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Ten Quesions for Alice Cooper
(Mojo, 1997-07-00)
Theatrics have always played a major part in your shows, yet you've abandoned them for your forthcoming tour; won't you feel vulnerable without all the paraphernalia? Well, when you play Alice there's no such thing as a straight show. Alice is so theatrical on his own and I can't think of too many songs that are just go-ahead, straight numbers without some prop involved. Sometimes you can do as much with a crutch as with an entire background; a handful of dollar bills and a sword can be much more dramatic than an entire backdrop. And we do Gutter Cats Versus The Jets into Dwight Fry with the straitjacket, so there are some theatrics still there. ...
Glen Buxton
(Mojo, 1997-12-00)
Glen Buxton, the Alice Cooper hroup's original guitarist and co-writer of School's Out, has died aged 50 in Clarion, Iowa, from complications arising from pneumonia. Buxton, who had survived drink and drug problems and a suicide attempt, made a living selling Alice Cooper memorabilia and working for Goodyear Aerospace, and although he knew his health wasn't what it should be he remained in good spirits. Shortly before he died he maintained: "What's really killing me is the price of the pills. But I'm pretty optimistic because people want to hear more music from me - I'm relearning the guitar."...
Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Album Review
(Mojo, 1999-06-00)
All the hits plus rareties - 12 previously unreleased - including pre-Alice singles, outtakes and demos, on four CD`s in a nifty jail-cell box, 80-page colour book features intro by Johnny Rotten. When John Lydon was a nipper he joined Alice's fan club. They sent him a box of feathers. "Oh no, these are feathers off of one of the chickens that Alice must have killed! How sick and delicious..." he recalls in his two page tribute. "The Sex Pistols were the real thing and Alice wasn't? WRONG!" ...
The Axe Files
(Mojo, 2001-00-00)
They couldn't even fill a bar. So what did Alice Cooper sound like before he encouraged us to skip class? Ben Edmonds know. Back in late-'60s California, in the days before the 1972 summer holiday hit, School's Out, Alice Cooper wasn't a solo artist. It was the name of a band. And not a very highly regarded one at that....
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
(Mojo, 2001-05-00)
In the late '60s, Alice Cooper sounded like snotty-nosed Zappa/Mothers wannabes playing at being The Beatles....
Last Night A Record Changed My Life
(Mojo, 2003-10-00)
Back when he was dodging Phoenix rednecks as frontman of The Spiders, Alice Cooper's heart opened to a Broadway show soundtrack.. When we were known as The Spiders back in Phoenix, the West Side Story Soundtrack album had a big impact on the band. Not just me; we were all affected by that somehow. I think it was the juvenile delinquency. Remember, this was pre-Clockwork Orange. There was something about the gang thing and the band mentality that intrigued us. We made that connection right away. Glen Buxton and Neil Smith were originally from Ohio, and I was from Detroit, so we had some big town roots. West Side Story definitely helped inspire the theatrics of Alice Cooper. Certainly we weren't gonna dance like that - but there was an undeniable coolness about it. When we took it to the next level of make-up, we still had the gang attitude. In fact, none of us ever went out alone. There would have to he three or four of us together. Those were less enlightened times, and with our long hair and the clothes it was a real risk to travel solo.
"Basic. Dumb. Sex-charged!"
(Mojo, 2007-04-00)
"The first Stooges album was true street Detroit music. We played the Grande Ballroom with Ted Nugent, The Amboy Dukes, the MC5 and The Stooges, with The Who headlining....
Hologram Slam!
(Mojo, 2011-07-00)
There was an unnerving return from the dead on April 21 at a Los Angeles sound stage. But this was no horror flick in production; instead it was Alice Cooper playing live with original bandmates Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith and Michael Bruce - Steve Hunter filled in for the late Glen Buxton. ...