The Alice Cooper Thread

[Susan Foreman]

A couple of reviews of the first Pandemonium date:

From The Music. com...

"Alice Cooper wraps up the day with a deliciously over the top set, full of all of the evil and bombast one would expect. Cooper stalks across the stage, menacing and divine all at once. After the insane lead up to Pandemonium, seeing Cooper in the flesh serving up Schools Out, Poison, and No More Mr Nice Guy makes it all worth it. The crowd throws themselves into the set and Cooper delivers in spades, with a cheeky brush with a guillotine to boot. It is rock n roll theatre of the highest calibre and wickedly enjoyable from start to finish."

...and The Sydney Morning Herald

"Finally, Alice Cooper asserts his dominance by turning the show into a full-on pantomime. In his make-up, frilly shirt and a top hat, and carrying a cutlass, he looks like a swashbuckling Beetlejuice, and his band of hard rockers look like they?re about to be beaten up in a bar by the Terminator.

The set comprises of theatrics befitting truly insane songs including Feed My Frankenstein (?Hungry for love / And it?s lunchtime?) and I Love the Dead. Cooper waves his sword around, then a cane, then a live boa constrictor.

He?s straitjacketed, then he dances with a woman dressed as Marie Antoinette (it?s Alice?s wife Sheryl), who promptly guillotines him before parading his decapitated head around, kissing it.

?School?s out forever!? Yeah! It?s hard to believe this caused a moral panic in the 1970s. It?s about as transgressive as The Munsters. But it?s very, very fun."

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

" Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World

In 1969, there were three music festivals that changed the world. 'The second most important event in rock & roll history' was a one-day event held at the University of Toronto's 20,000 seat Varsity Stadium called the Toronto Rock & Roll Revival. An incredible back-door story of how ?against all odds? a life-changing concert came together.

Director Ron Chapman reveals a series of colourful characters, murky deals and broken promises, culminating in John Brower, a young struggling promoter, putting his life on the line (literally) in order to achieve his goal

Included in the lineup were Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley, Gene Vincent, The Doors, Alice Cooper, and John Lennon with The Plastic Ono Band."



This is the concert that features the infamous 'chicken incident'! However, it is also going to be the first chance that Alice Cooper fans will get to see the footage from when the band played musical support for Gene Vincent!

The 'Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World' film that came out in Canada last year is getting a full release on June 28th

This is a documentary film about the legendary Toronto 1969 show that featured the now infamous 'Chicken Incident'. While footage from the show has been available for years, the producers of this film have unearthed never before seen clips of the Alice Cooper Band backing Gene Vincent and hanging out backstage at the show. It's a fascinating film and well worth checking out

To promote the release there is a new trailer focused on the Alice Cooper footage