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Who says Alice doesn't live here anymore? He's Back!
(Faces, 1986-12-00)
Remember: When you're under the influence of Alice Cooper, you may never be the same again. It's been nearly 15 years since the rock luminary has wreaked havoc with macabre stage antics and such anthemic classics as "I'm Eighteen", "School's Out", and "Elected". In the early '70s, most bands wore simple jeans and T-shirts on stage, but Alice in his tattered tights hung himself, and chopped up baby dolls. A true innovator, The Coop was the first to dare open a Pandora's box that unleashed all the primers for a shock rock invasion that would ensue a decade later....
Alice Cooper, Ain't nothing like the real thing
(Faces, 1988-03-00)
As I pick up the telephone receiver and listen with awe to the friendly tones emanating from the other end of the line, it begins to dawn on my consciousness that this is truly the voice of Alice Cooper, the man whose face has haunted my dreams (and probably yours too!) With a rampaging new LP, Raise Your Fist And Yell, a Godzilla of a tour, a fiendish cameo in John (Halloween / The Thing) Carpenter's new horror epic Prince Of Darkness, and across-the-board respect from the hard rock community, Alice Cooper is not only back, but here to stay for some grandly gruesome time to come. Yet the humorous, down-to-earth guy on the phone rapping with me bears little of no resemblance to that ghoul-faced concert persona we all know and love. Nonetheless, The Coop had a lot to say about what his evil half is up to....
Face Off
(Faces, 1994-06-00)
Leave it to Alice Cooper to expand on his visual presentations as an artist in a conceptual form. His latest record, The Last Temptation, not only grabs your ears, but provides you with a comic book for a further interpretation of its theme. The Coop face's-off beyond the nightmare into other streams of consciousness. Your comic has the look of the Anne Rice and Clive Barker type comics. Well, that's Neil Gaiman, he's right in that class. He's the comic book version of those people. In fact, he knows all those people. They hang out together....