Although the
'Raise The Dead Tour'' had finished, fans were not happy when they discovered that the next (and current) tour, '
Spend The Night With Alice Cooper', once again contained cover songs
The tour started in Biloxi, Mississippi on April 29th, 2016 and dates have been announced until October 30th, 2016, in Los Angeles
The current touring band consists of:
Alice Cooper - Vocals
Ryan Roxie – guitar, backing vocals
Tommy Henriksen – guitar, backing vocals
Nita Strauss – guitar, backing vocals
Chuck Garric – bass, backing vocals
Glen Sobel – drums, percussion
The setlist for the first show on the tour was :
- Black Widow
- Public Animal #9
- No More Mr Nice Guy
- Under My Wheels
- Is It My Body
- Billion Dollar Babies
- Long Way To Go
- Poison
- Halo of Flies
- Feed My Frankenstein
- Cold Ethyl
- Only Women Bleed
- Guilty
- Ballad Of Dwight Fry
- Killer - I Love The Dead
- 'Raise The Dead' - Pinball Wizard (The Who cover)
- 'Raise The Dead' - Love Me 2 Times (The Doors cover)
- 'Raise The Dead' - Fire (Jimi Hendrix cover)
- 'Raise The Dead' - Suffragette City (David Bowie cover)
- I'm Eighteen
- Schools Out (inc. Another Brick In The Wall)
- Elected
As stated, the tour began in America on April 29th and ran until May 21st, with a show in Canada
There was then a break in the schedules, while Alice played some shows with off-shoot band The Hollywood Vampires starting with a warm-up show in New York on May 24th before heading to Europe for a number of festival dates between May 27th - June 6th.
The line-up for these shows was:
Alice Cooper – lead vocals, harmonica
Johnny Depp – rhythm and lead guitar, backing vocals
Joe Perry – lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Tommy Henriksen – rhythm and lead guitar, backing vocals
Duff McKagan – bass, backing vocals
Bruce Witkin – keyboards, rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Matt Sorum – drums, backing vocals
and the setlist was:
- Raise the Dead (original song)
- I Got a Line on You (Spirit)
- 20th Century Boy (T. Rex)
- Pinball Wizard (The Who)
- My Generation (The Who)
- Manic Depression (Jimi Hendrix)
- Cold Turkey (John Lennon)
- Come Together (The Beatles)
- 7 and 7 Is (Love)
- Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin)
- Five to One/Break on Through (The Doors)
- Rebel Rebel/Suffragette City (David Bowie)
- As Bad As I Am (original song)
- Stop Messin' Around (Fleetwood Mac)
- Dead Drunk Friends (original song)
- Ace of Spades (Motörhead)
- I'm Eighteen (Alice Cooper Group)
- Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith)
- Train Kept a Rollin' (Yardbirds/Aerosmith)
- School's Out (Alice Cooper)
Alice remained in Europe for a series of solo dates between June 9th - June 24th, including a single English date on June 18th, where he headlined the opening night of the Stone Free Festival at the London 02 Arena
The Hollywood Vampires tour resumed in America between July 1st - July 25th. Tragedy hit the band at a show on July 10th, in Brooklyn, when Joe Perry collapsed on stage and was rushed to hospital with a suspected heart attack. He returned to the stage on July 22nd in California.
The '
Spend The Night With Alice Cooper' tour then continued in North America on August 6th with shows in the country and Canada scheduled to continue until October 30th.
The latest setlist available is for a show that was held on October 18th, in British Columbia in Canada:
- The Black Widow
- No More Mr. Nice Guy
- Under My Wheels
- Public Animal #9
- Billion Dollar Babies
- Long Way To Go
- The World Needs Guts
- Woman Of Mass Distraction
- Poison
- Halo Of Flies
- Feed My Frankenstein
- Cold Ethyl
- Only Women Bleed
- Guilty
- Ballad Of Dwight Frye
- I Love The Dead
- 'Raise The Dead' - Pinball Wizard (The Who cover)
- 'Raise The Dead' - Suffragette City (David Bowie cover)
- 'Raise The Dead' - Ace Of Spades (Motorhead cover)
- I'm Eighteen
- Schools Out/Another Brick In The Wall
- Elected
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Tour stats for The Alice Cooper Group/Alice Cooper
Top ten countries played:
1 - United States
2 - Canada
3 - Germany
4 - United Kingdom
5 - Australia
6 - Sweden
7 - France
8 - Switzerland
9 - Russia
10 - Denmark
Top ten songs played:
1 - School's Out
2 - I'm Eighteen
3 - Under My Wheels
4 - Billion Dollar Babies
5 - No More Mr. Nice Guy
6 - Only Women Bleed
7 - Poison
8 - Ballad of Dwight Fry
9 - I Love the Dead
10 - Feed My Frankenstein
Top ten albums to have songs featured in the live set:
1 - Welcome to My Nightmare
2 - Billion Dollar Babies
3 - Killer
4 - Love It to Death
5 - School's Out
6 - Trash
7 - Goes to Hell
8 - 'Covers'
9 - Hey Stoopid
10 - Brutal Planet