Released: 9 March 1987 – 34 years ago today Key tracks: Where the Streets Have No Name / I Still Haven’t
Found What I’m Looking For / With or Without You
Artist: Vincent Damon Furnier aka Alice Cooper (73) Active: since 1964
Album: DETROIT STORIES – 21st solo LP Released: 26 February 2021
Info: Singing/telling about his hometown Detroit, featuring Detroit heroes Wayne
Kramer (MC5 guitarist), Johnny “Bee” Badanjek (drummer for The Detroit Wheels), Paul Randolph (Detroit jazz and R&B bassist who’s worked with Amp Fiddler and Jazzanova) as well as the Motor City Horns and other local musicians.
Alice about his hometown: “Detroit was Heavy Rock central then. You’d play the Eastown and it would be Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, the Stooges and the Who, for $4! The next weekend at the Grande it was MC5, Brownsville Station and Fleetwood Mac, or Savoy Brown or the Small Faces. You couldn’t be a soft-rock band or you’d get your ass kicked.”
Rolling Stone says: “Part of Alice Cooper’s enduring appeal has been the fact that, unlike many of his Seventies FM-radio peers, he always rejected the notion that rock & roll should be Serious Art… That’s why his great Seventies albums like Love It to Death and Killer were great in the first place. You could be in on the joke (or not) and still feel a genuine connection to the group’s gritty Detroit rock. That spirit of rock & roll abandon still exists in Cooper’s music half a century later, and his inherent showmanship is why people still fill theaters to see his guillotine act. It’s also why his records are still fun to listen to: You never know where he’s headed.” Score: 3/5.
Turn Up The Volume: Alice is in Detroitland now. No funny horror tricks and no vicious snakes anymore, but ‘normal’ AOR. But hey, it’s poppy and catchy here and there and rocks & rolls here and there. School’s not out yet for Cooper.
To celebrate his 73rd birthday yesterday, imperishable horror-rock
legend ALICE COOPER shared a new single from his upcoming LP.
SOCIAL DEBRIS is an old skool classic hammer.
“A gift to Detroit, to my fans and to myself. The track was written by the original
Alice Cooper band. We never thought that we would ever fit in, the Alice Cooper
band didn’t fit in with anybody, because we were doing things that no other band
did. We didn’t fit in with the folk scene, we didn’t fit in with the metal scene, we
really didn’t fit in with anything that was going on at that time. We just always
felt like we were outsiders” says Alice In Rockland.
Vincent Damon Furnier aka Alice Cooper
was born on 4 February 1948, in Detroit.
Happy 73, Alice!
And still kicking…
He’ll tell and sing stories about his hometown on his new 13th album, featuring Detroit heroes Wayne Kramer (MC5 guitarist), Johnny “Bee” Badanjek (drummer for The Detroit Wheels), Paul Randolph (Detroit jazz and R&B bassist who’s worked with Amp Fiddler and Jazzanova) as well as the Motor City Horns and other local musicians.
Artist: ALICE COOPER Album: CONSTRICTOR (9th LP) Artwork: Plain stupid!
I feel sorry for the snake… Released: 22 September 1986 Music: stream (actually don’t) here
