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From the opening song on the 2000 'Brutally Live' tour, promoting the 'Brutal Planet' tour |
April 29th, 1977 - 43 years ago today, the 'Lace And Whiskey' album is released It's an album that many fans love to hate. While it's not a classic, a lot of the material is still fun. A lot of people don't like the disco element that was sneaking in on 'Love At Your Convenience' or the Country and Western sound of 'Damned If You Do', but elsewhere there are still some great rock songs on it It was after the completion of the 1977 tour to promote the release that Alice checked himself into a New York-based sanitarium for his first treatment for alcoholism. Maybe not essential but still well worth getting. |
I like Lace and Whiskey. :) It's Hot Tonight, the album's titular track, I Never Wrote Those Songs and My God are all great tracks. But it is hard to defend No More Love At Your Convenience! |
"ATTN MINIONS: STAR IN ALICE COOPER'S NEW VIDEO "DON’T GIVE UP" Alice Cooper will be launching a brand-new song, “Don’t Give Up” on May 15 and he is calling on you to be a part of this special song! Share a photo/video of you holding a sign featuring a word from the lyrics to the song and you could be in the final video! How and what to submit
lyrics Yeah, I know you’re struggling right nowT&C's |
You've probably got more chance of featuring if you go with 'a' or 'it's' or 'so', for example as everyone who thinks they are cool and wants to be famous for a tenth of a second will go with 'Monster', 'razor's', 'human', 'blood' and so on. |
The Alice Cooper Solid Rock Celebrity Golf Tournament 2020: Lockdown Version |
In memory of Betty Wright (1953 - 2020) 'No Tricks', the 'B' side to the 'How You Gonna See Me Now' single, released in 1978 "[Alice] No tricks up my sleeve I kicked the downs and now I'm clean No shakes up my spine I beat the speed and I dumped the wine No tracks, that was yesterday I changed my style, the way I play [Betty] Don't you believe it No blues No depression No more panic Or obsession [Betty] Don't you believe Anything he said All them junkies talk that way It's just as bad as it was before I see the man knockin' at his back door [Alice] ... this kid's straight And put on ice The street corner deals at any price Come on and check my veins And check my eyes No tracks, that was yesterday I changed my style, the way I play [Betty] Don't you believe it No blues No depression No more panic Or obsession Some tricks just go away And other tricks they're here to stay [Betty] Oh don't you know me Sometimes my spirit's willin' The flesh is weak and That's what's killin' [Betty] Don't you believe anything he said All them junkies talk that way It's just as bad as it was before I see the man knockin' at his back door [Alice] Hey now this kid's straight, put on ice The street corner deals at any price Come on and check my veins And check my eyes [Alice] I tried so hard But I'm hurting for another fix It's just this habit I, I can always kick What do you say there friend? [Betty] Don't you call me.. It's just a game And I can beat it any day No matter what this lovely lady say Hey, wanna be my friend? Some tricks yhey go away And other tricks they're here to stay [Betty] Oh don't you know me Sometimes my spirit's willin' My flesh is weak and That's what's killin' [Betty] Don't you believe anything he said All them junkies talk that way It's just as bad as it was before I see the man knockin' at his back door [Alice] I said this kid's straight And put on ice The street corner deals at any price Come on and check my veins And check my eyes" |
The new song Presumably the official 'fan video' is coming soon |
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New interview at the Phoenix New Times "How Alice Cooper and His Family Are Keeping Busy in Quarantine It was early March when Alice Cooper realized he needed to get home. The coronavirus was sweeping through Italy and Spain. His show was canceled in Switzerland. He went to the airport in Berlin and hopped on a plane. Back in Arizona, he postponed his North American tour and hunkered with his family at their Paradise Valley home. “I think God just told the world that it’s a giant time out,” Cooper says. Still, his wife, Sheryl Cooper, says they’re still making good use of their time. “We’re all taking tap lessons every Thursday night,” she says. “We have a live broadcasted teacher.” “Everyone has tap shoes,” Cooper says. “Of course, Sheryl, [daughters] Calico and Sonora are much further ahead since they are professional dancers, but I am hanging in there!” “I call us ‘artists in residence,’” Sheryl says. “I don’t like the word quarantine.” In March, Cooper launched a new podcast full of old interviews from his radio show Nights With Alice Cooper. It’s called Alice Cooper’s Vintage Vault and includes chats with rock legends like Ozzy Osborne and Debbie Harry. He's also finishing production on the hard rock album Detroit Stories, which features players from his hometown of the Motor City, where it was also recorded. The Coopers’ dedication to the Christian faith and charity also remains intact. The couple's Solid Rock Foundation, along with the Solid Rock Teen Center, located at 13625 North 32nd Street, has kept them busy. The center, which opened in 2012 and serves those between the ages of 12 and 20 years old, is closed temporarily due to coronavirus. But live performances and one-on-one lessons are being streamed daily. Cooper says he got the idea for the center 25 years ago, when he observed an awkward drug deal between two kids on bikes on the west side. “I looked at this kid and said, 'What if he is the best guitar player in town, but has no idea because he hasn’t had the opportunity?'” Cooper says. “That made us say, 'Let’s give them that opportunity. Let’s open up a place where all teens are invited. Let’s find out what your talent is and work on that.'” “We have professionals teaching kids arts, music, dance, and production. But despite being free, the caliber of the artistic training is fantastic,” Sheryl says. “It’s not only educational. It’s vocational.” Adds Cooper: “I tell kids up front: There are five guys in a band and 30 people who run the show. And I couldn’t do it without them. If you end up being a roadie or technician, that’s a pretty good living...They realize they are bringing art into the world, and that’s important.” Among many others, the center has nurtured the career of American Idol winner Jordin Sparks, who appeared at Cooper’s annual Christmas performance before auditioning for the reality show competition. The center is funded with grants and donations, and the financials have taken a big hit lately. The postponement of Cooper’s annual golf tournament in April, which is its second biggest fundraiser of the year, didn't help matters. Still, the Coopers hope to expand the center to other Arizona cities and the rest of the country. A second location of the center is set to open in Mesa, though due to the coronavirus, its opening will probably be delayed until December of this year — not this summer, as originally intended, says Mark Savale, the Teen Center's director. “Detroit needs 10 of these,” Cooper says. The necessity of places like the Solid Rock Teen Center was impressed upon Cooper by a rattling experience he had several years ago. “A girl showed me her to-do list: ‘Get up, go to school, lunch with friends, go to the park, kill myself,’” Cooper says. “She said, ‘I had a pocket full of pills and a razor blade.’ She’s 14. But some kid said, on the way to the park, ‘Let’s go to Solid Rock.’ Ever since, she’s there every day at 3 p.m. “Now, we don’t ask what their home life is. That’s not our job. We’re not psychologists. But this story made me say at the next board meeting that if 20 years of planning ends up being just this girl not killing herself, then it’s worth it. It shocked me. And I’m pretty hard to shock.”" |
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