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A Tired Nightmare Show Revitalized for Casino Gig
(Toronto Star, 1976-00-00)
ALICE COOPER could tell right away that he had hit the big leagues. For, instead of the usual tiled dressing room with all the personality of a meat locker, he had the entire 15th floor of the hotel at his disposal. Plus guards, a Lear jet, and a mansion by the lake with three chefs working around the clock....
News Report
(Toronto Star, 1977-08-31)
ALICE COOPER'S 30-foot boa constrictor, Angel, is pregnant. Cooper, now halfway into this three month tour of the United States and Canada, places the time of conception at a rest break his entourage took at the end of July. "Obviously Angel did a little more than rest during this time," said Cooper....
When is Cooper not Alice?
(Toronto Star, 1991-07-00)
Philadelphia - Veteran rocker Alice Cooper, who claims "everybody I know in rock 'n' roll's a schizo," has always managed to live by that credo. Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; the son of a minister) refers to his stage alter ego in the third person and writes for him as a separate person. He says musicians are by nature two different people - one offstage, another onstage - but he's just pushed out the edge of the envelope. "Everybody (in rock 'n' roll) gets more amplified and is certainly bigger and is certainly more animated," the slender, black-haired singer said during a Philadelphia interview while on a recent tour....
Alice's 'Bad Boys' make room for daddy
(Toronto Star, 1991-08-16)
Alice Cooper is living proof that you can't judge a kook by looking at its cover. Who'd have been dumb enough 20 yers ago this summer to be that the booze-soaked...
Blasts from past unearth early Alice, $125 Stones
(Toronto Star, 1992-05-23)
Lost treasures and greatest hits packages are under the microscope this week: Alice Cooper Live At The Whisky A-Go-Go 1969 (Bizarre/Straight Records): Before Killer, before Love It To Death, before there even was the Alice Cooper we are all unworthy of today... there was Live At The Whisky A-Go-Go. Taken from eight-track tapes stored deep within the Bizarre/Straight record vaults, this is a glimpse of Cooper when he was still working out his act with his original band, and it's a must for serious Alice fans. It's revealing to see how much Cooper was influenced by the Beatles, singing in harmony with his bandmates in a way he has rarely done since, on songs like "Levity Ball" (this week's StarPhone pick). The jazz-rock lunacy associated with his early mentor Frank Zappa is also apparent throughout the piece, with numerous guitar side trips being taken. The eight songs included here (the eighth isn't listed on the CD liner notes) are all from Cooper's debut album, Pretties For You, with the exception of "Nobody Likes Me", a previously unreleased song....
Last Temptation Album Review
(Toronto Star, 1994-06-00)
Speaking of songs, this is the strongest collection of tunes by the worthy snake-charmer in quite a year, bringing to mind comparisons of his early '70s heyday. Credit goes to one his legion of new rock admirers, Soundgarden's Chris Cornell, for writing two of the stronger numbers, "Stolen Prayer" and "Unholy War." Opening track "Sideshow" is another winner and "Lost In America" will get the front row waving fists in agreement: "I can't get a girl/Cuz I ain't got a car/I can't get a car/Cuz I ain't got a job." Whether or not you get the albums's decay-of-society moral concept (or even care) is beside the point, because the better tracks stand up on their own....
Ghoul-rocker is all charm
(Toronto Star, 1994-06-14)
Toronto - The man they call Alice can still pack 'em in. The leather-and-denim crowd from tattooed headbangers to kid-toting housewives, squeezed into HMV's huge flagship store on Yonge Street to rub shoulders with '70s ghoul-rocker Alice Cooper. And although it's been two decades since he topped the charts with angst-ridden teen anthems such as I'm Eighteen and School's Out, fans still gush over the 46-year-old rocker. "I used to have dreams about you," said 37-year-old James Sheppard of Conception Bay, Nfld., as he got Cooper's autograph....
Welcome to Alice's nightmare
(Toronto Star, 1994-06-15)
Even a shock rocker has his limits, and for mayhem master Alice Cooper it came at the end of a street punk's gun in a Los Angeles diner. "We consider guns normal now in America, and they shouldn't be normal," Cooper, 46, said during a visit to Toronto this week to talk up a new album. "There are points where even Alice says, 'Wait, a minute.' I was in a restaurant in Los Angeles with my guitar player, and all of a sudden three guys come in and start shooting it up....
Alice Cooper undiminished
(Toronto Star, 1996-07-31)
Ol' snake eyes was back last night at the Molson Amphitheatre. So was that gang of heavy metal stingers. United as co-headliners on one decibel-damaging bill, Alice Cooper and The Scorpions took turns trying to deafen an audience of 7,500 in what had to be the loudest concert of this or any season. It's been more than 20 years since Alice Cooper ruled the top of the charts with his brand of hard-edged songs and grisly theatrics. ...
Ol' Alice goth cred with young crowd
(Toronto Star, 2004-07-23)
There was a time when a triple bill headlined by Alice Cooper and also featuring Edgar Winter and Foghat would have been hailed as one of the boffo rock events of the summer. That time was 1974. While it would be stretching things to suggest that last night's appearance by that very troika before a large and enthusiastic crowd at the Molson Amphitheatre entirely closed the gap between the intervening three decades, it wasn't simply a nostalgia-fest for geezers either...