Article Database
1969 - 1970
Unmatched talent of Motherhood
(Province -
April 19, 1969)
It was a bit like being transmitted back to the world of pre-Beatle American rock, looking on at the curious collection of duck tails, ooh-wahs, and the spastic guitar riffs through a distortion mirror. "Here for all you Canadian children is a sample of the musical heritage of America." ...
A well rounded evening of rock
(Arizona Republic -
May 24, 1969)
It was a well rounded evening of rock on the State Fairground Memorial Coliseum floor last night with the Iron Butterfly and Alice Cooper in concert. Zephyr, originally included in the lineups, failed ot appear because of health reasons....
'Pretties for You' latest album by Alice Cooper
(Arizona Republic -
May 25, 1969)
Alice Cooper, as most avid music buffs in this locality are no doubt aware, is not a newly-arrived musical counterpart to Kate Smith or one of the Lennon Sisters. Nor is Alice Cooper even another Janis Joplin or Aretha Franklin....
Pretties for You Review
(Record World -
May 31, 1969)
Alice Cooper, a fellow, and four other fellows take a cue from John Cage and Frank Zappa and their own inclination for this package of strange, discombulated sounds and songs. Just the thing for underground and above ground (in time) play...
Notes From The Underground
(Record World -
June 21, 1969)
Straight Records' Alice Cooper are currently making the scene at the Scene in New York, and will he in Philadelphia for two days at the Electric Factory this weekend. The group hails from Phoenix, and really digs it in the Big Apple. They started...
Alice Cooper Drives Its Message Home
(Billboard -
June 28, 1969)
New York - Alice Cooper, a musically driving and visually exciting act, had a strong first set at Steve Paul's Scene on June 12. The Straight Records artists, performing in gaudy outfits to a psychedelic light show, overpowered their materials...
Alice Cooper
(Ann Arbor Argus -
July 29, 1969)
Editor's note: Sometimes journalists are at a loss for words, usually under one of two sets of circumstances. The first is a situation of extreme emotion and deep feeling. The second is relavant here, and consists of bewildement tempered...
Alice Cooper
(Scene II -
August 1969)
Now this group you have to see to believe! Frank Zappa saw them and believed in the group enough to produce their first album, "Pretties For You" recently released by Bizarre Records. Surrounding Alice are Glen Buxton, lead guitar; Dennis...
T.V. Rock
(Berkeley Barb -
August 29, 1969)
Alice Cooper walked into the BARB office last week and rapped with us about music dramatic presentation. Alice Cooper is a rock band presently recording for Frank Zappa's Straight Records. Five young men with long flowing hair...
All people want is sex and violence
(Poppin -
September 1969)
What's the reaction been like wherever you've played? Like this... What do you mean? People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing. And the whole...
Rock Joy Fully Revived
(Globe & Mail -
September 15, 1969)
The Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival, Saturday at Varsity Stadium was the most exciting, most smoothly produced, most beautiful event to have hit Toronto since the Pop Festival. Probably the wildest part of the day was Alice Cooper's freaked out performance...
Pretties For You Review
(Rock -
September 15, 1969)
Alice Cooper, born in 1948, is a reincarnated 13 year old girl, considered to be a witch, who died in 1636. Alice Cooper is half male-half female, wears dresses and pants, rouge and mascara, and sings and plays harmonica in a 5 piece band...
Endless Cosmic Smiles
(Spectrum -
September 19, 1969)
It is the essense of Cooper to atomize themselves on stage to reach into your mind and let it live and to reach into your body. They are friends I always knew, and yet they surprised me every flash with something different. They are high energy...
The Dada Rockers
(Newsweek -
December 15, 1969)
When the whole audience got up and walked out of Los Angeles's Cheetah while the Alice Cooper rock band was doing its thing last year, Alice, now a willowy, darkly mascaraed 21-year-old, was elated. He was hoping for just that response....
Alice Cooper Is Cruel, Man!
(Entertainment World -
February 20, 1970)
Alice Cooper, vaguely smirking as he stands in the focus of a million berserk strobe lights, is wearing blood-red satin trousers, antique yellow shoes, garish drag-queen eye makeup, and looks for all the world like a nightmare vision of unisex run amuck. ...
Yes, Alice Cooper Is a boy
(Courier-Post -
March 28, 1970)
For it's finale the rock group called Alice Cooper plays "Don't Blow Your Mind Like You Did Last Summer" and blows a cloud of chicken features over the audience. The feathers are followed by the chickens, like and squawking. Then Alice himself...
Easy Action Review
(Billboard -
April 11, 1970)
One of the most unusual live groups, Alice Cooper, in their second straight album, convey much of the power they possess. The extended "Lay Down and Die, Goodbye" with its many changes is among the many interesting cuts as is the...
Alice from Wonderland
(Gay -
May 11, 1970)
"We're not on an anti-sex trip. Like we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now. This is the way we are. Biologically...
Easy Action Review
(Record Mirror -
June 6, 1970)
The boys sing like gravel mixers or a raw shave in rock major. Bouncy experiments in rhythm variety, yelling and instrumental virtuosity, but in part, carefully created. One might have to be a staunch fan of Alice for a few short years to groove over this...
Purging the Zombatized Void with Alice Cooper
(Creem -
July 1970)
Rock appears to be going through a period of transitionary chaos. An explosion of mediocre mundanity has deluged the once dynamically creative industry with splintered ineffectual debris. Auditoriums resound with rote perfunctories given...
Where are the Chickens?
(Rolling Stone -
October 15, 1970)
New York — "You suck!" shouted the drunk kid. "Yes, I do," replied Alice Cooper, laughing. Alice proceeded to crouch down on the stage and began chanting softly into the mike, "Suck, Suck, Suck." But the kid really hated Alice, and like a...