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I have rare Alice cooper items listed on Ebay here:http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZpsychopat1
Great Alice Cooper article+photo at Times online (see below)
Desert Living Magazine has pics from the Century Plaza Grand opening including a pic with Alice
Alice Cooper will be on "No Reservations" with Anthony Bourdain August 4th on the travel Channel.Check your local listings for time slot.
Alice to be in Motorhead Documentary entitled "Lemmy" coming out in 2009
Alice Cooper web trailer for the New album "Along Came a spider" can be viewed here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb2yhHmZPjQ. The song Vengeance is mine can be heard on Alice Cooper.com. The new album will be available in the states on July 29th
Alice U.S. Dates are now up! see below
MBG Live at the American Legion Post 1 In Phoenix Az. Aug. 22,08
Alice Cooper's Christmas Pudding Saturday December 13th,Tickets go onsale late October,Early November.Guests will be announced at a later time

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4352240.ece
Along came Alice Cooper
He’s a born-again Christian, a fanatical golfer and the founding father of shock rock. But who is the man beneath the make-up
Dan Cairns
Watch the Along Came a Spider trailer
Alice Cooper has two laughs. One of them is a mirthless husk, and punctuates his conversation when he is sounding every one of his 60 years, embarking on a protracted “It wasn’t like that in my day” moan. The other, though, is fascinating: an impish, delighted little squeak, it acts as a sort of descant to those moments in Cooper’s anecdotage where he recalls the outrageous antics he got up to back in the days of his 1970s chart-topping pomp and majesty.
Good Alice, God-fearing, good-enough-to-turn-pro golfing Alice, can bang on like the worst type of clubhouse bore. This version rises at dawn to tee off, all fore-play and no fun. He is less an entertainer than a brand, with his own radio show, restaurant and bestselling golf book, and a new studio album, his 25th, about to hit the shops. He talks moderately but monotonously about the present, the future, but above all, and at length, the past and politics.
He hates music and politics mixing, and has been badly burnt by this in the past, not least when he called musicians campaigning for John Kerry in 2004 “treasonous morons”. “You definitely get blackballed in this business,” he reflects now. “Basically, the press is liberal, and you’re supposed to adhere to that. I felt a real pressure. It was the same when I said, ‘I’m Christian now.’ Wow, what a reaction. But if you’re in this business and you’re honest, you’ll pay for it.
A lot of my opinions about the Bush administration are like, ‘What? Are you crazy?’ I’m moderate, and I’m not political. And the most rebellious thing I ever did was to become a Christian.” He laughs drily, but he sounds far from sanguine.
“I never understood rock’n’roll’s connection with politics,” he chides. “And I’ve got to be honest with you, rock’n’rollers can take themselves so damn seriously — all that ‘What I wrote will change the world’. We can’t keep giving them this credibility, as if they know more than anybody else. We don’t. That’s why we’re rock’n’rollers. The guy picking up the garbage” — at this point, Cooper gestures distractedly at a dustcart passing by the London hotel room where we meet — “knows as much about politics as I do. But there is this mystique that if you’re an entertainer, you know more. And I think there’s an abuse of it. If a famous star decides that he’s going to back a certain politician, all of a sudden the people that really don’t know anything about politics [hang on, is this including the garbage man, or excluding him?], but really like his movies, they go, ‘Well, I’ll vote for him because the star knows about these things.’ He doesn’t.”
Bad Alice, on the other hand, is a lot of fun. You could shoot the breeze with this guy all day. This version once painted Tinseltown red, dating Raquel Welch, drowning in alcohol, numbed by narcotics, beyond help in the way that anyone with several multi-platinum albums and a tongue-tied staff on their payroll is beyond help. He talks indiscreetly, self-deprecatingly and with a bracing disregard for modern niceties. One particular story, concerning a concert in Toronto in 1969, has set itself as a seal on his reputation. The happily scandalised press reported at the time that Cooper had thrown a chicken from the stage, having first — as you do — bitten off its head and drunk its blood. Later accounts scaled this back to the singer hurling the unfortunate bird into the air, assuming it would fly; landing instead amid a group of disabled people, the animal was promptly torn to pieces. Was the latter true? “Absolutely,” Cooper cackles with undisguised glee. “That was the punch line. Not that I had killed the chicken, which of course I hadn’t, but that the handicapped, the people who caught it, turned it into one of them. I mean, how scary is that?”
Somewhere in the middle of these two versions is, you feel, where Cooper now spends most of his time. He may long ago have learnt to ride the two horses in his life — Alice Cooper, the still-touring provocateur and vaudevillian; Vincent Furnier, the sober, Detroit-born son of a pastor — at the same time, but the duality cost him dear before he mastered it. In grumpy-old-man mode, he still gives off tiny sparks of mischief and malice, as if unwilling to wholly surrender to the life he has now built for himself. Conversely, when he careers off down the darker sections of memory lane, you sense in him a relief, a disbelief even, that he lived to tell the tale.
And, every now and then, you catch a glimpse of the person who was self-confident — and possibly barking — enough to have taken a stage show on tour that included boa constrictors, guillotines and hangman’s nooses, and who insisted it was still rock’n’roll. In seeing that, you comprehend that no amount of Bible classes (which he attends weekly), or rounds of golf, or opening restaurants, will ever quite vanquish the zany, experimental alchemist still battling for control of Cooper’s mind. Here, for instance, is the singer on his new album, Along Came a Spider, and the multiple murderer who is its central character: “I’m thinking, ‘Okay, here’s a guy, he’s a genius serial killer, and he patterns himself after his favourite predator, the spider.’ You trap, you kill, you eat. You know?” No, but do go on. “Now you’ve got that premise, then you go, ‘Why? Why is that?’ ” Cooper suddenly leans in closer. “What would he do? What would he take from the spider? Well, he would kidnap the girl, kill her and wrap her in silk. That’s what a spider would do. Only he would be a little more artistic than that. He would think, ‘What colour are her eyes? Blue. Okay, blue silk.’ You know, with a little bow on top? And then you realise: eight legs, eight victims.”
Musically, the album is a rehash of Cooper’s greatest moments — and frankly all the better for that. Who wants a wild artistic curveball, after all, when you can have the crunching chords, Slash guitar solos, glammed-up rock and hair metal of tracks such as Killed by Love, Vengeance Is Mine and I’m Hungry? As ever, Cooper will tour the album, a live performer who refuses to bow out. “When I was at journalism school,” he says at one point, “my term paper was on the London Times v the National Enquirer. So it was either ‘Tax cuts inevitable’ or ‘Boy born with dog’s head’. What am I going to read? I’m going right there to the sensationalism. And if rock’n roll isn’t sensationalism, what is?
If I’m ever considered this prophet of importance, I go, ‘Guys, that’s not what I do.’ You know, School’s Out, I’m Eighteen, No More Mr Nice Guy, they’re fun. And the important thing about my shows, always, is that they’re fun. The audience walk out of there, they’ve got stage blood all over them, they’ve got confetti stuck to the stage blood, you know? They go, ‘That was the best party I’ve ever been to.’ ”
Cooper has been married for the past 32 years to Sheryl Goddard, whom he met when she joined his touring troupe. “I was going out with a battleship,” he says. “Raquel Welch was a battleship. And she was a great girl. Sheryl weighed 90 pounds and had no idea who I was. She was a ballerina, classically trained; she was a Baptist. But there was a quality in her, maybe that she would watch Godzilla movies with me till three in the morning. I’ve never cheated on her; I’ve got three kids who have never been in trouble. They’ll go to see Marilyn Manson, but they’ll come to church with me the next day. If some guy comes up to me and goes ‘Thirty-two years, eh? I’m on my fourth marriage’, I go, ‘Yeah, but you married four strippers.’ ” He squeaks louder than ever at this, and his long and surely dyed black hair shakes in time. He may not like to be called a prophet — he calls his creation a “cabaret-vaudeville-comedy-horror thing” — but Cooper, the original shock rocker, was just that. After him came a deluge that carried David Bowie, the Sex Pistols, Guns N’ Roses et al into the charts. Deep down, you suspect he knows this. Good Alice is probably slightly appalled by the thought. And Bad Alice? Oh, he feels just fine.

Alice cooper U.S. tour schedule 2008

July 31 Redmond, Oregon Deschutes County Fair
August 1 Kalispell, Montana Raceway Park
August 2 Great Falls, Montana State Fair
August 3 Sturgis, S Dakota Buffalo Chip
August 5 Bismarck, N Dakota Civic Center Arena
August 7 The Pageant St. Louis, MO
August 8 The Riverside Milwaukee, WI
August 9 Sparta, Wisconsin Fort McCoy Army Base
August 10 Sioux City, Iowa Orpheum Theatre
August 12 Casper, Wyoming Events Center
August 13 Idaho Falls, ID Sandy Downs
August 15 Imperial, Nebraska Chase County Fair
August 16 Council Bluffs, Iowa Harrah's Stir Cover
August 17 Tower, Minnesota Fortune Bay Resort Casino
August 19 Hammond, Indiana The Venue @ Horseshoe Casino
August 21 Bloomington, Illinois The Theatre @ US Cellular Coliseum
August 22 White River State Park Indianapolis, IN
August 23 Florence, Indiana Belterra Resort & Casino
August 24 Columbus, Ohio LC Pavilion
August 27 Detroit, Michigan State Fair
August 28 Oshkosh, Wisconsin Waterfest Concert Series
August 29 Waukegan, IL Genesee Theater
August 31 Houston, Texas The Bayou grounds
Sept 5, 6, 7 Las Vegas, Nevada Orleans Hotel & Casino
Sep12 Hutchingson KS State fair
Oct 26 Proctor's Theater Schenectady New York
Oct 30 TBA Inglewood New Jersey
Oct 31 MGM Grand @ Foxwoods Mashantucket Connecticut

Michael Bruce live in scottsdale at Club Mardi Gras 6/28/08 setlist:
under my wheels
is it my body
be my lover
the rock rolls on
left for dead meat
no more mr. nice guy
muscle of love
halo of flies
good luv
second coming
desperado
billion dollar babies
miss you
I'm 18

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/aznightbuzz/243116
First stop: Alice Cooper'stown.
It takes about 90 minutes to get to downtown Phoenix from Tucson if you don't hit any traffic on Interstate 10.
You'll find Alice Cooper'stown in the shadow of Chase Field, in a warehouse-looking building that looks a bit out of place among all the shimmering glassiness of downtown.
On days when the Suns and Diamondbacks are off, the ample courtyard with its wall-size TV screen and dozen or so tables is as lifeless as the neighborhood's empty overflow parking lots.
Although Cooper makes rare appearances — he was there May 29 shooting a segment of the Travel Channel's "No Reservations" with celeb chef Anthony Bourdain — his life-size plywood image is always there to greet you once you've passed beneath a sign that taunts "Welcome to my nightmare restaurant."
Cooper, who grew up in the Valley, is part owner of the restaurant. Arizona concert promoting wizard Danny Zelisko also has an interest, which grants him, among other privileges, space to display some of his considerable memorabilia collection.
Near the exit facing First Avenue, for example, Zelisko has mounted his Metallica commemorative multiplatinum record. It recognizes him for helping the band sell more than 12 million copies of "Metallica," making it one of the biggest-selling albums of the 1990s.
Tables are covered with images of Cooper, and the walls are papered with his various industry accolades — from gold and platinum record certificates to pictures of Cooper posing with sports and Hollywood celebrities, including a young Jay Leno.
You don't go here for the food, necessarily, although the barbecue sliders in a $13 sample appetizer platter are three-bite morsels of smoky, meaty goodness. They also paired nicely with the accompanied potato skins slicked with melted Cheddar and dotted with chewy bacon chunks.
You do go here to see who's been here, and hope that someone famous — mostly Suns or D'Backs players — will pop in for a post-game brew among the generous selection of domestics on tap.
Give yourself some time to browse the walls, which are filled with everything from framed, signed guitars from Sting, Jeff Beck and Paul McCartney to Creedence Clearwater Revival's double-platinum award for the 1969 album "Willy and the Poor Boys."
Keri Kelli (Alice Cooper's current guitarist )was on KdKb Arizona's morning show with J.R.+Mary.Keri Mentioned that the new Alice Cooper album,Along came a spider is being remastered today june 5th,08 and a full tour is instore leading all the way up to the first week in December.Along came a Spider has a U.S release date for July 29th
Alice cooper has a car on Ebay signed by Michael Anthony
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http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=110634
Alice Cooper Hosts Two 'Very Bad Movies'
By JOHN SCHUSTER

Alice Cooper

On Saturdays, May 10 and 17, KTTU Channel 18 will give viewers an opportunity to take a trip back to the cheesy days of the hosted late-night horror movie as Alice Cooper brings his noteworthy talents to The Very Bad Movie in an unholy marriage that progressed through the help of a proactive fan of KTTU's Saturday-night show.
"We got a call from a viewer who said, 'Hey, you know who would make a great host for The Very Bad Movie?' And I said, 'OK, who?'" recalled Brian Baltosiewich, who acts as creative services director for Belo-owned KTTU and KMSB Channel 11. "He said Alice Cooper, and I said, 'You're right; he would be great for something like this.' So he asked if we'd like to get in touch with Cooper. He had access to Alice's management team through a nonprofit Alice works with in Phoenix. A couple hours later, my phone rings, and it's one of Alice's agents, and he's asking, 'Who are you?'"
The timing couldn't have been better. Cooper, the rock legend who set the standard for on-stage shock-rock performances nearly 40 years ago, had talked with his management team about his enjoyment of horror-host TV, and how cool it would be to participate in something of that ilk.
"It's structured a lot like (the usual) Very Bad Movie," Baltosiewich said. "There's an open; Alice talks about the movie; then Alice shows up, and we go to break. We've got The Very Bad Movie intentionally low-budget. There's no real set. We roll out a monitor and shoot it in front of a blue screen. For the Alice Cooper project, we've spent more on the set, and it looks incredible."
Cooper made the journey to shoot his segments in late April.
"He showed up early," Baltosiewich said. "... He was extremely cooperative, extremely low maintenance and really easy to work with. It was interesting early on to try to find the voice for the Alice that was going to show up. There are two Alices: There's Alice the guy, and stage Alice. Alice the guy is a very sweet, nice person. In the words of his manager, Alice the stage person will bite your head off. Trying to find a voice true to Alice Cooper the brand that they would be comfortable with (and) that wouldn't frighten viewers was kind of strange."
For longtime Tucsonans, the two Cooper guest-host gigs might act as a throwback to the Dr. Scar days. Dr. Scar was the horror-movie host caricature of KGUN Channel 9's Jack Jacobson. Dr. Scar was a late-night regular on Old Pueblo airwaves in the '60s and '70s.
The horror-host concept is simple and developed a following thanks to a variety of hosts who did roughly the same shtick in different markets in the '50s, '60s and early '70s. There were hundreds of hosts--not just in the United States, but also throughout the world--pretending it was Halloween every Saturday night. It was simple and cheap for TV stations to do: Get someone to dress like a vampire or something fiendishly supernatural; incorporate some cheap vaudevillian skits; make light of a very bad movie--and voila! You have a Saturday-night television staple. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, would probably be the best-known recent incarnation of the concept.
The wildly successful Mystery Science Theater 3000 enhanced the idea by providing running commentary while the movie played: Instead of making viewers endure bad cinema, the hosting characters became the show. The crappy film was little more than a background excuse to insert a running string of one-liners.
Cooper's foray is a return to the classic format, and it's the perfect match for KTTU. The station held up its end of the bargain by giving Cooper two really bad movies: The Killer Shrews (May 10) and Attack of the Giant Leeches (May 17), perfect for quality mocking opportunities.
"He was really excited about the project," Baltosiewich said. "It was something he had in the back of his mind for a really long time and was excited to see it come back to life."
In addition to a music career that has spanned 40 years, Cooper can also be heard in Tucson through a syndicated radio show, the appropriately titled Nights With Alice Cooper, broadcast from 7 p.m. to midnight weeknights on KLPX FM 96.1. It's the best program on terrestrial rock radio. It blends a nice mixture of familiar and obscure rock songs and showcases Cooper's comic timing and stories from his vast experiences on the road. Nights With Alice Cooper is broadcast in more than 100 markets in the United States and Canada.
It's safe to assume some of those Cooper qualities will be incorporated into his horror-hosting debut.
Even though Cooper's performances are scheduled to air only twice, KTTU and sister- station KMSB have plans to provide material from the shoots in the form of DVD-style extras such as bloopers, outtakes and interviews, tentatively slated to be made available on the KMSB Web site at fox11az.com.
Will this be the only horror-hosting shot for Cooper? Only time will tell.
"It's going to depend on how it goes," Baltosiewich said. "There are a lot of different options. There are a lot of different things that can happen. He could hate us, or love it and want to do it on a semi-regular basis."
And if you happen to be home or have the TiVo or DVR set up to record Alice Cooper's horror-host debut, here's something else to keep in mind: It has to be better than the real horror that is Saturday Night Live.

Alice Cooper+Runaway Phoenix Celebrity AM Setlist May 5th 2008
No More Mr. Nice Guy
I'm 18
Be My Lover
Lost in America
School's Out (with damon Johnson)
Tug Of War (Runaway Phoenix only)
Ladies of the 80's (Runaway Phoenix only)
Jessie's Girl (Rick Springfeild cover)(Runaway Phoenix,Chuck Savale+ Mark Cordes)

SRF Newsletter,
I have great news! Joining me at the IZOD/Alice Cooper Celebrity AM this year will be WHISKEY FALLS. That’s right I said WHISKEY FALLS! For those of you familiar with WHISKEY FALLS nothing more needs to be said – they are one awesome band. They raised the roof with their performance at last year’s Christmas Pudding. For those of you not familiar with WHISKEY FALLS they are a new modern country music group featuring Seven Williams, Wally Brandt, Buck Johnson and Damon Johnson – who is a good friend and former member of the Alice Cooper band. Not only will they be celebrity golfers but they will be performing at the Awards luncheon in addition to me and my son’s band Runaway Phoenix.
You will not want to miss this opportunity to enjoy the music of WHISKEY FALLS.
BTW (“By the way” – anyone with kids knows that one) we have about 30 spots or so left to fill the tournament. Please help me out and invite a friend. Pay for them if you have to. May 5^th is going to be an incredible day of golf, fun and entertainment. One grand isn’t going to change your lifestyle, but it will go a long way in helping us complete THE ROCK teen center.
Kids are frightened – they face guns, drugs (meth – one of the nastiest drug ever created), single parent families, peer pressure, plus all the normal insecurities, etc. that teenagers face every day. They need a environment where they feel safe and can express themselves creatively through music, dance, sports, education and vocation. THE ROCK will provide teens with the opportunity to discover who they are and express themselves in a positive way. Hopefully, through creative expression the world will discover the next Alice Cooper, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Kobe Bryant, or Bill Gates.
Please invite a friend and help me fill the tournament.
See you at Talking Stick, Monday, May 5^th at 7:00 a.m. sharp!
Your pal,
March 27, 2008
Alice Cooper and Jordin Sparks Featured on All-New Episode of the “Building Phoenix” Show
Alice Cooper and American Idol Jordin Sparks are featured on an all-new episode of “Building Phoenix,” the award-winning television program showcasing development in the city of Phoenix. The episode premieres at 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 2, on PHX 11, the city’s news and information station available to Cox and Qwest Cable subscribers (for additional airdates and times visit phoenix.gov/11).
On this episode of “Building Phoenix,” Alice Cooper and Jordan Sparks get personal about plans for Cooper’s “The Rock” teen center; the Aura at Camelback is a proposed luxury town house community offering a lifestyle so “green” the electric company may end up paying homeowners; the legendary Chez Nous lounge is reborn on Grand Avenue, and information for homeowners on projects that require a permit (and what happens if proper permits are not obtained).
“Building Phoenix” is a production of the city of Phoenix Development Services Department. Michael Hammett, host and executive producer, is a multi-Emmy Award winner, and former contributing reporter/producer for ABC 15’s Sonoran Living.

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Fourth Annual MusiCares MAP FundSM Benefit Concert on May 9 to Honor Alice Cooper and Slash
Concert Event — Sponsored In Part By Gibson Foundation — At The Music Box @ Fonda In Hollywood Raises Funds For MusiCares® Addiction Recovery Services
SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The fourth annual MusiCares MAP FundSM benefit concert, honoring legendary artist Alice Cooper and renowned guitarist Slash, will be held on May 9, 2008, at The Music Box @ Fonda, 6126 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Calif. All proceeds will benefit the MusiCares® MAP Fund, which provides members of the music community access to addiction recovery treatment regardless of their financial situation. The benefit is sponsored in part by the Gibson Foundation.
Cooper will be honored as the recipient of the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award for his dedication to and support of the MusiCares MAP Fund and his devotion to helping other addicts with the recovery process. Slash will be the recipient of the MusiCares From the Heart Award for his unconditional friendship and dedication to the mission and goals of the organization.
"The issues of addiction and recovery have been front and center this past year," said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy® and President of MusiCares. "And our annual MusiCares MAP Fund benefit draws attention and raises funds to support the critical resources we offer members of the music community from all walks of life who may be struggling with addiction. We thank Alice and Slash for being strong supporters of our cause — it's more important now than ever before."
The evening will feature a buffet dinner and a special performance by Blind Melon (Glen Graham, Brad Smith, Rogers Stevens, Christopher Thorn and Travis Warren). In addition, there will be a performance by the all-star group Camp Freddy (Chris Chaney, Donovan Leitch, Billy Morrison, Dave Navarro and Matt Sorum) along with some special guests. The evening will also feature special performances by Cooper and Slash. A range of other artists and guests will be announced shortly. Out of respect for the clients the MusiCares MAP Fund serves, the event will be alcohol-free.
"When I got sober more than 20 years ago, the MusiCares MAP Fund did not exist," said Cooper. "It's so important that musicians and other music industry people have access to the kind of resources MusiCares and the MAP Fund provide and I'm proud to be honored this year and help raise funds to support this significant work."
"There are specific challenges to being sober in the music world, but for individuals who have addiction problems, every story has a common thread," said Slash. "And that is the first step to recovery is to ask for help — for music people, the MusiCares MAP Fund provides that assistance."
Tickets are offered at three price levels: floor placement in a private living room grouping of 10 for $12,500; floor seating for $1,000 each; and balcony seating for $100 each.
About the Honorees:
Alice Cooper
Being described as a legend in one's own time is certainly a blatantly abused cliché, but no one has taken a vivid imagination and unusual persona to the people with as much controversy and success as Alice Cooper. Cooper touched a deep nerve in the minds of teenagers everywhere, bringing him countless gold and platinum albums from around the world, including Love It To Death, Billion Dollar Babies, Welcome To My Nightmare and Trash, featuring such anthems as "Eighteen," "Elected," "School's Out," and "No More Mr. Nice Guy," as well as the classics "Only Women Bleed" and "Poison."
With plans for a new album in 2008, he shows no sign of slowing down. Cooper’s recently released book Golf Monster, an autobiographical book about how he transferred his alcohol addiction to a golf addiction, is chock full of anecdotes, photos, golf tips, and his trademark sense of humor. The book was published in hardcover in North America in May 2007 and in the UK in September 2007, and will be released in paperback in May 2008. Recent tour highlights have included a stop at the legendary Montreux Festival, filmed for a recently released live DVD, three shows in 2006 in North America as special guests to the Rolling Stones, and concerts throughout North and South America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. The road is still Cooper's second home as he continues to tour extensively throughout the world, with a full schedule planned for his 2008 itinerary.
Slash
Saul Hudson, also known as Slash, formed Guns N' Roses in 1986 with Steven Adler (drums), Duff McKagan (bass), Axl Rose (vocals) and Izzy Stradlin (guitar). Shortly thereafter, GNR was known across the globe as a new rock and roll sensation. After the successful "Use Your Illusion" tour, GNR decided to take a break. Needing to play music, Slash formed his own band Slash's Snakepit, which issued its successful album It's Five O'Clock Somewhere in 1995.
In 2003, Velvet Revolver was formed by former members of Guns N' Roses — Slash, McKagan and Matt Sorum (who replaced Adler on drums in 1990) — along with Scott Weiland (vocals) from Stone Temple Pilots and Dave Kushner (guitar) from Wasted Youth. Their 2004 debut album, Contraband, sold incredibly well and garnered them a 2004 GRAMMY Award for Best Hard Rock Performance for "Slither." With the release of their second album, Libertad, in 2007 and the subsequent world tour, Velvet Revolver has become a rock band of magnitude, and Slash has earned his title as one of rock and roll's great guitar players.
Established in 1989 by The Recording Academy, MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. MusiCares' services and resources cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies, and each case is treated with integrity and confidentiality. MusiCares also focuses the resources and attention of the music industry on human service issues that directly impact the health and welfare of the music community. For more information, please visit www.musicares.com.
As a result of acquiring MAP in September 2004, MusiCares developed the MusiCares MAP Fund as a pool of resources set aside specifically to address addiction recovery and sober living needs. Named for the Musicians' Assistance Program, the MusiCares MAP Fund represents the joint goal of MAP and MusiCares to provide members of the music community access to addiction recovery treatment regardless of their financial circumstances.
Gibson Foundation is the philanthropic division of Gibson Guitar Corp., the world's premier musical instrument manufacturer and leader in music technology. The mission of Gibson Foundation is to make the world a better place for children by creating, developing and implementing programs as well as through its support of other nonprofit organizations that advance education, music and the arts, the environment and health and welfare causes. For more information please visit www.gibsonfoundation.org.
"MusiCares for Music People."

Need a celeb fix? The 2008 Kraft Nabisco will be loaded with stars when the 37th annual Celebrity Pro-Am returns to Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage April 1 and 2.

Here's who you might see: Greg Itzin (President Logan on "24"), Craig T. Nelson, and Stefanie Schaeffer, of "The Apprentice," and Thomas Gibson.
Also, Pittsburgh Steeler Ben Roethlisberger, ex-Steeler Franco Harris, Carlton Fisk, John Havlicek, Jim Plunkett, Brooks Robinson and NFL Hall of Famer Paul Warfield.
Others: Alice Cooper, Rudy Gatlin, Kimberlin Brown, Kassie DePaiva, James DePaiva, Patrick Duffy, Bob Goen, Mary Hart, Cheech Marin.

From arizona Republic: Actor Kevin Sorbo, best known for playing the title character in the Hercules television series, is hosting Kevin Sorbo's Celebrity Golf Classic at Talking Stick Golf Course in Scottsdale to benefit Kids Sports Stars, which helps combat childhood obesity.

The celebrity lineup includes Jim McMahon, Larry Fitzgerald, Rod Woodson and Alice Cooper. The entry fee is $7,500 per foursome or $2,000 per player, which includes a pairings party/poker event Jan. 30 at The Deuce in Phoenix.

Alice cooper christmas pudding setlist
No more mr. Nice Guy
under my wheels
be my lover
lost in america
I'm 18
dirty diamonds
school's out
santa claus is comming to town

Michael Bruce @Alice Cooperstown 11/10/07 setlist
hello hooray(intro)
under my wheels
rock rolls on
isit my body
be my lover
second coming
desperado
halo of flies
no more mr. nice guy
muscle of love
billion $ babies
left for dead meat
miss you
18
good love
school's out

Sparks to play Cooper's show
Larry Rodgers
The Arizona Republic
Nov. 8, 2007 03:34 PM
Glendale's own American Idol winner, Jordin Sparks, will appear at this year's installment of Alice Cooper's Christmas Pudding on Dec. 15 at Phoenix's Dodge Theatre.
Joining Sparks and Cooper onstage will be country's Whiskey Falls, Flo & Eddie of the Turtles, comic Mike "Blackjack" Wilson and the Destiny Dancers, a troupe founded by Cooper's wife, Sheryl.
More performers are expected to be announced in coming weeks.

Tickets, priced at $33 to $63, go on sale on Nov. 9 at ticketmaster.com or (480) 784-4444.
Sparks, crowned the sixth American Idol this year, won Cooper's "Proof Is in the Pudding" contest in 2004. That contest, which will have its finals this year on Nov. 26 at Alice Cooper'stown in Phoenix, selects a solo artist and band to play at the benefit.
Christmas Pudding, now in its seventh year, raises money for the Solid Rock Foundation, which plans to build a $7 million teen center in central Phoenix.
Last year's concert raised $155,000.
Details: alicepudding.com.Alice Cooper Rocks The House At Fantasy Springs

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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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Under my wheels
Rock rolls on
is it my body
Muscle of Love
Billion$Babies
left for dead meat
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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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
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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.

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Calico Cooper in the movie (Puppy)

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