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Alice Cooper with Halo of Flies Tribute band Nov. 7th at the Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts

Tickets to the concert at the Webb Center are on sale; to reserve seats visit www.delewebbcenter.org, or call the Box Office, 928-684-6624.

Tickets range in price from $30 to $50. The Webb Center is at 1090 S. Vulture Mine Road in Wickenburg. Show starts at 8:30 with opening acts.

Christmas Pudding has changed to December 18th.Friday. Bands will be announced soon.

Alice recruits broadway director for theater of death tour(scroll down for article)

Alice to appear on Slash's new album(article below)

Alice article below "dying for NZ tour"

Alice Finland show cancelled due to religious views.(details below)(this show has been rescheduled for the same night Dec. 11th elsewhere in Finland)(the show is now at the Barona arena in Espoo,approximately 100 miles from its originally scheduled date in Tamperes)

The Alice Cooper Solid Rock Ball has resceduled its date for January 29th instead of its original Febuary 5th.Event is at the Ritz Carlton located on 24th st.+Camelback.More details on this event later.

The 13th annual golf tournament has been rescheduled for nov7th in Wickenburg az at the resort Los Caballeros

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

Alice Cooper SRF letter:

Greetings,

 

As this e-mail blast gets written, I am currently in Marksville, Louisianna getting ready for our show tonight.

 

We are down to the wire with only 4 weeks to go for our 13th Annual Alice Cooper Pro-AM and we are looking for a complete sell-out.

 

Many years ago when I was just a wee lad in grade school, I learned the power of multiplication.  I ask that you forward this to 10 people.  Based on the power and strength of numbers, we have set a goal of reaching 1,000,000 people within 72 hours.  Here is how it will work.  If you will forward this e-mail on to 10 people and ask them to forward on to 10 people who ask 10 more people, we will have reached 1,000,000 people within 72 hours.

 

We are looking for 20 people (or 5 foursomes) to signup in order to make this tournament a complete success.  Don't you think that this is doable?  Please help me and together we can have a fantastic event.

 

It is important to us that this event is completely sold out.   If you have been waiting to register, please dont wait any longer.  Do me a personal favor and sign up now to keep the momentum going.

 

You don't want to miss meeting and playing with some of the great names in PGA golf like Hale Irwin, Stan Utley and Ted Purdy along with 17 other PGA teaching pros.  Clinics that will be taught by these professionals are unique and special to this event.

 

This is one of our largest fund raisers for the year and the money raised is critical for Solid Rock to continue moving forward with plans for THE ROCK Teen center.

 

Help me trun this snarl into a smile. 

 

 

For registrations and questions please call the Solid Rock office at 602-522-9200 or toll free at 888-97ALICE. http://undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=9068

Alice Cooper Recruits Broadway Director For Theatre of Death
by Paul Cashmere - August 22 2009


The new Alice Cooper Show `Theatre of Death` is a whole new act for Alice. Broadway director Robert Roth put it together.


“He did Beauty And The Beast on Broadway and he worked with Elton John on Lestat, the vampire Lestat on Broadway. That’s what he does. He is a Broadway director,” Alice tells Undercover News.

Alice approached Robert for a new way of doing his show. “I kind of said I have my own way of doing things and I want a fresh approach to the Alice Cooper Show for this show,” he says. “I said I’m going to give you the songs and let you pick the songs and let me know the idea of what you come up with. So he did it the way he would do it and I like the idea that it is going to throw people off guard who think they have Alice figured out”.

Alice had total faith in Roth because Roth was an Alice Cooper fan. “He knows. He is a fan on top of everything else. He is an Alice fan. He totally gets it,” Alice says. “He understands that “Eighteen” and ‘School’s Out’ and ‘Billion Dollar Babies’ have got to be in the show. But then you try to figure out a new way to do these songs on stage which is going to be a new way of doing it which is going to be a visual treat that keeps within the Alice image, that makes people go “Ohh” and “Ahh”. That is really the fun part of it. But it was three weeks of 10 hours a day of rehearsals to put this show together”.
To make this show, Roth was given licence to adjust the songs. “You had to cut this verse out of that song because the timing was wrong. You had to make this song a little bit longer to accommodate this set change. It took a lot of work,” he says.

The show is not a complete retro show. It does include some of the newer songs but also a lot of old surprises. “We do a couple of things off Along Came A Spider,” he says. “We don’t do all oldies. I think the audience expects to hear the standards but I like to throw in songs they aren’t expecting. Songs we haven’t done in 25 or 30 years. The real fans go crazy when they hear those things. I wanted to do at least two songs off the new album. You have to allow for that too”.

Alice is currently on tour across Australia.

The setlist for the show is:

School's Out (part only) / Department of Youth / Eighteen / Wicked Young Man / Ballad of Dwight Fry / Go To Hell / Guilty / Welcome To My Nightmare / Cold Ethyl / Poison / The Awakening / From The Inside (w/ extended instrumental) / Nurse Rozetta / Is It My Body / Be My Lover / Only Women Bleed / I Never Cry / The Black Widow (Instrumental) / Vengeance Is Mine / Devil's Food / Dirty Diamonds / Billion Dollar Babies / Killer / I Love The Dead (excerpt) / No More Mr. Nice Guy / Under My Wheels / Schools Out (full version)

 

 

 

Alice Cooper Sings On Slash Solo Album
by Paul Cashmere - August 23 2009


Alice Cooper is back working with Slash. The former Guns n Roses / Velvet Revolver member is making a solo record with a whole host of special guest singers.


“I just finished writing a couple of songs for Slash’s new album that is going to be coming out,” Alice tells Undercover News. “He is working with a bunch of lead singers. It is sort of a nice idea of Slash and Alice, Slash and Iggy, Slash and Meat Loaf or whoever is going to be on it. It is a great idea”.

Slash and Alice Cooper go way back together. Alice sang on the ‘Use Your Illusion’ song ‘The Garden’. Slash guest starred on the track ‘Vengeance Is Mine’ from Alice’s last album ‘Along Came A Spider’.

As well as the Slash album, Alice will also have a new album in 2010. “I’m working on it right now, in fact there are three or four songs already written,” he says.

Alice is currently touring Australia.

Watch Alice and Slash perform Vengeance Is Mine


http://nz.entertainment.yahoo.com/090816/3/e39l.html

Alice Cooper dying for NZ tour
Veteran rocker Alice Cooper might die gruesomely numerous times on the set of his next stage tour -- due to hit Auckland next month -- but he tells TAMAR MCKEWEN of NZPA why he's looking forward to it.

How many times has Alice Cooper died? It's hard to know but by the end of his current Theatre of Death tour he'll likely have kicked the bucket at least 300 times.

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Next month when he reaches New Zealand for his one-night-only, sold-out show at Auckland's ASB Theatre, there will have been 160 on-stage murders already.

Rumour has it the death count has been amped up for the Theatre of Death tour to four deaths per night.

But Cooper was keeping his cards close to his chest.

What he will say is the current show "may be the best show I've done since Welcome to My Nightmare".

"It's one of those shows where once it starts, if you turn and say something to
"I filled this show up with so much visual stuff going on -- 28 songs -- I really wanted to make sure that it was so full of stuff that when people left they said `wow, I'm exhausted'."

Cooper should be exhausted. The Theatre of Death tour is made up of 75 shows across the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and Europe over five months.

But he insisted he never gets tired of killing on stage.

"The six months that I'm out on tour is usually pretty hectic and we make sure we work a lot.

"I don't like working three nights a week -- I want to work five nights. I don't like sitting around in hotel rooms. I'd rather look forward to the night the show is on -- that's the highpoint of the evening."

As well as throwing himself into the "complicated" new show Cooper scours the net to ensure he's getting the right reviews.

"It's interesting because now you get blogs and you get twitters and you get all this reaction from the show the next day.

"I used to go and read the review in the newspaper -- now I look at the audience's reaction and I've seen nothing but really great reaction to the show."

Fan approval is basically what drives Alice. If he ever worried about critics, those days are over, as well as the days of making records for money.

His latest album Along Came a Spider is his 25th. Commercial success was a bonus but it's not his main goal.

"I judge the success on how the audience reacts and if I get emails that say `wow this album kills me it's so good' then I think it's a very successful album.

"In the early days it was important to us to sell a lot of records because like everybody else we were trying to make money and now I'm at a period in my life where I really don't really need that money as much as I care about people liking the album."

Cooper had a theory about why fans kept buying his work.

"I think Alice fans have always been sort of the lunatic fringe.

"Most of my fans are probably not fans of Beyonce or not fans of you know Lil Wayne," he laughed.

"Once they become an Alice fan they become an Alice fan for life and for those people that are that loyal every time I do an album I do an album basically for them."

Cooper said he was "absolutely" looking forward to connecting with his New Zealand fans.

He was last in New Zealand at Rock2Wgtn in March last year. His fellow act Ozzy Osbourne was apparently less than impressed with the enthusiasm of the Wellington crowd.

No such problems for Cooper.

"I think the crowd reacts to what you give them. If you're going to get up there and be boring I don't expect the crowd to react but if you give them a show that they can't resist if you give them a show that really entertains them and gets them going then I expect them to react in a big loud.

"The last thing I want is a polite audience."

He reckons fans who were impressed by his offering at Rock2Wgtn will be blown away by his Theatre of Death show.

"I wanted to make this show really, really theatrical and really, really loud so it just really blows your head off."

He was sorry there was only one show set for New Zealand but insisted the band wanted to return after the Theatre of Death tour finished.

"I think there's a misconception with audiences that bands go where they want to go. We only go where the promoters send us.

"We might want to play New Zealand for five nights but the promoter has got to put that together."

But Cooper said he would be back and until then music's most famous murder victim isn't going anywhere -- there will be more albums, more tours, more Alice Cooper.

"Rock needs a villain. I'm kind of like the Vincent Price of rock and roll.

"I think there's a consistency to Alice in the music and in the stage show where when you come to see Alice you know it's going to be a good stage show.

"I don't think I've disappointed anyone on that."ttp://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/08/17/alice_cooper_s_finland_show_canceled_on__1

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Alice Cooper's Finland Show Canceled On 'Religious Grounds'
August 17th, 2009 3:09pm EDT  Post a comment    Read 1 comment   Add to My News


Alice Cooper has been forced to cancel an upcoming concert in Finland after the venue's owners objected to the controversial rock show on "religious grounds."

The singer was scheduled to play the Tampere Areena, in Tampere, Finland on December 11 but management officials subsequently admitted the booking conflicted with their "Christian-based policies".

Tampere Areena boss Harri Wiherkoski announced the cancellation on Friday and put it down to an objection from other clients who use the venue.

Gig promoter Kalle Keskinen, who helped organised the show, admits he was shocked by the reaction, telling Finland's YLE news, "(Several religious groups) and others use Tampere Areena for their events, so the venue's management did not want Alice Cooper appearing in the same hall. The contract which we received from Tampere Areena specifies that no artists may perform there who 'incite evil and the power of darkness'. We never imagined that a rock veteran who has performed in Finland in four separate decades without any problems and who has spoken in public of his own religious convictions would not be allowed to perform at Tampere Areena in 2009."

The promoters now hope to move the gig to the city of Espoo, but are "awaiting (Cooper's) approval of the new arrangements".

Cooper - real name Vincent Furnier - has courted controversy throughout his career for the macabre themes used in his music and shows, as well as his gruesome onstage theatrics which have included antic beheadings, stabbings and stranglings.

Cooper last appeared in Finland in November 2007, when he played shows in Helsinki, Oulu and Ostrobothnia.

 

 

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NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia, June 22 (UPI) -- Alice Cooper canceled a show in Novosibirsk, Russia, after stage rigging collapsed, a spokesman for the U.S. shock metal singer said.

No injuries were reported in the Friday night collapse of scaffolding on the stage at Spartak Stadium, where Cooper was scheduled to do an outdoor concert Saturday, spokesman Bob Merlis said in Los Angeles.

The show -- part of the European leg of the singer's "Theater of Death" tour -- will not be rescheduled. Ticket holders were offered refunds but were also told their tickets would be honored for a concert this week in Krasnoyarsk, several hundred miles from Novosibirsk.

The incident will not affect any other tour dates.

The equipment that collapsed was provided by local vendors. No reason was given for the collapse but the weather at the stadium was clear, Cooper's tour manager said.

Alice Cooper is scheduled to return to the United States for a two-week tour beginning at the end of July before heading off for a series of dates in Australia and New Zealand.

 


 Cooper shocked by daughter's shower pal

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Rocker Alice Cooper once had a scare when he found a boy in his daughter's bedroom, while she was taking a shower.

The School's Out hitmaker's kid Calico was a teenager when Cooper thought she was up to no good with a new pal.

He tells TheRockRadio.com, "There's this really good-looking guy sitting on her bed and she's taking a shower. I look at the guy... and he goes, 'Oh hello Mr. Cooper! Cali and I were just trying on clothes.' I went, 'Either this guy is really good or he's really gay.'

"Calico looked at me and she says 'We were trying on dresses.' He was gay and it was a relief to me!"

Speaking out on Father's Day, Cooper admits he set his three kids a tough task when it came to rebelling against him when they became teenagers: "There was no way to rebel because what are they going to do, dye their hair black and wear black lipstick? I invented that, remember? My daughter put it perfectly in her yearbook. She said, 'I couldn't really rebel because my mom and dad were cooler than my friends.'" http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/music/story.html?id=6b92c4c5-d432-4db3-b22a-754b57458e00


Alice Cooper's Spider tour crawls into Canada
 
After two releases focused on "fast and loose" Detroit-flavoured rock 'n' roll, Alice Cooper finds himself re-adopting the theatrical madness of his glory days on his 25th album, Along Came a Spider.<br>
 
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  Vincent Damon Furnier lives two very distinct lives.

On the one hand, the life of a mortal, human: a down-to-earth father of three, married for over 32 years ("Maybe the happiest marriage in rock 'n' roll," he says).

On the other, the life of mythical figure and rock god Alice Cooper: the snake-toting, cane-wielding Prince of Darkness -- the man who inspired an entire generation of disenfranchised youth to join the "dark side."

The raspy, cheerful voice greeting me on the phone couldn't be that of the blood-curdling monster that has painted stages worldwide in blood and guts for almost 40 years.

Or could it? Better call him Vincent . . .

"My mom calls me Vince -- are you my mom?" Furnier warns with a chuckle.

Sorry, Alice.

Cooper -- as we will address him from this point -- isn't making the multiple personality situation any easier with the release of his latest album, Along Came A Spider.

After two releases (The Eyes of Alice Cooper and Dirty Diamonds) focused on "fast and loose" Detroit-flavoured rock 'n' roll, Cooper finds himself re-adopting the theatrical madness of his glory days on his 25th album.

This time, Cooper is donning the skin of a fictional serial killer who calls himself "The Spider." The album depicts how Spider goes on a murderous rampage in search of eight legs to complete his arachnid persona before finding salvation when he falls in love with his final victim.

If the idea of Furnier playing Cooper playing Spider sounds a little bit like Robert Downey, Jr.'s role in Tropic Thunder, it actually isn't too far from the truth.

"It's the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude!" Cooper exclaims with a hearty laugh. "To me this is Alice Cooper playing another character. Maybe there's some aspects of his character in this guy. I mean -- I've taken Alice to an insane asylum, to hell, to a nightmare, to school, I made him a billionaire. I like to take Alice and put him in different situations -- he's almost Harry Potter!"  Cooper laughs.

The good news is that this third persona has given Cooper a shock-rock "psycho-drama" that mirrors what fans like to call "the good old days."

Listening to Along Came A Spider can only lead to imagining the elaborate stage play that is sure to accompany its twisted storyline.
Without a doubt, this might be Cooper's strongest conceptual statement since 1975's Welcome To My Nightmare.

"We're planning a lot of really good tricks on this one," Cooper says.

At age 60, Alice Cooper has re-invented himself on numerous occasions.

Since his transformation from alcoholic menace in the '60s and '70s to sobered Christian man since the early '80s, Cooper says he has never had more fun.

"Actually, it was harder when I was drinking," he admits. "I wish I was in this headspace when I was doing Nightmare.

"Nightmare was a very gruelling show, especially when you're doing it . . . drinking all day and drinking half a bottle of whiskey before you go on stage. I really wish I could've done Nightmare sober because it would've been really fun. Who knows? Maybe there would be a time when I would do that: re-stage Nightmare."

Much like Welcome To My Nightmare, Cooper says Along Came A Spider is "haunting and funny."

The album includes the signature Cooper ballad (this one, entitled "Killed By Love and Salvation") and fist-pumping rock anthems.
Cooper's latest single, the venomous "Vengeance Is Mine" featuring Slash on guitar, easily recalls classics like "Feed My Frankenstein" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy."

When he finds himself criticized for glorifying the story of a fictional serial killer or accused of inciting younger fans to imitate his art, Cooper lashes back.

"Then that person should never see Shakespeare, should never go to the movies, should never watch television," he says. "If this is a catalyst, then what about everything else that's even more visual than that? If we had to worry like that, we would have absolutely no art at all. You have to play to the 99.999 per cent people that get it."

Alice Cooper's Canadian Tour Dates:

September 18, Vancouver
September 19, Vancouver
September 20, Vernon
September 21, Kamloops
September 23, Prince George
September 24, Grande Prairie
September 26, Red Deer
September 27, Edmonton
September 28, Lethbridge
September 29, Calgary
October 1, Regina
October 2, Saskatoon
October 4, Thunder Bay
October 6, Hamilton
October 7, Barrie
October 11, Ottawa
October 15, Montreal

 Alice Cooper U.S. tour dates so far....

08.01.09ColumbusOHUSColumbus State Fair
08.02.09ToledoOHUSCentennial Terrace
08.04.09ClearfieldPAUSClearfield County Fair
08.06.09WausauWIUSWisconsin Valley Fair
08.07.09Kansas CityMOUSAmeristar Casino
08.08.09DavenportIAUSMississippi Valley Fairgrounds
08.09.09South BendINUSMorris Performing Arts Center
08.11.09JacksonMIUSJackson Co. Fairgrounds
08.13.09Sioux FallsSDUSSioux Empire Fairgrounds

 http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/showbiz/Samuel-L-Jackson-host-benefit/article-1026745-detail/article.html Samuel L Jackson to host benefit
Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 10:48Comment on this story

Samuel L Jackson is to host a star-studded charity benefit in London.
The Pulp Fiction star is teaming up with Rainbow Trust Children's Charity to host the Shooting Stars In Desert Nights benefit at London's Hurlingham Club on June 11 and is inviting celebrity friends including Luke Wilson, Alice Cooper, Don Johnson, JJ Field, Dennis Haybert, Damian Lewis and Rupert Grint.
Jackson has asked Michelin-starred chef Marcus Wareing to provide dinner at the event supported by Virgin Atlantic and Maybach.
The Snakes On A Plane star said: "This event gives me the opportunity to share the blessings that come with my success, with deserving individuals or groups. It is an honour to work with the event organisers, Soujar and Rainbow Trust, and know that our efforts will benefit our combined causes. My friends and I hope the trip will signify the desire and hope we have to create a better life for all, and the dream we have for a better world."
The benefit is set to become the charity fundraiser of the year with a star-studded ball preceded by a golf day at the London Golf Club.

Shock Rocker Alice Cooper Comes to Rock Band
By Joe Haygood | May 15, 2009


After providing a c0uple of tracks for the Guitar Hero franchise, iconic rocker Alice Cooper is finally coming to Rock Band next week with six of the band’s hit records.  Along with Alice Cooper, the hard rock group, Taking Back Sunday will round out the week’s offerings with a trio of songs.

Alice Cooper “Under My Wheels” (Live)
Alice Cooper “I’m Eighteen” (Live)
Alice Cooper “Billion Dollar Babies” (Live)
Alice Cooper “School’s Out” (Live)
Alice Cooper “Poison”
Alice Cooper “Vengeance is Mine”
Taking Back Sunday “What’s It Feel Like to Be a Ghost?”
Taking Back Sunday “Liar”
Taking Back Sunday “MakeDamnSure”

The Alice Cooper track back will be 800 Microsoft Loonies ($9.99 USD).  The Taking Back Sunday pack will set you back 440 Microsoft Loonies.  As with other track packs, you can buy songs from the packs individually for 160 Microsoft Loonies (1.99 USD).

While I am happy about getting some Alice Cooper in Rock Band, it kills me that the songs are live.  I bought the Def Leppard tracks for GH3, which were live, and they were terrible.  I am sure it has to do with the rights to the songs and so forth, but I have a fear that there will be freakish pitch changes or out of place guitar solos that you are unprepared for, because they were never in the original recordings.  That said, I am a sucker, and I will probably end up getting them.  Check the jump for the full presser.


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THE FATHER OF SHOCK ROCK ALICE COOPER MAKES HIS ROCK BAND® DEBUT; TAKING BACK SUNDAY ADDS THREE PACK TO THE ROCK BAND MUSIC STORE

Cambridge, Mass. - May 15, 2009 - Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that iconic metal genius Alice Cooper will make his Rock Band® debut next week adding a six pack of songs to the Rock Band® Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. Next week’s lineup also features a three pack of songs from hard rockers Taking Back Sunday.

Alice Cooper’s impressive résumé spans over 40 years of rock ‘n roll history with multiple platinum albums and chart topping hits as well as unforgettable theatrical stage performances. Blending heavy metal, vaudeville, horror movies and garage rock, Cooper is credited with inventing and popularizing “shock rock.” The father of shock rock brings six of his biggest hits to the Rock Band Music Store in the “Alice Cooper Pack 01″. Four tracks are from Cooper’s live album, Classicks from 1995: “Under My Wheels (live),” “I’m Eighteen (live),” “Billion Dollar Babies (live)” and “School’s Out (live).” The other two tracks are “Poison,” the lead single from 1989’s Trash and one of Cooper’s biggest hits, “Vengeance is Mine,” from his latest offering, Along Came a Spider (2008).

Long Island based hard rock outfit Taking Back Sunday will also make its Rock Band debut next week offering up three of the band’s most popular hits. Deemed a consistent power player in the alternative/emo rock scene, the “Taking Back Sunday Pack 01″ includes “What’s It Feel Like to Be a Ghost?,” “Liar” and “MakeDamnSure” from the group’s major label debut, Louder Now (2006). Taking Back Sunday makes its Rock Band debut ahead of the highly anticipated release of its newest album, New Again, due out June 2, 2009.

Tracks: Alice Cooper “Under My Wheels” (Live)
Alice Cooper “I’m Eighteen” (Live)
Alice Cooper “Billion Dollar Babies” (Live)
Alice Cooper “School’s Out” (Live)
Alice Cooper “Poison”
Alice Cooper “Vengeance is Mine”
Taking Back Sunday “What’s It Feel Like to Be a Ghost?”
Taking Back Sunday “Liar”
Taking Back Sunday “MakeDamnSure”
(All tracks are original master recordings)

Release Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 (Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360®)
Thursday, May 21, 2009 (PlayStation®Store)

** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change **

Price: $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track
$9.99 (800 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Alice Cooper Pack 01″
$5.49 (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Taking Back Sunday Pack 01″

Locations: Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360
PlayStation®Network

Music Videos: Click on the track below to view the song’s corresponding music video. Videos can be embedded on your site.
Taking Back Sunday “MakeDamnSure”

Website Links: For more information, please visit:
Rock Band Website
Alice Cooper Official Website
Taking Back Sunday Official Website

Rock Band 2 is available for Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3 system, PlayStation 2 system and Wii system.

There are now more than 670 tracks available to date via disc and download purchase (complete list of tracks at www.rockband.com/music). Rock Band continues to satisfy music fans’ and gamers’ voracious appetite for rock with more than 40 million paid downloads since its launch on November 20, 2007. The Rock Band Music Store allows players to preview and purchase downloadable individual music tracks and packs from the vast selection of offerings available to date without ever leaving the game as they build their own custom Rock Band library.

Rock Band and Rock Band 2are rated “T” for Teen (lyrics, suggestive themes) by the ESRB.

For more information on Rock Band2 and Harmonix Music Systems please visit www.rockband.com and www.harmonixmusic.comhttp://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20090424-ENTERTAIN-90424034

Local 'Alice Cooper Kid' will meet her idol Saturday
Dover 8-year-old is a hardcore fan of the shock rocker (but she also likes the Jonas Brothers)


By Gina Carbone
gcarbone@seacoastonline.com
April 24, 2009 2:28 PM
Alyssa Herries is an 8-year-old girl with three dreams:

1. To meet legendary shock rocker Alice Cooper.
2. To go to Alice Cooperstown, his restaurant in Phoenix.
3. To sit in the front row at an Alice Cooper concert.

(Notice the absence of a pony or trip to Disney World.)

Yes, it's safe to call this Dover second-grader an Alice Cooper fan.

Her No. 1 dream will come true Saturday night in Boston. If she gets her way, the other two will follow soon.

 

“When you go to an Alice show you see some hardcore and some casual fans,” said her father, Tony Herries. “She puts casual fans to shame.”

Alyssa sings every word to every song. She speaks in Alice Cooper lyrics. She has more than 40 Alice Cooper T-shirts, lunchboxes, candles, posters, cars, comic books and even jack-in-the-boxes. The family car’s license plate is “ALICE18.”

“There’s an Alice Cooper toilet seat she’s been dying for,” Tony said. “Let’s just say that 75 percent of her Barbies have a very ‘distinct’ look. The other 25 percent doesn’t want to play with them.”

 

Alyssa has saved $900 of her own money — through allowance and Christmas presents — in the hopes that Alice offers a “meet and greet” package on his next tour. When asked by her family if she wanted to go to Disney World she said she’d rather go to Alice Cooperstown.

She’s never asked to have her name changed to Alice but she did once ask to change it to Calico, the name of Alice’s daughter.

Her favorite songs are “Zombie Dance” and “Run Down the Devil.” She scoffs at anyone who says they love “School’s Out” since it’s so mainstream. When she grows up she wants to be in a tribute band, “Big Apple Dreamin.’”

She’s been to two Alice concerts — both last October, the second on her eighth birthday, which is also Halloween. At both concerts she dressed in full Alice Cooper regalia and was considered a celebrity. People kept wanting a photo with "The Alice Cooper Kid."

“She lives Alice Cooper from the moment she wakes up to the time she goes to bed,” Tony said.

Which begs the question: How did a sweet, somewhat shy, very polite 8-year-old girl who also likes the Jonas Brothers end up a rabid fan of a heavy metal god whose career peaked in the 1970s?

As you might imagine, Mom and Dad were an influence. Tony and his wife Kelly are big Alice Cooper fans. “I’m a fanatic,” Tony said. He has been listening to Alice records since junior high school in 1983.

As Alyssa remembers it, “We were going to a concert and (Dad) told me to give Alice Cooper a try. And I gave it a try and I kept liking him more and more.”

Tony said he and Kelly didn’t push her to be a fan and never expected her to take it so seriously.

“I really thought it was a cutesy thing at first, until I heard her playing the ‘Brutal Planet’ CD and singing along to every song.”

So what does she like about him?

“What’s not to like?” Alyssa said. “He’s fun, he’s horror, he’s theater.”

He’s also going to be in Boston on Sunday, April 26 as part of Right Turn’s second annual Rock & Roll Supergroup Benefit Concert. The concert will benefit Right Turn, a non-profit organization based in Arlington, Mass., which aims to provide innovative and creative treatment to those struggling with addiction.

Alyssa and her family connected with Right Turn and they are setting her up with an early meeting with Alice Cooper on Saturday night. She’s planning to wear her “Elected” outfit of a tuxedo and hat. Her plan is to tell Alice about her three dreams and hope that he can help out with the front row seats. Then she’ll be back the next day for the concert at the Berklee Performance Center.

The fact that 8-year-olds don’t normally listen to this kind of music is not lost on Tony — or Alyssa’s friends.

“My wife and I talk about it,” Tony said. “If we were in the ‘70s we’d be lynched. Nowadays he’s PG-13.”

Later in his career Alice Cooper became a born-again Christian and Tony said that change is reflected in his lyrics. His earlier songs, however, are very sexually suggestive. Tony said Alyssa is still at an age where they can spin that.

While his daughter takes photos with fellow fans at concerts and searches eBay for Alice memorabilia, Tony said they draw the line at chatting on fansites and other online interaction. “That’s one thing we’re very protective about.”

Alyssa only wears Alice T-shirts to Woodman Park Elementary School on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so her teachers can see that beyond being an Alice fan she’s just a regular girl.

“We’re doing something right because she’s one of the top kids in her class,” Tony said.

On the day of her interview, Alyssa arrived in a black Alice T-shirt covered by a pink hoodie. She does like the Jonas Brothers and said “I can tolerate Hannah Montana.” She doesn’t like “Twilight” but does like “American Idol” and is an Adam Lambert fan.

But her friends don’t understand her love for artists like Alice Cooper (and, to a lesser extent, KISS and Meatloaf).

“They make fun of me,” Alyssa said. “I tell them ‘I like what I like and you like what you like.’”

 

The Boston Herold April 21,09

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When Cooper kicked booze, his nightmare ended and his career took offHere’s how controversial shock rocker Alice Cooper used to start his day: Get up, throw up and grab a beer.

But there came a point in his early 30s when rock star Cooper - the guy behind ’70s hits “I’m Eighteen,” “Under My Wheels” and “School’s Out” - found blood in his vomit. Not good. He checked into a hospital.

That was the start of a new life. Cooper’s been sober for 28 years and was one of the first rock stars to go public with his substance abuse and recovery process.
So it’s fitting that his name is at the top of the bill for Sunday’s Berklee Performance Center benefit for the Arlington-based rehab-and-recovery organization, Right Turn.“I was one of those guys where it needs to be really bad,” Cooper said. “It needs to get to the point where I don’t have the choice. I’m either going to die or live. I know too many guys who would go (to rehab) and just be there to cool out, to take a vacation from their addiction. I went in with the attitude that I’m never going to drink again.”

Cooper left rehab knowing his job required time in clubs and around alcohol. After getting out, one of his first stops was a bar, where he ordered a Coke.

“To this day, 28 years later, I have never had a craving,” Cooper said. “People say there are no more miracles. But God just took it away from me. Even my doctors and psychiatrists said, ‘That is weird. You were a classic alcoholic.’

“I finished that long, long chapter in my life,” Cooper continued. “People say, ‘How long did you drink?’ and I say, ‘I really only had one drink. It lasted about 12 years.’. ”

Cooper said he worried at first that without booze, he would lose his creativity.

“When I quit drinking, I thought, ‘I’m never going to be able to go back onstage again because that’s part of Alice. Not only did I go back onstage, I created a new Alice that was better than the old Alice. I wrote many more songs, and I’m having a bigger career now.”

So can Cooper, 61, still sing “I’m Eighteen” like he means it?

“Oh absolutely,” said Cooper (real name: Vince Furnier). “I’m not singing ‘Eighteen.’ Alice is. I don’t have any idea how old Alice is. Batman never gets old. The superheroes and supervillains never get old. Alice is the same thing.”  www.whatsnewwithalicecooper.4t.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




 



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