[Susan Foreman]

Two more songs from 'Pretties For You

Track #7 on the album is 'No Longer Umpire', and again the influence of Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd is unmistakable. I just wish it had a better drum sound!

Alice Cooper - Vocals & Harmonica
Neal Smith - Drums and Vocals
Dennis Dunaway - Bass and Vocals
Glen Buxton - Lead Guitar
Michael Bruce - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Piano and Organ

7/13/ Living (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith)



"We've been so caught up in the subject of personnel
Playing and acting, and slaving and bathing ourselves

Who lies and who tries to come over everyone
Painting a picture to show everyone in the world

Fearing is natural
New names and faces can bring
Build ups and barriers hiding behind everything

Who lies and who tries to come over everyone
Painting a picture to show everyone in the world "

This followed by the first of my two favourite songs on the album - 'Levity Ball'. I think this would work well if it was resurrected and played live

If you listen closely to the song, you will hear a string section. Alice has said that the weird part about this was there was no strings in the recording session! The real to real tape was erased before they recorded their cut, but something that was on before bled through in the same key!

8/13/ Levity Ball (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith)



[I] "I got my invitation to the annual levity ball
Seeing the location was within the mirrored room
Walking in my room I found I had nothing to find
I got into my evening wear and left my clothes behind

I sat down on the stairway seven hours at a time
Writing all of this poetry that I knew would never rhyme
The memory I knew I must have had when I came in
Was off somewhere in places where I'd never ever been

And then in came a cake all decorated in my name
With four paper brown candles, are all spelling out the same
The clock was passing out from time to time I saw it all
Beginning of the ending for my first levity ball