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Zia Zine
Some Folks Love To See Red
(Zia Zine, 1999-05-24)
Probably one of my earliest rock and roll memories involves receiving two records for Christmas when I was about 11 years old. Bless their hearts -- my brother and sister, both a bit older than me, had taken the occasion brought about by the giving season to dose me with two classic Alice Cooper albums: Cooper's recent Alice Cooper Goes To Hell, and the mid-'70s masterpiece Welcome To My Nightmare. I eagerly listened to both discs, and although I probably didn't quite fully understand them (the black humor of "Cold Ethyl" was lost on this youth), I was hopelessly hooked on Alice. ...