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(Spin, 1989-10-00)
The people who dig groups like Ten Years After now are going to be washed up in two years. They're just going to be like old married couples....
The Three Faces Of Alice
(Spin, 1989-11-00)
Alice was on a cross-country promotional tour to push his new album, "Trash", Alice Cooper's 20th release since "Pretties For You" debuted in 1969 on Frank Zappa's Straight Label. He was back doing what he does best - shameless self-promotion. But for the past ten years, no one but the most die-hard fans have cared to greet him because the Alice albums had lost the madness. With "Trash", though, the buzz is back and now his fans, half of whom weren't even born when "Pretties For You" was released, were threatening to devour him....
In early April of 1973, a mind-melding of sorts took place in New York City. Over the course of about two weeks, shock-rocker Alice Cooper and Salvador Dali, fabled Surrealist, ate together, drank together, and basked in the glow of each other's exceptional freakishness. And lo, it was beautiful. In light of the recent publication of Meredith Etherington-Smith's biography, The Persistence of Memory, (Random House)- and the fact that Alice's and Dali's coming together is mentioned, however scantly, in Chapter 14- the time seemed right to query Alice about just what, exactly, happened....
Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Album Review
(Spin, 1999-06-00)
Alice Cooper Long before he was a budding restaurateur (Phoenix's Alice Cooperstown sports bar), PGA tour wannabe, and Pat Boone - schmoozing shill for Sony cell phones, Vincent Furnier's claim to infamy was as rock's original Antichrist Superstar, the guy who authored the marketing plan Marilyn Manson sampled Puffy-style to become a billion-dollar baby. Rechristening himself Alice Cooper (allegedly the name of a 17th-century witch) in the late '60s, this son of a preacher man moved his L.A.-based band to his Detroit birthplace to cash in on the proto-punk street cred of native sons the Stooges and MC5 (he's likely the only performer ever to move to the Motor City to make it big). Making blasphemy his schtick and trade, Cooper brought his shock theatrics of pro wrestling to rock, his corny concert spectacles putting the "fraud" into schadenfreude. ...
Alice Cooper and Salvador Dali Live the Surreal Life
(Spin, 2009-02-00)
In 1973, both legendary artist and the python-loving rocker were at the height of their infamy....