Alice Cooper Group members Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith and Michael Bruce, plus Rockin' Reggie Vinson and Glen's friend John Stevenson at the Pizza Ranch in Clarion, Iowa just after Glen's funeral on October 24, 1997. Unedited footage.
Saw them in Birmingham, AL in '73 when I was 13-years old. Only the second real rock concert I'd ever seen and so different and exciting I will never forget it. Looking back, I'd have to agree with Chris Wright that this band was Alice Cooper and it was never the same after they split. Billion Dollar Babies was the last Cooper album I ever bought and I have to say Alice hasn't done anything that compares since...and, I attribute this to the band breaking up. Man, if they could have stayed together for the long-haul I have no doubt they would have made additional great albums after BDBs.
@@jacksaintjack2844 What's funny, was that I saw Dick Wagner's Band " Ursa Major" in 1972... a three piece band, they were one of the back-up bands for Alice Cooper on the School's Out tour. their first album came out... the day after the show. what most people didn't know at the time... Wagner had already been featured on the band's fifth studio album School's Out (1972), notably for playing the memorable guitar solo on the track "My Stars". Wagner continued to play lead guitar (sometimes uncredited) on every Alice Cooper band album that followed, through the break-up of the original group.
Met Rockn Reggie at Viva Las Vegas in 2013.He came up,. asked me who my style inspiration was,.I told him Glen Buxton of the original Alice Cooper Band,.he paused,smiled held up his fist ,.his Ring had GB on it.He told me GB was his best friend,etc.I met his wife ,she started crying a little while walking up to me saying’oh my god ,.it’s Glen. Two of the sweetest people.I was amazed and honored. Hello Reggie,.hope all is well.2020🤍🖤X
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...
@@bongofury5924 Yes absolutly ! I agree ! The Alice Cooper Band was so special , so Great ! Actually I grew up with KISS 1977 (Born 1970) , my First listen to Alice Cooper was about 1977 in the Muppet Show i think ! In 1983/84 i became a big Fan from the 70's Alice Cooper - i was really impressd by them - Same as 1977 with Kiss (only the Original KISS) After 1980 it was never the Same anymore ! I'm still a Big Fan from the 70' KISS & ALICE COOPER !!! And that's happened all in Bern , Switzerland - some Great Fans too here.............!
I agree. And I was born the year the first album pretties for you came out. I was five by the time welcome to my nightmare came out. So I didn't hear the early stuff til years, alot of years later when I was getting to Alice right around the time I was eleven years old. But, it didn't take me long to notice the distinct difference between ac band, and ac solo. Even though I like alice's later stuff, I still think the original band was the best.
Grew up in clarion, Iowa and had the pleasure of knowing Glen. During highschool I worked at coast to coast, a hardware store. Glen was a regular he just would come in and hangout. During the holidays, he would come in every Saturday sit in the window front and play Christmas music. Glen always had some crazy story to tell and one hell of nice guy.
I couldn't agree more that the original Cooper band was the best! Welcome to my nightmare on, I didn't much care for. I saw the schools out tour and it left such an impression on me. The show and band were just one of a kind back then.
Very nice,funny and honest chaps. The best Cooper lps were recorded with these guys. You can tell these guys are still very close and miss their friend deeply.
This is SO COOL! I hope Glen knew how much these guys AND his fans thought about him. I have ALWAYS loved the original Alice Cooper band and will ALWAYS love the GREAT MUSIC that they put together!
They were. I first listened to them back in 1971-1972, thru my brother, and Alice Cooper himself was never the same without them. Michael Bruce was a dynamite song writer and that has been the missing element ever since
I met Glenn at a party that was at Geordie Hormel's home in Arizona. I had just finished singing Stairway to Heaven in the kitchen with a great acoustic guitar player, I turned around and Glenn was standing behind me and Said..."Wow!, great Fu#king job man!" He had just started the band VIRGIN and was at the party with the rest of his band mates. I've always been a huge Alice Cooper fan so the meeting was surreal. Rest easy Glenn..
Loved the older Alice albums. Bought Love it Death with my first allowance after cutting the lawn in Phoenix. Billion Dollar Babies and Schools Out were epic too. Things have changed dramatically over the years, now living in northern Ontario, thank goodness. I had the privilege of meeting Vincent Furnier at our golf club several years ago and he was a complete gentleman, a lot shorter than I thought he would be. I guess all rock icons seem larger than life.
@@WaterWorld1 Alice has only had the name for nearly half a century. The other members didn't want it and they didn't want the theatrics. Many of these guys have played on Alice's recent records.
I remember meeting them all backstage at the Hollywood Bowl,during the 1972 School's Out tour. I was just a 17 yr old runaway,and they were the nicest guys! I've since met up with Alice throughout the years,for many of his tours,both back east and out here in Phoenix,where I live. My friend and I used to follow his shows,and had such an insane time getting to them! One state after another.lol. So many crazy stories to tell,.....lol. The be st one about the Riot Hyatt.
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.
Really sad losing such a great guy and terrific guitarist. I really miss you guys. Such a fantastic band. I grew up with you guys and drove my parents insane with my Kenwood stereo and Alice Cooper library. You guys are the best. 63 years old and still a huge fan. RIP G.B.. Guitar hero. 🎸
I was a child in the 70’s and I remember my Dad played Alice Cooper albums as we ran from the police cause my Dad had escaped from prison in 1974 and was on the run. In 76 he came through the state I was in and at just 8 years old I was on the run with my Dad who now had a new lady a baby and another on the way. We live in Australia so once you crossed from one state to another in those days without computers the police had no clue so my Dad drove stolen cars and we just went on a wild ride. When my sister was born he decided to give himself up cause life on the run with a wife and 3 kids was pretty hard. Alice Cooper was part of the soundtrack of our lives.
Thanks Dennis, Neil and Michael. I know you're really going to miss Glen. I understand he passed of pneumonia. So sad. The same almost happened to me in 2012. Great to see you guys together. 🤟🎸
lol! Yes. Great bunch of guys. RIP Glen. Actually had a short chat recently with Cindy Dunaway, Dennis's wife and Neil's little sister. She was also the costume designer for the band and dancing tooth in what I expect was the Billion Dollar Babies tour. Aching to get me, get me, ohhh.... 🎶🎶🎸
@@paulyabe I think I still have mine. It was a calendar for 1972 with a picture of Alice hanging from a noose. lol! My mom would have been horrified. I hung it next to my Kenwood stereo when I moved out. Also the poster from Rolling Stone's, Goat Head Soup. A girlfriend threw that one out. She thought it was satanic. 🥴🤣
The men that made the magic. Most of my clique from back in the day won't listen to Vince 's music beyond welcome. Why oh why? Fucking kills me. You did all the work, built up the image over the years, and he reaps the mainstream reward. But we know, yes, Glenn was the shit. Rest well. One of the most IMPORTANT bands EVER. THE ALICE COOPER GROUP.
You're missing out. Alice has been kicking ass for 47 years since the band broke up. He still kills. Alice was always the star and created the gimmick and he rebuilt himself in the 80's. Would any of these guys got big with the Alice Cooper name? Uh no. Metal Alice ruled.
@@mr.brenman2132 Enjoy him. I don’t listen to metal. Boring ass music. Hard Rock is where it’s at! Bad ass Detroit Rock & Roll!! Hellacopters & Turbo Negro !! To mention a few. Backyard Babies. You are mainstream. I am not. Stoner Rock and Psychedelic rock is where it’s at. ( and has been the last 20 years) Enjoy your world. I’ll enjoy mine. I ain’t missing’ shit. I was there bro! At the start and the start of every scene since. I own over 10.000 CDs and albums. I have it all!! Always did! Alice is a caricature of what he once was. Just like KISS became. I have every Alice cd except the last few. Hated the turned down shit. Terrible.
These guys were/still are (along with Vince) my heroes. So pleased that Alice took them out with him last year on tour (i nearly cried when Neal started bashing out Billion Dollar Babies, magic moment for me), that made me so so happy (as i was too young to go to gigs around '73/'74 and never seemed to get a break to attend gigs over the years). Love these guys. Thanks for everything chaps. RIP Glen.
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.
"Alice Cooper" started out as a band of five people and it transitioned into the singer; Vince Furnier taking claim to the name by legal means. Unfortunately the singer split and re-defined himself as "Alice Cooper" and left a majority of the band and went corporate. ALL of the best "Alice Cooper music" was created with the original Alice Cooper band.
Alice's 80's Metal material ruled you Rolling Stone swilling jizz bucket. That's a lot of people's favorite era. I even liked a lot the Dick Wagner and Steven hunter Era. Bob Ezrin had a lot to do with the early Alice Cooper works and he continued on with Alice after the band broke up.
@@mr.brenman2132 Alice's 80's metal band had good sidemen players but the material of that time was a pitiful attempt by Alice to stay relevant, the material was mostly written by outside writers, and Alice was trashed and couldn't sing...you tone-deaf, asswipe!
@@mr.brenman2132 Alice's 80's material was a pitiful attempt to relate to the lowest common denominator (you) with formula written material written by outside writers. Alice was a full blown alcoholic/coke head at the time and couldn't sing. Glad you enjoyed it!
@@binkwood Could anything be more pretentious or off base then that steaming pile of shit you just wrote. Alice is still good friends with the members of the original band and they did absolutely fuck all without him. Did you enjoy their one release under the Million Dollar Babies band name lol? Hilarious that you are getting offended for them considering they know everything I know. Alice has made *his* name a house hold one after 50 years of busting his ass without the original band. Who gives a damn about outside writers? He was solo artist. He can have whoever he wants to write with him. Alice was clean and sober when he started writing with Kane Roberts so another lie from you. Raise Your Fist and yell is not only a favorite of Metal fans but was essentially written in it's entirely by Alice and Kane Roberts. His mid to late 80's metal output revived his career was a perfect marriage with his shock rock stage show and image. Those tours were extremely successful and well received. I did enjoy, while you were probably miserable lol.
this is just too cool for school. they obviously don't take themselves too seriously. they were big ! saw them a couple times in their heyday of early 70's. rest easy, GB.
These guys changed my life (For the better) Glen, we will miss you forever. It's been 21 years. It feels like 2 weeks. Thanks to this awesome group of guys. My only wish is for the original band (-Glen) would tour the world and do a whole album together. I wonder if Rockin' Reggie would play in Glen's place? Now that would be awesome!
Saw the band in Nashville, Dec. of 73. Being 16, I was in heaven. When Santa came out at the end the boys ruffed him up a bit! Dennis Dunaway put out a good book about the band a couple of yrs. ago. Very good. RIP GB
god bless Glen Buxton and these guys - the spiders and earwigs (pretties, action) did some fantastic and imaginative instrumental playing and arrangements - make no mistake, it wasn't just make-up and booze. A great band
These guys made magic together with Alice that will live on forever, I never got to see Alice back in the day and for years growing up longed for a chance to see the original line up with Alice once again. Their music had it all, talent, great song writing, emotion, theatrics and great stories, listening to them was kinda like watching a really cool cartoon getting really high and listening to great music. My dream was shattered with the loss of Glen, the Billion Dollar Babies lost a sibling, there's millions of great musicians in the world and sometimes when you get the right ones together the chemistry it creates is just the right mix of something special, these guys had that together, Love It To Death, Killers, Schools Out, Billion Dollar Babies, thanks guys !! Glen will be forever missed and never forgotten "Rock In Peace" my friend✌🏼️
Well, you have to admit... "Welcome to my nightmare" was great. But it soon went downhill musically.. don't even think about Eighties, Nineties, 00ers, and now. RIP Glen, you were part of a great band and time...
One of my favorite Alice Cooper songs and great album. This video was like finding a buried treasure. Alice was never the same without Michael, Glen, Dennis and Neil. RIP Glen. 😥
Made a lot of my life back then,go over my friend Dave's go into his room filled with black lights put on a little killer, man those were the days. I didn't know Glen was gone till recently. It's so cool seeing them talk now,back in the day it was just on album covers, although I went to see Alice with you guys one time in providence with my girlfriend who ended up on an other guys shoulder, and another time saw Alice and I brought a cassette recorder to record,my friend said let me tape and he taped the first band thinking it was Alice by the time Alice came on the batteries were worn out, those days were great.
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.
At this very moment, I am eating dinner in this restaurant and the people working at Pizza Ranch in Clarion, Iowa have no idea who Alice Cooper is or that this momentous event happened in their restaurant.
@@DCPhysMedia You can't miss it, it's just south of the main stop light (only 3 in town, lol. Turn south at 2nd one), on the main street there where the businesses are. On the right hand side as you're going south, second business. My friend Willis Soesbe owned Little Willie's bar, just a lil further south from Pizza Ranch, where Wild Childhood played in 1998 at the tribute to Glen. There's a video of that on another page.
My older brother had seen them in the killer tour.he showed me the program he bought. He had the love it to death and killer album. I was hooked. A few months later schools out was on the radio. I love it. A few months later. I was watching t.v and this commercial said tonight Alice Cooper on in concert. It was great! Not longer after billion dollar babies came out. I loved it. At the end of the year they played this new place called capital centre in Maryland. I bought 3 tickets. It was money from my paper route. $3.50 A piece. It was great! The opening band was called zz top.I still love this band.
Had the pleasure of hanging with Glen and the band at the Hollywood Hyatt when they played the Hollywood bowl in 1972 then to the Rainbow for the after show party. It was a who's who of rock royalty. Got to play Glen's custom white SG. Glen was a real rock n roll star and very funny. Thanks Glen RIP...
God Bless those Guys. All Americans. GB played the heck out of lead guitar. Michael still cooks, I'm sure. Neal Smith, awesome drummer. I always thought Dennis played THE BEST bass in the world.
Rick Via - About Dennis Dunaway, that isn't just you, Bro, he IS A BASS GUITAR MASTER! The ORIGINAL BAND COOKED (and still does everytime they get together), they were MEANT to play together!
technically this was the Alice Cooper Band in then after these guys left he just became Alice Cooper the solo artist ,, but these guys wrote all the classic Tunes
The only masterpiece record Vince did, without the original band was "The last temptation" Chris Cornell, Tommy Shaw, and a bunch of other people, reminded you of the glory days..
They are completely different off stage then you would think. Really funny stuff! I’ve never heard the bass player speak before. Just funny regular people.
Edgemont /Sunnymead , SO.CA. 1979. We loved you at the Swing in Riverside, CA. A weekend thing for $15.00 driving through the badlands, scary but good.
The best Alice Cooper music, was the original band. The only masterpiece album outside of the original band, was the "Last temptation" many people worked on that record with Vince. Tommy Shaw, Chris Cornell ect.
Dennis, if you ever read this, The songs that the Original Alice Cooper band did for the and CD of PARANORMAL ? Fuckin A ! Brilliant, spot on brilliant. Our sojourn on this Third Stone From The Sun is tenuous at best, on borrowed time. G.B. Rest Easy G.B. Rest Free, for you are now where one day we'll all be. Thy load now light, thy tasks now done. Thy battles with lifes Demons won. Rest Easy G.B. Rst Free. ✌ frame Alice's Neighbor in Utah. Nice tribute to a great animated guitarist.
Omg, I remember him and me talking about pussy willows, when he was in the hospital, because I love those! I remember him talking about having a tree at his farm, & I lived on my family farm then and had one in my front yard to the south east of my house. I was a Registered nurse at the Community Memorial Hospital in Clarion and took care of him at times that he was a patient there. I had to work the day of his funeral, but they let us go up for the open casket before the services and I'd gone to his visitation. He was a really great guy, so nice, and he did give up a few of the stories of when he was in the band, and I'm recognizing some of what a couple of the other band members have said here in their funny stories they're telling.
Alice didn't attend out of respect to the Buxton family. Had he attended, it would've became a media circus and all the attention would've been directed towards Alice Cooper (Vince). Not the right time or place for that to happen. I'm sure it was all discussed with Alice and the family.
So glad they quit doing drugs and cleaned up . Not many are still healthy or alive in entertainment industry. Be glad your not insane or dead. Be grateful everyday. You guys must have something beautiful together. You all look amazing. God help us all. Coop helps my psyche.Love uncle Alice.
Where is “The God Father of Shock Rock?” @Lonesome Roadie Productions, Thanks for a great video, I like seeing things about my favorite.... Alice Cooper Band that I’ve never seen before. Ima 60 year old woman in Iowa. =^-^=
Love and peace .be at rest for the Lord has a place for us in his mansion. I'm kinda late on this passing and I'm vary sorry for the loss . Always good memories for you fine looking men of the cooper band . Peace and love to you all . From patience m yagmin.
