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(Post Dispatch, 1988-01-15)
I strongly urge parents to keep their children away from the Alice Cooper concert tomorrow night. The band plans an evening of simulated violence and mayhem complete with beatings, dismemberment and gore, or in Cooper's words, "the biggest bloodbath ever." Much of this violence is directed at the most vulnerable members of our society, women and children, and at animals. To make it all seem as real as possible, the band uses special effects, lighting and "blood" to splash on the audience....
Alice Cooper, Master Of Shock-Rock, Plays At Kiel
(Post Dispatch, 1988-01-16)
EVERY ROCK fan's favorite nightmare, Alice Cooper, brought his theatrical brand of rock to Kiel Auditorium on Saturday evening. The singer's program was a fast-paced visual orgy of the gruesome, fueled by the metal-powered onslaught of Cooper's crack five-piece backing group. When rock maestro Frank Zappa released Cooper's debut album "Pretties For You" in 1969 on his own Straight records, few would have imagined that the master of shock-rock would still be thrilling audiences nearly two decades later. However, with his "Raise Your Fist and Yell" tour in full swing, Cooper has captured an entirely new generation of rock ghoul watchers. ...
Alice Is Back And Is As Sweet As Ever
(Post Dispatch, 1988-01-17)
If there is one thing Alice Cooper does not want his performing alter ego to be, it's a cliche. One might think it was time for the rock 'n' roll theatrics legend to take it easy, to tone down the glitzy, macabre stagecraft for which he has become famous. After all, rock 'n' roll is mostly for the young, and Cooper has been around since the early '70s. Well, forget it. The performer, who usually refers to himself in the third person, tried that several years ago. The has-been costume didn't fit. "Alice took three years off in the early 1980s," Cooper explained, "because it sounded good at the time. After a while, though, I discovered that I was retiring way too soon. I was looking at a magazine one day, seeing which bands were hot at the time, and they were all doing Alice. They were imitating the act I had done for so long. That was all the urging I needed. ...
People Column
(Post Dispatch, 1988-02-25)
Shock-rock star ALICE COOPER, who says he bought his first car years ago from impeached Arizona Gov. EVAN MECHAM, has half-serious plans to run for political office in Arizona, his home state. "I'm definitely a write-in candidate," said Cooper. "Hey, I'm a native. I'm a registered voter. I represent the Wild Party, and I even have a campaign slogan: 'Alice Cooper - a troubled man for troubled times."' Cooper, 39, is in Phoenix for a show Saturday night that will end the American leg of his yearlong comeback tour. ...
Alice Cooper Is Still The Freak Show Maestro
(Post Dispatch, 1988-03-29)
Rock singer Alice Cooper appeared at the Fox Theatre on Tuesday evening in a ghoulish exhibition of horror-show bravado. Undoubtedly rock music's last bastion of musical theater, the Cooper performance was a seamless blend of heavy rock and high-tech drama on a superlative scale. At "thirtysomething," I've watched Alice Cooper's career go from an early performance at Rainy Daze Teen Club in my high school days, to a mid-period oddity at the Arena Annex, to the platinum glory of his "Billion Dollar Babies" tour and on to his current sensational comeback. It couldn't happen to a stranger guy, or more talented entertainer. ...
Up On The Roof, It's Alice Cooper
(Post Dispatch, 1991-08-30)
ATTENTION HEAVY METALLURGISTS: You can greet heavy metal rocker Alice Cooper at 7 p.m. Tuesday at 3801 Hampton Avenue. That's where Sound Warehouse is situated, and Cooper has been booked for its rooftop. Rooftop? Yep. Cooper is appearing in a 12-city tour across the country "in unexpected places." The tour began in Los Angeles, where Cooper and his band took over radio station KLOS. In Towson, Md., he performed on the courthouse steps. The tour, incidentally, will push his current Epic album, "Hey Stoopid," which will be priced for a two-hour period at 98 cents at some local retaileries. ...
Rocker Is A Hit On Highway Here
(Post Dispatch, 1991-09-07)
SIGHTEMS: That was Alice Cooper at the Walgreen's at Tesson Ferry and Kennerly roads Tuesday afternoon, sipping a Coke and munching on Cheetos with KSHE-FM's John Ulett. The break came after an auto accident in which Ulett's car was struck broadside while he was shuttling Cooper to the Sound Warehouse on Hampton Avenue for a cameo performance. Both escaped unscathed. By the way, Cooper shot a 78 at the Quail Creek golf course earlier in the day. . . ....
Alice Cooper, Man Of the People
(Post Dispatch, 1996-07-19)
WHEN horror-show hard-rocker Alice Cooper started clicking on the music scene in the early '70s, he struck a crazy pose for head-bangers, budding punks and the odd freak everywhere. That pose and his later music eventually fell into irrelevancy, but the guy deserves credit for giving the dazed and confused generation a colorful icon....