Article Database
1996 - 1999
Hangin' With Mr. Cooper
(Phoenix New Times -
1996)
TV characters who became American institutions in the '70s had a nasty habit of growing stale as they "grew up." Hot Lips Houlihan morphed into the Susan B. Anthony of the Korean DMZ, while everyone's favorite bigot Archie Bunker devolved...
News Report
(Kerrang! -
February 17, 1996)
On a lighter note, frontman Rob Zombie has teamed up with rock legend Alice Cooper to record a song for the forthcoming soundtrack album to the cult sci-fi series, 'The X-files'. Zombie and Cooper recorded the track - which has a working title of...
Alice Cooper
(Metal Edge -
April 1996)
"Where has the time gone?," marveled Alice Cooper, reflecting on the passing decade. But for pioneer of shock rock, it's not just nostalgia. Alice is going strong in the '90s, working on an album for new label Hollywood Records that's based on a story...
Looking After Number One
(Melody Maker -
April 27, 1996)
"A dramatic, exciting production, destined to be a Number One hit and one of the great rock classics. Much as I dislike them, it has to be said, the record is effective. If there has to be Alice Cooper as decreed by the record industry...
"If you don't like it you can lock me up"
(Freedom News Service -
June 1996)
In the era of Nine Inch Nails, gangstar rap and navel piercings, the panic of the early '70s seem almost quaint.But at the time, it was anything but funny. Alice Cooper looked like the biggest threat to America's youth since the H-bomb. Parents were...
I heard you were a high school track star and that you broke your nose during a marathon. "When I was seventeen, I broke the Arizona twenty-four mile record in 105 degree heat. Afterwards, I was on the toilet at home, and I blanked out. I woke up on...
Letter From Los Angeles
(Metal Hammer -
June 1996)
Alice Cooper has just been confirmed as opening act for the Scorpions' US tour, marking the first time Alice has accepted an opening slot for many years. It also signifies how insecure the Scorpions are feeling, when they have to take on a support...
Cooper Steals The Show
(Dallas Morning News -
June 12, 1996)
The Scorpions headlined the rusty-metal bill at Coca-Cola Starplex Tuesday night, but it's safe to say that a majority of the audience of about 10,000 was there to witness the silly-glorious spectacle of opening act Alice Cooper. Scorpions fans might...
Alice Cooper still rockin' at 48
(Arizona Republic -
June 23, 1996)
Mom, Dad, three kids and Grandma pack into a van and head for Tucson. Dad looks a bit road-weary when he pulls up to the hotel at midafternoon on Tuesday. He registers in the lobby, and the rest of the clan slowly gather their belongings...
Ghoul's Out as Alice Lets the Songs Speak
(Los Angeles Times -
June 24, 1996)
IRVINE-For years now, Alice Cooper has lurked on the fringes of musical insignificance. True, he had a cameo appearance in the "Wayne's World" movie, but he hasn't had a hit song since "Poison" in 1989; still has no new record to plug and, until...
Alice Cooper happy with the irony of having become 'family'
entertainment
(Phoenix New Times -
June 28, 1996)
In the era of Nine Inch Nails, gangsta rap and navel-piercings, the panic of the early '70s seems almost quaint. But at the time, it was anything but funny. Alice Cooper looked like the biggest...
Slash Joins 'Killer' Alice
(Kerrang! -
July 13, 1996)
Oldies package tours seem to be in vogue at the moment over here at the moment. We've got Cheap Trick and Boston currently out together, and REO and Speedwagon and Foreigner also on the road. And then there's Alice Cooper and the Scorpions...
Alice Cooper, Man Of the People
(Post Dispatch -
July 19, 1996)
WHEN horror-show hard-rocker Alice Cooper started clicking on the music scene in the early '70s, he struck a crazy pose for head-bangers, budding punks and the odd freak everywhere. That pose and his later music eventually fell into irrelevancy...
Alice Cooper undiminished
(Toronto Star -
July 31, 1996)
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...
Scorpions, Cooper hit hard
(Toronto Sun -
July 31, 1996)
Alice Cooper, rock's own Prince Of Darkness, hardly needs competition from the sunshine. The veteran schlock rocker's sense of humor was intact as he introduced the 1975 tune Welcome To My Nightmare just before dusk at the Molson...
Flash in the Band
(Discovery Channel Monthly -
August 1996)
Alice Cooper mixed horror films, chorus lines, and guitars. With dripping eyeliner, clad in skin-tight leather or white tie and tails, he pranced among electric chairs, guillotines, and a gallows. "We were the band that drove the stake through the heart of...
Alice Cooper On The Line
(Metal Edge -
August 1996)
Late on a Friday night in April, Alice Cooper called after returning from a charity event also attended by his favorite basketball team and good buddies, the Phoenix Suns. "Charles Barkley is the closest thing to a rock star," he said, noting...
Alice Cooper new live album and tour..
(Rock Brigade -
August 1996)
In Alice Cooper's career, his crazyness on stage was so unpredictable as the band lineup changes. But, seems the horror master finally found good musicians, and they are ready to face another concept albun, following the 94 reborn, The Last...
Welcome To His Nightmare
(Metro Weekend -
August 1, 1996)
When Alice Cooper first exploded onto the music scene back in the early 70s, he forever changed the face of music, fashion and the way we view authority. Parents were horrified as his songs touched a nerve and served as anthems for teen-agers of all...
Hits don't miss for Cooper, Scorpions
(Boston Globe -
August 5, 1996)
The shaggy-haired, clad-in-black Cooper included a political song, the timeless "Elected," which overflowed with his sarcastic humor. Three men in Presidential masks (of Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan & Richard Nixon) threw fake money into the crowd ...
Mixed Bag
(Buffalo News -
August 9, 1996)
It's that time of year when the weather warms up, summer hits its stride, and the Erie County Fair opens in Hamburg. This August, as usual, the fair has a powerful musical lineup to fit all tastes, including superstars Mary Chapin Carpenter, Brooks...
Over the weekend
(Buffalo News -
August 19, 1996)
Alice Cooper brought his aging shock rock act to the Erie County Fair in a late Friday show. The Indigo Girls played folk sounds in a late Friday performance at Artpark. Don Menxa was featured in a afternoon in The Buffalo News Jazz Series....
Alice Cooper
(Burrn! -
September 1996)
His first live album since '77! "The man who plays Alice" talks about the last 20 years. I had made arrangements to meet Alice Cooper in his hotel penthouse. I knocked on the door for room No. 1973, and when Alice opened the door, I said to him...
News Report
(Metal Edge -
September 1996)
Alice Cooper kicked off his current co-headlining tour with the Scorpions with a concert in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, where he was joined by such special guests as Slash, Sammy Hagar, Rob Zombie, Joey Ramone, and Steve Vai. This show was taped for...
Alice Cooper Rocks Cabo
(Metal Edge -
October 1996)
Before heading out on a summer U.S. tour with the Scorpions, Alice Cooper headed south of the border to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico for a performance with a double purpose: a live warmup for his brand-new band lineup (guitarists Reb Beach...
Alice Cooper Teams With Pat Boone For Sony Ad
(Allstar -
November 29, 1996)
Pat Boone and one of the original shock rockers, Alice Cooper, have teamed once again — this time for a Sony ad. In an ad campaign for Sony's D-WAVE wireless telecommunications products dubbed "Now You're Talking," opposites are...
Long Hair To No Hair - Kids Hear Quite A Tale
(Arizona Republic -
December 19, 1996)
"Alice Cooper was scheduled to read to 200 kids Wednesday at Encanto School. Instead the kids were treated to Joe Garagiola. Cooper came down with the flu, so Gargiola was the pinch hitter. 'You were expecting a long-haired rock star,'...
Toledo Stop Is No Longer A Nightmare For Legenday Theatrical Rocker
Alice Cooper
(Toledo Blade -
December 22, 1996)
Alice Cooper will never forget the night of Dec 13, 1973 when his band performed at the Toledo Sports Arena. As he later put it in a song: Welcome to my Nightmare. The show got off to a...
Where are they now?
(Q Magazine -
January 1997)
Their mission, shock-rocking, frock-wearing beer-swillers Alice Cooper loved to claim, was "to drive a stake through the heart of the love generation." The name subsequently hogged by singer and ex-Earwig Vince Furnier, "Alice Cooper" became a...
Mr Right Down The Line
(Arizona Republic -
January 10, 1997)
AZ Golf writer Bill Huffman recently played a round with Alice Cooper at the Phoenician. The rock star from Phoenix had the following observations on the game: BH: How long have you been playing golf? AC: I've been at it since the early 1970's...
Alice Cooper Signs Away $106 Billion For Laundry (Including Diapers)
(Autograph Collector -
February 1997)
Two extremely well-proportioned young ladies, scantily clad in mere swatches of black leather, dropped rose petals in there wake. Behind them, crushing the petals with his black boots...
Book Review
(Record Collector -
February 1997)
Unlike many of his British contemporaries, Alice Cooper always insisted that his idea of rock theatre had no hidden agendas — it was simply rock music given an extravagant, and sometimes shocking, twist with the addition of a few props. Offstage, far...
Hangin' With Alice Cooper
(Arizona Republic -
February 10, 1997)
In a recent article by James Carville in 'Salon', an electronic magazine, the president's pal explained how he was going to skip the inauguration - it wasn't worth all the trouble. I hate things like that. Sure, Carville could have had great seats...
Stars of Rock and Roll and Rough
(Arizona Republic -
February 23, 1997)
Many of the celebrities who came out for the Alice Cooper Celebrity Golf Tournament confessed their love for the Coop and for golf, but not necessarily any particular gift for the game. 'I stink,' said Valley resident and Megadeth member Dave...
Celebs Raise Golf Green For Teens
(Arizona Republic -
February 25, 1997)
Alice Cooper is building a center where teens can go when 'school's out for summer' or just for the day. Last weekend's celebrity golf tournament will help pay for it. 'No one got hit by a golf ball and no one got sued, so we're happy,' Cooper...
Alice in Coleslaw-land
(Times Herald -
March 6, 1997)
Cabbage has replaced dead chickens as the thing to toss at Alice Cooper The 70's rocker is starring in and helped write a variety show at his childrean's Phoeniz, Ariz., school. It's a vaudevillian theme that has Cooper playing somebody...
The American Music Awards
(National Enquirer -
March 7, 1997)
"It's all Alice Cooper's fault!" Super-square Pat Boone told the Enquirer that Cooper, the bad boy of hard rock, is responsible for touching off the religious firestorm that got Pat booted off the conservative Trinity Broadcasting Network. The 62-year-old...
Alice Cooper at Canadian Music Week
(Outreach Connection -
March 19, 1997)
A week of bar hopping that put rising Canadian musicians in the spotlight ended with hundreds of people packing the Metro Convention Center to listen to the legendary Alice Cooper. Even though he's from Detroit, Cooper might have been the best...
Theater of the Macabre
(Pulse! -
April 1997)
For the past few years, audiences have watched rockers like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Smashing Pumpkins step onstage and perform arena concerts without lasers, explosions, video and other special effects historically associated with major...
Sandsharks
(Arizona Republic -
April 2, 1997)
Rock musician Alice Cooper, former Suns player Tom Van Arsdale and 15 other Valley businessmen have become members of the ownership group for the Arizona Sandsharks of the Continental Indoor Soccer League. Cooper pledged...
Mike Bruce Interview
(Golden Treasures Catalog -
May 1997)
Who are the Billion Dollar Babies? Actually, it's just changed. The four of us included my brother Paul, but he got attacked by a dog, a rottweiler, who bit him on the rear end and the wrist, so he's not playing with us on the fourth (Bruce refers to a concert...
News Report
(Kerrang! -
May 3, 1997)
Finally, you'll be able to see shock rock legend Alice Cooper and US metal crew Megadeth in July. Alice plays Wolverhampton Civic Hall 3, Glasgow Barrowlands 4, Newcastle City Hall 5, Manchester Apollo 6, London Astoria 8 and 9. And the 'Deth...
News Report
(Kerrang! -
May 17, 1997)
Alice Cooper will be playing the following UK shows: Wolverhampton Civic Hall July 3, Glasgow Barrowlands 4, Newcastle Hall 5, Manchester Apollo 6, London Astoria 8 and 9...
News Report
(Kerrang! -
May 24, 1997)
Alice Cooper releases a live album called 'A Fistful Of Alice' through EMI on June 16. The album has contributions from Rob Zombie, Slash and Sammy Hagar....
Alice Cooper plays top festival
(Kerrang! -
May 31, 1997)
Alice Cooper will be appearing at the Graspop Festival in Dessel, Belgium on June 29. Also on the bill will be Megadeth, Cradle of Filth, Biohazard and Obituary....
News Report
(Record Collector -
June 1997)
Alice Cooper promises the "last ever performance of 'Killer'" at his Wembley Empire Pool show. During the tour, he previews his next single, "School's Out"....
News Report
(Concert Connections -
June 6, 1997)
May 27, 1997: As the battle between Alice Cooper and up-and-comer Marilyn Manson heats up, it appears that the Coop has become philosophical in his old age. "Let him have it, I don't care," The Founding Father of Shock Rock told Circus...
News Report
(Kerrang! -
June 7, 1997)
Alice Cooper will make a guest appearance at London's Tower Records in Piccadilly Circus on June 16. He'll be signing autographs for an hour from 5:30pm....
Ghoul's Out For Summer
(Sun -
June 13, 1997)
Rock wildman Alice Wants to beat Sean at Muirfield before he tackles Scots gig. Lock up your daughters! Rock wildman Alice Cooper is planning an Independence Day ballroom blitz on Scotland - followed by a relaxing 18 holes. Mad, bad Alice...
News Report
(Kerrang! -
June 14, 1997)
Alice Cooper has added another date to his upcoming 'School's Out '97' tour. It's at Southampton Guildhall on July 10....
Alice Cooper Still Likes to Rock, Shock
(Ann Arbor News -
June 20, 1997)
At 48, four years after his last tour, Alice Cooper has been called away from his regular golf outings near his home in Phoenix, Ariz., and back to active duty. It seems a hard-rocking German band, the Scorpions, have launched a U.S. tour...
John Walsh meets Alice Cooper
(Independent -
June 21, 1997)
"Take the electric chair," said Alice Cooper's genial, owlish manager Toby, indicating a floral monstrosity in the corner of the sixth-floor suite at the Conrad Hotel. It was not, in fact, wired up, or plugged into the mains, but I could see his point: the...
Mister Superstar
(Kerrang! -
June 21, 1997)
Alice Cooper — the original shock rocker — firmly refuses to endorse the talents of his '90s successor Marilyn Manson. When asked by Kerrang! what he thought of the man regarded as the world's most controversial rock star, Alice enigmatically...
Oldest Swinger in town
(Mirror -
June 26, 1997)
What on earth has happened to Alice Cooper? Heavy metal's most outrageous star has ditched his days of hard living in favour of swinging a golf club. The veteran rocker, who shot to fame in 1972 with hit's such as School's Out and Elected, now...
Around with Alice
(Guardian -
June 28, 1997)
Alice Cooper has inspired everyone from The Sex Pistols and Slayer through to Kiss and Ice T. One of his songs, Only Women Bleed, has even been covered by Andrew Lloyd Webber protegee Julie Covington. In his 30-year career in rock'n'roll...
A Fistful Of Alice
(Metal Hammer -
July 1997)
Rock legend Alice Cooper has announced his first UK tour since 1991 to promote a recently released, new, live, greatest hits record called 'A Fistful Of Alice', which features appearances from Rob Zombie (singing on 'Elected' and 'Feed My...
Ten Quesions for Alice Cooper
(Mojo -
July 1997)
Theatrics have always played a major part in your shows, yet you've abandoned them for your forthcoming tour; won't you feel vulnerable without all the paraphernalia? Well, when you play Alice there's no such thing as a straight show. Alice is so...
How to get a perfect swing - Alice Cooper
(Independent -
July 5, 1997)
You know how you feel when you are so furious you want to throw the club away forever? Well, that's your perfect swing. Take your right arm right back, and then let it swing through the apex, aiming at one o'clock. Just don't let go. Before hitting, I...
Limo Wreck
(Kerrang! -
July 5, 1997)
The original Marilyn Manson is running a bony hand over the soft leather back seat of a phallic stretch limo. "Just about everything you could think of has happened to Alice Cooper in the back of a limo at one time or another," grins Alice Cooper...
Concert Review
(Time Out -
July 6, 1997)
Not being the biggest Alice fan, I rather feared that knowing little more than 'School's Out' wouldn't exactly make me the best qualified person to write this preview. Until I noticed that the tour is called 'School's Out '97', which suggests if that particular...
School Was Out Years Ago
(Observer -
July 7, 1997)
Alice Cooper has always had a thing about props. In the past, he has used an electric chair and, most famously, and eight foot long python. One of my colleagues interviewed Cooper back in 1970 in his room at Blakes hotel in London's south Kensington...
Concert Review
(Independent -
July 11, 1997)
Alice Cooper's songs only appeal to minority groups, For example, "School's Out" will have no meaning for people who've never attended an educational institution. In the same way "Only Women Bleed" merely addresses the problems...
The Last Word
(Kerrang! -
July 12, 1997)
Last time you had a nightmare? "Just two nights ago. It's the nightmare every musician gets just before a touur. I'm about to go onstage and I find that the band is a totally different band and they tell me that they're doing all new songs. And there's...
Alice thrusts again Rock
(Telegraph -
July 13, 1997)
"I SAW Baz last night," shouts Mert over the rumble of the support band. "Yeah. He's had his hair cut and he's wearing normal clothes." Mert, on the other hand, is wearing Alice Cooper-type PVC trousers, a gigantic Alice Cooper...
Concert Review
(Kerrang! -
July 19, 1997)
Tampasm singer Charllotte Honey drawls languidly on a ciggie and smirks at seats in front of her, "I bet this is the best school assembly you've ever been to." The new disciples of Manson have stayed away in their droves tonight. This is an...
Concert Review
(New Musical Express -
July 19, 1997)
"'SCHOOL'S OUT'... er...that one with the snake in the video or something... er... 'All You Young Dudes'... no, that's wrong... er..." Such is the usual response when you, The Kids, are asked the question 'What Alice Cooper songs do you know?'...
Alice Cooper's Shock Just Turns to Shtick
(New York Newsday -
July 20, 1997)
Maybe You remember Alice Cooper only as the guy who (allegedly) killed chickens and wrote songs about dead babies. One of the main functions of his second live album is to remind us that his work — which was shocking when it was originally...
Pop Quiz
(San Francisco Chronicle -
July 23, 1997)
The Lilith Fair forgot somebody " Alice Cooper. OK, maybe he doesn't fit in that all-women package. He's a he, after all. And he probably isn't too careful about how politically correct his cosmetics manufacturers are. You know what you're getting...
Alice Cooper Offers A Fistful Of New Projects
(Reuters -
July 24, 1997)
DETROIT (Reuter) - Alice Cooper doesn't feel too offended by not being invited to be part of the Lilith Fair tour. He is a guy, after all. But Cooper figures they're missing something. "Yeah," he says, "I can do my special 90-minute version of 'Only...
An American Original
(San Diege Union Tribune -
July 24, 1997)
Long before Marilyn Manson, Alice Cooper was simultaneously thrilling and horrifying audiences with his brand of shock rock. So what is Alice up to today? As the pre-eminent pioneer of shock-rock in the late 1960s and the early 70s, Alice Cooper...
The Trashcan Sinatra tees off
(Times -
July 27, 1997)
Rest assured, Alice Cooper, rock's favourite cartoon monster, is still a guy who likes to play a round. When a man's drinking buddies have included Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendix, Elvis Presley, Keith Moon and Harry Nilsson, it is only polite...
Snaky Alice
(Beat -
July 30, 1997)
Alice Cooper will perform in Melbourne minus a six foot boa constrictor: who was sadly knocked back by customs. The snake, who refused to spend four months in quarantine, is currently touring the US and Europe with his boss...
News Report
(Express & Echo -
July 30, 1997)
Veteran rocker Alice Cooper has had to cut back on his golf while rehearsing for his Firstful Of Alice concert tour which begins in America this week. Cooper, who has a four handicap and has set his sights on joining the Seniors Tour in five years...
Through The Looking Glass
(Guitarist -
August 1997)
Alice Cooper, showman and pop-rock classicist, is back with a new live album. 'A Fistful Of Alice' includes a handful of top guitarists. Alice tells Neville Marten why they mean so much to him... Think of Vincent Furnier, alias Alice Cooper, and the...
Cooper Finds New Way To Shock Fans
(Las Vegas Sun -
August 1997)
Alice Cooper - that top dog of shock rock, the guy with the onstage guillotine and electric chair - is an active Christian now. No, he's not a "Christian rock artist," and he's quick to make that distinction, to separate himself from Petra or DC Talk or others...
Maybe he's no nice guy, but Cooper still puts on show
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -
August 1997)
How does rock become cliche? Go ask Alice. Actually, Alice Cooper's performance on Friday night was memorable because the packed crowd could watch the shockÂrock icon from the intimate confines of the Rave....
A Fistful of Alice Album Review
(Q Magazine -
August 1997)
Recorded at Sammy Hagar's Cabo Wabo Cantina club in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, A Fistful of Alice is a live Greatest Hits evenly split between the original Alice Cooper group hits (lean, mean, dirty-assed) and solo Alice (cartoon-pompy in comparison)...
Alice Cooper, Dokken, Warrant and Slaughter at the World Music Theatre
(Chicago Sun-Times -
August 4, 1997)
Ah, the George Romero-esque horror of it all. Alice Cooper's show, before an appreciative crowd Saturday night at the World Music Theatre, combined feelings of a musical "Night of the...
From shock rocker to Christian, Alice Cooper returns to the flock
(Ottawa Citizen -
August 7, 1997)
Alice Cooper — that top dog of shock rock, the guy with the onstage guillotine and electric chair — is an active Christian now. No, he's not a "Christian rock artist," and he's quick to make that distinction, to separate himself from Petra or DC...
A Fistful of Alice Album Review
(Entertainment Weekly -
August 8, 1997)
Just what you've been waiting for: a live Alice Cooper album baited with one new studio track. Well, he hasn't lost his voice, and chestnuts like "I'm Eighteen" still resonate. But unless you consider the presence of guests like Slash, Rob Zombie, and...
Shocker: Alice Cooper finds Christianity
(Denver Post -
August 9, 1997)
Alice Cooper--that top dog of shock rock, the guy with the onstage guillotine and electric chair - is an active Christian now. No, he's not a "Christian rock artist" and he's quick to make that distinction, to separate himself from Petra or DC Talk...
Two words: Alice Cooper
(Pittsburgh Newsweekly -
August 13, 1997)
I have two words for all those people getting upset by Marilyn Manson recently: Alice Cooper. It's true that Manson might have upped the ante somewhat, but Alice has been exposing the nightmarish underbelly of the American dream for three...
Alice Cooper's Live Album Rocks
(Western Wheel -
August 13, 1997)
This week I got to go a little way back in time to my youth. When I saw that a lot of my Alice fav's were on this album--School's Out, Elected, Welcome to My Nightmare and Million Dollar Babies--I wondered why he was doing another greatest hits...
A Fistful Of Alice
(Sydney Daily Telegraph -
August 14, 1997)
Heartburn? Indigestion?There's no doubt sir, that repetition ,gastric or artistic ,is a problem common to old age , but whats wrong with that? Here , dear Old Alice Cooper (you kknow the polite guy in the Rennies advertisement)hits the boards to...
Alice Cooper's Pantyhose Have Endured 26-Year Run
(Cleveland Plain Dealer -
August 15, 1997)
At a concert in North Ridgeville 26 years ago, the lead singer with heavy mascara and long hair suddenly zipped off his silver latex suit. And there he was... on stage in black pantyhose. And all hell broke loose. "Alice Cooper is shock rock," said...
Society has caught up with Cooper
(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review -
August 18, 1997)
Since he first started faking his beheading by guillotine on stages across the world more than 20 years ago, Alice Cooper has become a part of civilized society. Need proof? A couple of weeks ago Alice sat on the "Tonight Show" couch and chatted...
Warrant, Dokken and Slaughter: Hair to stay
(Get Out -
August 21, 1997)
Lately, there have been enough "hair band" sightings to get executives at Aqua Net worked into a tizzy. Five years have passed since the flannel invasion, and now pop-metal is staging a surprisingly fierce comeback. "Metal is now the alternative to...
School's Out
(Phoenix New Times -
August 21, 1997)
In 1982, Pete Townshend sat down for one of his many lengthy interviews with Rolling Stone magazine. The primary topic of conversation was Townshend's prolonged battle with the bottle, which had recently sent him to a clinic for treatment. ...
Mr. Cooper Has A New Nightmare For Hometown
(Arizona Republic -
August 25, 1997)
The edict comes straight from the mouth of Alice Cooper's publicist: Whatever you do, please don't ask him about Phoenix. Seems his handlers believe that here in the Valley, everyone knows everything about its favorite musical son. His golf...
Cleveland Nautica August 16th 1997
(Scene -
August 25, 1997)
On the one hand you had a successful hard rock icon which the majority of the audience came to see. On the other hand you had three good examples of why the fluffy, porous 80's music scene has faded away. Granted, each of the three bands sets...
Alice Cooper: A New Nightmare
(Beat -
August 27, 1997)
When Alice Cooper visited Sydney's Hard Rock Cafe during a promotional tour for his last album, The Last Temptation seating wasn't a problem. He was the star of the night after all. But eerily he eased himself into a position directly...
Big, bad Cooper returns
(Out of Hours -
August 29, 1997)
He's back-the maestro of mayhem, the master of rock shock. Ol' snake eyes himself, the one and only Alice Cooper, is set to assault the senses and morality of Brisbane audiences. Age has not wearied him in fact at 49, Alice is as wicked and as...
Carnival Prize
(Dallas Morning News -
August 30, 1997)
At 49 years old, Alice Cooper - who headlined a magnific metal-rock show at the Dallas Music Complex Friday night - fits into a special place where judging by usual standards seems pointless. Better that you simply appreciate the fact that this over-the-top...
Alice Cooper fait sa rentrée en été
(Hardrock -
September 1997)
Finies les frasques d’aujourd’hui Marilyn Manson jours la provoq’ à tout va, que Kiss propose un show catalysmique, celui à qui ces groupes doivent tout, Alice Cooper, fait une rentrée discréte, sans feux de paille ni éclats, au Bataclan. Oú il donne à son...
Concert Review: Glasgow Barrowlands
(Metal Hammer -
September 1997)
So Alice returns... again. With this, the latest in a long line of stunning resurections, rock's greatest golfer and Vincent Price obsessive is back in business for the umpteenth time, but now with a decidedly notable twist in the tail, as the godhead...
A Man Called Alice
(Time Off -
September 1997)
When Alice Cooper visited Sydney's Hard Rock Cafe during a promotional tour for his last album, The Last Temptation, seating wasn't a problem. He was the star of the night, after all. But eerily, he eased himself into a position directly underneath...
News Report
(Beat -
September 3, 1997)
And don't forget Alice Cooper at the Sports and Entertainment Centre next Monday (September 8) Mr Cooper has always assemble high calibre musos such as the likes of Al Pitrelll, Tommy T-Bone Caradonna, Stef Burns, Ken Mary...
Shock Tactics
(Age, The -
September 7, 1997)
Alice Cooper has 25 televisions back home in America and, he says, they're always on. Right now he is staring at yet another, watching Test cricket. "I just wanted to see if it was as boring as everyone says," he says in exactly the kind of laconic drawl...
Alice Cooper: Entertainment Center
(Beat -
September 17, 1997)
This show opened with three clowns roaming around the dim-lit stage before the band strolled out and opened with a portion of 'Hello Hooray'. Then the audience erupted as Alice burst from a stage proper and hunted the clowns behind...
What's Up With Alice
(Anchorage Daily News -
September 20, 1997)
Alice Cooper, who launched his "Fistful of Alice" album tour in August, says he's gone for a carny theme for his live concerts. Snakes are involved, and "there'll be a couple of new illusions. We always do something to poor Alice at the end...
Alice Cooper
(Metal Edge -
October 1997)
Inside the sold-out auditorium, the frenzied crowd of teenagers dressed in black leather and strange eye-makeup frantically fight one another to get as close to the stage as possible. They cheer wildly for the deranged rock star with a woman's name...
Talk Talk: Alice Cooper
(Goldmine -
October 10, 1997)
Appearing recently on the Tonight Show, a typically bedraggled-looking Alice Cooper performed a blistering version of the angst-anthem, "I'm Eighteen," then took a seat next to Jay Leno. Smiling broadly, the talk show host quipped that it looked as if...
Glen Buxton
(Des Moines Register -
October 21, 1997)
Glen Buxton, a 'shocking and irreverent' rocker, had retired to a quieter life on a northern Iowa farm. Clarion, Ia. (AP) -- Glen Buxton, the guitarist for shock-rock band Alice Cooper who retired to a quieter life on a northern Iowa farm, died...
Spooky World's scare tactics
(Boston Globe -
October 23, 1997)
Alice Cooper, this week's autograph-signing celebrity has completed his first shift and is relaxing in the farmhouse that serves as a backstage, feet up on the table, explaining the joy of horror. He should know. As a rocker, he's well into his third...
Glen Buxton, lead guitar for Alice Cooper dies here.
(Wright County Examiner -
October 23, 1997)
Glen E. Buxton, 49, of Clarion, died Sunday, October 19, 1997 at North Iowa Mercy Medical Center in Mason City. Buxton was well known in rock music circles as lead guitar for Alice Cooper. Buxton was born November 10, 1947 at Akron, Ohio, the son...
Cooper Sadness
(Boston Globe -
October 24, 1997)
Glen Buxton, guitarist for the original Alice Cooper band, died Oct. 19 at age 49 of complications from emphysema and pneumonia, says Cooper's manager, Toby Mamis. Buxton played on classic Cooper albums from the early 1970's such as ...
Alice Cooper guitarist buried in Clarion
(Iowa Messanger -
October 25, 1997)
CLARION-Glen E. Buxton, the former lead guitarist for the band Alice Cooper, was remembered as a talented musician as well as a good friend and neighbor during funeral services Friday in Clarion. About 175 people crammed into Willim Funeral...
Making Up Is Hard To Do
(New York Post -
October 26, 1997)
For shock rockers, it isn't easy when every night is Halloween. In the 70's Alice Cooper slapped on ghoulish makeup and adorned himself with snakes. twenty five years later Marilyn Manson's corsets, mascara, and carefully thought out theatrics have...
Alice Cooper Guitarist Dies
(Kerrang! -
October 29, 1997)
'Glen Buxton, original guitarist with Alice Cooper and co-writer of such classics as 'School' Out' and 'Elected', has died of complications from a bout of pneumonia. He was 49. Kerrang! sends condolences to Buxton's family and friends.'...
Unsung Guitar Hero
(Phoenix New Times -
October 30, 1997)
Glen Buxton played a crucial role in rock history but how many people knew about it? It was a Friday night and Glen Buxton was jumping up and down with excitement as watched boxing on TV. The only indication that anything was wrong was a pain in his...
10 Questions with Alice Cooper
(Autograph Collector -
November 1997)
Since his 1970 debut on the rock 'n' roll scene, Alice Cooper has been a disturbing proposition. "We were into fun, sex, death and money when everybody else was into peace and love," laughs the macabre music maven. "We wanted to see...
A Fistful of Alice
(Grid -
November 1997)
Before there was Marilyn Manson, before G 'n' R, before The Cramps, before Ozzie, before KISS, there was Alice Cooper. Before there was "Beth" there was "Only Women Bleed," before there was "Welcome to the Jungle" there was "Lost in...
News Report
(Melody Maker -
November 1, 1997)
Alice Cooper's original guitarist, Glen Buxton, dies of complications from pneumonia on Saturday, October 18 in Clarion, Iowa. He was 49. Buxton, co-writer of classics such as "School's Out" and "I'm Eighteen", played lead guitar...
Glen Buxton
(Houston Music News -
November 2, 1997)
"...A sad note last month was the passing of Glen Buxton, original guitarist from Alice Cooper, due to pneumonis. Only a few days earlier this Boneman had the privilege of experiencing (as lightman & fan) "Benjamin's Last Gig" with former Cooper...
He's Live: Who Cares?
(Huntsville Times -
November 2, 1997)
In 1977, Warner Brothers released what it described in advertisements as the holy grail of hard-rock live albums, the first disc to attempt to capture the Alice Cooper concert experience. But "The Alice Cooper Show" was a dull, tedious exercise...
Obituary: Glen Buxton
(Independent -
November 3, 1997)
Glen Buxton, guitarist: born Akron, Ohio 17 June 1947; died Clarion, Iowa 18 October 1997. Striking, outrageous frontmen often obscure the contribution other musicians make to a particular band. Indeed, before its singer branched out as a...
Obituary: Glen Buxton
(Telegraph -
November 6, 1997)
Obituary of Glen Buxton Guitarist who contributed a riff or two to Alice Cooper's rock horror show, which featured straitjackets and headless chickens. GLEN BUXTON, who has died aged 50, was the lead guitarist with the American rock group Alice...
Alice Cooper finalizes deal for sports bar
(Phoenix Business Journal -
November 17, 1997)
It all started one day during Little League practice. Valley entrepreneur Brian Weymouth approached fellow coach and rock star Alice Cooper -- and a high-level executive meeting occurred right there on the field. Weymouth: "We ought t...
Alice Cooper & Warrant
(Metal Edge -
December 1997)
It was an unlikely place for a concert: an outdoor stage set up behind a gambling casino on an Indian reservation 15 miles east of San Diego, but 2500 fans found their way to the Sycuan Casino in El Cajon, CA on July 30 to see Alice Cooper play...
Glen Buxton
(Mojo -
December 1997)
Glen Buxton, the Alice Cooper hroup's original guitarist and co-writer of School's Out, has died aged 50 in Clarion, Iowa, from complications arising from pneumonia. Buxton, who had survived drink and drug problems and a suicide attempt, made...
Glen Buxton 1947-1997
(Record Collector -
December 1997)
The riff you'll know, but the name, Glen Buxton, the original Alice Cooper guitarist who died in November from complications arising from pneumonia, has long been overshadowed by that of the band's front-man. Glam Rock was a golden era for those...
News Report
(Uncut -
December 1997)
Alice Cooper has been named as the first recipient of the Eyegore Award, an honour bestowed upon him by the cast and crew of the American TV series, Halloween Horror Nights, for his contribution to fantasy and horror. Alice was singled...
Alice Cooper Guitarist Glen Buxton: 1947-1997
(Goldmine -
December 5, 1997)
Glen Buxton, the talented but troubled lead guitarist for the original Alice Cooper group died Oct. 19 from complications from pneumonia. He was 49. Buxton's triple-pickup white Gibson SG and psychotic six-stringing were as much a part of the...
Alice Opens A Pub
(Kerrang! -
December 6, 1997)
Alice Cooper is going into the sports bar business. The legendary shock rocker is planning to open a sports bar in Arizona, called 'Alice Cooper'stown'. which the man himself claims will be the "Taj Mahal of sports bars". The bar should...
Welcome to his Nightmare
(Detroit News -
December 23, 1997)
Things will be considerably more adult-oriented — well, maybe more adolescent-oriented — at Alice Cooper's New Year's Eve Nightmare at the State Theater at 8 p.m. Tickets are $45. Call (313) 961-5450. The Coop's shlock-rock antics are slightly...
Alice Cooper's Rock Legacy Slithers On
(Chicago Sun-Times -
December 24, 1997)
Alice Cooper was on the minds of a lot of rock critics in 1997, but not necessarily because of his own antics. The controversy over Marilyn Manson's shock-rock stage show raised the question of where aggressive theatrical rock originated. And no matter...
The Story Behind The Song
(Hit Parader -
January 1998)
It's only the second time in the legendary Alice Coopers career that he's unleasehed a live album documenting his incredible stage show. His previous 1977 effort 'The Alice Cooper Show' isn't nearly as entertaining or noteworthy as the aptly...
Getting to know Sheryl Cooper
(Arcadia News -
February 1998)
When I asked Pam Eisenberg to describe her friend, Sheryl Cooper, she used words like gifted, dedicated, and completely unselfish. Another long-term friend, Krista Joseph, describes her as creative, patient, possessing a wonderful sense of humor...
News Report
(Uncut -
February 1998)
Alice Cooper's LA mansion would have urned to the ground back in 1976, had near neighbor Ringo Starr not seen the smoke from his bedroom window and called the fire brigade. When Cooper returned to the property after a night on the town, he...
Interview
(Vintage Guitar -
February 1998)
Even the world's greatest rock and roll showmen can't monopolize the affections of the world's youth without some help. Sorry, Alice Cooper. Sorry, Lou Reed. Yeah, they had help. Big time! Especially from Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter...
Alice Cooper's sports bar to open in April
(Arcadia News -
March 1998)
A new sports bar/restaurant, called, "Cooper'stown," is scheduled to open in downtown Phoenix in April. The project is a $2.7 million complete redesign of the old Western Wholesale Drug Co. warehouse building at the southeast corner of First...
"Cooperstown"
(Arizona Republic -
March 25, 1998)
'In a vacant lot on Jackson Street, the music from Alice Cooper's "Feed My Frankenstein" filled the afternoon air. Smoke seeped from around the steel door on the side of a building as two ghouls stepped out, followed by Cooper. It was the...
Arizona Theme Has Strong Presence In Ceremonies
(Scottsdale Tribune -
April 1, 1998)
When it came to opening night, the Arizona Diamondbacks tried their best to maintain an Arizona theme. For starters they had 10 Arizona musicians sing the national anthem, including rock star Alice Cooper of Paradise Valley; Dave Mustaine, Phoenix ...
Alice Cooper Will Rock In America
(Bradenton Herald -
May 1, 1998)
Your parents might not have let you go to an Alice Cooper concert back in the '70s. But they can't stop you now! Cooper, one of the pioneers of shock rock, has been confirmed as the Saturday night headliner for Classic Rock Weekend '98, slated...
Alice Cooper
(Kerrang! -
June 3, 1998)
YAWN. THIS whole Backyard Babies thing really is becoming a bore. The seismic Swedes storm on, rip the place apart with a chain reaction of feedback linked nitro-fuelled sleazed-out rock 'n' roll and leave the stage triumphant. Again. From the...
Live In London
(Star Times -
June 21, 1998)
WELCOME, once again, to the nightmare. Alice Cooper is back, and he's come for your sanity. And your sides. It's a physical impossibility to leave an Alice Cooper gig with anything less than a six-foot grin. The three decades-long godfather of...
Concert Review
(Metal Hammer -
July 1998)
Roll up! Roll up! Witness the circus macabre - marvel at the slick showmanship, gasp at the cod theatrics and thrill at the unmitigated spectacle of one of rock's great drama queens playing demon ringmaster in a real rock and roll extravaganza...
Let the rock roll on Classic Rock
(Western Wheel -
July 8, 1998)
The show must go on - and it will. The Classic Rock Weekend, scheduled for the long weekend in August, is a go and Alice Cooper and his entourage will invade the Foothills. "In my estimation, there is not a show in North America that is close...
Brutal Planet
(What's Up -
July 8, 1998)
When it comes to shock rock that spurs real controversy, I was born at the wrong time to really take advantage. I was just a tiny child when my teenage uncle scandalized the family by going to the Memorial Coliseum to see Alice Cooper pretend to kill...
Greatest Summer Songs Of All Time
(Rolling Stone -
July 9, 1998)
"Between May and June, 'School's out' is the national anthem," Alice Cooper says proudly of his enduring hard-rock classic, which hit Number Seven on the Billboard charts in the summer of 1972 and still racks up serious seasonal airplay. Back when...
Freedom For Frankenstein Album Review
(Kerrang! -
July 18, 1998)
Alice Cooper has just released a compilation album titled 'Freedom For Frankenstein (Hits & Pieces 1984-91)' on Raven Records. Running for 78 minutes and featuring 18 tracks, 'Freedom...' spans the influential one's 29-year CV, throwing...
School's out; Cooper's still in
(Chicago Tribune -
July 24, 1998)
Most old rockers either die, fade away or flog their hits like so many dead horses. But a few, like Alice Cooper, have managed to keep going while somehow avoiding the ignominy of self-parody. On Wednesday night Alice Cooper's Rock 'n' Roll...
For Cooper, the shock is gone but not the rock
(St. Petersburg Times -
August 10, 1998)
CLEARWATER - Twenty-five years ago, Alice Cooper was every parent's worst rock 'n' roll nightmare. With his face, smeared in ghoulish eye shadow, he leered demonically from his album jackets. His concerts were fabled for Cooper's fascination...
It's Just Shocking
(Detroit News -
August 28, 1998)
If rock 'n' roll is a carnival, says Alice Cooper, he is the sideshow. The tongue-in-cheek master of shock rock is back on the road. People who, since 1969, missed the point about what Cooper was trying to do with his music have missed the fun...
A Guide to Stops on the Internet: Alice Cooper
(Metal Edge -
September 1998)
Alice Cooper Ephemera Archive - http://207.49.108.200/stagedive/ldavey/ - This is a VERY cool site! TONS of info resides here housed in an easy-to-use design. Exceptional discographies from many countries...
Alice Cooper Works All the Angles
(Wall of Sound -
September 1998)
It's been four years since Alice Cooper's last studio album, The Last Temptation, but the original shock-rocker is planning for a busy 1999. First off, there will be an album of new material, written by Cooper and his band, with, he says, no outside...
Alice Cooper, Kidd Wicked, Nautica Stage
(Scene -
September 9, 1998)
Welcome back, my friends, to the nightmare that never ends. That was the theme last week at Nautica, as Alice Cooper brought his world-famous rock and roll sideshow to Cleveland, treating a near-capacity crowd to an evening of musical...
Cooper Gets Boxed
(Kerrang! -
September 12, 1998)
Alice Cooper will have a box set released next February by Rhino Records. It will span his entire career. Titled "The Life And Crimes Of Alice Cooper", it will feature four CD's that will include material that dates back as far as 1967. There will...
Alice's Faithful Fans Delighted
(News Messanger -
September 26, 1998)
Take away his long hair and his custom leather jacket and Alice Cooper could be mistaken for anyone but a rock star. His voice is soft, his eyes friendly. Hardly the image he portrays on stage with wild makeup and snakes. Cooper, makeup and reptile...
News Report
(Entertainment Weekly -
November 13, 1998)
Go Ask Alice: Sharp-eared metalheads aren't alone in hearing echoes of Alice Cooper's '71 hit "Eighteen" in "Dreamin'," a song from Kiss' current Psycho Circus album. Six Palms Music Corp., copublisher of "Eighteen," filed a complait for...
Top 100 most influential artists
(Kerrang! -
November 25, 1998)
The Original Marilyn manson. A Guy with a girl`s name and long black hair playing shock rock. Simple, really. Back in the 70s, Cooper was Americas public enemy number one, horrifying parents with his outrageous stage-shows (monsters, guillotine...
Kiss the Culprit
(Phoenix New Times -
November 26, 1998)
When the Rolling Stones staged the first genuine rock 'n' roll circus in 1968, they distributed gold-embossed metallic tickets to their fan-club members and lucky NME readers, fed them, gave them 20 hours of music, clowns and amusements and then...
All Revved Up, Surrounded by Suits
(Phoenix New Times -
December 24, 1998)
Friday night downtown, between the decades-old warehouses and America West Arena, where old trolley tracks remain visible under streets paved over years ago, the dust and car exhaust blended with pithy scents of perfume and floated on a warm...
Flying The Coop
(Anchorage Daily News -
December 25, 1998)
Shock-rocker Alice Cooper opened his own restauraunt last weekend in Phoenix. Megadeth leader Dave Mustaine is a partner in the sport 'n' rock eatery named Alice Cooper'stown Restauraunt. Cooper used the occasion to set straight...
The Alice Cooper Band
(Psychotronic Video -
1999)
The three surviving members of The Alice Cooper Band were interviewed at a Chiller Convention (where Neal Smith and Michael Bruce played). The interview was videotaped by Akira Fitton and parts of it were broadcast on Grant's MEDIA...
Alice Cooper
(Vancouver Westender -
1999)
Alice Cooper's Rock N Roll Carnival is coming to Vancouver. It doesn't matter much that his best contribution to the annuls of rock had to be back in 1972 with the release of the absolutely matchless "School's Out" -- it remains, quite simply, one...
Alice Cooper Rocks L.A.
(Metal Edge -
January 1999)
No time like summer for a carnival, and Alice Cooper put a typically demented twist on the sideshow theme for his latest concert program, performing amidst clowns and brandishing an array of props as he entertained a packed House of Blues...
Alice's Restaurant
(Scottsdale Tribune -
March 4, 1999)
Downtown Phoenix's newest eatery is named after the historic baseball hall of fame and legendary rock star Alice Cooper. If you've not guessed, the theme eatery teams up sports and music. If you and your team go for slow-smoked eats, better...
Outta the Park
(Phoenix New Times -
March 11, 1999)
It's spring, and our senses are awakening after a long winter's hibernation. Watch the blooming wildflowers swaying in the breeze. Sniff the fragrant orange blossoms perfuming the mild desert air. And listen closely for the sharp thwack of...
No headbangers allowed?
(Cleveland Plain Dealer -
March 15, 1999)
Many cite the influence of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Alice Cooper on today's music, but they remain outside the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Black Sabbath will not be attending the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's induction ceremony tonight...
The Scoop on Cooper'stown
(Arizona Republic -
March 25, 1999)
Alice Cooper - he may be a hometown celebrity, but saddling up to the bar and ordering a Bloody Mary from this ex-glam rocker might scare some people off. Don't worry, we found Alice Cooper'stown to be a friendly place, even though the...
The Wall Of Sound
(Guitar World -
April 1999)
When Alice Cooper needed a guiding hand, when Kiss was hellbent on delivering a knockout punch or when Pink Floyd decided to come up with an epic worthy of Cecil B. DeMille, Bob Ezrin was the man they called. While you may not...
The Life And Crimes Of Alice Cooper
(Minneapolis Newhouse News Service -
April 1999)
Curse him, laugh at him, love him or loathe him, but don't you dare put Alice Cooper in the same category as Marilyn Manson. When it comes to the music, Manson couldn't hold a candle to hard-hearted Alice. If you need proof, there's plenty of it...
Rhino Commemorates Alice Cooper's 'Life And Crimes'
(Billboard -
April 10, 1999)
Welcome to his nightmare: Talk about a perfect way to head into the millennium. On April 20, Rhino releases "The Life And Crimes Of Alice Cooper," a four CD set devoted to the original musical shockmeister. The 84-song collection, which features...
Alice Cooper - Life and Crimes
(New Haven Register -
April 16, 1999)
Forgot to tell you about one of the impending signs of the Apocalypse back in January. Absentmindedly turned on the idiot box one Sunday, and one of the celebrity golf pro-ams was on, and there, playing in a threesome with a big name pro (a Mark...
Hanging With Mr. Cooper
(Detroit Free Press -
April 18, 1999)
A few years before punk, a good decade before mascara metal, nearly 30 years before Eminem, there was Alice Cooper. Indeed, in this age of Eminem - the shock-minded Detroit rapper no lodged near the top of the charts — it's a fine time to check...
The Rock 'n' Roll Villain
(Get Out -
April 22, 1999)
A restaurateur sits in the office under his downtown Phoenix eatery and thinks back on the momentous decision that shapes his life. Alice Cooper's late-'60s decision had nothing to do with food. "I looked around and everybody was rock 'n' roll heroes...
News Report
(Milwaukee Journal -
April 22, 1999)
(Regarding the Columbine shootings where two students opened fire on classmates and teachers) "[Eric] Harris, 18, rarely thought small. His online ramblings demonstrate a grand view of life and self. "Man has ruled this world as a stumbling, demented child...
Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Album Review
(Entertainment Weekly -
April 23, 1999)
Unlike some latter-day shock-rockers, the Coop understood the value of a good song, and this four-CD retrospective is packed with 'em, from garagey, pre-AC gems like "Don't Blow Your Mind" to classic teenage wasteland anthems like "School's Out...
Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Album Review
(Miami Herald -
April 27, 1999)
Hey, Marilyn Manson fans, check this out. A four-CD boxed set from the original shock rocker, Alice Cooper. A shock rocker who understood that gross-outs were fine, but you needed the songs at the end of the day to truly matter. Cooper had plenty...
School's Back In, Rockers!
(Arizona Republic -
April 29, 1999)
'If you're going to do a box set, you really couldn't do it any better than the guys at Rhino did for Alice Cooper. This baby, which reached stores last week, has everything a fan looks for in these things: There are 84 tracks, licensed from 12 sources...
Go Ask Alice
(Phoenix New Times -
April 29, 1999)
Look through the north window of Alice Cooper'stown and the message is clear. You're greeted by a life-size cardboard cutout of the king of shock rock in black leather, welcoming you to his nightmare, In front of the cutout, the window sports an orange...
Shocker! Alice Cooper Meets Fans
(Addicted to Noise -
May 1999)
Shock-rock icon turns out to be Mr. Nice Guy as he pushes box set with autograph-signing tour. CHICAGO — Veteran rocker Alice Cooper is touring the U.S. and Europe. But in seven stops on two continents, he'll play only one song. That's because...
30 years of shock-rock
(Premier -
May 1999)
Alice is certainly one of rock's "grand old men" by now. The fact that he nowadays is a golfing family man isn't that illogical, knowing that he's 52 years old. Alice Cooper was born Vincent Furnier in 1947. His father vas a minister and as youth does...
Up Close and Personal
(Request -
May 1999)
If good fortune sometimes comes from being in the right place at the right time, then for Brian Nelson it came from being there over and over again. Between 1977, when he managed to persuade an Alice Cooper roadie to give him a backstage...
Interview
(Wall of Sound -
May 1999)
School may be almost out for summer, but it's definitely in for those wishing to learn a little more about Alice Cooper, the original shock-rocker and forebear to the likes of KISS, Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, Rob Zombie, and Marilyn Manson...
Q & A With Alice Cooper
(San Francisco Chronicle -
May 3, 1999)
Alice Cooper may not be the most happening man in rock, but his influence is everywhere. Sex Pistols front man John Lydon is one unlikely fan. He provides unexpectedly reverent liner notes for "The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper," a new four-disc...
Cooper Collection shows depth
(Springfield Newsleader -
May 3, 1999)
Alice Cooper is a lot more then the cartoon character he now seems to be. Apparently more interested in golf than music, he's little more than a rock cliche. But in his day Cooper was a master showman, turning rock n roll into a circus of outrageous fun...
Alice Cooper box set keeps the horror alive
(Boston Globe -
May 7, 1999)
Capital punishment may be a divisive issue in America, but it has been very good to Alice Cooper. It's uncertain whether Alice is a fan or foe, but it's an undeniable fact that capital punishment has been a big part of his professional life: The singer has ...
Stars give public a voice for Kosovo
(USA Today -
May 7, 1999)
Alice Cooper, Wyclef Jean, Daniel Baldwin, Duncan Sheik, Sam Moore and Keanu Reeves' Dogstar band are among early volunteers slated to record Message to the World, a benefit song for Kosovo refugees co-written by former teen idol David...
Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Album Review
(Kerrang! -
May 8, 1999)
NEVER DID Alice Cooper snarl a more prophetic line than in the 1972 single 'Elected', when he declared 'We're all gonna rock to the rules that I make'. Back list the bad guys, from Manson to Guns N' Roses to the Sex Pistols, and you're guaranteed one...
Magic that can set you free: rock 'n' roll's enduring power
(Boston Globe -
May 9, 1999)
A teenager is ticked off, as will happen, as has happened for eons. He storms into his room, slams the door, and turns the stereo up full blast. The music is hard and heavy. Harsh and violent words seep through into the other room...
This is your parents' Marilyn Manson
(Boston Herald -
May 9, 1999)
He's every parent's nightmare: A man with a woman's name, a garish makeup job and an outfit that most transvestites would think was tacky. His live shows are a mess of sexual decadence, simulated violence and overdone guitar solos. And, scariest ...
The Idea Behind Rock N Roll is Joy
(Onion -
May 12, 1999)
Alice Cooper has received equal measures of credit and blame for influencing numerous shocking, over-the-top rock acts, from The Sex Pistols to White Zombie to Marilyn Manson. But what many of the 51-year-old's most popular contemporary...
Go Ask Alice
(Winnipeg Sun -
May 21, 1999)
Shock rocker? Guess again — these days, Alice Cooper is more of a jock rocker. "I just want you to know we're taking care of the Jets down here," says the 51-year-old rock legend from his home in Phoenix, Ariz. "I have friends from Winnipeg. They come...
.....but Wasp don't impress Alice Cooper
(Expressen Standard -
May 22, 1999)
Around 20 young girls were standing outside Grand Hotel in Stockholm yesterday and said that they waited for Alice Cooper. "I have all kinds of fans", shockrocker told Expressen. It turned out that they were there to meet the boygroup Five! Both me...
Some Folks Love To See Red
(Zia Zine -
May 24, 1999)
Probably one of my earliest rock and roll memories involves receiving two records for Christmas when I was about 11 years old. Bless their hearts -- my brother and sister, both a bit older than me, had taken the occasion brought about by the giving...
Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Album Review
(Metal Hammer -
June 1999)
Ageing rock stars used to contend themselves with staring bleary-eyed into the remains of last night's bourbon, perennially reminding the barflies that they once meant something somewhere. But times have changed. Old rock stars now make...
Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Album Review
(Mojo -
June 1999)
All the hits plus rareties - 12 previously unreleased - including pre-Alice singles, outtakes and demos, on four CD`s in a nifty jail-cell box, 80-page colour book features intro by Johnny Rotten. When John Lydon was a nipper he joined Alice's fan...
The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper
(Record Collector -
June 1999)
1972 was a vintage year for summer anthems: Mott The Hoople's "All The Young Dudes"", Derek and the Dominos' "Layla", Hawkwind's "Silver Machine", even Gary Glitter's "Rock 'n' Roll Part 2". Each confirmed that rumours of pop's demise after the...
Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Album Review
(Sound and Vision -
June 1999)
"Now that Rhino has acquired the rights to most of the Warner Bros. back catalog, get ready for a windfall of reissues. Among the first to drop are these four-CD boxed sets of two of the hardest rockers from the 70s. Serious metallurgists may...
Alice's Restaurant
(Sports Illustrated -
June 1999)
Seminal shock-rocker Alice Cooper has changed his tune. Cooper, who long ago heeded the call of The Byrds in "So You Want to Be a Rock'n'Roll Star" is now guided by an inner muse playing "So You Want to Be a Restaurateur". Last December...
Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Album Review
(Spin -
June 1999)
Alice Cooper Long before he was a budding restaurateur (Phoenix's Alice Cooperstown sports bar), PGA tour wannabe, and Pat Boone - schmoozing shill for Sony cell phones, Vincent Furnier's claim to infamy was as rock's original Antichrist...
Alice Malice
(Herald Sun -
June 20, 1999)
With the release of an in-depth career retrospective, Alice Cooper remains the unrepentant king of over-the-top rock. And he tells Paul Stewart, '90s rockers such as Marilyn Manson are nothing but show ponies. Pioneering rock showman Alice...
Well Hung
(Guitar World -
July 1999)
The oily psyche of Alice Cooper isn't an easy thing to grasp, not even if you happen to be Alice Cooper. The first king of shock rock has been reshaping his persona since 1969, when he traded his life as Vincent Furnier, a preacher's son from Detroit...
Rock back in time
(Herald Sun -
July 28, 1999)
The millennium may be looming, but one rock tour promises to take music fans back in time. The Ultimate Rock Symphony Arena Spectacular will feature vintage rockers Alice Cooper, Roger Daltry (The Who), Peter Frampton, Thelma Houston, Jack...
Thirty Years of Rock Horror Music
(Aardschok America -
August 1999)
On February 4th, 1948, Vincent Furnier is born. Now, 51 years later, there's a magnificent overview of 25 Alice Cooper albums. His first "real" Cooper album is "Love It To Death" from 1971, according to many still one of his best albums. His latest...
Alice in Monsterland
(Famous Monsters -
August 1999)
Hollywood is fond of summarizing an act in a few short words. If we applied that formula to Alice Cooper we could do it in just two words: class act. After years of battling conventional thinking, Cooper managed to craft a unique style that...
Alice Cooper
(Metal Edge -
August 1999)
Imagine trying to put 30 years on your life into one box. Now, try that again when you're Alice Cooper. That cozy little box would have to have seating for everyone from Chris Cornell and Rob Zombie to liza Minelli and Vincent Price. Not to mention...
Humanary Stew Album Review
(Metal Hammer -
August 1999)
DO people actually buy tribute albums? Or are they all far too happy listening to the real thing? It's one question I've never been able to figure out, but given the abundance of the things that have appeared of late, I guess there must be something...
Satan Made Me Do It
(Beat -
August 4, 1999)
Sex Pistol, John "Rotten" Lydon is even handed and consistent; he hates almost everyone with the same passion. Everyone it seems except for Alice Cooper. His furry, green toothed howling along to da Coop's classic, I'm Eighteen got him...
Welcome To My Mightmare
(Classic Rock -
September 1999)
It's hard to believe that Alice Cooper's story has now spanned an incredible three decades — as Alice himself is only too keen to agree. The schizophrenic singer has gone through peaks and drink-addled troughs, but although the music sometimes...
Glitter-Punk Revolution NOW!
(Hit List -
September 1999)
Somewhere in the American Deep South, 1957: A young man sits in front of a mirror backstage at a seedy nightclub. His pompadour is stratospheric and his eyes are ringed with black liner. He's wearing a pink silk suit jacket and pegged black...
Sex, Death and Money
(Georgia Straight -
September 9, 1999)
Last month, a feature-length movie about four rabid Kiss fans, Detroit Rock City, was released across America. It was basically a Gene Simmons-bankrolled homage to his own band, which took glam metal to the extreme in the '70s and won over legions of...
Shock Rock Purist
(Vancouver Sun -
September 9, 1999)
There is a very good reason you will never see Alice Cooper brandish tattoos or incorporate a coffin into his theatrical performance. They scare him. "I have a couple of phobias," he admits. "I'm pretty claustrophobic...
Days of Twine And Guillotines
(Calgary Sun -
September 18, 1999)
Alice Cooper admits he's not the kind of ghoul who usually falls under the spell of nostalgia. Yet this spring's release of The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper, a lavishly packaged four-CD box set recapping his eventful career, gave The Man Formerly...
Classic Alice
(Calgary Sun -
September 19, 1999)
Alice Cooper was originally designed to be a despicable rock 'n' roll villain; a ghoul you hope to see hang or beheaded before his concerts are through. Strange, then, that at this point in Cooper's career, you feel nothing but affection...
Shock Rock's Greatest Madman Ushers Us Into His Attic
(View -
September 23, 1999)
The bulk of Alice Cooper's career has been spent walking the fine line between legend and self-parody. Those who remember the initial rush of legitimate classics like "Eighteen", "Under My Wheels" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy" have generally chosen...
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...
News Report
(Fangoria -
October 1999)
For MSG's upcoming fourth season, Harris says he'll try even harder to give fright fans what they want, including two Universal-Licensed haunts based on the Mummy; a 3-D living comic book "ghosted" by the voice of spookhouse regular...
Alice Cooper
(Wales On Sunday -
October 3, 1999)
Rock star ALICE COOPER has finally found a new way to gross out his fans. Alice's constant companion, boa constrictor Lady Macbeth, obeyed a call of nature on stage in front of a packed house in LA, and the band slipped through the enormous and...
Alice tees off the tour
(Woman's Day -
October 4, 1999)
Is rocker Alice Cooper mellowing with age? The one-time boy of rock wil ltour Australia next year for the Ultimate Rock Symphony and has made just one demand - entry to the best golf courses around the country. The rock legend will be joined on stage by...
For Alice Cooper, School's Still Out
(Washington Post -
October 7, 1999)
Alice Cooper and his trend-setting brand of rock-and-roll theater--Grand Guignol with a big beat--haven't gotten smaller since the '70s; only the stage itself has. At the 9:30 club on Tuesday, Cooper seemed gleefully impervious to the club's narrower...
Alice Cooper would never impose his persona on golf, or golf on his persona
(Kansas City Star -
October 13, 1999)
He's 51 and he can do what he wants, which means Alice Cooper plays lots of golf and lots of loud rock music. "Financially I don't have to do this," he said. "I choose to do...
Hangin' With Alice
(New York Post -
October 15, 1999)
ALICE Cooper - Vincent Furnier to his preacher dad - is a complex showman who discovered early in his career that outrageousness is one key to success. For Cooper, who was born in Detroit and now lives in Phoenix, the other keys...
Alice Cooper's Restaurant Eyes Anaheim
(Orange County Business Journal -
October 25, 1999)
These days, shock rocker Alice Cooper is more likely to be singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" than his 1970s hit "No More Mr. Nice Guy." The Arizona Diamond backs fan, who a year ago launched his first Cooper's town restaurant in his...
Alice Cooper
(Details -
November 1999)
"I'm glad that I have advisers. Everybody thinks I'm a great businessman, but I'm just the guy that shakes my head yeah or no. There are people who know what to do. Don't be an armcahir Rockefeller sitting at your computer, because you'll...
Alice Cooper
(Vicious Kitten -
November 4, 1999)
I promised myself, as I walked out of Kiss' Hallenstadion concert in Zurich last December, that I had endured my final 'big stage' experience. No more would I enter into the arena zone and suffer from it's nauseating effects-the lack of intimacy, over...
The Buzz
(Palm Beach Post -
November 5, 1999)
Alice Cooper says the whole Marilyn Manson/Rob Zombie scene is a backlash against those boring flannel-shirted grunge rockers. "Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change...
'X-Files' sparks musical visions
(USA Today -
November 5, 1999)
Connection to the conspiracy: The 51-year-old shock rocker recorded the duet Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn) with fellow horror-meister Rob Zombie for Songs in the Key of X. In 1997, the track was Grammy-nominated for best heavy metal...
Book Review
(Kerrang! -
November 6, 1999)
Comprehensive guide to all things Alice Cooper-related. WHILE LIFE is generally considered to be far too short, it would appear that for Dale Sherman there are simply way too many hours in the day. Witness this excruciatingly detailed tome dealing...
News Report
(Varity -
November 9, 1999)
Rocker Alice Cooper has joined the cast of Tse Tse Fly Prods. indie feature "The Attic Expeditions." Pic also stars Seth Green, Jeffrey Combs and Ted Raimi. Jeremy Kasten is set to helm the psychological thriller scripted by Rogan Marshall and...
Life In Rock's Fast Lane Din in Buxton, Family And Friends Say
(Arizona Republic -
November 10, 1999)
Glen Buxton was a wisecracking loner thrust into the no-holds-barred world of rock'n'roll, where his fate was sealed. Originally from Akron and a founding member of the Alice Cooper group, Buxton was cursed with a double whammy: a penchant for...
Michael Bruce
(Etch -
December 1999)
For those who don't remember the early days of Detroit rock, it was 1968 when a five man electrical band came to town. The ALICE COOPER band emerged from the smog filled air of L.A. looking for a place to shape their perculiar sound. The...
Package Deals: The Best Offerings In A Box Set
(Chicago Tribune -
December 3, 1999)
Becoming the "most hated band in Los Angeles" in the late '60s wasn't enough for Alice Cooper. So he returned to his hometown of Detroit and transformed his art-rock combo into middlebrow America's worst nightmare with a string of terrific...
Best of the best (so far)
(Deseret News -
December 3, 1999)
Rock fans owe a lot to Cooper. Everyone from Rob Zombie, the New York Dolls and Ozzy Osbourne has been inspired by his theatrics. Yes, even Marilyn Manson should give credit where it's due. To celebrate Cooper's long, active, twisted career, Rhino...
Neal Smith: Rockin' Realtor
(Rismedia -
December 6, 1999)
Rock -'n'-roll and Real Estate might seem like an unlikely combination, but since the early 1970s Neal Smith drummed up a big-time career in music - and now real estate. The former drummer for the Alice Cooper band, Smith has been selling...
'ALICE COOPER: THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF'
(New York Times -
December 12, 1999)
EACH year recording companies dig more deeply into their archives. They are eager to retrieve the obscure recordings that justify expanding greatest-hits collections into the boxed sets that have becomefixtures of the holiday market. Theme anthologies...
Two Aging Rockers Welcomed By Sellout At Sports Arena
(Toledo Blade -
December 28, 1999)
Rock 'n Roll may never die but some of its practitioners do grow old. That's not stopping Alice Cooper and Ted Nugent. The two lelgendary rockers are 48. They sold out the Sports Arena last night as they probably would have done 20 years ago ...