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Alice Cooper at Forum: a big boa
(Montreal Gazette, 1972-09-05)
Our story picks up sometime early Monday morning: The truck carrying all of the sound equipment for last night's Alice Cooper-Dr. John Rock Show at the Forum overturns on the highway near Rochester, New York. ...
Alice Cooper has crawled out of the crypt yet again
(Montreal Gazette, 1988-01-22)
Alice Cooper is all the evidence needed in a court of law to prove hard rock is the work of the devil. Cooper, a.k.a. Vincent Furnier, first surfaced on Frank Zappa's Straight Records in the late '60s sporting waist-length hair, gingham dresses, a name he claimed came form a 17-century witch and a reputation as the worst live act in southern California. ...
Alice back, shock-rock lives
(Montreal Gazette, 1988-02-11)
What become a legend most? In the strange case of Alice Cooper, it isn't Blackglama Mink; it's blood - as in buckets....
Old Poker Player Still In The Game
(Montreal Gazette, 1994-06-29)
Alice Cooper: I'd like to think we haven't lost our edge. He's been a cartoon since 1969. Now meet Alice Cooper, comic book. His name long since changed to infect the innocent, Vince Furnier is no stranger to altered identity. The human behind Alice Cooper's painted faces has had a few over the last two decades, from hard-rock cross-dressing lighting-rod to suburban teen rebellion to game show has-been. Alice has a better description. "I'm a poker player", he says, comfortably ensconced on his hotel couch, "just hoping to cash a good hand". ...
The Two Faces of Alice Cooper
(Montreal Gazette, 1999-09-25)
25 albums later, rock's Nightmare performer still knows how to separate the man from the act. You haven't lived until you've heard Alice Cooper say "the f-word"; not the actual f--k, but the phrase "the f-word." And this in a phone call, not on the air or in a public place where impressionable children might hear him and develop a complex. Cooper was drawing the paternal guidelines for what he would and would not allow the youngest of his three children a daughter, 6- to see or hear. Marilyn Manson is permitted, of which more later, as is Rob Zombie. ...
Cooper cuts the guillotine, keeps the showmanship
(Montreal Gazette, 1999-09-30)
It's a tribute to Vincent Furnier's irony-free immersion in his three-decade old alter ego that last night's performance by Alice Cooper at a comfortably full Metropolis avoided the trappings of a blind nostalgia trip. Many a less theatrical performer would have inadvertently accentuated such a downsizing in venue capacity. Cooper's entrance was hardly restrained as he broke free from his jack-in-the-box shelter, putting a quick end to the happy carnival music that ushered in his set and chasing the clowns who pulled double-duty as roadies off the stage with his riding crop....