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By Cathy Jardine 29.OCT.07

Heavy metal legend Alice Cooper came to Fantasy Springs Resort Casino Special Events Center for one night Friday to put together a massively rocking show.

Cooper performed a massive string of his hard rocking hits, which include “School's Out”, “No More Mister Nice Guy”, “Eighteen” and “Only Women Bleed”, all of which are songs that spawn out of four decades of his musical career.

"Alice Cooper" was originally a band name with frontman Vincent Furnier portraying the lead persona. The original band's name was the “Spiders” back in 1965, when the group began to play commercially. Early press releases claimed that the name was agreed upon after one of Cooper's Ouija Board sessions, and learning that he was a reincarnation of a 17th century witch of the same name. He began cross-dressing onstage and began sparking social controversy around 1969 when the band as “Alice Cooper” released their first album. In 1974 Furnier legally changed his name to Alice Cooper and launched his solo career.

Cooper is known for his social and witty persona offstage, The Rolling Stone Album Guide going so far as to refer to him as the world's most "beloved" heavy metal entertainer. He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal music. Besides being a singer, Cooper is also well known as an avid golfer and a radio DJ.

The famous "Chicken Incident", which took place at the Toronto concert in September 1969, was an accident. A chicken somehow made its way on stage during Alice Cooper's performance, and not having any experience around livestock, Cooper thought, "Chickens have wings, so they must be able to fly," so he picked it up and threw it out over the crowd, with the intention of having the chicken fly away. But, chickens cannot fly particularly well, and the bird plummeted into the crowd and was reportedly ripped to shreds by the rowdy audience. This incident sparked Cooper's popularity in several ways.

But there were no live chickens being torn apart at this show. Just fans who enjoyed the show and had a great time during this Halloween season.
 

Linda Stocking of Blythe enjoyed the show, saying, “I loved the show. I've been a fan, since I was 12 years old. My favorite song of his was ‘Billion Dollar Babies'.”

Monique Claptan, from Highland stated, “This was awesome, just perfect. ‘Poison' was

Alice's best song. I was sixteen when I first started listening to him. Alice is the bomb!”

Tim Jill, from Canada, last saw Cooper in 1976. He stated, “Alice Rules!”

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Cooper plays Halloween
Larry Rodgers
The Arizona Republic
Oct. 26, 2007 06:13 PM
 Alice Cooper through the years | Arizona State Fair guide

No rock star of any age is more qualified to talk about all things Halloween than the Valley's own Alice Cooper.

The singer, who will perform on Halloween at the Arizona State Fair, pioneered the use of costumes, makeup and props like guillotines and live snakes in rock shows. 
  
 

He's penned such chilling tunes as Welcome to My Nightmare, The Black Widow, Sick Things and Desperado, and there's a Halloween mask of his mascara-laden likeness sold nationally.

Even shock-rocker Marilyn Manson is intimidated by Cooper. He recently said that meeting Cooper was "like meeting Santa Claus when you're 5."

We caught up with Cooper, 59, on the phone as he prepared for his favorite holiday.

QUESTION: Is it a kick to be playing your hometown on Halloween?

ANSWER: It was great that it worked out. One year it's New York City, one year it's Detroit, one year it's Boston. It's always a big city. I always said, "Why don't we ever play Phoenix on Halloween? It would be nice to be home so I could take the kid trick-or-treating."

Q: What's so special about performing on Halloween?

A: Our show is always Halloween, but that's the one night when the audience is weirder than we are. I never know what my band is going to be (dressed as). This year, I think they are all coming as different periods of Alice Cooper. So they have 30 albums to go through to picture which one they're going to be.

Q: What were a few of your favorite costumes as a kid?

A: I was always one thing - Zorro. I related to Zorro: all black, a little mustache, a mask, a sword, kind of romantic, kind of dangerous. And there's a little bit of Zorro in Alice Cooper if you look onstage. I actually use one of the swords that belonged to Errol Flynn. Even though he never played Zorro, it was the same era.

Q: So you avoided ghoulish costumes?A: It was funny that it was never scary. You would think that Alice Cooper would have been the scary guy, but I was always more the classic character.

Q: What are the key ingredients for a good costume?

A: You have to make one. I don't think you go and buy a costume. You have to be more original than that. My parents never bought costumes for us. It doesn't have to be a scary thing to be original. You could tie an eggbeater to your head and go as a motorboat.

Q: What about makeup?

A: Now, you go to these Halloween stores, and we never had makeup kits that are almost like Hollywood makeup kits. Kids can really do it up.

Q: Any costume ideas for trick-or-treaters this year?

A: If I were a girl, I would definitely go as one of the divas. I'd go as Lindsay Lohan, but I'd be in jail, have a ball and chain. Britney (Spears) would be great this year. You could shave your head, put a T-shirt on, have a big umbrella and beat cars.

Q: Does it startle you to bump into people on Halloween dressed up like you?

A: No, that's always a compliment. My ego was stroked when I went into a Halloween store and right next to Wolfman and Frankenstein was an Alice Cooper mask, with the correct makeup, broken nose and the whole thing. I went, "Wow, that's it. I'm actually a Halloween character now."

Q: What's the best Alice Cooper album to blast out the front window to scare trick-or-treaters?

A: Welcome to My Nightmare. I'm thinking about doing a compilation of "Alice's Scariest Hits: The Halloween Mix." I could put about 20 songs on a CD that would be truly frightening - songs from different eras like Former Lee Warmer, Sick Things, Dangerous Tonight that were little gems that were not radio hits but really scary songs. There was a trilogy called Chop, Chop, Chop; Gail; and Roses on White Lace that was a scary little trilogy.

Q: What's a good fright flick to put on after all the trick-or-treaters are done for the night?

A: You can't go wrong with original Halloween - John Carpenter's movie with Jamie Lee Curtis. That's truly a scary movie. If you really want to get scared-scared, go with something like Dario Argento's Suspiria or Demons, also by Dario Argento. Also, The Exorcist. It was really frightening because it was based in reality. Demon possession is a thing that has been documented.

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is it my body

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Good Love

Baby I miss You

I'm 18

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October 27 Ventura Ca. Venture theatre

October 30th Albuqueque,New Mexico Kiva Auditorium

From The Reading Eagle:

CONCERT REVIEW: Icons host a headbangers ball
Ear-piercing rock permeates the Sovereign Center courtesy of metal veterans Heaven and Hell, Queensrÿche and Alice Cooper.
By Jon Fassnacht
Reading Eagle

Reading, PA -  The price of heavy metals may be soaring, but the audience at the Sovereign Center Tuesday night got a three-for-one bargain.

The early ’80s lineup of metal icons Black Sabbath, under the billing Heaven and Hell, was joined by veterans Queensrÿche and Alice Cooper for an evening of ear-pier cing rock (including two drum solos) spread across 41/2 hours.

Heaven and Hell featured Black Sabbath founding members Tommy Iommi on guitar and Geezer Butler on bass; singer Ronnie James Dio, who replaced Ozzy Osbourne in 1979; and drummer Vinny Appice, who joined the band shortly after Dio.

The band’s new name is taken from the title track of the band’s first Dio-led album, a song which took up the last 15 minutes of the group’s main set in a version featuring a mammoth guitar solo from Iommi. The pseudonym likely is being used to appease Osbourne.

Queensrÿche and Cooper didn’t have too much time on stage, given their opening-act status. But both artists had headlining shows at the Sovereign Performing Arts Center in the last two years, so the show was more of an encore for them.

Queensrÿche’s set lasted less than an hour and consisted mainly of album cuts, which satisfied the numerous die-hard fans in the crowd. Although the group may be seen as one-hit wonders by radio listeners, who probably know the band only through its early-’90s smash “Silent Lucidity,” the Seattle quintet continues to succeed under the radar thanks to its extremely devoted fan base.

Cooper’s 70-minute set was a truncated version of the show he brought to Berks in 2006, complete with hits (“No More Mr. Nice Guy,” “School’s Out,” “I’m Eighteen”), costumes and a mess of theatrics. One major difference was the method in which Cooper was killed at the end of a lengthy, multisong skit — this time he was hanged instead of beheaded.

Closing the evening was Heaven and Hell, whose concessions to its original lead singer extended beyond its new name, as none of Sabbath’s songs with Osbourne was played.

So instead of tunes about war pigs, iron men and paranoia, the few thousand in attendance were regaled with songs about computer gods, children of the sea and voodoo. And the fantastical subject matter of the lyrics was carried through to the stage, which resembled a fortress, with iron gates guarding the walls of amplifiers.

Dio may not have the prestige of Osbourne, but he truly is one of a kind. Standing about 5 feet tall with a receding mane of bushy hair, Dio is a high-pitched wailer extraordinaire. However, with Iommi and Butler’s amps turned to 11, Dio’s vocals sometimes got lost in the cacophony.

But it wouldn’t be a real rock show if you left with your hearing fully intact.

Alice Cooper Weighs in on the Women of 'Rock of Love'

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September 12, 2007

Bret Michaels, star of VH1's Rock of Love, has been in the music business for a long time. His band Poison's debut album came out in August of 1986. While kids born that month might just now be of legal drinking age, twenty-one human years is more than a lifetime in rock years.

Nevertheless, he's still just a young whippersnapper when compared to a real granddaddy of the rock world, Alice Cooper. Michaels recently paid tribute to the rock veteran, covering “I Never Cry” on Poison's latest album, Poison'd, released this past June.

But it would appear there's more than professional respect between the two. Cooper was recently spotted at New York's Fashion Week, and he not only confessed he's been watching Rock of Love, he's actually been giving Bret Michaels some advice.

Cooper was in New York to watch the John Varatos fashion show. Varatos recently featured Cooper in a campaign for his fall line. Cooper followed in the fashion footsteps of fellow Detroit rock veteran Iggy Pop.

But it's not sartorial advice that he's been doling out to Bret (although maybe someone should talk to Bret about those bandanas). Cooper, apparently, has some pretty strong feelings about the women of Rock of Love. He recently spoke to New York magazine about the show. He said, “Oh God, I call Bret up all the time and say, 'Throw them all out! They're all idiots!'"

Unfortunately, that's not quite how the reality dating show works usually. Someone has to win the show eventually. Bret might, like many a televised bachelor before him, choose to end the relationship shortly after the show wraps, but it's unlikely all the remaining girls will be unceremoniously thrown out despite Cooper's advice.

There was another Rock of Love connection to New York's Fashion Week: New York magazine also spotted Brandi M. They reported she was “looking punkish and put-together, graciously accepting praise from a handful of male admirers.”

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Hard Rockers take over broome county Vetrans Arena

By Sarah D'Esti Miller
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Wednesday night was five hours of rock and roll the likes of which this area hasn't seen in a while, as the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena hosted a triple bill of Queensryche, Alice Cooper and Heaven and Hell (essentially Black Sabbath -- more on that later).

The Arena was not sold out but it would be hard to top the enthusiasm and fervor of the fans many of whom who turned out with their tattoos, piercings black 'rock dot' (ie. the heavy metal umlaut) concert t-shirts and mullets. It was like spending a few hours in Wayne's World.
The crowd warmed up with Queensryche who started the night at 6:30. Lead singer Geoff Tate made easy work of such numbers as "Empire" and "Eyes of a Stranger."

Tate, the youngster among the vocalists at age 48, isn't showing any signs of slowing down.

Alice Cooper knows how to put on a show, and kind of a freaky one at that. Cooper is theatrical in the extreme, using props such as riding crops, rapiers, crutches, straight jackets -- and the list goes on. He also gets in some quality time with his daughter Calico, who dances and performs other on-stage duties.

At one point a scaffold is brought out and Cooper is 'hanged' in front of the audience. At another time a bloodied woman lies across his lap and he repeatedly yanks her by the hair for "Only Women Bleed." Clearly not for the squeamish or the easily offended.

Cooper and his excellent band performed his way through "Feed My Frankenstein," "School's Out," "No More Mr. Nice Guy," "I'm Eighteen," and more, giving encores with "Poison" and "Elected" in which he proposes his candidacy on the 'wild party' ticket. The beauty of America is, if enough people voted for him he really could sit in the oval office, eyeliner and all. Cooper is 59.

Heaven and Hell, with Ronnie James Dio, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist 'Geezer' Butler and drummer Vinny Appice, closed the evening.

Heaven and Hell performed against a stony romanesque church set, complete with sconces, big wooden dungeon doors with iron fittings and a spiked iron fence. They had all the lighting and special effects Cooper did and went it one better with video projections.

Dio, who grew up in Cortland, graciously gave a nod to his affection for this area as he sang "Mob Rules" and "Children of the Sea" and held his own against the ponderously heavy, steady bass lines that make the lid on your drink vibrate. Dio, the elder statesman of the singers at age 65, sounded fantastic, performing like someone half his age -- or younger.

Roane County: Fan gets autograph 32 years later
By TERRI LIKENS/Roane Newspapers

 
Alice Cooper is known for his particular brand of "shock rock," but Bret Chapman got a taste of the veteran musician's gentler side this week.

After sitting through an ear-splitting concert at the Tennessee Theater, Chapman got to go backstage and meet Cooper.

His backstage ticket was a sweater that Cooper had lost at a Knoxville concert on May 21, 1975.

How does Chapman remember? The longtime fan still has his ticket from the show. 

Chapman was only 16 then. But because of his tall height, and because security guards were fearful that the stage would be rushed, he was asked to step behind the barricade that held back the audience and help keep people back.

While performing his hit-song "I'm Eighteen" at that concert, Cooper held out a varsity-letter-style sweater with the number 18 on it, but as fans grabbed, the sweater fell between the stage and the barricade.

Chapman picked it up. After the concert, he asked security if he could go backstage for an autograph.

"I got the bum's rush, and off I went," he said.

This summer, Cooper found out about the sweater, one of many apparently made up for concerts at the time, when Chapman answered a trivia question on Cooper's Web site through a Knoxville classic rock station.

He mentioned the sweater story, and received an e-mail back from Cooper himself.

Cooper thought it might be a particular sweater he is looking for and offered Chapman this trade: Two concert tickets and two backstage passes.

"And you'll get that autograph you wanted," Cooper told him.

It was a deal.

It turns out that the sweater wasn't the one Cooper was looking for, so he let Chapman keep it.

But despite the mock hanging and other acts of violence in his act, Cooper was a gracious backstage host.

"He's like the most congenial person you'd ever meet," Chapman said.

Cooper and his show don't seem to have lost any of the energy that made them famous.

The audience, including Chapman, has grayed over the years, but the Kingston resident was pleased to see young people there, too.

"The show's the same; his persona, his stage presence, is just the same," Chapman said. "It was absolutely great."

Sault Ste. Marie Michigan show Review

Alice cooper is Still a Billion Dollar Baby

Karen Johns for SooNews.ca
Sunday, August 19, 2007, 9:35AM

By the time Alice Cooper's third album, Love it To Death was released in 1971, he had a reputation for being outrageous, shocking and irreverent.

Twenty -two albums and 36 years later , not much has changed.
Playing to a standing room only crowd at Kewadin Casinos in Sault Ste. Marie Michigan Saturday night, Alice brought the crowd to their feet with the opening number, "It's Hot Tonight" and they stayed there!

Backed by Keri Kelli and Jason Hook on guitar, Chuck Garric on bass, and Eric singer on drums, Cooper gave the all-age crowd their money's worth and then some.

Going through a repetoire of hits, ranging from "Be My Lover" from his Killer album up to and including "A Woman of Mass Distraction" from his latest album Dirty Diamonds, Alice showed his adoring fans that he still has what it takes to put on an exciting show.
 
Always one for theatrics, Alice used bloody baby dolls, a straight jacket, a sword, a crutch and his trusty hanging gallows throughout the show, and included his daughter Calico as the battered wife in "Only Women Bleed", a demented nurse in the "Ballad of Dwight Frye" and as a Oriental dancer in the song "Halo of Flies"

One of the many highlights of the night was a raucaus drum solo, at one point using Hook and Kelli as second and third drummers in a fast as lightning barrage of percussion.

Something that people often overlook in Cooper's music is is finely tuned sense of humor and clever use of words.
Bob Dylan, as far back as 1978 once delared "I think Alice Cooper is an over-looked songwriter".

Although people were once appalled at Alice's lyrics and stage antics , closer inspection will show just what a fine sense of humor he has. Lyrics such as "I've got a muscle of love" were once thought to be obscene until you get to the end of the song and realize he's talking about his heart.

The examples are endless and if his lyrics offend, it wasn't evident tonight as shown by the heavy numbers of the grey-haired set.

Kids, adults, and grandparents were delighted by his fast paced show which lasted two hours and left the crowd yelling for more.
He may be approaching his 60th birthday, but in the eyes of his fans, Alice Cooper is still a billion dollar baby!

Complete Set List

It's Hot Tonight
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Under my Wheels
Eighteen
Is it My Body
A Woman of Mass Distraction
Lost In America
Feed My Frankenstein
Be My Lover
Raped and Freezing
Public Animal #9
Muscle of Love
Desperado
Halo of Flies
Welcome to my Nighmare
Cold Ethel
Only women Bleed
Dead babies
Ballad of Dwight Frye
I Love the Dead
School's Out
Billion dollar Babies
Poison
Elected

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"Prince of Darkness" sets up Christian center
Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:05AM EDT
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PHOENIX, Aug 17 (Reuters Life!) - Shock-rocker Alice Cooper has a surprise for those who only see him as the man in haunting black makeup with a stage show featuring mock hangings, real snakes and plenty of fake blood.

The self-styled "Prince of Darkness" is throwing his energy into building a Christian teen center in Phoenix for at-risk youths from the area, hoping to break ground by November.

He wants the $7.3 million center to transform a grassy expanse at the city's Grand Canyon University into a place where youngsters can escape the streets and perhaps even become interested in a music career.

"If you get a kid that's just as addicted to that guitar as he would be addicted to selling crack, it will change his life right then and there. I'm sure of that," Cooper, 59, told Reuters in an interview.

"Some of these kids just don't have a chance. All their environment does for them is teach them how to dodge bullets and be really good criminals."

The rocker, who is known for songs like "School's Out" and "Welcome to my Nightmare," became a born-again Christian more than two decades ago after overcoming a drink problem.

Cooper has helped raise about $2 million to get the project off the ground through the non-profit Solid Rock Foundation which he founded in 1995 with youth pastor Chuck Savale.

Land for the 29,000-square-foot teen center, to be called "The Rock," has been donated by Grand Canyon University, which is a Christian-based school.

The center will include a recording studio and sound room, a concert hall, and a coffee house with a stage for performers. Activities will be underscored by a Christian message.

"We're a Christian organization and that's our thrust," said Cooper.

Religion came early to Cooper who was born Vincent Damon Furnier, the son of a car salesman turned pastor, but it didn't stick around as he became a rocker.

"But it got to the point where I was drinking so much that I was throwing up blood in the morning," he said. "Guys in my business -- like Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison -- usually lasted until the age of 27. I watched them drink themselves to death. And I was pretty much on my way there."

He decided to get sober, focused, and a decade later, he became a born-again Christian and took up golf.

These days Cooper still tours with his band for five months a year but admits the rock and roll show is more vaudeville for all ages with healthy dose of comedy.

He also has a weekly radio show syndicated on 110 stations worldwide, and owns a restaurant, Coooper'stown, in Phoenix.

There is no talk of retirement. Besides, the veteran rocker is quick to point out that he hasn't even done his first farewell tour. He said he will know when it is time to go.

"When it's done, it's done and I will not regret it," Cooper said. "I don't live in the past. I don't live in the what happened before. I live in the what's next."

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At 59, Cooper proves he can still rock
By MEGHAN MALLOY
SPECIAL TO THE REGISTER

August 11, 2007
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Talk about the difference between night and day.

In a Tuesday interview with The Des Moines Register, rock legend and innovator Alice Cooper proudly talked about his solid marriage of 31 years, his daily obsession with playing golf and raising three children at his rock shows, even admitting he's been known to frequent parent-teacher association meetings for his kids.

Friday night, however, Cooper unleashed his on-stage persona in a fast-paced, high-energy show for about 6,000 at the Iowa State Fair Grandstand.

Cooper, 59, wasted no time welcoming the audience into his nightmare.

Although his show is less gory than the 1970s and '80s (past concerts have featured barnyard animals being torn to shreds by the audience), Cooper's stage presence was nothing less than masterful, proving once again the shock rocker is still on top of the rock music game in his fourth decade in the industry.

The stage was Cooper's platform for a real rock 'n' roll show, which featured elaborate costumes, riding crop whips, and props such as dummies made to look like corpses. With hits such as "No More Mr. Nice Guy" and "I'm 18," fans, many of them reliving their glory days from the 1970s, were literally screaming until they were hoarse and jumping wildly.

For Cooper, however, this reaction would be nothing extraordinary.

"You'd think Alice Cooper would've mellowed out," he joked in a previous interview. "The Midwest is the best rock audience in the world ... they'll react."

Moving deftly around the stage - a feat Cooper said is possible due to his decision to conquer alcoholism decades ago - he and his band rocked hard while they did it - including one poor dummy Cooper threw around.

The fair was Cooper's first stop on the U.S. leg of his global tour. Cooper and his band performed previously in South America, Europe and Australia. They will continue across America and back to Europe until the end of the year, Cooper told the Register on Tuesday.

Another Cooper-era favorite, Blue Oyster Cult, opened for Cooper. Most popular for its hit "Don't Fear the Reaper" (later parodied on "Saturday Night Live," where Christopher Walken hilariously demands more cowbell from Will Ferrell), this group played a 45-minute set that was more mellow than rock 'n' roll.

The highlight of its show was a several-minute drum solo by Jules Radino, who is unable to see out of one eye. He was flanked by gifted bassist Richie Castellano, who has played with the likes of Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot.

Blue Oyster Cult wasn't bad. But the band seemed to lack the same wallop Cooper and his motley crew of miscreants packed into their show.

But don't worry. There was plenty of cowbell.

Arizona Republic
Fundraising for the Rock ready to roll
Aug. 4, 2007 12:00 AM

Local teens may have a new hangout - and their parents a respite from their blaring music - as early as next year if Solid Rock's new teen center remains on track.

Solid Rock, a non-profit corporation founded by Alice Cooper and Chuck Savale, is in the midst of planning and fundraising for the Rock, a multi-use teen facility with a strong emphasis on music.

"There's a lot of boys and girls clubs that do a fabulous job, but they really cater to the kids," said Jeff Moore, director of business development. "No one was really reaching out to teens.The Rock is slated to be a $7.3 million, 29,000-square-foot facility on Grand Canyon University's campus. The university donated the land via a land lease to Solid Rock to build the center.

It will include a recording studio and sound room, concert hall, computer lab, game room, open mike stage and coffeehouse. While it will also include sports venues such as basketball and roller-hockey courts and a climbing wall, Moore said the musical foundation was unique. "There's only about 40 percent of the teens that play sports, then you miss 60 percent of the people," Moore said. "One hundred percent of the people like music. You can be a jock and still like music."

Solid Rock began in 1995, with the initial goal of building a teen center.

While Tempe, Glendale and Phoenix all expressed interest in housing the facility, residents of the areas nixed the idea with the usual "not in my backyard" sentiments.

This time around, as an established foundation that has hosted events like the Alice Cooper Celebrity AM Golf Tournament, the group is having better luck.