Alice Cooper on How He Became Alice Cooper | The Big Interview 

Judging a book by the cover. 😏

1 ALMOST SHIT MY PANTS. WHEN I HEARD HE PLAYS GOLF HA HAHE HA. FUCKIN FUNNY. IMAGINE BEING ON THE GOLF COURSE. NEAR NIGHT TIME. AND SEEING THIS GUY IN MAKEUP. BEHIND YOU. YA TURN BACK AND HES TGERE WITH HIS EVIL GRIN WITH HIS HAT. PLAYING TO FAST AND FUCKIN UO YA HOLES. CAUSE YATRYING TO GET AWAY. FUNNY

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I. LOVE IT LOVE❤ IT. ME 2. SCARY DUDE. MY 1ST CASSETTE EVER. WOW. GREAT. BUT WHEN YA SEE IT ON THE PHONE OR WAY BACK ON MTV. ITS 👍 LIKE. WHAT THE FUCK. HOLY SHIT. HE IS PERFECT GENTLEMAN. AND SPEAKS VERY ELOQUENTLY. WITH A HIGH CABULARY. JEKLE AND HYDE ? IS HE LIJE THAT WHEN HE DRINKS. ? OR DOES HE SWITCH ? SICK. VERY WONDERFULL UNIQUE FOR SURE INDIVIDUAL. NIGHTFENCER GATEKEEPER. BOSTON. BRAINTREE. LOVE THIS MAN HES SO KOOL. LIKE RINGO?

Met him twice, genuinely nice guy

He's strangely opposite to the stage persona. He's a devout Christian, a devoted husband, a great golfer, and generous personality. The list goes on and on. About the stage act, he says, "It's all show business", so he must be a fairly brilliant businessman also as well as a talented performer.

The guy is awesome.. I love his music and the fact that he never took himself too seriously...that, I think was the key to his success. A little humility can go a long way.

True...but getting sober shouldn't make you play golf with Republicans.

@@geoffreylogsdon162 True. Only high morals and excellent taste could do that.

@@ron.v "high morals"... you make me laugh! :)

Nice young lady!

beautiful

I love it! ❤️

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!!!!!!!! To your Mom!!!!!

Welcome to My Nightmare is the debut solo studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released on February 28, 1975.

Welcome to my nightmare was the end of rock Alice and the beginning of stage show Alice.

“Welcome to my nightmare” is a masterpiece!

I got for Christmas welcome to my nightmare an bungle in the jungle as my first two albums Vincent Price was the man from then on watched every movie I could find waited my whole life to hear Vince talk about working with him

Their best album was Billion Dollar Babies period.

You're calling him "Vince" but that's not a name he goes by any longer. It's a statement he's made repeatedly

Do you mean "cultured", maybe?

He introduced theatrics to R&Roll, before Kiss, even more so than Little Richard...

@@petersonlafollette3521 He got the idea from Screaming Lord Sutch. "During the 1960s Screaming Lord Sutch was known for his horror-themed stage show, dressing as Jack the Ripper, pre-dating the shock rock antics of Arthur Brown and Alice Cooper."

Since B$b but I returned when you released Lost in America

‘lost in america” really floored me, and "Poison" ...the fright show chemistry was still there...

Alice?????!!!!! Really??? Man, I’ve been a fan since 1975- the year I graduated! Dug your music, and thought you were just a cool guy. Saw the black widow video in the theater I believe in 1978? Thereabouts. Was crazy!! I admire you, brother. I’m nobody to admire. Just a fan.👍🎸🥁🇺🇸❤️

@StevenTyler887 you don’t have no common sense

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@Alicecooper-fd8dk she looked like you Alice and could fight blokes 😂

Alice always steals the show 😁

I've never told this story before.......saw alice opening for the crue hollywood bowl 7 years ago. I always knew his hits my teenage years in the 70's but didn't really care for his music. He walks on stage doing hello hooray and i've never been so blown away in my life, and ive seen everyone!

I Was there to

Uh, yeah, goshure said my mom.

@@matsumoku1 Your mom have better grasp of English than you?

Cool story!

Came off so cool and smart- he is the R&R version of the Rat Pack...

I love Nights with Alice Cooper!

…and attended church together.

McNichols?

@Alicecooper-fd8dk haven't seen you in years. Snodgrass Jim and Skip were my cousins. Me, I was an Armadillo that worked in the back scenes of Roadie. Last time I saw you I believe was at Smitty's on Tatum Blvd 😊✌ I'm still the same hippie chick I've always been

@Alicecooper-fd8dk I have moved to Mackay Queensland Australia. Last time I saw you play was a few years ago at the new ACL You need to come play here in Queensland. Or just keep takin care of the kids there in Phoenix

Ditto to all of above, However I was stoned. What a blast.

I saw him do that show in Boston, Suzi Quatro was his opening act. Alice put on a great show although I had really wanted to see the original band. I remember before Suzi came out on stage Elton John's The Bitch Is Back was playing over the Boston Garden loud speakers.

@@aussiefarmer8741 DITTO DITTO Boston Garden 1975 we we up front and blown away - and the guillotine scene at the end - WOW - Music was Very Loud & Clear too

I was 12 in 1970, too. And lived just North of NY in Westchester Co. Wild times.

What in the hell is "God-fearing" supposed to mean? If he is all loving and wonderful, why should anyone be afraid of him? Aren't l supposed to be afraid of Lucifer?? If both of these dudes are supposed to scare the shit out of me, what is the point?

Glad he's a Christian now

i saw Bill$Babe @ Lawrence KS - 3 story high platforms, like in construction - the band played up there as Vincent Furnier did his dramatic schtick all along the stage!

Even Pretties For You and Easy Action had some redeeming moments. Billion Dollar Babies was a great album and Muscle Of Love was a good album. What killed the group was the constant touring and pressure from the record company, Warner Brothers, to keep coming up with another album. The band was tired, there was infighting, Michael Bruce and Bob Ezrin had it out, Alice had a desire to move on so he legally changed his name to Alice Cooper. Billion Dollar Babies wasn't a sellout, it was a great album. The band's true rock album is Killer.

@@gregorylapointe4157 it’s good, but very polished and the beginning of the end. Killer might be the peak. It’s unfortunate, but most great bands are lucky to have a run like they did. Even if they’d stayed, Alice’s late 70’s thru early 80’s crash would’ve killed the group anyway. I just think the band members don’t get nearly the credit they deserve. Michael Bruce seems to have taken more writing credit than was due, and he did want to make a solo album after Muscle of Love. I totally get having it out with Bob Ezrin. I would’ve punch him for the way he treated a lot of those bands he produced. He blew a whistle and acted as coked up drill sergeant to Kiss. Illini Dollar Babies is one of those victory lap records. The band doing what it’s already done (literally with Elected) but in a more polished, make way for the mainstream way. The Alice Cooper movie didn’t help. Alice was going Hollywood wether the band liked it or not. They were a band greater than the sum of its parts. They were truly great musically for awhile. The theatrics kind of got in the way of the musical reputation, but they influence that era of the band had on metal, punk, grunge, etc was so big that the legacy lived on. People wrote about those albums and people that weren’t even born when the group was going have been discovering them over and over. I don’t know that the original group could’ve been saved, but o think the way the group and name got highjacked and they were left in the dust was callous, especially considering that they’d been friends since childhood. Dennis pulls plenty of punches in his book, but even with that mindset of protecting “Alice’s” reputation, he says they were blindsided by the Welcome to my Nightmare special, the high jacking of the name (completely at this point), and claiming in the press that they didn’t want to do theatrical performances anymore, which he says wasn’t true. They deserved better. They arguably came up with more of the Alice persona than Vince did. They wrote most of the lyrics and came up with all of the music. They also came up with many of the stage concepts. He did a brilliant job making that character come to life, but it was a group creation that he and Shep ran off with. Did they pay the other 4 members for their share of the Alice Cooper group? No. They were sneaky about it and screwed those guys. Without that era of his career and those songs, there would be no Alice Cooper tours or mid 80’s comeback in hair metal.

Well said. It’s amazing how Vince gets such a smooth ride from the press. They never do any research and have been swallowing his and Shep’s bullshit for years.

My first album was WTMN, still got it but no player. From the Inside is my fav Alice Cooper album. :)

@@lesmond7301 Cool! Yes no player here either. I played and played From the Inside so it was burnt into me as my favourite Alice Cooper record, though at my young age I remember being confused as to just what the lyrics of Nurse Rosetta were actually all about.....

Don't capitalize "casinos."

​@@guyrabinowitzThe name of a particular casino and a town called Casino are capitalised.

If my brain cell is still working l think it was Bloodrock. The Alice band blew them away.

@Alicecooper-fd8dk We did a gig at a school just after the first moon landing. We'd recorded the last 60 seconds of the launch countdown, stood on a blacked out stage and as "We have ignition, we have lift off" came over the speakers the lights came on and amid clouds of CO2 from dry ice nicked from the school lab we launched into Hawkwind's Silver Machine. We were 15 and thought we were cool. Oh well.

@Alicecooper-fd8dk Originally mid Essex now in Cornwall.

@@carolramsey6287 how about a cozy conversation outside RU-vid

Agreed!!