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Old 2nd September 2017, 02:58 PM
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Roadie is pretty good fun imo. There's an amusing running joke where the music promoter constantly gets Meatloaf's name wrong. Entertaining movie with fun cameos.
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Old 2nd September 2017, 04:22 PM
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I picked up a film called Roadie this week in Music Magpie's 2 for £2 offer.

I'd never heard of it before but the cover caught my eye and the premise of a groupie girl desperately trying to lose her virginity to Alice Cooper meant i had to give it a go.

Also starring Meat Loaf and featuring a killer soundtrack - Cooper, Blondie performing Ring of Fire, Cheap Trick, Styx, Pat Benatar...

I think i'll be watching this tonight.
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Roadie is pretty good fun imo. There's an amusing running joke where the music promoter constantly gets Meatloaf's name wrong. Entertaining movie with fun cameos.
All I can say is...don't build your hopes up!

Here's my review from the 'What Films Have You Seen Recently' thread:

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Roadie (1980)

Meat Loaf stars as Travis W. Redfish, an electrical wizard who can fix anything. Noticing a broken down RV, he helps to fix it, and falls instantly in lust with Lola (Kaki Hunter), an aspiring groupie whose ambition is to lose her virginity to Alice Cooper. After repairing the RV, Travis is talked into traveling with Lola, 'Ace', a road manager, and his assistant George, to Austin for a show to be played by Hank Williams Jr. This leads to him signing up with a traveling rock band and soon finding himself celebrated as the greatest roadie of all time! Finally, they get to meet Alice...

I'm really not sure who this film is aimed at. It has some great rock 'n' roll cameos, but they are thrown away. Meat Loaf doesn't sing any songs; Roy Orbison crops up in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo, performing a single song duet with Hank Williams Jr; Blondie have a single scene cover of the Johnny Cash song 'Ring Of Fire; and Alice performs 'Only Women Bleed' and 'Pain'

The comedy is painful, and there are a number of car chases and crashes. All in all, it comes over as a poor man's 'Blues Brothers'

Roadie could have been a classic rock and roll comedy (ala 'The Blues Brothers' or 'American Graffiti'), but the guitars are out of tune and key at every single opportunity!

Best thing about it is the DVD cover!!

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Old 3rd September 2017, 12:53 PM
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Old 3rd September 2017, 01:11 PM
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Talking about Alice and Fangoria, in the December 1987 issue, John Carpenter talks about the casting in 'Prince Of Darkness':

"Alice plays a crazed, psychotic street person. We ended up together at Wrestlemania III in Detroit this year. He was part of the match between Jake 'The Snake' Roberts and The Honkytonk Man. I was there as a loyal wrestling fan, which I've been for many years. One of my business partners, [co-executive producer] Shep Gordon, is Alice's manager, so I was able to get backstage passes. I hung out with Alice and the wrestlers. It was truly one of the greatest experiences of my life. There was a big party afterwards, and we chatted and became friends. I had thought of Alice as being an outrageous heavy metal rock star, but he's really a normal, wonderful person. He's such a great guy that I decided to cast him."

Off topic, but Carpenter made 'They Live' the following year, which starred 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper. Presumably it was at this Wrestlemania event where they first met
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Old 6th September 2017, 06:41 PM
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Reviews for the just released 'Welcome To My Nightmare'/'The Nightmare' DVD

"Welcome to My Nightmare" A Dream Come True for Alice Cooper Fans | Critical Blast.

Review: Alice Cooper 'Welcome to My Nightmare Special Edition' archive release on DVD | AXS

In other news, it seems that drummer Glen Sobel is being sued for 'negligence' by a woman in New Orleans after she was struck by a drum stick he threw into the audience

Woman says flying drumstick at Alice Cooper show in New Orleans left her with 'serious injuries' | Courts | theadvocate.com
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Old 11th September 2017, 06:56 AM
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That's disappointing

I have just got a copy of the new 'Welcome To My Nightmare' DVD release. It's lucky it contains the television special because the actual concert seems to have taken a step backwards.



The picture doesn't seem as good as it did on the previous release, neither does it sound as loud. [As a comparison, I had the new release on volume 12, but that was much too loud for the original version, and I had to turn it down to 9 to get the same effect!]



Worse, however, is that it looks like the new version has been edited. Admittedly I have just been jumping thru it, but (although it is noted on the cover track listing) the song 'Department Of Youth' seems to be missing. There is the basic three-chord guitar riff (audio) over the visuals, but the song itself doesn't appear to be there

This is possibly confirmed by a quick check of the run times:
Original release - 83:41
New release - 78:53

This isn't the first time an Alice Cooper DVD release has been wrong. The cover to 'The Nightmare Returns' states that the disc has a run time of 170 mins, while it is actually closer to 75mins!

Presumably, most Alice fans already have a copy of the 'WTMN' concert, and the big draw on this version is the television special - I know it was for me! However, I don't think I'll be getting rid of the original release in the near future

Oh, it also comes with an 8 page booklet that contains information about the shows (expected), and also reproductions of the original ABC announcement about the television show and a letter from Vincent Price to 'Alice, Shep et al' and arachnophobes beware - the menu screen comes with animated spiders!
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Old 14th September 2017, 05:27 AM
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The US tour with Deep Purple ended on the 9th September in Cincinnati. The final Alice song of the evening, 'School's Out' featured guest appearances by Steve Morse (Deep Purple) and both Edgar Winter and Doug Rappoport (Edgar Winter Group)



There is now a few weeks break, before the band move on to the 'Rock in Rio' festival on the 21st, then South America, Australasia and Europe

Presumably this short 'holiday' will see some new songs being rehearsed and introduced into the upcoming sets
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Old 16th September 2017, 12:05 PM
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Now it's been out for a number of weeks, it's time for a quick return to the track-by-track playlist

Released after a 6 year gap, the long awaited 'Paranormal'' was Alice's 29th studio album. Unlike most of the previous releases, there was not a constant band on it - instead Alice used a number of guest musicians, some from his touring band, others specially drafted in for the recording sessions

Paranormal produced by Bob Ezrin, Tommy Henriksen and Tommy Denander

Producer - Richard Podolor

The opening cut, 'Paranormal' is a cracking way to start an album. Beginning with a slow finger pluck on a guitar, the chords crash in, and another riff begins, and another, and another! During the 4 minute song, there must be about dozen different guitar riffs evident! There is a great vocal performance from the man

The line up on the song consists of:
Alice Cooper - Vocals
Tommy Henriksen (Warlock, Hollywood Vampires, George Lynch) - Guitar
Tommy Denander (Michael Jackson, Paul Stanley, Hollywood Vampires) - Guitar
Larry Mullen Jr (U2) - Drums
Roger Glover (Deep Purple) - Bass
Bob Ezrin - Keyboards
Jeremy Rubolino - Horns

Would it fit into the live set? I'm not sure. I think it might be too atmospheric to be fully appreciated on stage

01/12 - Paranormal (Cooper, Denander, Glover, Ezrin)



"I'm Condemned to the long endless night
And I live in the absence of light
And my Shadow has a life of it's own
Watching you while you sleep all alone

When the night is all cool skin and bones
And you lie wrapped in sheets on your own
There's a ring on your dead telephone
Don't be scared when there's nobody home

Like a spider web kiss on your face
That familiar smell just a trace
That's my scent that I left on your lace
So you're never alone
No, you're never alone

I'm Condemned to the long endless night
And I live in the absence of light"
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The second song on the album is 'Dead Flies', a much more straightforward rock song. There are a number of nods to the past with this one, starting with the title which is an amalgamation of 'Dead Babies' and 'Halo Of Flies', both from the 1971 album 'Killer', and then there are the first two lines of the song which (to me) bear more than a passing resemblance to the opening lines of the song 'Generation Landslide' from the 'Billion Dollar Babies' album in 1973 ["Please clean the plate, dear, The Lord above can see ya, Don't you know people are starving in Korea?"]

The line up on the song consists of:
Alice Cooper - Vocals
Tommy Henriksen (Warlock, Hollywood Vampires, George Lynch) - Guitar
Tommy Denander (Michael Jackson, Paul Stanley, Hollywood Vampires) - Guitar
Larry Mullen Jr (U2) - Drums
Jimmie Lea Sloas (who usually works with Christian rock and Country and Western acts such as Garth Brooks, Keith Urban, LeAnn Rimes, Reba McEntire) - Bass

Alice has spoken very highly of Larry Mullen Jr. He has stated that he was amazed when he came into the studio and asked for a copy of the lyrics. Alice says this is the first time a drummer has actually built his drum patterns around the words of a song, rather than coming out with a basic drum beat, or working around the bass player

Would it fit into the live set? It could work as a 'throw-away' song. It wouldn't be a big theatrical event, but at a low-key moment of a show it might fit in

02/12 - Dead Flies (Cooper, Denander, Ezrin)



"Please watch your step dear, the world is out to beat you
Don't you know there's cannibal's designed to kill and eat you
Your sisters high on angel dust and so's your porno bother
And your phone knows more about you then your daddy or your mother
They'll drive you to the edge where they'll leave you to die
Infected by the venom of their vicious viral lies
It's all lies
We're dead flies

Priests and Pariahs, disguised as holy guru
Practicing their mantra of some cybernetic voodoo
And there's always some messiah preaching mass disaster
Claiming that their Jesus or illuminati matters
And they'll drive you to the edge where they'll leave you to die
Infected by the venom of their vicious viral lies
It's all lies
We're dead flies
It's all lies
We're dead flies

They're gonna need your money to relieve you of your stressin'
They'll take your wealth and fame in exchange for your blessing
And they'll kill you with their gospel full of psychobabble vomit
When they make you drink the cool-aid and you ride off on that comet
All lies
We're dead flies
Yeah, it's all lies
We're nothing but dead flies"
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Old 18th September 2017, 10:20 AM
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Despite the title, the third song, 'Fireball', is not a Deep Purple cover. However, it sounds very much like a classic rock tune from that era. It is a fast, pumping track that would make a great single choice. The only draw back for me, is the treatment that is given to the vocals - I don't really like it, but that is a minor complaint

Dennis Dunaway from the original Alice Cooper Group was the co-writer of the song, and he appears playing bass

The song was originally set to be included on the second Dennis Dunaway Project album, but was actually released on DDP guitarists Rick Tedesco's album 'A Light In The Attic' in 2011 instead. That version of the song can be found here

The line up on the song consists of:
Alice Cooper - Vocals
Tommy Henriksen (Warlock, Hollywood Vampires, George Lynch) - Guitar
Tommy Denander (Michael Jackson, Paul Stanley, Hollywood Vampires) - Guitar
Nick Didkovsky (Doctor Nerve, Vomit Fist) - Guitar
Dennis Dunaway - Bass
Drums - Larry Mullen Jr
Organ - Bob Ezrin

Guitarist Nick Didkovsky received a Masters in Computer Music from New York University in 1987, and went on to develop a Java music API called JMSL (Java Music Specification Language). JMSL is a toolbox for algorithmic composition and performance. It also includes JScore, an extensible staff notation editor and can output music using either JavaSound or JSyn. He has presented papers on his work at several conferences. [No, I don't understand what this means either, but it sounds impressive and comes from Wikipedia, so it must be true!]

Would it fit into the live set? Very much so. I can imagine the lights going crazy during a song about fireball in the sky, destroying the Earth

03/12 - Fireball (Cooper, Dunaway)



"On a dark desert night
Looking to the sky, something ain't right
A fireball, red and grey
People start to look, frozen in fear
A man grabs a woman, draws her near
They fall to their knees and pray
Almighty God... is it today

Fireball in the sky
Fireball in the sky

Hey little boy with the cowboy gun
His momma picks him up, starts to run
He laughs out loud, thinks it's a game
The alarm goes off in the liquor store
Trucks roll past with a thunderous roar
Down from the sky, a silver rain
Almighty God.... The cities in flames

Oh man alive.. can we survive

My alarm goes off, I'm shaking with fright
My blood runs cold, teeth clenched tight
But it's all right now, it's only a dream
Then I go to the window, lean on the 'sill
The night is hot, and all is still
There's a blinding flash, and now it's real
Almighty God... we die today

Fireball in the sky

Fireball in the sky
Fireball in the sky
Fireball in the sky
Fireball in the sky
Fireball in the sky
Fireball in the sky
Fireball in the sky
(fade)"
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