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Shock Rocker says Gill could be nightmarish
(Tennessean, 2000-01-28)

A new Vince Gill album titled Welcome to My High Lonesome Nightmare? At least one person believes Gill, the country star with such hit albums as I Still Believe In You and High Lonesome Sound, could pull it off: his friend and golfing buddy Alice Cooper. That's the same Alice Cooper whose albums in the 1970s such works as Welcome to My Nightmare and Alice Cooper Goes to Hell established him as the Godfather of Shock Rock. In those days, when Marilyn Manson and gangsta rappers were mere tykes stumbling around in Pampers, Cooper was running amok on concert stages. While his band tossed out slabs of sonic concrete, the macabre Cooper dressed in ghoulish face paint, staged mock executions, dismembered dolls and cavorted with a live boa constrictor. ...

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