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Alice Cooper at Forum: a big boa
(Montreal Gazette - September 5, 1972)
Our story picks up sometime early Monday morning: The truck carrying all of the sound equipment for last night's Alice Cooper-Dr. John Rock Show at the Forum overturns on the highway near Rochester, New York. ...
Alice Cooper has crawled out of the crypt yet again
(Montreal Gazette - January 22, 1988)
Alice Cooper is all the evidence needed in a court of law to prove hard rock is the work of the devil. Cooper, a.k.a. Vincent Furnier, first surfaced on Frank Zappa's Straight Records in the late '60s sporting waist-length hair, gingham dresses, a name...
Alice back, shock-rock lives
(Montreal Gazette - February 11, 1988)
What become a legend most? In the strange case of Alice Cooper, it isn't Blackglama Mink; it's blood - as in buckets. Cooper has released two comeback albums since alcoholism and declining popularity forced him into semi-retirement as...
Old Poker Player Still In The Game
(Montreal Gazette - June 29, 1994)
Alice Cooper: I'd like to think we haven't lost our edge. He's been a cartoon since 1969. Now meet Alice Cooper, comic book. His name long since changed to infect the innocent, Vince Furnier is no stranger to altered identity. The human...
The Two Faces of Alice Cooper
(Montreal Gazette - September 25, 1999)
25 albums later, rock's Nightmare performer still knows how to separate the man from the act. You haven't lived until you've heard Alice Cooper say "the f-word"; not the actual f--k, but the phrase "the f-word." And this in a phone call, not on the air or...
Cooper cuts the guillotine, keeps the showmanship
(Montreal Gazette - September 30, 1999)
It's a tribute to Vincent Furnier's irony-free immersion in his three-decade old alter ego that last night's performance by Alice Cooper at a comfortably full Metropolis avoided the trappings of a blind nostalgia trip. Many a less theatrical performer would...