Alice Cooper begins though is anyone?s guess and by his own admission, the vocalist has stated that there were times during his career where even he didn?t know where his alter ego ended and his true self actually began. Although those days have long since come and gone, it is important to note that Furnier continues to maintain that ?Alice is still my favorite rock and roll star.? Anyone who has seen AC during the current tour can attest to the fact that Cooper?s live show is just as energetic and engaging as ever, and the standards are all well represented in the set as is Alice?s penchant for entertaining the adoring throngs. His current perspective regarding retirement appears to be that if the Rolling Stones or Paul McCartney can continue making music while in their mid sixties, then that prospect should easily be within reach for him as he is only five years away from the milestone himself. Unlike others who have watched as their credibility waned with an uncaring public, Cooper has maintained his standing as the bad boy of the genre even as Vince the person hits Scottsdale to play golf or runs his restaurant, Cooperstown, in Phoenix. When any fan who gets the opportunity to see him belting out future standards from Dirty Diamonds like ?You Make Me Wanna? and ?Sunset Babies?, it?ll be easy for each and every one of them to sense that the character of Alice is as appropriately sick and as twisted as ever?and feel that the world is a better place because of it.

KNAC.COM: There has been something that I have been wanting to ask you for a while---how was the idea of doing the Muppet Show first presented to you?

ALICE: I think that maybe I was the most notorious character in the world at that time, but the Muppet people never saw it like that. They had just had Vincent Price on and John Cleese and Peter Sellers on the show. They thought, ?what about Alice Cooper?? I was like--absolutely. First of all, the Muppets never offended anyone because they were blue and green. You could say anything about anybody and get away with it. The hardest part though was that Ms. Piggy would not take her paws off of me. I had hoof prints everywhere.

KNAC.COM: Basically she was all over you like all the other females at the time?

ALICE: Yeah, but the problem was that Kermit was really starting to get an attitude about it.

KNAC.COM: You could have taken him though--don?t you think?

ALICE: Well yeah, but it just made it real awkward for the entire week. I finally had to sit him down and just tell him, ?look, it was all her--she?s a pig.?

KNAC.COM: Was Animal as good of a drummer as everyone said he was?

ALICE: Animal was based on Ginger Baker, so yeah, he definitely was. I got along with Sam The Eagle too because he was all American. (This statement was followed by numerous flawless Muppet impersonations.) I liked that guy. I loved doing that show too, but the craziest part was that the characters just had so much personality. When you rehearsed, you were kind of like on a bench like at a basketball game because the puppeteers were down under you holding the puppet up. I might be sitting there doing a song with Ms. Piggy, and I?d go, ?you know, it would be funny if you?d put your head on my shoulder right here.? Then, I realized?I was talking to his hand. When I said that though, Ms. Piggy would turn her head around at the time and go, ?that was a great idea.? After that, I would look down at the puppeteer to suggest something, and the guy is like, ?no no--that?s alright. Talk to the pig.? You do find yourself talking to the characters while you?re rehearsing. It was the weirdest thing. Kermit would say, ?maybe you should turn a little bit this way, and it would be funnier if the arrow just misses me.? I was like, ?oh yeah, that?s a great idea.? Then I realized, of course, that I was talking to this green sock.

KNAC.COM: That was a credit to Jim Henson and the crew though?all of the characters had such distinct personalities.

ALICE: Yeah, you were honestly taken into it.

KNAC.COM: I?m sure, and how many people have you met in your life who have had eighty percent less personality than any one of the Muppets?

ALICE: They were more animated and had more personality--by far--than most rock stars.

KNAC.COM: Uh?yep. You do know though, you make this all sound really funny now, but ?Welcome To My Nightmare? scared the hell out of me even with the presence of all the colored puppets. It just seemed like such an odd juxtaposition.

ALICE: The whole idea of the Faustian selling your soul to the devil concept--

KNAC.COM: That was a heady trip for a seven year old!

ALICE: It was, but to us it was really light and silly, but I can see to a little kid how scary that would be.

KNAC.COM: Just think, that was my introduction to you.

ALICE: (Laughs) To this day, you know, I had immediate credibility with my two year old. I was on The Muppets.

KNAC.COM: Wouldn?t that make you a legend even if you hadn?t done anything else afterwards? I mean, you were on The Muppet Show!

ALICE: Yeah, and I went on right after Peter Sellers. To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that?s a compliment.

KNAC.COM: How do you manage in a career as illustrious as yours has been to not get trapped in that ?oh no, this was a climactic moment--I?ll never be able to top this!? kind of mindset?

ALICE: It is probably the same as it is with The Stones or The Who. For me, I?ve never lost my thrill of rock and roll. If you write a great rock song, and the chords are right and it has a great opening with the drums coming in just right?it is something amazing. I?m listening to the new Stones record right now, and those guys are about five or six years older than us, and ?Rough Justice? could be ?Street Fighting Man? or any of the songs from that era. They haven?t lost one bit of their edge. I am left to sit there and just go, ?I guess it really has nothing to do with your age.? It has everything to do with your attitude in rock and roll. I get onstage now with more attitude at fifty-seven than I had when I was twenty. When I was twenty, my attitude was kind of like, ?yeah, yeah?I?m a big rock star.? Now, when I get onstage, I go up there, and I am the Moriarty of rock. I am the consummate villain. I am the Hannibal Lector of rock, and I play it like that. Alice just seems like an arrogant bastard or villain who is making the audience feel as though they are lucky to be there when in reality that is exactly the opposite of my personality. With Alice though?it is great to play him or portray him as an Alan Rickman type character who is very condescending. That?s what makes him fun to watch--he?s Captain Hook.

KNAC.COM: There had to have been times when maybe even you were a little blurry on the distinction as well.

ALICE: In the early days when I was drinking, that was like yeah, I had a very blurry line about where those two were.

KNAC.COM: That?s what I would have figured. I?m sure though that people have confused the person with the persona throughout your career.

ALICE: Yeah, but I mean, that happens when you drink twenty-two hours a day. I would just sit and drink. I didn?t know whether or not I was supposed to be Alice when I went out for dinner and was a little lit. Then there was the question about whether or not I should wear the make up because I didn?t really want to disappoint anyone. Was I supposed to get into trouble? Was I supposed to get arrested that night? All of those questions went through my mind. You have to remember though who my older brothers and sisters were though--guys like Jim Morrison and Keith Moon and all the people who were living that life. After they all died, I just sat there and went, ?if one generation is going to learn from the next the truth is going to have to be that you don?t have to die to be your character.? I figured then that I had better be able to separate the two. When I go onstage as Alice to this day, I play Alice to the hilt--I play him for everything he is worth, but when I?m offstage, I never think about Alice Cooper. He never occurs to me.

KNAC.COM: That had to be such a long process to be able to get to that point.

ALICE: Yeah, but the second I put on the makeup or the second I put on the clothes and I could be talking to the band about a 7:20 tee time in the morning, but the second the music starts and I turn to the audience, I become Alice. It?s a different posture, and it?s a different attitude. It is a different body language and a whole different outlook of who I am. The band can look at me and they don?t know who I am at that point. Then I?m this other guy. The second I walk off stage though and I turn away from the audience, I go back to being me again. Whenever I see an audience, that?s when I turn into Alice. If there was no audience there, there would be no reason to be Alice.

KNAC.COM: Aren?t there a lot of people out there though who have this insatiable need and desire to believe that Alice is a living, breathing being out wreaking havoc twenty-four hours a day?

ALICE: I?ve tried to believe it myself even though I don?t believe it about Marilyn Manson. The guys in Slipknot look like they work at The Gap when they aren?t in Slipknot. I was more stunned than anyone on that one. They all came and sat down after the show, and they were all wearing these Gap shirts with little short haircuts. It was like??so the guys in Slipknot are where? Where are the guys in Slipknot?? I was like, ?really?? So that was funny to me, but I totally get it. If I tried to be Alice Cooper all the time--

KNAC.COM: You wouldn?t be around, would you?

ALICE: I?d either be in an insane asylum or in jail or dead. Alice is just too intense, and you just can?t be Alice all the time. Jim Morrison couldn?t be Jim Morrison, so he died. Jimi Hendrix couldn?t be Jimi Hendrix, so he died. That?s really what killed Janis Joplin, Keith Moon and all the way down the line. They were all animated characters who couldn?t live up to their lifestyle, so I said that I needed to be able to separate the two--that?s why I?m still here.

KNAC.COM: I?m sure that thinking about why you?re here is something you have devoted a lot of thought to--I mean, you were such a contrast to the other musicians on The Metal Years. When you said something to the effect that ?we aren?t here by accident? it was so much different than many of the others who were either preoccupied with looking for sex or were too inebriated to really respond to anything thoughtfully. Did you feel out of sorts saying something like that at the time?

ALICE: No, no because I always felt like Alice filled the bill. I looked around at rock and roll as an art form, and I looked at it in the big picture as if it were a big play or a big movie. During that time, I saw all of these great heroes, but no villains. I saw a lot of Peter Pan?s, but I saw no Captain Hook. I thought, ?I will gladly be that Captain Hook.? I mean, there were guys who were dangerous like Jim Morrison or Mick Jaggar, but no one was defined by the villain persona. No one gave you chills when you were to look at them. I said, ?that?s what I was built to do.? I always thought that was my purpose. I wanted to be the guy that when you walked into a room full of rock stars whether it be the Beatles or the Stones or anybody, that when Alice walked in the room there would be that kind of muffled, ?he?s here? thing going on. Even though I?m the nicest guy in the world I loved that notoriety thing. I might have been the nicest guy in the room, but I wanted the image to scare people--I wanted a dangerous image.

KNAC.COM: Yeah, but you had that sense of humor too--that?s what the rockers who intended to copy you missed out on.

ALICE: Sure, and also a sense of romance. Alice was a romantic. The songs like ?Only Women Bleed? and ?You and Me? and ?I Never Cry?---some of the biggest hits were romantic. I think there was a certain amount of Zoro in Alice as well. In other words, Alice would be onstage, and if a girl would pull her top off, Alice would find that rude. He?s too much of a gentleman for that. Sure, he might slit your throat, but he is too much of a gentleman to find that behavior anything but crude. He would probably give the girl a good talking to as well like, ?you really shouldn?t be cheapening yourself that way.? Yes, he may be a gentleman villain, but he is more vicious than anyone out there.

KNAC.COM: Why is it that when a musician or group sets out to emulate you that they seem to only get one dimension right whether it is the violence or the blood? Why do you think it is so hard to replicate the whole package?

ALICE: A long time ago, Frank Zappa said something that made so much sense to me. He said, ?look, you either get it or you don?t get it. I?m never going to make someone get it.? Of course, he was talking about himself. People used to go, ?what is Frank Zappa? Is it jazz? Well, it?s rock, and it?s funny. Sometimes it also might be stupid, sexy or dirty. What is it?? Frank Zappa would just be like, ?you either get it or you don?t.? I sort of developed that attitude. I always thought that if people just liked the music, then that would be great because we write great records and songs. If they just get the horror part, I figured that would be great too. If they get the comedy and the horror part, I figured that would be even better. I always thought though that if they could assimilate all three parts, then that would be terrific. If they just went there and had a good time and let the show be the show and walk away going, ?that was the most fascinating thing I?ve ever seen? then that?s the goal. The first time I saw Cirque Du Soleil, I didn?t know how to describe it. It was like a nightmare that was just so great to watch--it was just so indescribable. I always wanted the Alice Cooper show to be like that, but of course Cirque came much later, but that?s always what we were shooting for. I wanted us to be a surrealistic painting, but it always had to come with the premise that the music was the cake. The show has to be the icing. Without the great songs, then you?re just a puppet show. One thing about the bands now whether it be the Slipknots or the Mudvayne?s is that they don?t have the music to back it up, and if that?s true, then you aren?t going to be around very long. It may be exciting and this and that, but will it be around for thirty-five to forty years? No

KNAC.COM: But would you really want it to be? The music doesn?t exactly lend itself to stepping outside the genre. When many people attend the show, it doesn?t really look celebratory in any way--it?s more like a gathering of collective group misery.

ALICE: Well, if you go to one of Marilyn Manson?s shows, it?s very well done. I don?t agree with anything he says theologically or the promotion of drugs, and certainly the Satanic thing bothers me with me being a Christian, but the show is really disturbing. I can say that in that particular respect it?s very well done. He obviously has spent the time, money, ideas and put them all together to make it all work. Will it be around in thirty-five years? No. He will probably be a filmmaker or an actor or something like that. When I think about it though, I don?t see any songs that are going to be like ?No More Mr. Nice Guy?, ?School?s Out? or ?I?m Eighteen?. I?m talking about songs that will live on for fifty years or so and will still be getting played.

KNAC.COM: At this stage of a musician?s career--especially one with the type of prolific run that you?ve had, what more could anyone want of you? You have a strong new record, and the Alice Cooper live show is as entertaining as it has ever been--what more could a fan want?

ALICE: I read this one article once about Bob Dylan who I really admire, and when I was looking at it, it said that he had worked two hundred and fifty days that year. Keep in mind that this is guy who could have retired thirty years ago on the songs he wrote. When they asked him why he still did it, he just said, ?This is what I do. Money has nothing to do with it. I write songs. I record songs, and I perform songs. It?s as simple as that. What else would you have me do??

KNAC.COM: Why do people have to assign an ulterior motive in cases like that?

ALICE: I took a year off one time, and I really missed performing. Either I have got to get a movie to do or go to Broadway. I?m a natural performer. I would feel more at home on stage than I do off stage. When people ask me when I?m finally going to hang it up, I just go, ?I guess when I walk out and there?s nobody in the audience.? They?re probably going to have to pry the microphone out of my dead hands.

KNAC.COM: You?re a sports fan--you?ve seen cases where people want to say that a legend is hanging on too long whether it be Brett Favre, Jerry Rice or Michael Jordan.

ALICE: Once they stop producing, they have to go, ?look, I can?t throw the ball fifty yards anymore. I can?t hit my receiver.? With the Stones, they are sixty-five and still rocking and making great records--Paul McCartney is too. I don?t think there is an expiration date as long as you keep writing great songs. In other words, if I gained a hundred pounds and lost my hair, or got fat and stupid, I?d have to retire because I couldn?t be Alice. I couldn?t play Alice. Alice is slim. He?s sleek. He?s quick. He?s fast. He?s funny. He?s scary. If I can?t perform those things, then I can?t be Alice. If any of those things ever happen to me, then I?ll let somebody else play Alice. He is the kind of character that when I go to Spencer?s and see a Dracula outfit or a Ronald McDonald outfit, I may see an Alice Cooper costume right next to it, and it?s at that time that I go, ?you know, a hundred years from now, some one might be playing Alice.? I hope so. (laughs)

KNAC.COM: What does that realization do for you?

ALICE: I think it?s great. I have created an Americana character. It is as much a piece of Americana as Johnny Appleseed or the Headless Horseman. To me, that will be my legacy--that the Alice Cooper character will be one of the greatest villains of all time. I think it was all built on the songs though.

KNAC.COM: You can?t sell a gimmick for thirty-five years, right?

ALICE: I always said that if you get twenty rebounds a game, then you can have leopard skin hair. You can be Dennis Rodman as long as you produce, but the minute you can?t shoot any more or can?t get down the court, then you have to realize that you probably can?t be wearing a wedding dress anymore either.

KNAC.COM: And how many musicians? careers have become derailed because they lost sight of the fact that their privileges were based on songs and that without the tunes, it is a quick drop to obscurity?

ALICE: I think that is true of a lot of them. I think a lot of them start telling themselves that they can?t rock and roll forever so they start doing this or they start doing that or they start a restaurant. By the way, I have nothing to do with the actual running of my restaurant other than I insist they not have wet t-shirt competitions. The food there is great though, and I enjoy the mix of rock and sports. I would be the worst person to run a restaurant though because I would give it all away. I decided mostly to be a part of it because it is a place for young bands to play. We?ve had a lot of great young bands come through, and the food is simple and good. There are no French sauces or anything. We have tuna noodle casserole, ribs and a great cheeseburger. I don?t want to get any more complex than that. Believe me though--that isn?t where I make my money. I mostly just go there to hang out or if there is a party or a band in town playing at America West, and they are rehearsing in the afternoon, I will send over ten bags of ribs just because I know what it?s like to be on the road. I?ve been out there for forty years, and I know what kind of crap they eat and the roadies are starving. (laughs) KNAC.COM: How much are you enjoying doing your radio show right now?

ALICE: When they came to me about doing this, they said, ?nobody listens to radio at night anymore from seven to midnight.? I said, ?that?s because you?re playing the same forty songs, and everyone is sick of ?Pretty Woman? by Van Halen and ?Dirty Deeds? by AC/DC. Everyone has just absolutely had it with ?Smoke on the Water?. I?ll take the show, but only if you let me control the writing--I?ll get a couple of writers I know from New York--yeah, it will be irreverent, but only irreverent to rock stars.? They are so revered, so what?s wrong with nailing them? They?re all my friends. I can call Bono the anti-Christ if I want to--he knows I?m kidding. I can say to Styx that I think ?Come Sail Away? is the gayest song ever written.

KNAC.COM: C?mon!!

ALICE: No, no. Let them come on the show and argue with me because we?ll all be laughing anyway. I think all the guys I make fun of have a sense of humor.

KNAC.COM: Did you find that you were naturally an expert at the art of interviewing given that you have been the subject of about fifteen thousand of them?

ALICE: Oh yeah, I?ve done that many at least. Johnny Carson used to have me on because he said, ?Alice, you?re the only one that can talk. You?re the only rock star that can talk and actually make people laugh.?

KNAC.COM: You do run into your occasional inarticulate droolers though, don?t you?

ALICE: Yeah, well I would always go on there with about four or five good stories, and he would be like, ?come back whenever you want. It?s great that you do what you do and can make people laugh.?

KNAC.COM: And you can have a good person on one end of some discussion and as conversational and engaging as that person may be, it still might not work. It could be the drool or the involuntary noises, but for some reason it just doesn?t click. I?m sure you?ve had that experience many times.

ALICE: Yeah, I can tell in the first ten seconds what it is that I?m dealing with--if it?s like that, I just decide that I am going to take over the interview. From that point on, I decide that I am pretty much going to lead this guy wherever I want him to go and make him ask the things I want him to ask me. He could say to me, ?what color are your eyes?? and I would go, ?the reason we recorded that was??

KNAC.COM: And you are no longer listening to the questions whatsoever. (laughs)

ALICE: Wait a minute! I make him sound like a genius--you know, he sounds like he?s asking me all the right questions.

KNAC.COM: Yep! I?m sure no one would ever give me any credit for it, but I?m completely positive I?ve made at least a couple of subjects sound way smarter than they would be if you ran into them at the mall.

ALICE: You are so right. Now that I?ve started interviewing musicians--I just did one today--it was with someone that I really admire too. It was like talking to a box of rocks. I was like, ??.ok. There is just so much to talk about?you know, you guys have written so many songs.? Then they just go, ??.yeah?? I?m not even talking about average songs here. These guys produced some of the greats, and they are just like, ??yeah.?

KNAC.COM: And there is absolutely nothing there! (laughs) Isn?t it a downer?

ALICE: Yeah, but then there are other ones that are great. There are certain guys that you get on there like Rob Zombie who is great to talk to or Bill Wyman from the Stones or Ron Wood even though you don?t understand a word he says--basically just guys who can talk.

KNAC.COM: You can figure out pretty quickly how they got to the point where they are at too because it becomes obvious real quick that they would probably be successful in whatever venture they pursued.

ALICE: Definitely, and you can tell that they?re quick and they?re thinking on their feet. You might throw something at them, and they might throw something back at you even better. That?s when you go, ?ok, that guy is good. This guy not only picked up on what I was saying, but he threw something back that was even better. If you ever want a perfect one, get Ted Nugent on and say, ?Iraq.? You can go eat a sandwich, take a shower and an hour later, he?s still going.

KNAC.COM: So it would be like ten plays of ?Stairway to Heaven? in a row?

ALICE: I took his interview and I broke it into one hundred ?Pearls of Wisdom? for my radio show. I was like, ?now it?s time for the ?All American Ted Nugent Pearl of Wisdom.?? He?d be saying something about a cow head or whatever. Really though, he has so many great quotes. The guy is like a machine gun. I would put him up against Howard Stern any day.

KNAC.COM: It would be an interesting match up, wouldn?t it?

ALICE: It would be a good one.

KNAC.COM: Was there one thing that annoyed you when you were being interviewed all those years that you said you would never do yourself--even if the person you were interviewing was annoying or a little slow?

ALICE: Well, I don?t know because I am just so used to controlling the interview in cases like that. With this interview though, I?m controlling nothing. (laughs) You are asking me all the right questions and asking me things that I don?t get asked. Nine times out of ten, when I am doing an interview, I am watching T.V. while I?m doing it.

KNAC.COM: What is the one question you have been asked in every single interview?

ALICE: Oh, it has to be, ?where did you get your name?? The other thing they love to do is say, ?tell us the chicken story.? I have just told that story so many times.

KNAC.COM: Do you ever refer them to your website in cases like that?

ALICE: You know, I just can?t be abrupt like that--I?ll just tell the story again. I will sometimes though look for something to invent to make the story just a little more colorful. You know, I may embellish the story a bit and then afterwards go, ?that was pretty good, I think I?ll keep that.?

KNAC.COM: Basically you could just throw in a few more adjectives and adverbs here and there?

ALICE: Or it could be something like, ?by the way, Jim Morrison was on one side of the stage and John Lennon was on the other watching this happen--those are your two eye witnesses.? How good is that? The stories were great to start with, and I get to make them better.

KNAC.COM: Which songs off of Dirty Diamonds are tunes that you think might be present on an Alice Cooper set list ten years from now?

ALICE: When you write an album, you go in realizing that not all of them will be great stage songs, but sometimes you just hear one, and realize what you?ve got. ?Dirty Diamonds? and ?Woman of Mass Distraction? are just built for the stage. They will be around for a while.

KNAC.COM: I liked, ?You Make Me Wanna.?

ALICE: ?Sunset Babies (All Got Rabies)? is the other one we are doing onstage now. They are just the four songs that lend themselves most easily to the stage. You can do ?Sunset Babies? right after ?Billion Dollar Babies? or ?Be My Lover? or ?Eighteen?, and they sound like they all fit.

KNAC.COM: It seemed that the fans didn?t take as long to get into them as is normal when a group plays a new song live.

ALICE: Yeah, and in my case, what are those songs? They are the four most basic rock songs on the album. ?Sunset Babies? is a song that even reminds me of ?Brown Sugar? or a song like that. It just starts out with this honky tonk feel. It?s ok--everybody borrows from Keith Richards, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles.

KNAC.COM: No, there?s no harm in borrowing from someone as long as that someone doesn?t suck.

ALICE: Yeah, we?re not barrowing from the Thompson Twins or anything like that or Urban League.

KNAC.COM: How weird is it though to know that you had already been established as a rock veteran before they even started and now they have even been gone for twenty years? I mean, where in the hell are the Thompson Twins and the Urban League now?

ALICE: They might be playing Carnival Cruises right now. (laughs)

KNAC.COM: They deserve it for the waffle haircut thing they had going on too. Still though, how do you look back in your rearview mirror at these bands that have ceased being part of public consciousness two or three decades ago?

ALICE: Well, I?m still able to do it because Alice is still my favorite rock star. Mick Jaggar is right up there, and I enjoy Pete Townshend, but my favorite rock star is Alice. He has never let me down, and if I look at him in a stage show objectively, sometimes I will go, ?darn, I wish I could feel that way.? Then, of course I realize that it?s me. (laughs) Basically, as long as Alice is my favorite rock star, then I?ll be fine.

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Anyone here been to the Cooperstown resteraunt?


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my mate saw Alice Cooper in Birmingham NEC last night ova here in UK. He was with twisted sister and boy did he rock. concert was about 5 1/2 hours. he used the guillotine and played all ur classic alice tunes. Twisted sister were fucking awesome. n e 1 else go

n e 1 else seen cooper live?

not this year...ehrr...5 1/2 hours??

YEP

Yup In Newcastle Australia.
Me and a mate got the Platnium pass. $400 U.S a ticket so around $500 at the time we got em.
Back Stage passes, tour of the stage and props and sound gear, Meet N' Greet with Alice Cooper. And we also met his Daughter. She is a glamour.
Best show ever.


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yeah.. i saw them at the Schools out "festival" here in norway... i didnt think too much of them.. i mean, i love them to death, but alice just wasnt up for it in my opinion that night...

Him n Twisted Sister were more than up 4 it this night. Any1 else witness the guillotine Act Live?

How does Alice Coopers band work? Are they actual band members or session musos or what?


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Well up until 75, Alice Cooper was the name of the group. Now, he just hires musicians. He has some that stay with him a while. I know Teddy Zig Zag was out with him for a period. Right now, I think Ryan Roxie and Eric Dover (from Slash's Snakepit) have been with him the longest.

Thanks man.


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Alice turns 58 on saturday. Happy bday man
Rock on


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ALICE COOPER has been confirmed for this year's installment of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 8-10 in S?lvesborg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order):

ALICE COOPER
ANVIL
BLITZKRIEG
BONFIRE
CACTUS
CATHEDRAL
CELTIC FROST
DEEP PURPLE
DORO
DRAGONFORCE
EASY ACTION
EVERGREY
FIREWIND
FROM BEHIND
GAMMA RAY
GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS
HOUSE OF SHAKIRA
JADED HEART
JEFF HEALEY BAND
JOURNEY
KROKUS
LORD BELIAL
METAL CHURCH
MOLLY HATCHET
NASTY IDOLS
NEIL TURBIN'S DEATHRIDERS
NEVERMORE
ONSLAUGHT
RAISE HELL
STRYPER
THE SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND
THE STORYTELLER
THE SWEET
VENOM
W.A.S.P.
WHITESNAKE

Pollstar.com is reporting that ALICE COOPER will visit Canada this spring for an arena tour spanning a dozen dates.

The May 1-17 trek will include six gigs in Ontario and five more spread across Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Manitoba. He'll dip down to Fargo, N.D., May 15 for a single U.S. show.

The original shock-rocker recently completed a 10-city tour of Germany and is planning more international dates this year. He's also keeping busy with a radio show, titled "Nights with Alice Cooper", which airs five days a week.

Cooper released his 24th studio album, "Dirty Diamonds", last summer.

ALICE COOPER Canadian tour dates:

May 01 - Saint John's, NF - Mile One Stadium
May 03 - Halifax, NS - Halifax Metro Centre
May 04 - Saint John, NB - Harbour Station
May 06 - Ottawa, ON - Ottawa Civic Centre Arena
May 07 - Hamilton, ON - Hamilton Place Theatre
May 09 - Kitchener, ON - Centre In The Square
May 10 - Oshawa, ON - Civic Auditorium Complex
May 11 - Barrie, ON - Barrie Molson Centre
May 13 - Thunder Bay, ON - Community Auditorium
May 15 - Fargo, ND - Fargo Civic Center
May 16 - Brandon, MB - Keystone Centre
May 17 - Winnipeg, MB - Manitoba Centennial Centre

 According to a posting on the New West Records web site, ALICE COOPER has lined up the following U.S. dates during the summer:

Jun. 30 - St. Paul, MN @ TBA
Jul. 03 - Milwaukee, WI @ TBA
Jul. 07 - Ionia, MI @ TBA
Jul. 21 - Fond du Lac, WI @ TBA
Jul. 22 - London, ON @ TBA
Aug. 06 - Sturgis, SD @ TBA
Aug. 08 - Ridgefield, WA @ TBA
Aug. 09 - Roseburg, OR @ TBA

ALICE COOPER will also reportedly be hitting the road in South America in November. So far one date has been announced: November 11 at Casa Espetaculo in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.

Anyone got any Alice Cooper bootlegs(dvd) I cant find anyone thats keen to trade coz all I have is GN'R stuff.
keen for a trade? PM or Email me


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I saw Alice this past October ( 3rd time seeing him). i swear he gets better every time i see him. his shows are awesome, in my opinion.

i'd like to see Alice and Rob Zombie do a tour together.

Whoa, when did Fargo join Canada? That's pretty sweet. We annexed something. :peace:

Veteran shock-rocker Alice Cooper (tickets | music) has added a number of stops to the next leg of his US tour, and has also nailed down a handful of Canadian concerts for the fall.

Cooper, who wrapped up his first round of summer shows last weekend, returns to the road Aug. 5, and has penciled in August stops in more than a half-dozen cities, including Las Vegas; Anaheim, CA; El Paso, TX; and Tulsa, OK. Following the late-August conclusion of the US run, he'll take a break before heading to Canada in mid-October. Details are included below.

The roadwork supports Cooper's latest studio set, "Dirty Diamonds," which hit stores last August. In May, he followed that up with "Live at Montreux 2005," a live DVD and CD that capture his performance at last year's Montreux Festival. A complete tracklisting, as well as streaming audio and video clips from the set, are posted at Eagle Rock Entertainment's website.

Cooper's backing band currently features guitarists Kari Kelli and Damon Johnson (Brother Cane), bassist Chuck Garric and drummer Eric Singer (KISS).

Born Vincent Damon Furnier in 1948, Cooper has been cranking out albums since 1969, the year he issued "Pretties for You." He scored his first hit with the cut "Eighteen," featured on 1971's "Love It to Death."

August 2006
5 - Sturgis, SD - Buffalo Chip
6 - Billings, MT - Shrine Auditorium
8 - Ridgefield, WA - Clark County Fair
9 - Roseburg, OR - Douglas County Fair
11 - Reno, NV - Reno Hilton
12 - Magna, UT - The Great Salt Air
13 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues
15 - Anaheim, CA - The Grove
17 - Ventura, CA - Majestic Ventura Theatre
18 - Yuma, AZ - Paradise Casino
19 - Tucson, AZ - 96.1 KLPX Festival
20 - El Paso, TX - Plaza Theatre
22 - Tulsa, OK - Brady Theatre
24 - Detroit, MI - Michigan State Fair

October 2006
13, 14 - Niagara Falls, Ontario - Niagara Fallsview Casino
16 - Montreal, Quebec - St. Denis Theatre
17 - Cornwall, Ontario - Cornwall Civic Center
18 - Kingston, Ontario - Memorial Centre

my favorite alice cooper song is "only women bleed"... only for one reason  :hihi:

I'm going to the Billings show. :)

If he comes near the NJ/NY area I will be attending.

HalifaxLive.com reports that ALICE COOPER will be in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on September 23 with THE ROLLING STONES on the Commons, according to tour dates listed on his web site.

I went to see Alice Cooper last nite in Ventura, CA , was fuckin awesome, 2 row!!! i had make up on, (alice cooper style), his voice was excelent, eric singer, (drummer Ex Kiss) was unbelievable!!! Alice Cooper  shook my hand!!!!! and the guitar player gave me a guitar pick! what a BLAST!!! :beer: Thanks for last nite Alice!!!!! :yes:

hes playing hartford ct on haloween  :nervous: im scared  ;D

ALICE COOPER has announced the details of his fall tour that marks the last of his 2006 concert plans, according to LiveDaily.com. Cooper continues to back his latest studio set, "Dirty Diamonds", which hit stores just over a year ago.

Cooper's backing band currently features guitarists Keri Kelli and Damon Johnson (BROTHER CANE), bassist Chuck Garric and drummer Eric Singer (KISS).

Tour dates:

Sep. 23 - Halifax, NS - Halifax Commons (with THE ROLLING STONES)
Sep. 26 - Verona, NY - Turning Stone Casino
Sep. 27 - Poughkeepsie, NY - Mid-Hudson Civic Center
Sep. 29 - Louisville, KY - Churchill Downs (with THE ROLLING STONES)
Sep. 30 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
Oct. 01 - Saint Louis, MO - The Pageant
Oct. 03 - Joliet, IL - Rialto Square Theatre
Oct. 05 - Springfield, IL - Sangamon Auditorium
Oct. 06 - Evansville, IN - The Centre
Oct. 07 - Pikeville, KY - Eastern Kentucky Expo Center
Oct. 08 - Cleveland, OH - Tower City Amphitheatre (Freaker's Ball)
Oct. 10 - Kalamazoo, MI - Kalamazoo State Theatre
Oct. 12 - North Bay, Ontario - North Bay Memorial Gardens
Oct. 13, 14 - Niagara Falls, Ontario - Niagara Fallsview Casino
Oct. 16 - Montreal, Quebec - St. Denis Theatre
Oct. 17 - Cornwall, Ontario - Cornwall Civic Complex
Oct. 18 - Kingston, Ontario - Memorial Centre
Oct. 20 - Jim Thorpe, PA - Penn's Peak
Oct. 21 - New York, NY - Beacon Theatre
Oct. 23 - Washington, DC - Warner Theatre
Oct. 24 - Lakewood, NJ - Strand Theatre
Oct. 25 - Rochester, NY - Auditorium Theatre
Oct. 27 - Reading, PA - Sovereign PAC
Oct. 28 - Atlantic City, NJ - House of Blues
Oct. 29 - Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre
Oct. 31 - Mashantucket, CT - Foxwoods
Nov. 08 - Glendale, AZ - Cardinals Stadium (with THE ROLLING STONES)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pp3wXh9PJs

Not only did he wash his hands in Boll's blood money, he recommended the movie to people.

I can put up with him golfing. I can't put up with him recommending Uwe "The Devil Beast" Boll to any human being.

He must be taking lessons from Gene Simmons.  ;)

Who the fuck cares. I will never understand why people actually care what artists do to keep the food on the table and earn some extra cash. Bottom fuckin line.. Alice is still Alice and that makes him 100 times better than you.

"Here's the deal, folks. You do a commercial - you're off the artistic roll call, forever. End of story. Okay? You're another whore at the captialist gang bang and if you do a commercial, there's a price on your head. Everything you say is suspect and every word that comes out of your mouth is now like a turd falling into my drink." - Bill Hicks

Funny how Slash did a commercial for mastercard long time ago, and everyone STILL respects him, including myself !  ;)

I don't totally agree with Hicks, I think sometimes it is acceptable. In Slash's case that was a humorous commercial, too. It wasn't him scoring a Uwe Boll film and then telling people to pay to go see one of the worst atrocities of all time.

people make me laugh.cos its slashits okay.i aw bob dylan in a starbucks advert and to me that is as bad as it gets i mean all the things he wrote about and stood for and then he does that.but apparently he is till cool.

i dont know what to think really and to be honest i dont care.does it mean someone sold out cos they done an advert?not in most cases if you ask me.

http://www.thecouncilband.com

People on this site ignore the fact their fav artists beats and sexually abusing women yet they are bothered by someone doing this or making a fucking commercial! ::)

Not everyone ;D

From www.alicecooper.com .

Alice Starts work on NEW album in January. I dont think he likes his misses much coz all he seems to so is tour and record. I hope the new album is like Dirty Diamonds, that was the best since trash.
What do you think the new one will be like?


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I didn't like Dirty Diamonds as much. I liked The Eyes Of Alice Cooper, Brutal Planet, Dragontown, The Last Temptation and Hey Stoopid all better.

whats your Fav Alice Cooper song? Mine is prob Ill never cry or Be my lover or is it my body.


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I'm 18 !!! Love everything about that song!  :yes:

Alice Cooper has a looooooooooooooot of great songs tho, I never cry, its a great ballad, and of course ballad of dwight fry, is it my body, Hallowed Be My Name, fuck!!! the whole "Love It To Death" , to me, best A cooper album ever  : ok:

 

I'm going to plug some newer material. Between high school and old school! Man of the year! Gimme! Triggerman! Lost in america! Love's a loaded gun! All alice cooper is good.

ALICE COOPER has set "Along Came a Spider" as the title of his new studio album, tentatively due in May. ALICE COOPER's last studio set, "Dirty Diamonds", hit stores in 2005.

Cooper's backing band currently features guitarists Keri Kelli and Damon Johnson (BROTHER CANE), bassist Chuck Garric and drummer Eric Singer (KISS).

Where did you hear about this? I cant find any info.


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thy need not question malcolm...he is the source of all band news outside of gnr.

Really?


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According to SickthingsUK, ALICE COOPER will embark on a U.K. headlining tour in November. Support at the shows will come from MOT?RHEAD and JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS. Confirmed dates are as follows:

Nov. 06 - Sheffield - Hallam Arena
Nov. 07 - Glasgow - SECC
Nov. 09 - Newcastle - Metro Arena
Nov. 10 - Birmingham - NEC
Nov. 11 - Notthingham - Arena
Nov. 13 - Brighton - Centre
Nov. 14 - Bournemouth - BIC
Nov. 16 - Cardiff - Arena
Nov. 17 - Wembley
Nov. 18 - Manchester - MEN

The world tour is sposda start in may, has anyone heard any dates yet?


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ALICE COOPER has lined up the following South American tour dates:

May 28 - Santiago, Chile @ Teatro Caupolican
May 30 - Cordoba, Argentina @ Estadio Juniors
June 01 - Buenos Aires, Argentina @ Estadio Pepsi Music
June 02 - Sao Paulo, Brazil @ CrediCard Hall
June 04 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil @ Chevrolet Hall
June 05 - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil @ Citibank Hall
June 06 - Curitiba, Brazil @ Master Hall
June 07 - Porto Alegre, Brazil @ Bourbon Hall

I just hope he stays away from Australia while GN'R are here. It would be very hard going to Alice at the same time as GN'R.
But he can come here soon after Guns leave.


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According to a posting at SickthingsUK, Alice Cooper indicated on his radio show last week that the group's new album has only been written so far but not yet recorded. The new CD has been delayed until further notice as the band is working around the producer's schedule.

Is the tour still happening?


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Yep

I'm gonna see him and Marilyn Manson on the same day, on July 1st.? :peace:

Is there any talk of an Australian tour any time soon?


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Launch Radio Networks There's been a major change in the timeline for ALICE COOPER's new album. Back in February, he said it would be out in May, but while all the material is written, Launch has now learned that he hasn't even started recording it yet. At this time, he's not expected to hit the studio until January, with a possible release next May, though nothing's set in stone ? including the announced title, "Along Came a Spider".

Alice's annual world tour gets underway May 28 in Santiago, Chile, and he's got a U.K. tour in November. North American dates haven't been announced yet.

That sux. I was soon keen on hearing the new stuff.


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ALICE COOPER has lined up the following tour dates during the coming months:

May 29 - Santiago, Chile - Teatro Caopoican
May 31 - Cordoba, Argentina - Estadio Juniors
Jun. 01 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Estadio Luna Park
Jun. 03 - Sao Paolo, Brazil - [To Be Announced]
Jun. 05 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Chevrolet Hall
Jun. 06 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - [To Be Announced]
Jun. 08 - Curitiba, Brazil - Master Hall
Jun. 13 - Mexico City, Mexico - Plaza de Toros
Jun. 14 - Guadalajara, Mexico - Plaza Nuevo Progreso
Jun. 15 - Monterrey, Mexico - Arena
Jun. 21 - Athens, Greece Lycabettus Theatre
Jun. 23 - Huttwil, Switzerland Rock Sound Festival
Jun. 25 - Florence, Italy ? [To Be Announced]
Jun. 29 - Borlange, Sweden Peace & Love Festival
Jul. 01 - Bucharest, Romania B'estival
Jul. 06 - Sydney, Australia - Enmore Theatre
Jul. 07 - Sydney, Australia - Enmore Theatre
Jul. 08 - Brisbane, Australia - Convention Centre
Jul. 11 - Adelaide, Australia - Thebarton Theatre
Jul. 13 - Perth, Australia - Burswood Theatre
Jul. 14 - Perth, Australia - Burswood Theatre
Jul. 18 - Wollongong, Australia - WIN Ent Centre
Jul. 19 - Canberra, Australia - AIS Arena
Jul. 21 - Launceston, Australia - Silverdome
Aug. 10 - Des Moines, IA - Iowa State Fair
Aug. 17 - Beaver Dam, WI - Dodge County Fair
Aug. 19 - Green Bay, WI - Radisson Three Clans Ballroom
Aug. 31 - Central Wisconsin, WI - Central Wisconsin State Fair
Sep. 14 - Hutchinson, KS - Kansas State Fair

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=71393

Des Moines, IA :o thats close enough i'm there, but hopefully he'll come closer to Omaha, NE so that the price of gas doesn't kill me  :nervous:

cheers,
:beer:

Yay! Seriously? Alice is coming to Oz again. I saw him at Thebarton Theatre in 2005 - 10 rows from the front. June - GNR, July - Alice. What a bloody treat!! :drool:

You lucky bastard :beer:

Alice is a master entertainer, muso and artist. Thebarton Theatre is a smaller venue than when I saw him peform two previous times (they were at the Entertainment Centre) where the gunners are performing this time. It was up close and very personal!!

PS. Make that barstard(ette)
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What's the deal on tickets for the Australian gigs, anybody know?

No news yet. Register with Ticketek and they will send you info about presales.

yes maam :)

i've been tryin to call ticketek all morning to find out anything about the Alice tix but its been engaged since 9am. I guess everyone is snatchin up whats left of the GN'R tix.
Its an expensive year for me. LOL


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Alice Cooper PreSale - 7th May 9am.  : ok:

For Australia?


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Yep - this is for vias card holders - sign up on the Tickettek website. : ok:

No wukkas. Thanks man.


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There is a Ticketek presale for NSW, VIC, QLD & WA on Wednesday 7th May 9am. This comes after the VISA card holder sale. Tickets go on sale to the general public on the 11th.

I just can't get the music out of my head at the mo - and I'm supposed to be preparing lessons for Year 7s!!! Looks like abit of Rock & Roll is on the curriculum!!!

I got my Alice tickets TODAY!!! (Adelaide gig) Hot of the press!!!
This was a special offer only open to people in Adelaide - Venutix......
First 2 seats in the balcony that sits right over the stage - the venue only holds 2000 people. Thought I'd take a different persepctive from when I saw Alice there 2 years ago - when I was 10 rows from the front of the stage.
In a radio interview this morning Alice said that if you were going to sit in the first 10 rows don't wear your good clothes - that is if you don't want to get splattered with blood!!!!
 :o ;D :D

Gary Graff of Billboard.com reports: Alice Cooper kicks off a world tour on May 28 in Santiago, Chile, and is due in North America later this summer. He's put off recording his next album, a conceptual pieces about a serial killer called "Along Came a Spider", until 2008 but says it could turn into a two-CD set.

"That would be great; I've never done one," Cooper says. "We wrote 20 songs thinking we were going to get this album recorded before this tour. We just ran out of time. But since we have five months on the road we'll probably write another 10 songs. I'd like to put out 30 brand new songs on one album."

Cool! I could handle a double CD with that very theme!!! Bring back the concept album!!
I hope formerly warner (his brother.....lives in the attic) makes an appearance!! : ok:

I'll give this one a miss, just too much coming up.

Shame....he won't be out again for a while....... :yes:

Yeah but I have spent so much on GNR tix for 4 shows and I have some other stuff coming up too. Gotta draw the line somewhere!

Draw the line after Alice - he is so worthy.....
Music is good for the soul........!!

I'd actually sell one of the tickets for one of the GNR shows and buy an alice cooper ticket

Please do not speak such filth!!  :hihi:

Axl wouldn't mind - Alice taught him all he knows! ;D

Prob Gunna Go to the Gong show. Its the biggest gap btween GN'R N' Alice without travelin to far.
I still say Alice 2005 show at Civic theartre was the best concert I have ever been to. But I think that'll change after the 10th of june.


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Just got my Alice Cooper ticket. I'm in the 1st couple of rows and also got tix to the Pre Show party.
Anyone else going to wollongong to see him?


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Hope you have a fucking blast sir. :beer: :beer:

Dont worry bout that man. The pre show is also a chance for a meet and Greet so I could get to meet him again.


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How do you do that meet and greet thing?!!!!

Ya gotta get a ticket to the pre show party at wollongong. $30 Complimentary Finger food are 2 free cocktails. Access to the bar, things like that. They said there is a CHANCE for a meet N' greet so its not 100%


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Alice would be a great person to speak to. He taught me a lot through his music!

The new tour is called the "Psycho-Drama" tour. Could this be the name of the new album?


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I just read in the paper that Alice Cooper is playing the Sydney Opera House studio on the 25th of may. I cant find any other info on it, has anyone heard anything about this?


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ALICE COOPER's official MySpace page has been updated with the following mesage:

"The Alice Cooper 2007 tour is set to go. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond anyone's control, the tour will not be able to go to Mexico. Because of this, the South American tour has been forced to change."

ALICE COOPER South American tour dates are now as follows:

June 12 - Sao Paulo, Brazil - Credicard Hall
June 14 - Buenos Aires, Argentina

Nine more sleeps till Alice comes out to play!!!!!!

I posted it in the Manson thread first, but now this thread came back from the dead, so why the hell not?

3 more sleeps till Alice!  ;D

I'm going to the Wollongong show. Cant wait. This will be the 2nd time to see Aice. Last time was the 2005 Dirty Diamonds tour at the Newcastle Civic Theatre. One of the greatest shows I have ever been to.
Is anyone else going to the gong and has anyone else got tix to the Pre Show Party?


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Listening to Billion Dollar Babies now! rare live recording!!  : ok:

I'm so pissed that Alice is comming to Australia and not to anywhere in Victoria....its really quite weird too....

When are you going to realize that Adelaide is the new Victoria!!! (or something like that).  ;D

I Noticed that. It is very odd to play everywhere but not Victoria. Did the shows go well in 2005?


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Hey, I just read that Alice is doing the Palais theatre in St Kilda.

Yeah I saw an ad for the tour last night and it said melbourne. 1st I had heard of it.


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WEll, it is the morning after spending a lovely evening with Uncle Alice - still feeling warm and fuzzy, which is a funny thing to say considering that I witnessed a hanging, a baby being stabbed in the head, the usual domestic violence and other macabre delights!? ;D

Alice left the stage calling us his 'sick' friends!

I can't really put into words how awesome it is to see the Alice show in an old theatre - 2000 people max. It is the perfect setting for the Psyco Drama tour. Alice takes us back to his early shows were the theatrics are almost as loud as the music. From the shilouette screen effect at the start of the show, to the strange "Silent Hill" type monsters floating in an out of Alice's nightmare we were caught up in the drama of it all.

Someone should put that Alice in a movie! You know how Alice has said that you can't shock people anymore? The hanging scence was rather shocking beacause this is a stunt that is known to go wrong many times. I don't know if many have witnessed a hanging up so close, but the look on Alice's face in the noose was pretty scary - (and this is coming from someone who can watch absolutly horrific WW2 footage). Mind you after the gallows were wheeled off stage the band broke into a rousing rendition of "I Love the Dead"? :rofl:

The band have improved since I saw them two years ago - they rocked then, they absolutly ROCK now! The whole ensemble have the act down - with Alice schizophrenically weaving throught the whole thing!

He is the King of the Silver Screen!

Must stop now - still can't hear.......still have no voice left........ :peace: VOTE ALICE - HE DOESN'T CARE!

And do you know what was really cool! I could have sworn that Alice's last costume change comprised of Axl's military cap and one of Slash's leather jackets!  :beer:

is alice coopers line up still the awesome line up he had trash era and hey stoopid era?

I got into Alice in a hardcore way a little after those eras, so I can't answer you for sure there! They were still feeling thier way around Alice's older music when I saw them 2 years ago.

But I think that this is a new line up because these guys are all hot young players.
The drum solo was awesome, with the drummer doing a wicked double bass thing whislt the guitarists were up at the kit hitting toms on either side of him.

The duelling guitars "Lord of the Flies"/"Billion Dollar Babies" was hard rock/glam metal rock at its finest!

Alice had a great way of poking the guitarists in the back with his swords or forcing them out the front of the stage to play with his cane. He was the rockmeister!

I got the theme running through Alice's show last night! - he threw abit of George Werewolf  Bushmonster into his character.

There was the gruesome hanging scene - mmm I thought, now that's certainly topical - it really wasn't pretty!

Then there were alot of deadbabies, stabbed through the back with a steak - American health system??

There was a mesmerising performance of Alice dressed as a cowboy - no explaining needed there.....

At the end of the show this George Werewolf Bush monster stood on the stage with a huge auusie flag tied to a missile shaped flag pole......ghoulies carried Vote Alice He Doesn't Care signs across the stage.......

Got the concept Uncle Alice and the "You are my sick friends comment"!

Alice Cooper tomoz night. Cant wait. Wooooooo  : ok:


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Did he play "Only Women Bleed", if I remember correctly, a chick in a white dress would be "cut up" by him with a chain saw during that song(maybe too misogynistic if he didn't), though my memories could be wrong. It been 30 years since I've seen him.

I'm looking forward to seeing him in Sept.  I just heard that he'll be opening for Black Sabbath!  :drool:

Yes, Alice did do Only Women Bleed. This time his daughter played the role that his wife originally played. He did the 'domestice violence' thing/act, but this time no chainsaw........quite moving actually.....

The first time I saw him do the song he sat on a rubbish bin, with a spotlight on him - that was about 10 years ago.....

Awesome show last night. Setlist was unreal. Halo of Flies, Desperado, Dirty Diamonds. I caught a pic to.
I dont no what is wrong with people at Alice Cooper shows, but they sit down untill they cant see because a handfull of people infront of them stand up. Pussies.


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Man! I always call Halo of the Flies, Lord of the Flies!  :hihi: Word association football!

Was there alot of people sitting down at your show?


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Yes, everyone stood because Alice said "you have to stand"!? :nervous: and they did!

I cant believe it. Why would ya wanna sit at a fuckin rock show. Thats so gay


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No, I think all the gay people were up and standing..... ::)

There was a song or 2 that I had never heard before, was there any new songs played on this tour?


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No, I don't think so, but I'm not up with his more 'metal' stuff. There was one song that I wasn't familiar with. What was interesting was that Alice played alot of his 'B sides'.....

It was great to hear Public Animal No #9!

Do you know what the song was when he was dressed as the cowboy?

Maybe Desperado? Not sure


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Nah, wasn't Desperado.

Im not sure about a cowboy outfit, I was headbangin' alot so I didnt see alot of the show.


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Heard that the Coop is doing an interesting gig Downunder.

In March he will be perfoming at the Melbourne Casino in the Palm Lounge. A Vegas style act.

Just the thought of it cracks me up. The Alice character in a velvet smoking jacket, doing a Sammy D!  : ok:

I am so keen to go to that but its in Melbourne and I'll be in Sydney the night before watchin Ozzy. Still tryin to get there


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Alice Cooper: 40 years on...and 'as insane as ever'

When current shock rockers Marilyn Manson and Slipknot were teething, Alice Cooper was playing arenas and raising Cain across the land. But aside from theatrical extravagances, he had the chart topping anthems to boot.

Initially with his legendary band in the 1970s and then as a metal godfather in his later career, he's amassed a body of work that has stood the test of time.

Conspicuously, at the recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Cooper was again snubbed. On the phone prior to a Japan tour, he didn't seem concerned.

"There's a bunch of good bands that aren't in," he said. "It's five New Yorkers deciding who's gonna be in the Hall. I don't know who gave them that right. I've got every credential...it'll happen. I kinda like the idea that I'm blackballed. What's better, to be in the Hall of Fame or to be kept out of the Hall of Fame?"

Cooper's ghastly getup and ghoulish shows are infamous; guillotines, severed heads and gigantic cyclopes have all adorned his stage. While reaping accolades from generations of hard rockers, this underappreciated songsmith has tinged his tunes with whimsy that most metalheads are too dense to duplicate. Curmudgeons Bob Dylan and John Lydon have avidly praised his songwriting. Without the theatrics, would his songs be more appreciated?

"Yeah, but I wouldn't give up the spectacle," he said. "That's my legacy. Kiss? Ozzy? Who did it first? I did. There's no two ways about that. And I had hits. Few bands putting on the kinda show I did ever broke that barrier. Back in '73, when Billion Dollar Babies went to Number One, the next thing I knew Mick Jagger was wearing eye makeup. He didn't wear eye makeup before that!"

His Japan shows won't be mere nostalgia. Still prolific, his latest, Dirty Diamonds, returns to his garage-rock roots. A new platter, Along Came a Spider, is already recorded.

"I'm excited about this album," he said. "It's about a serial killer named Spider. It's got so many twists and at the end it actually turns you around again. Alice fans will enjoy this."

While casual fans know him as a shock rocker, the original Alice Cooper band started in the early Detroit punk scene. Finding little success in late '60s California, they left the hippies and headed to Cooper's hometown.

"Coming from L.A., we knew the Doors and Buffalo Springfield," he said. "We got to Detroit and there were true rock bands. We didn't fit L.A. Now here's MC5. Here's the Stooges, these energetic Detroit bands. We were the missing finger in that glove."

After early '70s success with Killer and School's Out, the group disbanded. While Cooper carried on solo, he was crippled by alcoholism. Hitting rock bottom in the 1980s, he dried out, changing his ways.

Most shockingly of all, Alice Cooper became born again.

"I'm a true Christian, I study the Book," he said. "I have the problems and temptations. I've been married 32 years, have never cheated on her. Don't drink, don't take drugs. But my show's crazier than ever. It's only affected my personal life. I try to live an honorable life, but it doesn't affect my insanity. I'm as insane as ever."

Still controversial, he notoriously made waves when he referred to the 2004 pro-John Kerry Vote for Change tour as treasonous. Cooper says he was misinterpreted.

"They have every right to their opinion," he said. "But I never understood how rock 'n' roll got in bed with politics. To me rock and politics were the antithesis of each other. When my parents talked politics, I would go in my room and play the Yardbirds. My show has nothing political in it. I do satire. When I play 'Elected,' I['ve] got Hillary and Bush up there beating each other, then they're making out. I satirize, I'm not telling you who to vote for."

Adding to his unorthodox rock persona is his fervent golfing. After leaving rehab, he argues it kept him sober.

"Being from Detroit, nobody played golf," he said. "We had three sports: baseball, football and grand theft auto. When I got out of the hospital, my normal day was get up, make a drink. Sit down. Watch cartoons. Make another drink. Watch Price Is Right. Make another drink. I had to get up and do something new. I went to a course knowing it would take an hour to play a round. Which was great, because I needed to waste five hours. And I picked up a seven iron, swung it and hit it right down the middle. By the end of the year I was a nine handicap and found something as addictive as alcohol. It's like smoking crack, one shot and you're gonna chase it the rest of your life."

Organizing yearly charity tournaments, Cooper claims he's not the only celebrity musician who can swing. "Dweezil Zappa is a good player. Kenny G is really good. He's a guy I play tournaments with; if I beat Kenny G, I've accomplished something...because that guy can play."

cool stuff above!!!!

thanks for posting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABCwoWZXfsw

i never knew this happened! cool stuff!

According to a posting on the ALICE COOPER fan site SickThingsUK, Cooper will release his new album, "Along Came A Spider", in North America on July 29. The CD was co-produced by Greg Hampton and Danny Saber in Los Angeles.

Alice recently told Billboard.biz that his forthcoming LP is "a real 'Alice' album. Conceptually, it's going to be pretty interesting."

Cooper wouldn't reveal too many details, but said the album is based on a fictional serial killer named Spider, who wraps his victims in a silk web. "Every song is sort of a letter to the police," he explains. "They think they're investigating it from the outside, but he's actually woven them into the whole thing."

"Along Came A Spider" track listing (in alphabetical order):

01. Catch Me
02. Hungry
03. I Am The Spider
04. I Know Where You Live
05. (In Touch With) Your Feminine Side
06. Killed By Love
07. Salvation
08. The One That Got Away
09. Vengeance Is Mine
10. Wake The Dead
11. Wrapped In Silk

ALICE COOPER: 'Along Came A Spider' Artwork Revealed - June 4, 2008

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=98341

I haven't seen him in years, but he was on hell of a showman. By far, one of the best shows I have ever seen.

Alice is a fucin genius. That sounds great, I really can't wait to check that out.

The Late Late Show w/ Craig Ferguson 9/10/08 - Alice Cooper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z0yZe5h8Zg

Performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiAiLeo-f0A

I dunno if anyone else has checked it out but I love the new Coop album. His best work since "Te Last Temptation" in my opinion.

The way he describes the chicken incident is funny...

Alice Cooper brings macabre visions to Canada

By Cassandra Szklarski, THE CANADIAN PRESS

September 14, 2008
            

TORONTO - Theatrical rocker Alice Cooper has been raising hell for three decades and shows no signs of slowing down.

On Thursday the 60-year-old kicks off a 25-date Canadian tour in Vancouver, offering up a typically outlandish stage show said to feature zombies, dead Disney princesses, dead babies and a mock execution. Last month, Cooper released his latest disc, "Along Came a Spider," about a serial killer that stalks women so he can fashion a spider from their limbs.

In a recent interview, Cooper talked about his new album, that infamous chicken incident, and rock as art.

CP: Lately, I've seen some media stories refer to you by your original name, Vincent Furnier.

Cooper: Nobody's called me Vince for 35, 40 years. ... Most people that know me just call me Coop. They just say, 'Coop, what's going on?' And I'll tell you how that name got there - Groucho Marx. He knew Gary Cooper very well and he used to call him Coop. And I was a friend of Groucho's and Groucho just called me Coop.

CP: How did you become friends with Groucho?

Cooper: I lived close to him, he came to the shows all the time and he kind of saw us as some kind of warped vaudeville. I ended up being really good friends with him after a while. What an odd couple we were.

CP: What was it about the two of you that clicked?

Cooper: I don't know. You can't get any more of an icon than Groucho, you know. And I think the absurdity of Alice Cooper appealed to him. He never saw it as scary, he saw it as funny. ... He was an insomniac and he used to call me up at night and tell me to come over and help him get to sleep. We'd watch movies and finally he'd just fall asleep and I'd leave at about 2 or 3 in the morning.

CP: Tell me about the tour.

Cooper: It's really been funny, the Psycho Drama Tour. This is actually the second year of that tour and we did . . . about 100 shows last year, and then this year we're finishing it up and then next year we do the Along Came a Spider Tour.

CP: You've got a ton of dates set for Canada. Is this the most extensive Canadian tour you've done?

Cooper: I think it really may be the most thorough Canadian tour - I think it's pretty much Vancouver to Halifax. ... We have a long history in Canada. I recorded two or three of my albums up there in Toronto, I did a lot of writing in Vancouver and things like that. Canada, to me, it's just like being at home, really.

CP: And that famous chicken incident happened in Toronto, didn't it?

Cooper: Yes it did. ... And it ended up being sort of one of the first urban legends in rock 'n' roll, you know, because it got so blown out of proportion. To this day I get into town and the ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) is going, 'Hey, are you killing any animals today?' And I'm going, 'I never killed an animal.'

CP: But a chicken did die.

Cooper: Yeah, the audience killed it. I picked it up. It was a bird, it had feathers. I'm from Detroit, I don't know if it can fly or not. First of all, who would bring a chicken to a show? I didn't. Somebody apparently brought the chicken to the show, threw it onstage and I went, 'OK.' And I didn't even throw it, I just kind of chucked it into the front row, thinking, 'Well, here's a good souvenir.' You know, 'Alice gave me a chicken.' The audience tore it to pieces. But, the front two, three rows were all in wheelchairs. So that made it even more bizarre.

CP: That sounds far more horrifying than you ripping the head off.

Cooper: Absolutely. The last thing I expected, I figured somebody in a wheelchair would say, 'Oh look, I've got a chicken, it's a pet now.' Instead, they just ripped the head off. And I went, 'OK.' Next day in the papers: 'Alice Cooper rips head off chicken and drinks the blood' and all that. But it was great for my image, I guess.

CP: Your new album, 'Along Came a Spider,' is pretty sick, I've got to say.

Cooper: Yeah, I like it, it's great. We have an oddity as humans. First of all, we appropriately hate serial killers. Anybody that's a serial killer is so off-balance and so sick - the Charles Mansons, the Jeffrey Dahmers, the Ted Bundys of the world, even the Hitlers of the world. We hate them. But we have some kind of love affair with our fictitious serial killers - we like Hannibal Lecter. ... We don't mind fictitious serial killers because we know they're not real.

So, when you invent a fictitious serial killer you want to make him really interesting. And in this case I said, 'Well, what if this guy fashioned himself after a spider, what would he do?' He would wrap his victims in silk, because that's a nice touch, and he takes one leg, because he needs eight legs for a spider. And I don't try to explain why he does this because who knows why any psycho does anything, but there are different aspects of this guy.

CP: Aside from giving people a few chills, what did you want people to take from the story?

Cooper: It's also funny, too. He's got a sense of humour, (reciting a lyric), 'You look like you'd fit in the trunk of my car.' That's a funny line for any song. What a great opening for any song. And the fact that he stalks the one girl and he says he's so interested in her that he goes into her house when she's at work, tries on her clothes, sleeps in her bed, and then he realizes he really doesn't like her friends. He doesn't like this guy that's been seeing her, so he gets rid of them.

CP: It's so detailed. How do you map out the story?

Cooper: I used to write 10-page short stories all the time when I was in high school and college and even after that. And so I just took one of those stories and I said, 'OK, this guy looks like he would be fun to write about.' Then when you do find a vehicle, you can actually make it come to life. And then the artwork, I think, on the album really brought it to life, and the idea that it was done in the form of a diary. ... I think we don't have enough of that in rock 'n' roll. We don't explore enough art in rock 'n' roll. We just kind of make our albums and walk away saying, 'Eh, it's rock 'n' roll.' Instead of really going for it.

CP: You should put out a companion diary to go with the album.

Cooper: Yeah, it would be great. There are so many different ideas for merchandising you can do for this. I tried to make the CD package as much like a diary as I could. In fact, we even did movie posters for each song. ... I tried to make it very cinematic.

I always think that art is something where you make the audience use their imagination. You don't just spell it all out. You let them have the fun of (imagining): 'What does this guy look like? What does he sound like? What does he do?' You make them ask questions to themselves: 'Well, how does he do this? Well, wait a minute, I don't understand this.'

To me, that's what a good novel is, that's what a good play is, that's what a good movie is and certainly that's what an album like this is. Let the audience use their imagination.

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2008/09/14/6763761-cp.html

The nightmare never ends

Original shock rocker Alice Cooper
on outrocking the kids and reconciling
the biblical with a bloody good time

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At once glammy and ghoulish, pioneering ?shock rocker? Alice Cooper?s contribution to rock ?n? roll theatrics is of course immeasurable, and even after 40-plus years of stomping the pines, he can still put on one of the best shows around. On record, though, he has delivered some of rock?s greatest moments (?I?m Eighteen?) and its worst (?Hey Stoopid?). Refusing to be put out to pasture at the tender age of 60, Cooper proved he still has a few tricks up his sleeve when he recently delivered his most solid record in decades, Along Came a Spider. The Mirror talked to Cooper, aka Vincent Furnier, over the phone from a tour stop in Vancouver.

Mirror: How did the concept for the new record, Along Came a Spider, happen?

Alice Cooper: I wrote the short story a while back, and I just found it in my drawer and read it again, and it just clicked that this story, based on this serial killer with all of these character personality conflicts, would make a good concept for a record.

M: I also thought that, musically, it was a return to form, with a sound more akin to classics like 1971?s Killer and Love It to Death.

AC: On the song ?Hungry,? our producer came in with this guitar riff and I said it was really reminiscent of ?Is It My Body,? but just different enough. It was definitely a reminder of that era. If you?re going to go back and grab a retro sound, grab your own. I don?t mind ripping myself off every now and again (laughs).

M: What were those early days in Detroit in the late ?60s like, playing with the MC5, Stooges, Mitch Ryder and so on?

AC: Detroit at that time was by far the healthiest music scene going. When we first went to Detroit, we had never heard of the MC5 or the Stooges. We went on after the Stooges at this festival and when I saw Iggy, I just realized that I had found some competition. Detroit audiences would only respond to bands that had attitude, offered no excuses and played it loud. Every week, we would play bills like Stooges, MC5, Alice Cooper and the Who at the Grande, and even at that time we realized that these were some of the greatest rock ?n? roll shows that would ever happen. Everybody was really competitive too. If Keith Moon had 31 drums, Neal [Smith, ex-drummer] would make sure he had 32.
Vaude-villainy

M: It does seem rare that the Stooges and your current show can still deliver after 40 years.

AC: When people call me and Iggy dinosaurs, I just tell them we?re carnivores because we will take on any band full of 20-year-olds right now and blow them off the stage. I?m not even basing that on content or showmanship, but just on energy alone.

M: Do you ever get pissed that so many people have ripped off your image and theatrics, and continue to do so?

AC: When Marilyn [Manson] came along, I thought, if he was playing hard rock, it was way too close, but he didn?t really. I mean, I respect what he does, but I still think it?s a little funny?gee, a guy with a girl?s name wearing make-up, I wish I would?ve thought of that. When I first met him, it was like Bela Lugosi meeting Boris Karloff.

M: Is there ever a clash between the practising Christian Vincent Furnier and the Alice Cooper character?

AC: I don?t have swearing in my show, references to Satanism or anything I wouldn?t want children to see. To me, it?s just very black vaudeville?it?s not as black and dark as say, Shakespeare. Macbeth is about murder, incest, witchcraft and the occult, and most people will say that?s okay, but if I hang myself on stage or kill a vampire baby in a baby carriage? I think if you can?t laugh at that, there is something wrong with you. My show can be scary in places but I always give the audience a punchline. My show has always been a morality play. When does Alice ever get away with anything without being punished? Never. The bad guys never win in my show. When I see that audience, my posture, voice and attitude instantly changes and, for the next hour and 45 minutes, I don?t break that character, but offstage, I am really nothing like Alice. He?s very dastardly, arrogant and is a pure villain, and I still really love slipping into that skin.

Anyone with any clue where Alice is going on tour next year?


 :peace:

Hes touring Canada right now..then he plays a few US shows and a few Europe shows and then hes going to announce his Psycho-Drama Tour at some point

Check the next post dude..New info on Alice's new tour...sounds awesome

Alice Cooper Lifts The Curtain On 'Theatre Of Death' Tour

With a revamped set list and four onstage "deaths," Alice Cooper is shaking things up a bit with his just-launched Theatre of Death North American tour.

"It's Alice all the way, but the formula is totally upside down and backwards," the veteran shock-rocker tells Billboard.com. "It's a celebration of Alice stuff. There's no moral to it. It really is just sort of a celebration of different phases of Alice."

Cooper credits Robert Jess Roth, who directed the original stage production of Walt Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" and is a big Cooper fan, with the Theatre of Death concept. "He said, 'I want your lyrics to tell the story,' " recalls Cooper, who had to write a new verse for "Devil's Food" to accommodate Roth's script. "He said, 'I want to tell four stories -- the delinquent Alice, Alice in hell, four different acts. And at the end of each act we kill you; we kill that Alice and introduce the next Alice.'

"He showed me the set list and the ideas and we started talking about what deaths would be good, this and that, and the show just stared forming. All of a sudden we had this elaborate show, new lights and props and costumes and everything, and I really liked it.

Besides the deaths, Cooper is also throwing fans by starting with his usual show-closer, "School's Out" (which is reprised at the end of the night). "People are going, 'What? You don't kill Alice in the first five songs. What's gonna happen?!' To me it's really exciting to do a new show that works like this. And it's more rockin', this show, than the last show. There's more hard rock songs in a row."

Cooper says he plans on filming and recording the Theatre of Death tour at some point before it winds down in December, though he also plans on taking the same show out again in 2010. He also isn't ruling out a future show based on his 2008 album "Along Came a Spider," although he's already started work on his next album, too.

"I've got three or four songs written for it," says Cooper, who says it involves "a new character, a new direction and probably a surprising producer on this one." He plans to hit the studio in early 2010 and finish the album before he heads back out on the road. Cooper also has a part in the upcoming vampire comedy "Suck."

U2, ZZ Top Stars to Appear on Alice Cooper?s Upcoming ?Paranormal? Album



Alice Cooper has revealed that his next album will be titled Paranormal, and it?s scheduled to hit stores in July.

The album will be his 27th studio record and first solo effort since 2011?s Welcome 2 My Nightmare. It will feature guest appearances from ZZ Top?s Billy Gibbons, three members of the original Alice Cooper group and, most surprisingly, U2?s Larry Mullen Jr. on drums.

Speaking to Eddie Trunk on his SiriusXM Trunk Nation show, Cooper said producer Bob Ezrin was the one to suggest recruiting Mullen Jr. for the sessions: ?I said, ?that?s a great idea, it?ll change things up so much, just on the basic tracks.'?

Mullen had a rather surprising method of preparing for the collaboration, asking to see the lyrics for the songs he was working on. ?He said, ?I play to the lyrics, I don?t play to the bass,'? Cooper explained. ?And I said that is so cool, just the idea that you?re interpreting the lyrics on the drums. It totally makes the album another album.?

Gibbons plays guitar on a song called ?I?ve Fallen in Love and I Can?t Get Up.? ?After we cut the record I said, ?If BIlly Gibbons doesn?t play on this, we shouldn?t put this one out,'? Cooper declared. ?Because it is just so him. And [when] he got the record, he said, ?I got the flu, but, man, this song makes me feel better.? He just killed it.?

Drummer Neal Smith, guitarist Michael Bruce and bassist Dennis Dunaway ? three members of the original Alice Cooper group ? helped write and will perform on three songs on Paranormal.

Cooper shared the story of how he applied his trademark warped touch to one of those tracks, ?I Wanna Be a Genuine American Girl?: ?It was going to be ?I Want a Genuine American Girl? ? and I went, ?No, no, no, ?I Wanna Be a Genuine American Girl!? It?s really a tough song, it?s this guy going ?I gotta paint my nails, gotta do my hair ? ?

Cooper also revealed that the album title shouldn?t lead fans to think they are in store for a supernatural concept album. ?It?s not really a scary record ? but [instead] paranormal meaning ?other than normal,'? he explained. ?This is not a normal Alice record. Bob and I decided, no theme this time, we?re gonna make a record of things that just get us off, things that we like. And it might go in a lot of directions.?

Still, he promised the record will appeal to longtime fans, noting the days of platinum sales and crossover hit singles are long gone for himself and peers such as Aerosmith and the Rolling Stones. ?Those days are over, the golden age is over,? he said. ?I have a world of fans out there, and it took me 45 years to build that fan base. So when I make records now, I?m making them for those people. I?m not trying to break a new audience.?

Cooper will be touring throughout 2017 with his solo band. You can get all the latest dates at his official website. He also revealed that his Hollywood Vampires bandmate Johnny Depp is filming five movies this year so he can take all of 2018 off. This will allow the group ? which also features Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry ? to record a studio follow-up (?all originals this time?) to their covers-heavy 2015 self-titled debut and then mount a world tour.

 I can picture Axl  singing Alice"s wake the dead song   the way he sang  Locomotive verse parts

didn't know where to put this but Alice mentioned GNR reunion, Duff and joking about Axl being early at gigson Jonesy's Jukebox :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2ZpOBM6Q_M

it's around 13:40

https://youtu.be/X2ZpOBM6Q_M?t=818

His delivery was funny...thx for posting