Producers of "just testing...", which ran from 1996-1999 on public access cable in southeastern Minnesota and KSMQ-TV in Austin, Minnesota. The show featured local Minnesota and Iowa rock bands, plus interviews with and music videos from national artists.
I love Alice Cooper but I have to agree with one of the people on air it was never the same after the billion-dollar baby bear nothing ever came even close in my opinion
Glen taught me how to play a guitar. I mean, really play it. All through a little vinyl disc. I'm sure that my story is not unique, but Glen, his attitude, his playing, that all got absorbed into my own identity.
Sadly, it does appear that he lost all of his money. he probably got something in the form of royalties, but probably only a very small percentage of what he was owed. The song schools out was based on his riff. For as many times that we’ve heard this song he should’ve been a millionaire. Alice, the singer and the management really screwed the band over.
I remember reading where some fan had seen Glen in Phoenix at one point, pushing a shopping cart down the sidewalk full of beer bottle returnables. And then driving some old beat up AMC gremlin. It sounded like he was pretty destitute.
Alice Cooper never had the same appeal to me after the breakup of the Alice Cooper Group. It was never an Alice only thing for me ........I loved the whole band: Alice, Glen, Michael, Dennis and Neil. I Love Live From The Astroturf, and it is only lacking Glen to make completely special ! In 2007, my oldest son with autism was going to see Alice in a place that usually gets him backstage to meet the musicians. He told me he wanted to take one of my original ACG albums with him and I gave him Love It To Death with the explicit orders to ONLY let Alice sign it. I was at another concert in another town. He still doesn`t get why I was so pissed off when I got home and found only one signature on it. That of Keri Kelli. I should have never let him take it ! R.ock I.n P.aradise Glen. I Love what Alice says about Glen in the Live From The Astroturf DVD. I still spin all the albums with Glen on them !
The Earwigs tambourine lookes like a legendary shamanic relic from outer space! I've come to realise how much Glenns' riffing & soloing is all over the place in my memory of the 70-ties. The Alice Cooper Band had an anarchistic sound & attitude that was to be rediscoverd by the Sex Pistols. A poster of this band was not allowed in my parental house! Such a bunch of crazy talented motherf*ckers! R.I.P. mr. Glenn Buxton.
The original Alice Cooper Band were as influential as Sabbath. They belonged to that generation of bad ass gi tar players reinventing the catalogue of Rock, but stil keeping a fat Jazz swing in their playing. I recently learned the group once shared a house with Pink Floyd (Syd Barret era) and I found that to be a really spicy detail! We love the Alice Cooper Band 'till death takes us apart.
When I was a young man and I found out that that blonde feller with the cool SG on the back of Love It To Death was gone, that really blew me down. Then I found his sister and the other guys from the band on myspace, and they were all so friendly to me when I would interact with them. I got one of those GB memorial tie-dye shirts from Neal, and a CD copy of the Area 51 show from Mike. I'll always love that band to death.
Glenn looked relatively well/good here, I was shocked of his passing shortly after at only age 49! ...,but all said, that was probably a long life especially for anyone who partied with Jim Morrison the way Glenn did 🙏, Thank You for this very valuable upload 🤘❤!!!
I actually have an original, Bootleg of Live at the Hollywood Bowl. I bought it at the Orange County Swapmeet (held, every weekend at a local Drive-in movie lot) in Santa Ana, California, back in 1974. I was 17 ( almost 18) at the time. Absolutely fabulous album, a two record set. Dennis is correct, Glen was definitely in the Zone for that concert... the whole band was. That was the infamous concert where they dropped thousands of the paper panties ( Schools Out promotion) from a helicopter.... and the crowd went wild! My goodness, the memories that just came back to me, I really miss those days...
Where was Alice? All the guys looked good they must have been about 50 then. I'm the AC generation, and GB made us kids really happy with his guitar licks. RIP GB.
Do you have the footage from the 1st Glen Buxton Memorial performances? Bryan Erickson had the footage posted for a while until someone tried to get it taken down by RU-vid. Maybe someone could post it again since the complaining party is now deceased.
This looks like my room when I was 16 years old. All my heroes, dream guitars, memorabilia of concerts I had gone to and goofy nonsense plastered all over the walls.
