Alice Cooper with the surviving members of the original line up performing I'm Eighteen, Billion Dollar Babies, No More Mr Nice Guy, Muscle of Love & Schools Out at the First Direct Arena, Leeds, England, 11th November 2017.
Holy shit! That chemistry is still...so perfect! That is a signature sound that can't be replaced or replicated! It's the authentic, real killer sound of Alice Cooper!
@@kellywright675 you're 100% right. When he's with the original AC guys, he's just one of he guys and not the whole show like he is with the backup band (who are really geat in their own right)...
This IS the Alice Cooper band and I know that people will disagree, but NOTHING that Alice did after "Muscle of Love", ever compared to what the ORIGINAL line-up put out. These guys worked too hard, too long, for them NOT to be playing together. Mike, Neal, Dennis and Alice, I STILL love you guys. Too bad GLEN didn't live to see this happen. Hey guys, release some NEW STUFF!!!
I love the orig band members...i could care less about how great of musicians or hot the girl guitar player is...lol...these guys are Alice Cooper & no one else !
I was also at Leeds, and have been a huge fan since 1972 (but was too young to get to see the original band). Now i can die a happy man. Just a shame that Glen couldn't be here to join in.
I was at this gig, near the front and ended up with tears in my eyes seeing this line-up. Hooked from the age of 10 when I was bought Billion Dollar Babies for my birthday. Thanks for posting
Alice and his wife sat behind me at First Baptist Church in Dallas 2017......didn't know he was behind me until I turned around to shake hands and suddenly looked up and we were eye to eye and hand to hand. Saw Alice in Dallas again at Dennis's book signing.....they played this line-up to about 250 of us!!!!!! Intimate up close and personal! Saw him in the 70's and Nightmare in 80"s.....our lives have crossed paths providentially......very special since we both are belivers.
Alice is performing with an energy that is not there without the original guys. He is just a different performer with the original band and really digging the moment. He's a totally energized performer with the original line-up. Good post!! Thank-you so much!
My brother and I have seen Alice many times. We used to have posters all over our bedroom. My brother actually rode to Maryland in the back of a pickup truck from Ky. to see them when he was 15 . I will be 60 my next birthday. would love to take him to see the original lineup one more time.
These guys still sound GREAT! I'd like to see a full USA tour with JUST the original band. Too many great songs to play. Five songs just isn't enough for the the "original" band to play. I want to hear more!!!!
I listened to the schools out album today. Alice Cooper has been a part of my life for about 45 years. I'm 60 now. I was going to see Alice Cooper in the 70s... but I wound up in jail for a few days and missed out. I loved this band, and was a bit of a rebel as a kid. Ah the good old days. Now it takes me all night to do what I use to do all night...
“…’cause I’m *EIGHTY!* And I don’t give a damn….”!! Original band were always the best! You just can’t replicate that vibe with anyone else. Neil, Michael, Dennis and Alice….you just can’t beat it! Well, only if Glen had still been around…but you can’t have everything!
I was at this..such a buzz to see the guys who were in the room when these classics (& more) were being rehearsed up and recorded- I am so pleased I got a chance to see (most) of The Alice Cooper band
Funny as something so simple as these guys getting back together can make you smile ! Replacement musicians sound good but you can never replace the sound and style of the originals. Hope they can do more...if they are up to it !
I want to see and hear MORE of the original band. Alice should should split up the material between the two lineups with his current band playing only the post 1975 material and leaving the classics to be played by the original band to close the show. I want to hear Hali of Flies, Desperado, I love the dead, Caught in a dream, Is it my body, Guttercats vs The Jets, ETC...
The "Gunslingers" know EVERY AC tune from soup to nuts... ALICE chooses what gets played, & what there just ain't time for... So thinking that by having the "Hall`o Famers" (Minus Glen, of course... So, it's Not really the "Original" band, is it?) playing Instead of the "Touring band" affects what songs get played, that's simply incorrect.
Great stuff! The original band sound awesome. I mean seriously, who are the 3 sad curmudgeons who would actually vote a thumbs down on this great performance?
Jesus! This is so much better than those hokie-ass metal-band arrangements and members he does those mega-tours with! These songs were meant to be played as originally intended!...PLEASE DO MORE OF THIS ALICE !!!
I would definitely say they are 3 of the best musically in the genre of rock.... at LEAST in the top 100 of all time.... and yes, that 3 includes Michael Bruce, who wrote most of the songs.
What a TREAT this is !!! Grew up listening to these very guys but was just a bit too young to see them. Thought I might make up for it back in 1986 and was very disappointed in how the band a that time played these songs. These guys never lost it! How wonderful to see them playing together. Magical. I stumbled onto this today .... made it a great day !! Thanks !!!
If you haven't read it, Dennis Dunaway's book "Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs- My Adventures in the Alice Cooper GROUP" is one of the best rock band histories ever.
Starting back around 1970 we used to frequent a venue in SW Michigan called THE GRAND HAVEN ROLLER RINK AND BALLROOM. held 200-300 people or so. Besides The Stooges, MC5, Bob Segar, Savoy Brown, SRC and many others, Alice Cooper used to play there when their stage prop consisted of a screen door missing the screen, Alice sitting on it in the middle of the audience, singing, "No body loves me." a couple years later, they're playing arenas. at one of which (in Muskegon, MI) my 1st wife knocked him unconscious during the middle of the concert. Back in those days you could get right up to the stage, maybe not always such a good idea...lol Although it was not her intention to do him any harm i read a few years later that he thought he was being attacked. at that time they were my favorite band since thry were one band I'd never miss. Couple years later Alice fired the band and once i heard WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE i never really ever cared for anything he did all that much. to me it sounded too much like Alice had gone Hollywood.
Not really. Zappa pretty much thought they were a joke. Pretty much washed his hands of them after the first album because they didn't want to do any of his ideas (eg--changing name to Alice Cookies! Using Herb for their manager, etc). Begrudgingly let them do a second record. Even though Alice and Co loved and respected FZ they thought he was a real jerk in regards to how he handled them during their tenure on his lable. But he did take a chance on them, which got them "in the door" so he gets credit for that.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this great video of this great show. Live at Leeds! The original Alice Cooper, our American Beatles, the greatest American rock band, imo. So happy they performed together again. Missing Glen, very sadly.. Ryan Roxie is perfect playing with our Original Guys. His great spirit and respect for the OGs make him a great welcome presence. I hope for the chance to see the reunited original Alice Cooper in the U.S. The San Francisco Bay Area loves you guys! The Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View is a really great place for a summer or fall show, hint hint..
nothing sounds better than the originals doing these songs. No offense to all the other musicians over the years, but these guys just have a sound that can't be recreated.
Smokin' Hot Concert! I loved the awesome seque from Schools Out to Another Brick In The Wall! All the more apt since Bob Ezrin produced both tracks and it was Bob's idea to use a real children's choir in both of them. Totally worked in School's Out so he did it again with Pink Floyd!
Dear God...please have the original members of the Alice Cooper (w Ryan Roxie) tour again in the future and please have them play more than 5 songs together (at Good records in Dallas TX they played "Be my lover","Is it my Body", "Under my wheels" and "Elected" ,plus "Caught in a dream" which Mike Bruce sang extra to the songs they played on their 5 date UK tour) that would make a lot if people very happy ! Thank you God , Amen
I skipped this for a long time BUT then I finally listened and THIS SOUNDS GREAT. I was worried..but yeah, the original band is awesome. I have to wonder if The lead singer of The Alice Cooper Band is the problem. I won't go and see him again until the real band tours...
regardless of whether this was shot off a phone or a video camera...It must have sounded great to be there! Lots of energy from the guys and it's like taking a trip back in time because their abilities and sound are as good, if not better than they used to be. Loved it!
Please bring this back to the US!! Saw Alice just a couple months ago and he was awesome, but I never got to see the original band live and would love to
It’s good they had Michael Bruce CRANKED for the solo. It was good and it represented pushing marginal skills into the inexplicable excellence zone. Yeah Bob Ezrin was the 5th Cooper but credit where it is due. THIS is Alice Cooper.
Shep Gordon has said "there isn't an audience" for a show with the old band. NOT TRUE, this is the best publicity, people flew in from around the world, and I'M ready to fly to any state in the USA should they do a show here. Hopefully, they will realize this is their only chance to headline shows again AND get good positive attention!
Nobody is going to split the money four ways. No one expects that, just to let them play. Alice is now an opening act everywhere in the USA. Not worth the old band though!
Not entirely true as it was announced well in advance that the original lineup would perform a mini-set during the TPAC Nashville show, however yes Alice was a surprise addition the following night for the Music Biz convention
Frank Zappa gave the Detroit group its start. "Alice Cooper" originally applied to the band as a whole. "Love It To Death", the third album (1971), featured "I'm Eighteen".
saw then in 1973 billion dollar babies tour,flo and eddie opened,please clue me in as some of the leads after killer lp are not sounding like glen,not his style,i heard derringer was on under my wheels,original line up can't be beat ,i was more into the first 4 lp's of alice cooper band,especially the first 2 ,pretties and easy action,,levity ball and living are brilliant,refrigerator heaven and below your means are top! thanks
