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Vancouver Westender

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Alice Cooper
(Vancouver Westender, 1999-00-00)

Alice Cooper's Rock N Roll Carnival is coming to Vancouver. It doesn't matter much that his best contribution to the annuls of rock had to be back in 1972 with the release of the absolutely matchless "School's Out" -- it remains, quite simply, one of the best rock anthems ever recorded. It doesn't matter that his last #1 record, Billion Dollar Babies, was released in 1973 when I was but a mere babe myself. Why? Because it was his dark world of Rock alot of us were born into. And it doesn't even matter that he, like all dressed-up, resurrect-a- rock bands of the 70's, must now measure the stage make-up in pounds per square inch -- it must be said: Rock don't wrinkle, and theatre and concept get better with age. This is Alice Cooper....

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