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Creem
Purging the Zombatized Void with Alice Cooper
(Creem, 1970-07-00)
Rock appears to be going through a period of transitionary chaos. An explosion of mediocre mundanity has deluged the once dynamically creative industry with splintered ineffectual debris. Auditoriums resound with rote perfunctories given...
All American
(Creem, 1972-01-00)
COOPERTOON #1: "Return of the Spiders" is playing, And here stand these two Stooges in the old sense, not like guitar hoodlumps cut from Ig-patterns, but just old time disgraced schmozoes...
School's Out Album Review
(Creem, 1972-12-00)
I've been trying to figure this one out for months. As usual, it's got some of the rawest and cleverest hard rock ever recorded — the title hit is a masterpiece. It's also got a lot of soundtrack, and this part of it is lifted — with attribution, yet — from "West...
Billion Dollar Babies: Alice Spends Himself All Over The Place
(Creem, 1973-05-00)
Just look at what they've got to occupy themselves with: that slick imitation snakeskin cover, the oversized Alice Cooper dollar bill that'll be on more teenage bedroom walls than Bobby Orr and Rod McKuen posters combined, and a whole section of...
Alice Cooper's Alcohol Cookbook
(Creem, 1973-06-00)
Thank god the age of drug sickies is over. Those bread 'n' butter boys, Alice Cooper, have proved exemplary leadership into the genial asskicking renaissance of alkiedom. They stand for booze almost as much as great music, and though they may total...
Alice Cooper's School Daze
(Creem, 1973-10-00)
Remember, O brudders, those good old days in high school when you dreamed that someday you'd be in a longhaired rock 'n' roll band just like the Beatles and the girls'd be drooling all over you? Or maybe you're in high school right now, and...
Milking the Nozzle of Love
(Creem, 1974-01-00)
Which brings us to Alice, of course. Everybody knew what big business he'd turned into, and it was only a matter of time till somebody whipped themselves onto figuring out how to milk the Alice tidal wave. Billion Dollar Babies featured bubblegum...
Muscle Of Love Album Review
(Creem, 1974-03-00)
At this point everything Alice Cooper puts out sounds very similar. Muscle Of Love sounds a great deal like Billion Dollar Babies which sounded a great deal like School's Out which sounded like the album before that, etc. This is to say, a...
Alice Cooper's Monster Mash
(Creem, 1975-06-00)
Alice Cooper hasn't forgone the music biz for the putting-green and daytime TV, he just took an extended station break, but now he's back peddling his Hollywood hjinks, so don't touch that dial! A ticket to Alice's new traveling show is actually an invitation...
Punch & Judy Play The Toilets
(Creem, 1975-07-00)
I'm riding with Alice Cooper in the limousine which will take us to his plane, when a blues song by Howlin' Wolf comes on the radio. "Oh, shit," he groans. "Get that crap off! God, I hate the blues." I suggest that he do a blues album someday...
Reflections in a Cyclops Eye or Alice Off the Road
(Creem, 1975-10-00)
"I'm watching Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? right now," says Alice Cooper's voice on the telephone. "Bette Davis is taking the rat up. Remember the rat she gave her for dinner? What a treat!" Alice is calling from Minneapolis to tell me some final...
News Report
(Creem, 1976-00-00)
Speaking of Alice, to avoid complications should he and his new bride, Cheryl, decide to split up in the future, she signed an agreement that in case of divorce she would not expect or demand any financial settlement. But you'll recall that Alice...
Alice Cooper: Colonel Sanders' Revenge
(Creem, 1976-09-00)
"Oh yeah, I'm getting restless. I want to play again." Alice Cooper, enhancing his already deep tan with the early-June afternoon sunrays slanting into the patio of his rented Hollywood Hills abode (where he waits for them to finish rebuilding...
All Right, Son...
(Creem, 1977-08-00)
Alice Cooper is waiting for the man. He's even got a Coca-Cola in his hand. But where's the burgers? Alice Cooper is waiting. He's waiting for a Big Boy with extra sauce and he's getting edgy. Just ten minutes before he had arrived at a Los Angeles...
News Report
(Creem, 1978-02-00)
Alice Cooper, who took leave of the N.Y. hospital where he committed himself for alcoholic rehabilitation to fly back to L.A. to play his part in the Sgt. Pepper movie, returned promptly upon its completion. How does he look? Fifteen pounds heavier...
Alice Doesn't Flop Here Anymore
(Creem, 1979-05-00)
"Hey, wanna see some great moments in TV?" Alice Cooper whispered conspiratorially, like a fat guy with a two-day beard hustling dirty pictures. Without waiting for a reply, the skinny singer turns on a videotape machine and begins to narrate...
Flush The Fashion Album Review
(Creem, 1980-09-00)
"Goodbye. Hey, goodbye guys! Maybe I'll see — maybe I'll see y'around sometime, huh? Hey, don't make a stranger of yourself, huh? Remember the Coop, huh? I hope — I hope y'don't forget me or nothin'. Goobye..." Alice, "Alma Mater," 1972. A real...
Generation Landslide '87
(Creem, 1987-03-00)
First things first. Alice Cooper's "Under My Wheels" is a rock 'n' roll classic. You can put it on a party tape or hear it on the radio after, say, something from the Stones' Exile On Main Street, and it doesn't sound a bit out of place. I always thought it was...
The Continuing Re-Invention of Alice Cooper
(Creem, 1988-03-00)
Evil, evil Alice. It's been 17 years since he first rose from the murky depths of Vincent Furnier's twisted mind to terrorize an unsuspecting legion of rock fans hungry for new meat. Since then, he's shown more resilience than Friday The 13th's...