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Alice Cooper: Return of the Trash Man
(Goldmine, 1990-03-09)
It has been more than 12 yeas since Alice Cooper had scored a Top 10 hit single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart when "Poison," from the Epic album Trash, peaked out at #7 just before last Christmas. ...
Talk Talk: Alice Cooper
(Goldmine, 1997-10-10)
Appearing recently on the Tonight Show, a typically bedraggled-looking Alice Cooper performed a blistering version of the angst-anthem, "I'm Eighteen," then took a seat next to Jay Leno. Smiling broadly, the talk show host quipped that it looked as if it had been a tough 18 years. "Well," replied Cooper, "if you say 'I'm 49 and I like it,' then it becomes a whole different thing." ...
Alice Cooper Guitarist Glen Buxton: 1947-1997
(Goldmine, 1997-12-05)
Glen Buxton, the talented but troubled lead guitarist for the original Alice Cooper group died Oct. 19 from complications from pneumonia. He was 49. Buxton's triple-pickup white Gibson SG and psychotic six-stringing were as much a part of the original group as was Alice's mascara, or the snakes, guillotines and gallows that inhabited the band's stage as it conquered city after city during its 1971 -to- 1973 heyday. His powerful lead-guitar tone powered the band's early '70s hit singles, including "I'm Eighteen," "Under My Wheels," "Be My Lover," "Elected" and the perennial crowd-pleaser, "School's Out," for which he composed the song's main riff, one of the all-time classic hard-rock guitar statements....
Alice Cooper - From The Inside
(Goldmine, 2000-05-19)
Back in the early '70s when The Alice Cooper Group resided high atop the record charts, few would have predicted that the band's mascaraed lead singer would sustain on of rock 'n' rolls most successful careers. Thirty years later, however, what was once thought to be a passing fad is now an American institution. The son of the Baptist minister, Cooper and several of his teenage classmates founded their first band as a lark for the high school talent show. First called the Earwigs, then The Spiders, then The Nazz, the group eventually settled on the name Alice Cooper. By then (1968), the band had settled into a lineup that featured - in addition to Cooper - Michael Bruce (guitar), Glen Buxton (guitar), Dennis Dunaway (bass), and Neal Smith (drums)....
Way to go with Alice Cooper cover
(Goldmine, 2000-06-16)
Hats off to Russell Hall and Goldmine for the excellent Alice Cooper article (#517, May 19, 2000), a good follow-up to the earlier 1990 piece....
Alice Cooper: The New (Wild) West
(Goldmine, 2006-05-12)
Alice Cooper - aka Vincent Damon Furnier and the son of a preacher man - has spent 35 years as a constant, relentless force of shock rock-ness. Ironic perhaps (the preacher bit), but Cooper has rarely played his card as a force for evil. It's a strange career path, one periodically boozy, always incendiary and frenzied, sometimes comical, with lots of golf and hot rods as well....
Backstage Pass: Alice Cooper spins another web
(Goldmine, 2008-07-24)
With its twisted lyrics, devastating sonic crunch and vicious hooks, many are calling Along Comes A Spider a return to the demented Alice Cooper of old...
The Real Alice
(Goldmine, 2019-06-00)
Alice Cooper can be considered the most schizophrenic moniker in the history of rock music. When you say, “Alice Cooper” you could be referring to the person, or you could be referring to the band. In fact, Alice Cooper is so closely associated with the character that vocalist Vincent Furnier plays, it can be hard to tell where one ends and the other begins, especially in the minds of the casual fan. ...