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Songfacts®: This was the first song that Alice Cooper wrote entirely on his own back in 1967. It was forgotten until Dennis Dunaway, the original bass guitarist for the Alice Cooper band from 1969-1974, rediscovered the demo and played it to Alice, after which the two of them updated the tune and then recorded it for the Paranormal album.
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Jul 28, 2017 · [Verse 1] The sound of A is in the air. The sound of A is everywhere. With the sound of a gun. And you run. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [Verse 2] The sound of A is all around. The sound of A is...
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“Dennis brought in two or three songs,” Cooper says. “And (producer Bob) Ezrin and I are sitting there listening to the stuff, all the writers, and Dennis says, ‘I want you to hear this one.’ I said, ‘Oh man, Dennis, I remember when you wrote that song.’ And he goes, ‘Well, yeah, but youwrote it.’ I said, ‘I did?’ He goes, ‘Yeah, it was the first s...
When Dunaway played his recording of "The Sound of A," Cooper says “Bob Ezrin said, ‘I love that. That is so simple and powerful.’ I said, ‘Well, let’s record it and see what happens.’ It was the only song that we didn’t really arrange. At the end, I said, ‘Let’s just let it go. Let it float out. Let the guitar players and the keyboard and everythi...
Although he’d forgotten the song, Cooper says hearing it 50 years later triggered memories of what he was thinking when he wrote the lyrics. “We were talking about the idea of doing a sci-fi thing where the sound of A (the musical note) was piped into every house and kept everybody on a kind of even keel,” he says. “If they wanted to change your mo...
They'd played a show with Pink Floyd at the Cheetah Club and hit it off. "We’d open for the British bands that came in," Cooper says. "And it was crazy. We saw their show and they had exactly the same lights that we did. We had a box made with colored lights that would flicker up because that’s all we could afford were flood lights in a box. And we...
Alice Cooper guitarist Glen Buxton formed an instant bond with Barrett. “Glen Buxton could play any rock and roll thing but he wasn’t really based in the blues,” Cooper says. “Of course, everybody played Chuck Berry so we were all based in that. But that’s not where his brain was at. He had an Echoplex, a guitar and a little amp and he would plug t...
And one could say the same for Cooper’s early work. To Cooper’s ears, “Pretties for You” was “maybe our most original album.” In fact, he recalls, “It was so original that Frank Zappa goes, ‘I don’t get it.’" And Zappa was kind of a weirdo. "He says, ‘You’ve got six songs that are two minutes long and have 28 changes in them,'" Cooper recalls. "I w...
Given his affection for those first two albums, was Cooper reluctant to rein that in on their third album, “Love it to Death,” which spawned their breakthrough single “I’m Eighteen?” “Oh no,” Cooper says. “We were, at this point, tired of starving. And… we had already done it. We’d moved on. The guys in the band were better players. And we kind of ...
“I’m Eighteen,” he says, is a perfect example of what Ezrin brought to the proceedings. “’Eighteen’ is a song we used to open with that was a big jam,” Cooper says. “It was 15 minutes long. And he says, ‘What is that song? I’m edgy?’ I said, ‘No, I’m Eighteen.’ He goes, ‘OK, well, an 18-year-old would be a lot dumber than that. We have to dumb this...
Asked if it’s harder to get in the head space of “I’m Eighteen” with his 70th birthday coming up in February, Cooper laughs. “Oh no, Alice is 18,” he says “When the Who do ‘My Generation,’ there’s a 16-year-old kid who listens to that song and goes, ‘He’s talking about me.’ There are certain anthems that will work for every single generation. ‘Eigh...
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Dec 13, 2017 · “The Sound of A” will be released as a single on Feb. 23 on CD and 10″ white vinyl and will also include four previously unreleased live tracks which were culled from a May 6 performance in Columbus, Ohio. Paranormal is out now and can be purchased at Amazon or digitally through iTunes.
