Article Database
1991 - 1993
Various Unknown Circus Articles
(Circus, 1991-00-00)
"Role model?" The question bounces off Alice Cooper like a rubber bullet as his eyes bulge in mock disbelief. In a career that's stretched from the late-60's, Alice has been called many things; "the King of Shock Rock" the most durable...
News Reports 1991-1992
(Hot Metal, 1991-00-00)
Alice Cooper's live shows don't stop at the light and sound production of the average rock concert; they are the enactment of a modern morality play, in which Alice's evil alter ego is allowed to run riot all over the stage. But after the murderous doppelganger has his fun, he's made to pay for it - and it's various ingenious methods by which he receives his comeupance that keep the fans flocking to Cooper's shows on each successive tour. When he played his recent UK shows, Alice revealed some of his stage secrets to Hot Metal....
Alice Cooper
(Live Wire, 1991-00-00)
Being the big ALICE COOPER fan I am, I couldn't wait to receive a copy of the new HEY STOOPID album. After the success of his TRASH LP, Alice had a whole new legacy to live up to. Restoring The Coop to platinum selling levels and spawning MTV friendly hits with the speed and accuracy of a Cenobite flaying it's victim, TRASH put Alice back on the track with a selection of Desmond Child produced radio rockers. No doubt about it, tracks like "Poison", "Bed Of Nails", and "House Of Fire" had the hooks and chachy choruses that helped bring yet another new audience of Alice fanatics. But they also had a sound so reminicent of prime BILLION DOLLAR BABIES era Cooper excitement that all long time Alice fans knew the man was indeed back. Yep, with the tenacity of Jason Vorhees, the man behind the mask had returned to slay'em again! ...
Alice Cooper: Hey Stoopid!
(Metal Hammer, 1991-00-00)
"HEY STOOPID!" If you hear that aggressive shout echoing down the streets for the next few months, don't go looking for a fight. It's only Alice Cooper, hitting back with a provocative new anthem that threatens to re-enact the glories of past hits like...
Shooting Off
(People, 1991-00-00)
Rock and roll ghoul Alice Cooper is amused by the elevated status of younger glam bands. "I love the high heels," says Cooper, 43, whose new album in Hey Stoopid. "I know how difficult it is to wear those things. L.A.'s got a very healthy crop of glam bands. They all look like early Alice Cooper." How does Cooper cope with competition? "We're trying harder now. I look at these guys who are 25, and I go out of my way to blow them off the stage, just to show them they have a long way to go. I've got to periodically put on my guns and show them different."...
Films. "Susperia, which was directed by Dario Argento, 'cos to rne it was his best movie. Hellzapoppin, would have to be the second one, 'cos it's a good comedy. West Side Story as the third. Why? Because that film really inspired Alice Cooper early on. There's a lot of Alice in there. " Guests."The Marx Brothers, Salvador Dali, Elvis Presley would have to be in there, and the entire Monty Python cast. Jerry Lewis would make it too. Oh yeah, and Stiv Bator would've loved to have been invited."...
Hail to the Coop!
(Rock Beat, 1991-00-00)
Alice Cooper — 20 albums and countless nightmares late, the quintessential King of Shock-Rock, is alive, well, happy and sober....
News Report
(Rolling Stone, 1991-00-00)
Being rock's reigning ghoul guru has its perks. For the title track of his new release, Hey Stoopid, ALICE COOPER enlisted the guitar-slinging support of SLASH and the vocal wail of OZZY OSBOURNE. "I wanted Slash on it for a real nasty feel," says Cooper. "And because the songs is basically an anti-teen-suicide song, I thought it was poetic justice to have Ozzy sing on it. I thought it was a great way to vindicate him."...
Concert Review
(Times, The, 1991-00-00)
Alice Cooper was once banned from playing Binghamton, New York. The city council deemed the Cooper stage act, which featured a live snake and a simulated guillotine, an incitement to violence. Eighteen years later Cooper's performances have...
Alice Goes Stupid
(RAW, 1991-05-01)
Alice Cooper is now in the final mixing stages for his new LP, the follow-up to the highly successful 'Trash'. The LP is likely to be called 'Hey Stoopid' and is said to rock harder than his last album. The LP is being produced by Peter Collins (Queensryche, Gary Moore) with basic recording having been done at Bearsville Studios in Upstate New York, with the remaining work taking place at studios in Los Angeles - the same travel routine as was followed for 'Trash'. A number of guest musicians are featured on the project, but thus far their names are being kept under wraps, although Slash's name has been mentioned, alongside fellow guitarist Vinnie Moore. And among those people who collaborated with AC on material for the record are: Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx and guitarist Mick Mars (both of whom also appear on the record), Desmond Child (with whom Alice worked on the 'Trash' project), Dick Wagner (a member of the Alice Cooper band during the halcyon days of the early-to-mid-'70's), Jack Ponti (top songwriter/producer from New York) and Jim Vallance (Canadian songwriting partner of Bryan Adams). ...
Alice Cooper: The Rollers
(BAM, 1991-05-17)
"Living Legend" is probably one of the most overused cliches in all of rock 'n' roll, but no one deserves the title more than the one nd only Alice Cooper. Call him the "Master of Shock Rock," "Black Humorist Supreme," or, simply, "Rock's...
Alice Gets 'Stoopid'
(Kerrang!, 1991-05-25)
King shocker Alice Cooper returns with a new album 'Hey Stoopid' through Epic on July 1. It's been produced by Peter 'Queensryche' Collins and features 12 new songs by a variety of guest writers and an all-star cast of thousands (almost). Present on all tracks are Alice (natch), his new guitarist Stef Burns, and drummer Mickey Curry but the guest list is headed by Ozzy Osbourne, Slash, Rob Halford, and Joe Satriani who all make an appearance on opening cut 'Hey Stoopid'. Satch also turns up on 'Burning Our Beds', 'Wind Up Toy', and 'Little By Little' and the track 'Feed My Frankenstien', (co-written by Zodiac Mindwarp)....
Hey Stupid!
(Hot Metal, 1991-06-00)
Alice Cooper is currently puzzling over which tracks to include on his forthcoming album, Hey Stoopid. So far 15 have been recorded at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock and The Complex in Los Angeles, but only 11 will make it on to the finished record. Amongst the new tracks that Alice is considering for inclusion are It Rained All Night, I Might As Well Be On Mars, I'm Dangerous Tonight, Feed My Frankenstein, Little By Little and Hurricane Years. Relaxing in the lounge of The Complex, Alice explains that the title track, Hey Stoopid, is an anti-suicide song. "I get letters all the time that say, 'I'm fourteen and I'm going to kill myself', and I'm trying to figure out what's so bad that's causing that. Rock and Roll is a celebration, it's a party, it's not so heavy - and if it is, get help, because you shouldn't be thinking of snuffing it at the age of fourteen! There was a double-edged sword there too, because I know that a lot of rock and rollers are falsely accused of promoting suicide, and so I want to get Halford on this for some background vocals - and Axl, Ozzy, Sebastian - and have a whole outlaw choir on there, only because I think it makes a point. The last thing we want to see is those kids out there dying."...
News Report
(Metal Forces, 1991-06-00)
Alice Cooper will release his new album, 'Hey Stoopid' through Epic Records on June 17th. Containing such tracks as 'Snakebite', 'Feed My Frankenstein', 'Love's A Loaded Gun', 'Hey Stoopid' and 'Die For You', it features contributions from the likes of Axl and Slash, Vinnie Moore, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Nikki Six and Mick Mars.
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Alice Cooper on Censorship and Politics
(Metal Hammer, 1991-06-00)
When my sensational and gory shows first appeared in the seventies, they featured me hanging, being decapitated, and hacking up baby dolls! But I never really ran into strong opposition or the kind of censorship that now threatens...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1991-06-14)
Shock rocker Alice Cooper releases a new single 'Hey Stoopid'. Through Epic this week. The track, which features contributions from Slash, Joe Satriani, and Ozzy Osbourne, is backed with 'Wind-Up Toy'....
Don't Knock The Shock
(RAW, 1991-06-26)
Jet black hair, wiry frame and startling sapphire-blue eyes. Alice Cooper, at fortysomething, is no stranger to holding court, telling the world about his latest exploits. In LA studio, his latest album 'Hey Stoopid', booms from the speakers, while he watches TV, seemingly giving his undivided attention to a flood of prying questions. Nearly 20 years since he first depraved schoolgirls and boys all over the globe, Alice Cooper - real name Vincent Furnier - laughs at the thought of being perceived as a new act who merely debuted last year with his chart-friendly 'Trash' album....
Stoopid Time To Release An Album
(Kerrang!, 1991-06-29)
Legendary shock rocker Alice Cooper releases his new album, 'Hey Stoopid', through Epic on July 1. It features the following tracks: Side One: 'Hey Stoopid', 'Love's A Loaded Gun', 'Snakebite', 'Burning Our Bed', 'Dangerous Tonight', 'Might As Well Be On Mars'. Side Two: 'Frankenstein', 'Hurricane Years', 'Little By Little', 'Die For You', 'Dirty Dreams', 'Wind-Up Toy'. The album also includes guest appearances from Axl Rose and Slash, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Ozzy Osbourne. ...
In The Studio With Alice
(Hot Metal, 1991-07-00)
Recording a new Alice Cooper album has always involved a few "Keep Out" signs being nailed up around the studio. But for his latest, Hey Stoopid, Alice dusted down the welcome mat and invited contributions from fellow metallers Nikki Sixx, Slash and Zodiac Mindwarp. And, a few weeks ago, he even asked Hot Metal's Valerie Potter to drop by for a chat.... Attempting to follow up an hugely successful album like Trash must present an almost overwhelming temptation to duplicate the magic formula, but Alice Cooper has never been known for playing safe. While a large measure of Trash's accessibility was attributed to jobbing song smith Desmond Child, who co-wrote all but one of the tracks as well as producing it, some critics felt that Child's input diluted Cooper's harder musical edge and - well, his downright nastiness. ...
Choice Cut Of The Month
(M.E.A.T., 1991-07-00)
What a difference a year makes. Last year, we boldly "trashed" the Alice Cooper album Trash is "pop fluff", and in retaliation we were denied an interview with the God of Ghoul himself. Of course, Trash went on to sell three million albums worldwide, and ""Poison" was a hit everywhere, so not everyone agreed. ...
The Godfather
(Metal Forces, 1991-07-00)
After the at times insipid and comercial 'Trash', it is with much glee that I find old Alice re-taking his throne as King of Splatter-rock. Yes, that's right folks, old make-up arond the eyes is back with what sounds like his strongest album since the heady days of 'Goes To Hell' and 'Welcome To My Nightmare'. There's still the odd Child-inspired melody line and chant-a-long chorus, but 'Hey Stoopid' rocks like a motherfucka!...
Alice Cooper: My Early Years
(Rock Power, 1991-07-00)
Just like the Queen Alice Cooper speaks of himself in a rather ambiguous third person. "This is our twenty-first album, counting the live album. I think we're getting the knack of this. We may stay around for a while!" The album in question is called ‘Hey Stoopid’, and Alice is so excited about it that he words tumble over each other. ...
When is Cooper not Alice?
(Toronto Star, 1991-07-00)
Philadelphia - Veteran rocker Alice Cooper, who claims "everybody I know in rock 'n' roll's a schizo," has always managed to live by that credo. Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; the son of a minister) refers to his stage alter ego...
Hey Stoopid Album Review
(Billboard, 1991-07-06)
It must be the '90s if Alice Cooper is singing an anti-drug anthem -- and he's joined by Ozzy Osborne and Slash. Well it is, and the good news is that Cooper is aging beautifully. Several notches above 1989's platinum "Trash,"...
A smarter Alice Cooper's 'Stoopid' tour
(USA Today, 1991-07-16)
"I would never hang out with him," says Alice Cooper, on the subject of himself. Shock rock's snake charmer refers to his stage character in the third person, claiming the alter ego has a distinct posture, mannerisms and volatile personality....
Hey Stoopid Album Review
(Entertainment Weekly, 1991-07-19)
At this point, the thought of a new Alice Cooper album is both admirable and pathetic, just like the idea of a 45-year-old man playing the role of decadent, mascara-streaked rock star. But give Alice credit: He knows that it's ridiculous too and that rather than even attempt an adult image, he's better off constructing a nothing-but-good-dumb-fun album like this follow-up to his 1989 comeback, Trash. Hey Stoopid is radio-friendly hard-rock fluff of the Bon Jovi or latter-day Aerosmith genre, but with better hooks than anything on, say, Jon Bon Jovi's solo album. Like Kiss, Cooper has settled into a respectable middle-aged rock formula: choruses that resemble football-stadium chants, truckloads of hammer-on-anvil power chords, and lyrics that work best when they are indeed stupid ("Feed my Frankenstein/Hungry for love/And it's feeding time"). Granted, the album is only a faint echo of the creepy and wonderfully adolescent rock theatrics of his 1970-73 gory days. But as long as Alice keeps getting the joke, he can wear all the eyeliner he wants....
Prime Cuts
(RAW, 1991-07-24)
There was a time when Alice still had malice and a proper band around him. A time when young Vincent Furnier and his sicko friends were tagged as Public Ememy Number One and 'Prime Cuts' pretty much catalogues the man and the band's career of excess from the late '60s throughout the halcyon '70s-era freak outs right up until the modern day where you get Gn'R man Slash laying down the solo to Cooperman's latest offering 'Hey Stoopid'. Thankfully, we're spared the man's down period (early '80s albums such as 'Special Forces' spring to mind) and what you tend to get is material that's genuinely rivetting (check out the video for 'Elected' f'rinstance - now, that's totally classic!) and in places hysterical, coupled with Alice's modern day reminiscences. The closing 'Trash'-and-beyond material is a little lightweight but early Alice fans will find more than their fair share of priceless, camp moments on offer here. Prime cuts indeed. ...
Cooperman Returns!
(Hot Metal, 1991-08-00)
It was no surprise that Alice Cooper should slide easily into metal territory. As opposed to sticking to his former rough and ready rock from earlier days. Metal meant that Cooperman could play out his schlock horror fantasies to an extent that the likes of King Diamond could only dream of, except that Alice was then in danger of becoming little more than a deranged cartoon character. 'Hey Stoopid' is a fairly sober LP, likely to disappoint those wanting more gore, but impress those who though Alice had disappeared up his own theatrical backside....
Hey Stoopid
(Metal Hammer, 1991-08-00)
Welcome to my nightmare. I naively hoped that Alice would have forgotten about the Child-ish choruses of 'Trash' and gone back to being the nasty Alice we all knew and revered. But of course he wasn't going to turn down the chance of emulating the massive...
A Matter Of Attitude
(Music Express, 1991-08-00)
Alice Cooper is one aging shock-rocker, but he still knows how to stop traffic and turn curious heads. In an ambitious publicity stunt to launch his new album Hey Stoopid and the Operation Rock 'N' Roll stadium tour, Alice blitzed Toronto with a guerilla action that illustrated his flair for the dramatic....
Welcome To My Remodel
(Phoenix Home and Garden, 1991-08-00)
Okay, so there is that pair of rattlesnake-shaped pulls on the front door, and inside, the master bedroom fabric is a touch Gothic in tone. Perhaps the art display throughout the house is tinged with macabre humour, and then there is that den closet filled with at least a dozen black leather jackets... Nonetheless, little else about the sunny, contemporary Southwest-style home perched on a Paradise Valley hillside hints at the public identity of its occupants. In fact, the home's warm, family-oriented ambience is the polar opposite of the public's perception of its owners, shock-rock performer Alice Cooper and his wife, dancer/choreographer Sheryl Cooper....
Stoopid Coopid
(Vox, 1991-08-00)
I'm just on one of those antibiotic buzzes right now, where everything's just a little off, a little bit queasy... ...
Operation Rock 'N' Roll
(Kerrang!, 1991-08-03)
Although Motorhead raised the stakes significantly, Alice Cooper was capable of matching them. While this tour's stageshow is mild and tame compared to past antics, the music is incredible. Packing in 18 or so songs, Vincent and friends tore through a show that was simply awesome at times. With Stef Burns and Vinnie Moore handling the guitar chores in their own distinctive styles, 'Go To Hell', 'Eighteen', 'Elected' 'No More Mr Nice Guy', 'Under My Wheels', 'Billion Dollar Babies' and 'School's Out' were punchier and edgier than ever before....
Hey Stoopid
(Rock Power, 1991-08-03)
Twenty one albums down the trail of the cartoon macabre and for a handful of tracks on 'Hey Stoopid', Alice might as well be talking to himself. Having reinvented himself all over again on 'Trash', this is a consolidating exercise. Dig in, and dig deep, otherwise the bastards'll drag you down to a has-been again....
Shock-rock Star Leads Two Lives
(Winnipeg Free Press, 1991-08-03)
Alice Cooper has learned the secret of sanity through double identity. One is Alice, rock 'n' roll's long-lasting monster man, the guy who wears sneers, black mascara and blood-stained, ripped leotards while he sings about dead babies, evil reptiles and necrophilia. He's also prone to sticking his neck in guillotines and hangman's nooses....
Go Ask Alice
(Central New Jersey Home News, 1991-08-04)
Alice Cooper has learned the secret of sanity through double identity. One is Alice, rock 'n' roll's long-lasting monster man, the guy who wears sneers, black mascara and blood-stained, ripped leotards while he sings about dead babies, evil reptiles...
Concert Review
(RAW, 1991-08-07)
.....As the venue lights dim then slowly rally to penetrate the dry ice, we notice the stage is fittingly decorated by a huge skull with gnarled hands. The Master of macabre humour and onstage illusion, Alice Cooper, is here! Even the influence of Desmond Child has failed to turn Alice into a clone of every other band he's worked with - thank God! With a new LP 'Hey Stoopid' just released, Cooper played a very acceptable Greatest Hits package, with 'Under My Wheels', 'Trash', the original 'No More Mr. Nice Guy' (recent redone by Megadeth), 'Billion Dollar Babies', a gory 'Feed My Frankenstein', 'Only Women Bleed' and 'Hey Stoopid' itself all delighted the crowd. Ever a favourite, 'Go To Hell' allowed us all to join Cooper on his journey. ...
Alice's 'Bad Boys' make room for daddy
(Toronto Star, 1991-08-16)
Alice Cooper is living proof that you can't judge a kook by looking at its cover. Who'd have been dumb enough 20 yers ago this summer to be that the booze-soaked. Who'd have been dumb enough 20 yers ago this summer to be that the booze-soaked...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1991-08-17)
Veteran gore God Alice Cooper has lined up a comprehensive UK tour in support of his current 'Hey Stoopid' album. Alice play the following shows: Dublin Point September 28, Wembley Arena 30, and October 1, Bournemouth Center 4, Sheffield International Arena 5, Whitley Bay Ice Rink 7, Edinburgh Playhouse 8, Birmingham NEC 10 and 11. Alice releases a new single, 'Love's A Loaded Gun' through Epic on September 23. ...
Alice Loses Feathers but Keeps his Plume
(Journal De Montréal, Le, 1991-08-18)
Of the 5,000 or so people present at the Forum last night to attend the “Operation Rock 'N Roll” mega-concert, the vast majority had come to see and hear Alice Cooper, the grand guignol of rock. Although he teamed up with Judas Priest, Metal Church and Dangerous Toys for this tour, he did not win his battle against the recession in Montreal. But whatever, it's on stage that Cooper delivers his best fights....
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. ...
News Report
(Hot Metal, 1991-09-00)
Guitar god Joe Satriani joined Alice Cooper on stage in Mountain View, Ca. in July for an impromptu jam. The show was part of the Operation Rock'n'Roll summer tour, which gave American metalheads a real bang for their buck: the lineup featured Judas Priest, Alice Cooper, Motorhead, Dangeous Toys and Metal Church. Said Cooper: "It's the best thing in the world for the audience, because they get to see two headliners instead of one. It breaks the mould." ...
Prime Cuts
(Metal Forces, 1991-09-00)
The prospect of The Alice Cooper Story untold on video screen before your very eyes is an exciting prospect without a doubt, and 'Prime Cuts' does go a long way to telling that story. Boasting choice cuts such as 'Ballad Of Dwight Fry', 'Elected', 'Billion Dollar Babies', 'Welcome To My Nightmare' and 'Only Women Bleed' all the way up to 'Department Of Youth', 'Poison' and newie 'Hey Stoopid', you would indeed expect this to be the ultimate Cooper item....
Operation Rock 'n' Roll
(Metal Hammer, 1991-09-00)
The stormtroopers of the Rock world marched into Salt Lake City carrying enough equipment to make any army nervous quartermaster proud. Metal Hammer was there in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles when the first shots were fired on 'Operation...
Hard Hearted Alice
(Music Collector, 1991-09-00)
Alice Cooper is, in many ways, a collector's dream: he has a long back catalogue of interesting material with novelty covers, is still active today and has generated enough support products from comics to knickers to fill anybody's loft. But he still remains largely a fringe phenomena - considered too tacky for consideration by 'serious' music fans and too visceral and off-the-wall for the mainstream. The commerciality of his most recent albums, Trash and Hey Stoopid, has combined with the increasing popularity of rock to help him form a new base of fans, many of whom are unaware of his previous material. The image of Alice as the guy with the snakes and bats who sang Schools Out is only a very small part of the picture. Anyone with the inclination to dig a little deeper will find an artist who is characterised primarily by diversity and who has contributed an immeasurable quantity to the history of rock music as a whole. ...
Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts
(Music, 1991-09-00)
"I want Alice to be a creature, I don't want him to be too human, I want him to be the All-American Frankenstein out of your nightmares. He's like every cheap horror movie I've ever seen. He's a real media creature."...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1991-09-07)
Gore king Alice Cooper has been inducted into Hollywood's Rock Walk, leaving his handprints and signature in the Hollywood Boulevard pavement alongside the likes of Eddie Van Halen, Elvis Presley and Aerosmith! In honour of the occasion, Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley proclaimed the evening of August 27 'Alice Cooper Night'....
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: The man behind the mask
(CAMM, 1991-10-00)
It's February 12, 1987. I'm watching Alice Cooper at U.I.C. Pavilion, sitting among a surprising number of teenagers. One girl takes out a cassette of Constrictor that she has conveniently brought with her, commenting that the song Cooper...
Alice Cooper Metal Master Returns With Hey Stoopid
(Metal Edge, 1991-10-00)
In fine physical, vocal, and creative form, veteran rocker Alice Cooper is still going strong after 21 albums, the latest of which, Hey Stoopid, hits stores this month as Alice embarks on a co-headlining tour with Judas Priest. I got caught up...
Love's A Loaded Gun
(Metal Forces, 1991-10-00)
Ol' Alice suffers at the hands of a record company desperate for money! Some have moaned, but I maintain that 'Hey Stoopid' is a much better album than 'Trash' and 'Love's A Loaded Gun' is the most commercial track on the album. One must assume that if they can't get it right with the far superior title track then go back to something that sounds like it came off 'Trash'. After all, that was far more successful! Whoever said 'rock'n'roll was dead' certainly had a point, even if he was looking at it from a different point!...
Alice Cooper Live Loaded
(Metal Hammer, 1991-10-00)
Alice Cooper issued a warning to Death Metal bands, analysed his own power to shock and talked about jamming with Heavy Metal heroes in a revealing interview with Tom Russel just before another 'Operation Rock'n'Roll' show with Judas Priest and...
The Silence of the Coop
(RIP, 1991-10-00)
In the ever-changing, here-today, gone-later-today world of rock and roll, it's refreshing to know that there will always be at least one constant: Alice Cooper. For 21, yes, 21 records, Alice has been delivering his own personal brand of psycho rock, which teeters on the edge between brilliance and insanity. But it's an insane world, so fault him not for entertaining us with certain realities we turn our cheeks to, certain closets we leave unopened. Alice has always been coy, yet honest with his audience, and his latest effort, Hey Stoopid, is neither a put-down nor a sermon. He's only opening closed eyes to certain situations....
Cooper Scooper
(Kerrang!, 1991-10-12)
It was the moment of truth for Ray Zell. After nigh on 20 years of being a billion dollar baby, he was about to step out of the lift and meet his idol, Alice Cooper. Would Alice lasso him with a live python while dangling from the chandelier guzzling a bottle of meths? Would fake blood splatter the Zell chops as Alice decapitated a chicken? ...
Wembley '91
(RAW, 1991-10-16)
Back at his favourite hunting ground, Alice is happy. The lights have faded to reveal a basic (by Alice standards) stage set featuring a huge 'Hey Stoopid' skull. Skeletal hands contain Keyboardist Derek Sherinian and ex-Black Sabbath/Badlands drummer Eric Singer. Meanwhile, Alice finally bursts through the skull's face for 'Under My Wheels' before dragging us screaming back into the '90s with 'Trash'. ...
Love's A Loaded Gun
(Kerrang!, 1991-10-19)
More sub-Desmond Child poop from the Coop, once the planets most dangerous rockstar. Jeff: "Alice Cooper hasn't done anything of any worth since the '70s, but you respect him just for having done that stuff." Jase: "I like 'Poison'..." Jeff: "When you hear it after 'Billion Dollar Babies', it just doesn't mean a thing." Blaze: "He's still got the voice." Jeff: "That's what makes me mad. He's still funny and clever, but the material's shit!...
Rogues Gallery
(RAW, 1991-10-30)
Onstage he's possessed! He's got lot's of TV's and his own pinball machine! He's got snakes in his backyard! And he sometimes can't remember the words to 'School's Out'! He's Alice Cooper. Full name and nicknames. Alice Cooper Mellencamp, and the band call me Melons! No, seriously, Alice Cooper is now legally my full name since I ad it changed in about 1970. Now when people say Vince it gets no reaction whatsoever. Nicknames? Everyone calls me Coop. Or maybe Your Majesty. Either will do. Date and place of birth....
Welcome To My Nightmare
(Ottawa Sun, 1991-10-31)
HELLO, HURRAH - IT'S HALLOWEEN! And when it comes to real rock 'n' roll monsters, Alice Cooper is numero uno on the list of haunted Halloween horrors. ...
The Master of Monster Rock is back with a killer album
rooted in his finest tradition!
(Columbia House, 1991-11-00)
True Alice Cooper fans are rocking in the street with the release of "Hey Stoopid," a collection of new tunes that brings us back to the quintessential Alice of yesterday. It's been almost twenty years since Cooper first showed us what rock and roll theater is all...
Tricks of the Trade
(Hot Metal, 1991-11-00)
Alice Cooper's live shows don't stop at the light and sound production of the average rock concert; they are the enactment of a modern morality play, in which Alice's evil alter ego is allowed to run riot all over the stage. ...
Quote
(Metal Hammer, 1991-11-00)
ALICE COOPER "I used to think that the banning years were over. I don't really get any more and I kinda miss it. I wish we would get banned! Parents still hide their children in airports, which I'm proud of. Being notorious is great. I'd much rather be a villian...
Alice Cooper 'School's Out'
(RAW, 1991-11-13)
"I was watching TV and there was this old '40s show on there called The Bowery Boys where all of the characters talked to each other in a real street way. One of them turned to the other and said, 'Hey, Satch, school's out!'. What he meant was 'Wise Up' but to me it just meant something else. It fitted the time perfectly and it applied to a whole generation. What we wanted was an anthem and that was it. When I ay it now it's mandatory 'cos it's like the National Anthem. Occasionally band's are allowed to write a theme song. With The Who it was 'My Generation' and with the Stones it was 'Satisfaction'. With Alice Cooper it's 'School's Out' ." - Alice Cooper ...
Wembley '91
(Metal Forces, 1991-12-00)
When Alice Cooper becomes so old that he's wheelchair bound, he'll still be ready to take to the boards and try to wow a crowd. Cooper is the old guard, and I don't mean that disrespectfully. The eternal trooper with a burning desire to put on a show, and tonight, yet again, he puts on a show. Some grumbled that it wasn't as good as the old days, and the wisdom of slotting him in for two nights at Wembley proved folly. But when he's not had a hit with an album that hasn't really received much record company support what do you expect. Two nights at Hammersmith would have proved a credible alternative!...
News Report
(Metal Hammer, 1991-12-00)
Alice Cooper kept himself busy on his recent visit to the UK shores we understand. Apart from attending various fashion shows on the look-out for interesting lines in leather jackets, he apparently insisted on going to visit the Cadbury's chocolate...
News Report
(Hot Metal, 1992-00-00)
The biggest film in the States right now is Wayne's World, a comedy about two metalheads similar to the two Bill and Ted movies. Wayne's World features the acting talents of Alice Cooper, who plays himself and also appears on the soundtrack with his classic Feed My Frankenstein....
Worthy Tribute
(People, 1992-00-00)
A funny thing keeps happening to Alice Cooper since his cameo in the hit movie Wayne's World. Cooper, 44, who lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., says now when he goes to movies or a 7-Eleven, fans make like Wayne and Garth, going overboard on paying him homage. "Somebody says, 'Hey, Alice,' and it immediately starts: 'We're not worthy, we're not worthy!' Everyplace I go now, same thing," says Cooper. "I was at a [Phoenix] Sun [basketball] game, and there was a whole section going, 'We're not worthy, we're not worthy!' " How does Cooper feel about all this fan appreciation? "[My] last album was titled Hey Stoopid. So for a year I had to hear, 'Hey, stupid!' This is better."...
Operation Rock & Roll
(Metal Edge, 1992-01-00)
"Tonight was a breeze. I could have done three more songs easily. I felt really good up there," enthused Alice Cooper on his tour bus post-show. "I noticed a few rough edges, but I didn't think the audience noticed at all. The energy was there."...
The Six Card Hammer
(Metal Hammer, 1992-01-00)
Alice Cooper is the godfather of rock, but is he the baby killing danger to mankind of legend? He's certainly a mean poker player, as Metal Hammer's Peter Burtz found out - on the road in Germany with Alice. 22 October. In the late afternoon the...
Concert Review
(Metal Hammer, 1992-02-00)
After riding the long Jubilee Line tube to Wembley Park and running the gauntlet of ticket touts and fans desperate to buy our tickets, we got to Wembley Arena in time for a good position, a couple of rows away from the stage. The Almight ripped into...
News Rport
(Kerrang!, 1992-05-16)
Vetran Rocker Alice Cooper releases a new single, 'Feed My Frankenstein', through Epic on June 1. The track is performed by Alice in the hit movie 'Waynes World' and is backed with 'Burning Our Bed'. `12" and CD versions add 'Poison' and 'Only My Heart Talkin' '....
Feed My Frankenstein
(Kerrang!, 1992-05-23)
Written and latter recorded by Zodiac Mindwarp, 'Frankenstein' is typical latter-day Cooper no-shock rock, as seen in the movie 'Waynes World'. John: "I have a lotta respect for Alice Cooper, but this is nothing special. He did quite a good job in 'Waynes World' I thought, as far as his acting goes." Barney: "I don't like Zodiac Mindwarp, and I don't like Alice Cooper, so this is doubly bad. Alice Cooper's so overrated. In the old days his stuff was sort of revolutionary, but now he's conforming to the usual rock bullshit." ...
Blasts from past unearth early Alice, $125 Stones
(Toronto Star, 1992-05-23)
Lost treasures and greatest hits packages are under the microscope this week: Alice Cooper Live At The Whisky A-Go-Go 1969 (Bizarre/Straight Records): Before Killer, before Love It To Death, before there even was the Alice Cooper we are all...
Alice's Warped Mind
(Kerrang!, 1992-05-30)
Legendary metal goremeister Alice Cooper, currently enjoying huge sucess as guest star in the mega-hit movie 'Wayne's World', returns to the studio in September to begin work on a new album. Cooper is currently collaborating on material with Zodiac Mindwarp, who penned Cooper's current single 'Feed My Frankenstein', which he performs in 'Wayne's World'. "I really like the way Zodiac writes," Alice told Mayhem. "And I'm gonna be writing with loads of people for the album. I believe that you should write 50 songs before you even think about recording. I'd say I've got about four songs finished so far." ...
News Report
(Metal Edge, 1992-06-00)
Alice Cooper helped unemployed fan Patrick Kelly stave off foreclosure on his house by staging a rock 'n' roll yard sale at Patrick's jeopardized home in Riverside, CA, which had been spray-painted with Alice's name and likeness by devotee...
Album Review
(Record Collector, 1992-06-00)
"Testing... another fun night". Those awkward pre-performance moments are punctuated by several anticipatory flourishes from the guitarist and the drummer, before the latter counts in his colleagues with several rim shots. An awakward bass riff...
Feed My Frankenstein Single Review
(Rock Power, 1992-06-00)
Pedestrian Alice-by-numbers with rude lyrics by Zodiac Mindwarp. Decidedly not the highlight of the Wayne's World movie or soundtrack. ...
News Report
(Metal Edge, 1992-07-00)
Alice Cooper will be seen and heard in the movie Wayne's World, due in February, in which Alice will be seen as himself in backstage sequences and performing "Feed My Frankenstein" with the band. At press time, he planned to make another...
Meaning Of Life
(RAW, 1992-07-08)
He loves sweat-splattered Mexican food, he's married with children but still a virgin and he's still legally drunk 10 years after drying out! He's Alice Cooper and he's telling Paul Rees about... You know, the nice thing about Arizona is that you can get the best Mexican food here. The Mexicans actually take the tortillas, and they're sweating, and they slap it on their sweat and that's how they salt it. I know, it sounds disgusting but that's how they do it in Mexico, and you get all that natural salt. I think that all those years on the road gave me a real appetite for pizza and pasta. I have cut down on red meat, I only eat it now about once a week. I eat a lot of chicken and fish, and I eat a lot of high protein things. That's how I keep my youthful figure....
Feature
(Contemporary Musicians, 1992-09-00)
Began career during high school as member of the Earwigs; group relocated to Los Angeles, 1968, and changed name to the Spiders, then the Nazz, then Alice Cooper; released first two records on Frank Zappa's Straight Records label...
Occasional Movie Star
(Empire, 1992-11-00)
His real name is Vincent Damon Furnier. He is the son of a preacher-man. His daddy is his biggest fan. His first rock group was called The Earwigs, his second The Spiders. His third, so legend has it, was inspired by a spirit calling through a Ouija board....
Rock 'n' Rescue
(Phoenix Gazette, 1992-11-12)
There was Live Aid. Then Farm Aid. Then Patrick Kelly Aid. Patrick Kelly Aid? Riverside Calif., homeowner Kelly recieved a mortgage saving $13,044.52 check from rocker Alice Cooper Thursday at The Roxy. Cooper raised the money with an autograph session and an auction. The Valley rock n roll star came to the rescue after hearing about Kelly's financial straits. Kelly, 32, bought a $265,000. Riverside home five years ago, hoping to make money reselling it. But California's flat housing market sank property values like the Titanic. ...
News Report
(People, 1992-11-19)
Portrait Puts Rocker in Picture Alice Cooper may come to the rescue of a man who included the rocker's face in a psychedelic paint job on his foreclosed home in Riverside, Calif. "I'm not sure what we're going to do," Toby Mamis, Cooper's agent, said of Patrick Kelly's plight. "We could help him get a loan, and get some publicity for Alice. Mr. Kelly obviously has good taste in music." "One stipulation would be that he can't paint over the house," Mamis said in The Press Enterprise in Riverside. The house, which didn't sell even after its asking price was dropped from $258,000 to $180,000, faces a Tuesday foreclosure sale. The Alice Cooper fan spent three days on the paint job last week in frustration over his inability to sell the house he bought as an investment. Earlier this week, Kelly said he would repaint the house white before departing because neighbors had complained. But he might preserve the pop art if Cooper helps prevent foreclosure. "Hey, it would be Alice's home," Kelly said. ...
A Little Help For His Fans
(Orlando Sentinel, 1992-11-24)
Alice Cooper helps out Patrick Kelly — a fan whose house is painted in a rainbow of colors with likenesses of Alice Cooper — by selling T-shirts, compact discs and poster to raise money for Kelly's house payments. Kelly faces foreclosure...
Perhaps Cooper will name her Alice
(Arizona Republic, 1992-12-15)
Rocker Alice Cooper is a daddy again. His wife, Sheryl, gave birth to a 9-pound girl at 10:39 a.m. Monday at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. The girl reportedly hadn't been named by Monday afternoon. The couple, who have another...
Comic Book Hero
(Metal CD, 1993-00-00)
Continuing to show an unerring ability to home in on what's currently happening, without ever actually being seen to jump on any bandwagon, ALICE COOPER has recruited many of Seattle's finest to help him put together his forthcoming album. Two songs have been co-written with Soundgarden's Chris Cornell; four tracks have been produced by Andy Wallace (Faith No More), and three by Don Fleming, who recently worked with Screaming Trees; while the rest of the record will be produced by John Purdell and Duane Baron, who recently produced the forthcoming Heart album. The theme of Alice's album will be based on a storyline devised by Alice with Neil Gaiman, the artist responsible for the Sandman comic book. A series of four or five comic books, with storylines based around the lyrics, will be released to tie-in with the album....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1993-01-02)
Alice Cooper is working on a new album. Cooper selected the tracks for inclusion over the Summer, and the album is due out late this year....
Classic of the Week
(Los Angeles Times, 1993-01-14)
Although not Alice Cooper's debut, "Love It to Death" was the first album to establish the group (named after its tarted-up singer) as a troublesome noise to be reckoned with. The peace, love and patchouli oil sentiment of the '60s lingered into the next decade; when this uniquely twisted record was released in the midst of all those groovy good vibes, it tweaked a lot of noses. Coming on like a violent storm of satanic malevolence and sexual confusion, "Love It to Death" signaled that some folks weren't buying into the Age of Aquarius anymore. "I'm Eighteen" was the first and arguably the best of many teen-rage anthems of the '70s, and it's surrounded by such pounding, primal fare as "Long Way to Go," "Is It My Body (That Makes You Love Me)" and the sublimely disturbing "Ballad of Dwight Fry." ...
News Report
(Kerrang!, 1993-01-30)
Alice Cooper begins recording a new album at the end of this month. Writing for the album has been protracted, but a release date has been slated for July or August. The album is to have a general concept, and features what Alice's management discribe mysteriously as "an interesting collaborator". No producer has been announced as yet. ...
News Report
(RAW, 1993-02-03)
Elsewhere on the Seattle front, reports suggest that Hard Rock legend Alice Cooper has begun work on the sequel to his successful '70s concept album 'Welcome To My Nightmare'. Cooper has been working with Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell at his home in Phoenix. Arizona. The duo recently completed writing and arranging two tracks, 'Unholy War' and 'Stolen Prayer', although it is unclear whether these will be their only collaborations. Cooper will begin recording the as-yet-untitled album later this month in Los Angeles, with a release date tentatively set for early summer. ...
This is Sequal Tap
(Entertainment Weekly, 1993-03-12)
It has always been Spinal Tap's destiny to seize the throne of rock & roll while, as only they could put it, "Stinkin' Up the Great Outdoors." Directionless, rock has stumbled from heavy-metal thunder to gangsta rap, a huge musical pizza with a number of toppings. But the public hungers for something new, and Spinal Tap is a steaming helping of future shock. Playing better than the metal monsters we're supposed to take seriously (this monster excluded, needless to say), they broke out of Rob Reiner's 1984 mock rock doc, This Is Spinal Tap, and escaped into reality, swooping down like a Klingon bird of prey, scooping up arenas full of screaming fans. They know one heroic battle cry, "Break Like the Wind," and anyone foolish enough to stand against them will be blown away....
Encyclopaedia Kerrang!-asaurus
(Kerrang!, 1993-08-07)
Alice was biting the heads off live chickens well before Ozzy got peckish onstage. He had guillotines and hatchets, did unspeakably gory things to baby dolls long before W.A.S.P. Ripped him off, and before David Coverdale had his Whitesnake, Alice had a big boa constrictor. Alice Cooper was rock theatre. He was Vincent Damon Furnier, preacher's son, who went from fronting one of the world's worst bands to recording classics like 'School's Out' and '18'. Hhe was also at least two onion slices short of a big mac, as the brilliant 'Welcome To My Nightmare' (1975) illustrates. This gave him the Wimp Rock mega-hit 'Only Women Bleed' - Alice had Wimp Rock mega-hits before other bands too. ...
Alice Cooper Puts Shock Back Into Rock:
(Circus, 1993-10-00)
What do boa constrictors, electric chairs, hypnotism, guillotines, severed heads and dead chickens have to do with rock & roll? Everything, if your band's called Alice Cooper. As rock becomes an accepted part of the mainstream, L.A.-cum-Detroit hard...
(Spin, 1993-12-00)
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....