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History. In 2011, the surviving members of the original Alice Cooper band were finally inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame, where they performed for the first time publicly in many years. The original band also contributed to Alice’s 2011 album “Welcome 2 My Nightmare”, a follow up to Alice’s first solo album.
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer and songwriter whose career spans sixty years. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusions, including pyrotechnics, guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, reptiles, baby dolls, and dueling swords, Cooper is considered by many music journalists and peers to be "The ...
Nov 10, 2023 · By Ian Fortnam. ( Classic Rock ) published 10 November 2023. How five psychedelic freaks from Detroit became rock’n’roll’s first great bogeymen – this is the story of Alice Cooper’s early years. (Image credit: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy) As the 1960s dawned, Phoenix was a bland, monochrome city in the middle of the Arizona desert.
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The band, renamed themselves as 'Nazz' and began traveling regularly to Los Angeles for shows, in 1967. By the end of the year, the band relocated there and replaced drummer, John Speer, with Neal Smith. However, upon learning that Todd Rundgren also had a band by the same name, they decided to go with the more gimmicky stage name 'Alice Cooper'.
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- The Band Initially Struggled to Find Success
- Bob Ezrin Helped Get Their Sound Together
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- The Alice Cooper Group Reunions
In addition to packing their records with anthems of youthful rebellion as enduring as "I'm Eighteen," "School's Out" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy," the Alice Cooper group's macabre theatrics pushed the boundaries of the rock-and-roll experience to shocking new extremes. Cooper staged his own beheading every night on their groundbreaking tour in suppo...
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a long way from the Cortez High School cafetorium, where Dunaway, Buxton and Furnier first shared a stage as the Earwigs. Dunaway says he'd been itching to start a band since 1963 when he saw Duane Eddy and the Rebel play between two movies at the Fox downtown theater. "I didn't have enough money to go buy more pop...
It wasn't long before they started gigging at the VIP, a popular teen club that Dunaway says could hold about 800 people. The only catch was the VIP owner, Jack Curtis, said they'd have to come up with a better name. So they became the Spiders. "We got very popular and had by then learned how to play our instruments," Dunaway says. "We were doing t...
It was shortly after "Bye Bye Birdie" – "just out of the blue," as Dunaway recalls – that guitarist John Tatum left to join a band with Bill Spooner, who in turn went on to be a founding member of the Tubes. That's when the fourth piece of the Alice Cooper puzzle, Michael Bruce, fell into place. As Dunaway recalls, "We'd done this Battle of the Ban...
They were living a house in Santa Monica and had changed their name to the Nazz when future drummer Neal Smith showed up on their doorstep. Smith had moved to San Francisco with another Phoenix band, the Holy Grail. When that ended badly, he asked the Nazz if he could crash at their place while he tried to find a new one. Smith was a Camelback High...
In 1968, they changed their name to Alice Cooper, having found out that Todd Rundgren had a band called Nazz. Cooper and Dunaway have both disputed the story that the name came from a session with a Ouija board but Smith says he was there. They'd come back to the Valley from LA. — as they often did when funds were running low because as Smith says,...
It wasn't long before the newly christened Alice Cooper came to the attention of Shep Gordon. He became their manager and arranged an audition with Frank Zappa, who responded well to their experimental urges, releasing their first album, "Pretties for You," on Straight Records. "I was the crusader for that avant-garde thing," Dunaway recalls. "When...
To that end, they reached out to Jack Richardson, a Canadian producer enjoying a hot streak with a run of big hit singles for the Guess Who. "And he hated us," Smith says, with a laugh. "It was just nothing that made sense to normal people. And Jack Richardson, if you think about the Guess Who, he wanted to stay as far away from us as he possibly c...
Dunaway says he knew that Ezrin was exactly what they needed by the time he finished turning "I'm Eighteen" into a proper hit. "It was this sprawling song that started with a slower, moody keyboard thing," he recalls. "And Bob Ezrin came in and the first thing he said was ‘Get rid of that intro. If it’s gonna be a single, nobody's gonna wait that l...
The four surviving members have reunited several times, onstage and in the studio, since Buxton's death in 1997. The first time was in 1999 for Glen Buxton Memorial Weekend at Cooper'sTown in Phoenix. In 2010, they cut some tracks for Cooper's "Welcome 2 My Nightmare" album and played Christmas Pudding with another fixture of the Cooper universe, S...
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Guitarist Ryan Roxie continues to ‘Enjoy the Ride’ with the Alice Cooper Band. He appreciates the busy schedule and when he’s not touring with the Coop, he’s releasing albums with his bands (Roxie 77 and Casablanca). both bands coming out of his newly adopted home country of Sweden. Roxie first joined the AC Band in 1996 and appeared on ...
Apr 18, 2024 · Alice Cooper, was an American hard rock band that shared its name with its leader. In addition to producing a string of hits in the 1970s, Alice Cooper was among the first rock groups to infuse their performances with theatrics. The members were Alice Cooper (original name Vincent Furnier; b. Feb. 4, 1948, Detroit, Mich., U.S.), Michael Bruce (b.
