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Old 7th May 2015, 12:04 AM
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Bit of a new thing here, people, because you are going to get three songs from 'Schools Out'

Tracks #3 & 4, 'Gutter Cats Vs. The Jets' and 'Street Fight' are connected. As you probably know by now, Alice loves 'The West Side Story'. He has already quoted from it on the album Easy Action. This song recreates a different rumble. Apparently, the Jets have other rivals - the Gutter Cats. This track begins quite softly with some guitar noodling. But then he starts to play a bit of a riff, and other instruments come in and join in the fun. What ensues is highly spirited and captures that bad attitude in a showtune way. In the middle, it begins quoting some lines from The West Side Story. This is a gas.

For the 'Street Fight', there are some sound bytes that recreates that confusion that resulted after the post-rumble in The West Side Story. People are running away, and you hear police sirens. An electric guitar loop and some excited drumming keep the spirit... This isn't even a minute long.

Alice even quotes from 'A Clockwork Orange' at the beginning of the song!

This is my favourite song on the album

You have probably noticed that this is the first time I have included a live clip as opposed to the usual album cut. This is because I couldn't find the audio of GCVsTJ AND Street Fight on YouTube.

This version is taken from the DVD release 'Alice Cooper Trashes The World', released in 1990, and recorded at the Birmingham NEC in 1989.

The touring band at this time consisted of:

Alice Cooper - vocals
Al Pitrelli - guitar
Pete Friesen - guitar
Derek Sherinian - keyboards
Tommy Caradonna - bass
Jonathan Mover - drums

while the album version was recorded by the usual line-up of

Alice Cooper - Vocals and Harmonica
Neal Smith - Drums and Vocals
Dennis Dunaway - Bass and Vocals
Glen Buxton - Lead Guitar
Michael Bruce - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Piano and Organ
Bob Ezrin - Keyboards, Mini-Moog

03/09 - Gutter Cats Vs. The Jets (Buxton, Dunaway, Bernstein, Sondheim) / 04/09 - Street fight (Cooper, Bruce, Buxton, Dunaway, Smith)



"I went out cating, pussyfootin' around
'Till the break of dawn found me knocked out flat on my head
Some feline Kitty waved her tail my way
I just had to stay, I couldn't get the blood off my hands

She made my eyes bug out
Her tail stand up
And I ain't even in heat for a month

(Meow)

House cat
You really got it made
Sleepin' all night
A purrfect delight of day

Some feline beauty
Waved her tail my way
And I just had to stay
I couldn't get the blood off my bed

She made my eyes bug out
Her tail stand up
And I ain't even in heat for a month

(Meow...mrreow...meow! Meow! Meow!)

Some bad cats from 4th Street come down to our alley
Well we say that's cool, but just stay away from me and my boys
Eyes clash and claws slash and green-eyed fur goes flyin'
Midnight, Catfight, Neckbite, Die

When you're a Jet
You're a Jet all the way
From your first cigarette
Till your last dyin' day
When you're a Jet
Let 'em do what they can
Little boy, you got friends
You're a family man
The Jets are in gear
They're always well-respected
You're never alone
When company's expected
You're well-protected

Here come the Jets
Like a bat out of hell
Somone gets in our way
Someone don't look so well
When you're a Jet
You - Stay - A - Jet

(Pow!)"


Following that is 'Blue Turk' which is a catchy piece of jazz.

When asked about this song in 2007, bass guitarist Dennis Dunnaway said : "Occasionally the band warmed up for rehearsals with our own brand of beatnik type Jazz. I can't say that Brubeck was an influence, or that I was aware that Ezrin was a fan, but in those days, he was one of the only Jazz players to get airplay on mainstream radio, and his Jazz was the cool kind, which is what we aimed ours to emulate. Glen was on the same wavelength with the session horn players that Ezrin had called in. They were the genuine deal and Glen loved their ability to play by sheer feel, which they all did together when they laid down the solo tracks".

Alice Cooper - Vocals and Harmonica
Neal Smith - Drums and Vocals
Dennis Dunaway - Bass and Vocals
Glen Buxton - Lead Guitar
Michael Bruce - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Piano and Organ
Bob Ezrin - Keyboards, Mini-Moog

05/09 - Blue Turk (Bruce, Cooper)



"(Hot)
I'm lazy, you know it
I'm ready for the second show
Amazin' thing growin'
Just waitin' for the juice to flow

But you're so very picturesque
You're so very cold
Tastes like roses on your breath
But graveyards on your soul

I'm hurtin', I'm wantin'
I'm achin' for another go
You're squirmin' wet, baby
Nothin' bad comin' very slow
And it's burnin' holes in me

You're so very picturesque
You're so very cold
It tastes like roses on your breath
But graveyards on your soul

(Whoa-ooh)
(Mm!)

One spastic explosion
Two pressure-cookers go insane
It makes me act crazy
I shiver but I love this game

You're so very ordinary
You're so very lame
Tastes like whiskey on your lips
And earthworms rule your brain"
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