Article Database
2000 - 2004
No More Mr Nice Guy
(Fandom Catalogue, 2000-00-00)
You'll feel 18 again, when the king of shockrock, Alice Cooper, jumps into your home to scare your pansie-ass toys right off the shelves....
Alice Cooper
(Pit, 2000-00-00)
A legendary man with a female's name wrapped New York City up in a media frenzy, promoting his 80-track box set with spots on Late Night With Letterman, Q104-FM, and an in-store appearance at Coconuts Records in Manhattan. On Rhino Records, The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper spans nearly three decades of Alice Cooper's musical career. It is not only a "best of the best" compilation; there are unreleased songs that shocked the alpha of shock rock himself by magically resurfacing from their 1970's studio sessions. ...
Metal Wire
(Metal Edge, 2000-01-00)
Alice Cooper, who just recently wrapped up a tour, is teaming up with actors Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas to bring Maui Tacos, a Hawaii-based taco, burrito and wrap shop, to New York. The restaurant's theme is surfing and features...
Alice Gets Brutal
(Metal Hammer, 2000-01-00)
Alice Cooper will appear in upcoming psychological horror movie The Attic Expeditions. He will star alongside Jeffrey Combs, Ted Raimi, Seth Green, Beth Bates and Shannon Hart Clearly in the movie, which will be directed by Jeremy Kasten. ...
New Years Eve 1999/2000
(Phoenix New Times, 2000-01-00)
Friday night downtown, between the decades-old warehouses and America West Arena, Arrive at Alice Cooper'stown just as "No More Mr. Nice Guy" ends and "Be My Lover" begins. I look this crowd over. If this is supposed to be a masquerade ball, then everyone's come disguised as wealthy middle-aged couples from Scottsdale. Indeed, at 500 clams a pop, it's hard to imagine everyone in this slacker-free zone owning Beck's new CD. There are, however, a handful of people under the age of 16 in attendance, probably because even this shindig's steep ticket price is still cheaper than what baby sitters charge on New Year's Eve....
Shock Rocker says Gill could be nightmarish
(Tennessean, 2000-01-28)
A new Vince Gill album titled Welcome to My High Lonesome Nightmare? At least one person believes Gill, the country star with such hit albums as I Still Believe In You and High Lonesome Sound, could pull it off: his friend and golfing buddy Alice ...
Book Of The Month
(Record Collector, 2000-02-00)
Alice Cooper, God Bless him. The unlikely recipient of a book dedicated to his record releases, you'd be surprised at the amount of product that the former Vince Furnier has released over the last 30 years, and Dale Sherman is the man to write...
Alice Comment
(Undercover, 2000-02-00)
Cooper says that the whole Marilyn thing doesn't come as a surprise to him, nor will he be surprised if there's another 'Marilyn' 10 years from now. "It's all rehashed. They'll be another band trying to do Marilyn Manson in 10 years. It all goes back and relives history. I get lots of bands tell me they are real theatrical and I ask them 'what's the music like'. Before you put the icing on the cake, you gotta have the cake. The music has to come first. I always tell people we spend 90% of our time on the music and 10% on the theatrics. It was being a good band that really counted. Marilyn Manson can be around for a really long time if their music holds up." ...
Alice Cooper - from rebel musician to golfer
(San Jose Mercury News, 2000-02-05)
Alice Cooper lives to shock people. In the 1970s, during the height of his popularity, his rock-'n'-roll show was a circus. On one tour, he pretended to decapitate himself with a guillotine. On another, he strapped himself into a mock electric chair and threw the switch."I was the king of all rebels," he said. Now, at 52, Cooper has managed to pull off his most jaw-dropping stunt ever......
Latest Alice Shocker: He's pretty good golfer
(San Diege Union Tribune, 2000-02-06)
Pebble Beach – Alice Cooper lives to shock people. In the 1970s, during the height of his popularity, his rock 'n' roll show was a circus. On one tour, he pretended to decapitate himself with a guillotine. On another, he strapped himself into a mock electric chair and threw the switch. "I was the king of all rebels," he said. Now, at 52, Cooper has managed to pull off his most dropping stunt ever…...
Symphony for old rockers
(Herald Sun, 2000-02-22)
How does a bunch of old rockers keep on rocking? A deadpan Alice Cooper says: "We died about eight years ago, but nobody told us." ...
ALICE COOPER once matched Elvis and Hendrix drink for drink and babe for babe. He has survived alcoholism and outraged politicians on both sides of the pond. Yet nowadays, the self-styled "king of all rebels" is more likely to be found on a golf course than in a hotel room full of lust-crazed groupies....
Studio Report - Alice Cooper
(Classic Rock, 2000-05-00)
Alice Cooper releases a new album, 'Brutal Planet' on June 5 (through Eagle). An apocalyptic vision that propels the godfather of rock theatre into a new millennium, as Alice told Classic Rock: "It's an absolutely Godless world, a place where it's just...
At home, Cooper takes care of business
(Vindicator, The, 2000-05-00)
PHOENIX - Alice Cooper has spent most of his adult life trying to look like a cadaver, and even without his ghoulish makeup he is hard to miss. Eggbeater hair, jet black to match his leather outfit. Rail-thin physique....
Future Shock: Down Home on Alice Cooper's Brutal Planet
(Aggro Active, 2000-05-12)
Over the past 30 years, Alice Cooper has evolved from a Ouija board figment into one of rock's most revered icons. Part of the reason for Cooper's longevity is the crafty charisma the singer cultivated — a kind of P.T. Barnum for the rock set...
I Wanna Be Respected
(Independent, 2000-05-14)
In 1969, Alice Cooper was booked to fill time between the Door and John Lennon at the Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival. His band weren't much good at the time, but the singer was already making a name for himself, not least because he has adopted a woman's name....
Live Daily Interview: Alice Cooper
(Live Daily, 2000-05-16)
"I'm probably the only father that bangs on his kid's door and says, 'Will you please turn that up?'" In 1975, he welcomed you to his nightmare. On June 6th, still Alice after all these years, Cooper will release his 24th album, "Brutal Planet" (Spitfire)....
It's 50 candles for Cooper, 51 for Quayle
(Arizona Republic, 2000-05-18)
Alice Cooper has a few miles under his belt. So it was only appropriate that on Wednesday, his 50th birthday, locals suggested a freeway be named after him. Squaw Peak Parkway would become the Alice Cooper Parkway instead of the Ronald...
Delivery From Evil
(Get Out, 2000-05-18)
Though he was once considered something of a dark prince himself, the Valley's rock 'n' roll legend Alice Cooper is sounding an unequivocal warning to the world about the source of its troubles on his new album, Brutal Planet. "It's really coming from a classically place --- it's coming from Satan himself," Cooper says. "I don't mind trying that. It may sound archaic or old-fashioned, but it's something that we just overlook. As far as I'm concerned, that's one of his greatest weapons....
Alice Cooper - From The Inside
(Goldmine, 2000-05-19)
Back in the early '70s when The Alice Cooper Group resided high atop the record charts, few would have predicted that the band's mascaraed lead singer would sustain on of rock 'n' rolls most successful careers. Thirty years later, however, what was once thought to be a passing fad is now an American institution. The son of the Baptist minister, Cooper and several of his teenage classmates founded their first band as a lark for the high school talent show. First called the Earwigs, then The Spiders, then The Nazz, the group eventually settled on the name Alice Cooper. By then (1968), the band had settled into a lineup that featured - in addition to Cooper - Michael Bruce (guitar), Glen Buxton (guitar), Dennis Dunaway (bass), and Neal Smith (drums)....
ALICE COOPER - The Nightmare Returns!
(Braveradio Plus, 2000-05-23)
Alice is ready to unveil yet another chapter in his life of musical crimes, a stark and depressing view of his surroundings called Brutal Planet. With Bob Ezrin at the helm, Alice has created what he calls his heaviest record to date. And this past Thursday...
News Report
(Rolling Stone, 2000-05-25)
Alice Cooper's first studio album in six years, Brutal Planet is out on June 6th. Cooper will hit the road for a tour from August through October, during which he'll be bringing his infamous guillotine out from a ten year retirement....
Alice Cooper Brutal Planet
(Classic Rock Revisited, 2000-06-00)
Only Alice Cooper could pull off this CD. I would imagine that the guitar sounds on Brutal Planet are the very sounds Cooper heard in his psyche over 25 years ago. He probably had to wait for technology to catch up to his vision. At the same time...
Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet (4.5)
(Glass Eye, 2000-06-00)
"After being throughly creeped out by my old man's Alice Cooper 8-tracks as a kid (you wonder how someone becomes a broke, dishevled, anti-social metal nerd in their adult life? Try a steady diet of Flush the Fashion, We sold our souls for Rock and Roll and assorted Zappa albums, all chunking in a infinite loop through the the dubious miracle of the in-dash 8 track deck), I was horrified to see the man sink to he embarrassing level of records like "Trash" and "Hey Stoopid" - namby-pamby kids stuff that even a real-life Wayne and Garth would have laughed at. "Poison"? "Hey Stoopid"? "Feed My Frankenstein"? Please....
Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet
(Music Street Journal, 2000-06-00)
Quite probably Alice's strongest release in years, and possibly one of the best ever, this disc is a concept album that musically seems to take the classic Alice sound and bring it up to date with a hard (even brutal) edge. The album really seems to fully integrate those two types of sounds, which is something that he seems to have been struggling with in recent years. Much of this CD will stand tall among the considerable Coop catalog....
Brutally Frank Cooper Stupor
(New York Times, 2000-06-00)
After hearing master shock-rocker Alice Cooper's new "Brutal Planet," it's clear that Marilyn Manson and others of his ilk are pale by comparison. On this monument to Goth-metal headbanging fury, Cooper is the devil's cabana boy. He'll definitely be called irresponsible for this ode to destruction, but he makes people listen - and think....
Brutal Planet Review
(Rough Edge, 2000-06-00)
If you want an unbiased, uninformed opinion of Alice Cooper's new release, "Brutal Planet," you wont get it here. If that's what you're looking for, go to the rags - like Entertainment Weekly or People. They'll probably trash "Brutal Planet" ('trash.' get it?) because their snobby "music critics" just don't understand!!...
Rocker thrills the fans
(South Wales Argus, 2000-06-00)
ALICE COOPER is one rock star for whom ageing looks are no problem. The older he gets the more sinister he appears. The more evil he is the more his fans love him. For 30 years he's creaked the boards of rock concerts world-wide, shocking the unwary with his horror pantomime, taking infamy wherever he played. ...
Three of rocks most venerable institutions Motorhead, Iron Maiden and Alice Cooper, all have new albums out.
(Neath and Port Talbot Courier, 2000-06-06)
Motorhead's latest offering is titled 'we are motorhead'. it is basically more of the same from lemmy and co, but hugely enjoyable never the less. Iron Maiden with bruce dickinson back on lead vocals after a seven year absence, returns to the fray with 'brave new world'. Maiden fans will be pleased to know that this new album is a stunning return to form after iron maiden's lacklustre previous two records with the now thankfully departed singer blaze bailey....
Brutal Planet Review
(Entertainment Weekly, 2000-06-09)
Nowhere near as dire as you'd fear, the Coop's latest finds our hero spinning characteristically grim fables as his backing band gamely grinds out old-school hard rock melodies and cliches, There's nothing close to "Eighteen" or "School's Out" here, but tracks like "It's The Little Things" prove AC is one of the few fogies who can make this shameless self-pastiche palatable. B-
Tom Sinclair....
Alice Comment
(Melody Maker, 2000-06-14)
Prince Charles and Camila. Should they get married? "Oh, yeah! Of course they should — I think it's inevitable. They've been going out for 42 years or something. I think it's about time they did something about it. I don't think it would be a big...
Way to go with Alice Cooper cover
(Goldmine, 2000-06-16)
Hats off to Russell Hall and Goldmine for the excellent Alice Cooper article (#517, May 19, 2000), a good follow-up to the earlier 1990 piece....
Brutal Planet Review
(South Wales Evening News, 2000-06-16)
After nearly 30 years in music alice cooper is still going strong and just refuses to go away. on his latest offering, brutal planet, the title track kicks things off in aggressive style with a heavy grunge-soaked guitar sound which pretty much sets the tone for most of the album. Tracks like sanctuary and the brilliant just the little things hit you for six with the sheer verocity of their production....
Alice Cooper Is In Top Form
(Edmonton Sun, 2000-06-17)
Forget about Alice Cooper the golfer, the father, the restaurateur. That regular guy is nowhere to be found, probably bound and gagged in some dungeon. Alice Cooper, the living horror comic character, is back and takes centre stage on this morbid metal album. He's rarely sounded better. Rob Zombie is just the student. Alice is the teacher....
Brutal Planet Review
(Kerrang!, 2000-06-17)
Another comeback from '70s shock rock legend. Although there would be no Marilyn Manson without his influence, Alice Cooper has wrongly interpreted this as an excuse for a comeback. 'Brutal Planet' is his first solo album in six years, and sadly serves to remind you that the original shock rocker is now 52 years old and really should be taking it easy....
Singles
(Melody Maker, 2000-06-28)
Metallica — I Disappear (Hollywood): From the soundtrack of "Mission Impossible 2" comes the same blend of grunts and riffs that we've heard a hundred times before. If it's representative of the film, expect Tom Cruise to half-heartedly...
Burn, Baby, Burn (and serve with potato salad)
(Arena, 2000-07-00)
Step 1: Leave the cooking to the experts. Luckily for the restaurant, I don't do any of the cooking — even though we are famous for our barbecue. I'm famous for eating it, but not cooking it — I just get some meat and let it burn. There's...
Brutal Planet Review
(Burrn!, 2000-07-00)
Ever deeper goes Alice into the realm of Dante's inferno. Somewhere along the line, Alice stopped looking in the mirror and quit dancing with dead tongues in rotten cheeks and turned the looking glass back on the world that created him...
Mr Nice Guy
(Classic Rock, 2000-07-00)
Blood, dismembered dolls, guillotines, snakes — ALICE COOPER was the patomime dame of 70s rock. Now he's back with his first album for six years, Brutal Planet. "There are two great mysteries in rock 'n' roll," Alice Cooper pronounces. "One is the...
Alice Cooper
(Maxim, 2000-07-00)
'Alice'. That's a girls name. If you had a band with hair down to the waist and make-upon their face which was the loudest, most obnoxious thing in American nightmare music, and they were called 'Vincent Furnier', you'd say, 'That doesn't work.' So I said, 'What's the sweetest, most American name I can think of?' and came up with Alice Cooper. We have a running thing at our concerts - anyone named Alice Cooper gets in for free and gets to have backstage passes and everything. Normally when I go backstage afterwards there's a whole bunch of old ladies with pink hair going, 'I'm Alice Cooper!' 'No, I'm Alice Cooper!'...
The Brutal Truth
(Metal Hammer, 2000-07-00)
A legend on the rock scene for over 30 years, Alice Cooper ain't done yet. As he tell Daniel Oliveire, with new album 'Brutal Planet' he aims to prove he still has that essential hunger. "We're the true dinosaurs," says rock legend Alice Cooper, comparing...
Brutal Planet Review
(Q Magazine, 2000-07-00)
Godfather of schlock quits the golf course long enough to make first solo album in six years. Mixed feelings start when Alice Cooper's latest release opens with an uncharacteristically downbeat title track. However, even if his apocalyptic vision of the future - the theme for this record - is unrelentingly dark, once the choruses of songs such as Sanctuary and Wicked Young Man kick in, things start to motor. Gimme and Eat Some More are savage, yet catchy, indictments of Western consumerism, while Take It Like A Woman is an Only Women Bleed for the new millennium, and the wicked hilarity of It's The Little Things is balanced by Pick Up The Bones, a truly chilling closing. Brutal Planet is a slow grower, but certainly Cooper's best since '89's Trash. ...
Alice Cooper
(Record Buyer, 2000-07-00)
Kiss, Twisted Sister, WASP, Marilyn Manson - all these acts and coutless more owe a debt to Alice Cooper. He's been mixing hard rock and theatrics for three decades now, influencing and entertaining sussessive generations with songs that stand up in their own right yet become simply irresistible when delievered Cooper-style. Michael HEatley talks to the great man....
Brutal Planet Review
(Rock Sound, 2000-07-00)
The eternal return rears its ugly head again. Alice was once imitated, then came along nu-metal, and now Alice is copying those who might've listened to him when they were in high school. Plagiarism of Korn's seven-string assault, undermined by Randy Rhondes solos will not get Alice anywhere but on late MTV (Europe) Super-Rock. And it's a concept album. If you're under forty, in the 70s there were silly are school cock-rock onanists who though it'df be cool to write an (unbearably long) album based around a unifying theme. Add a dose of token global ecology and you've got a sanctimonious take that falls somewhere between an elongated video for Megadeth's 'Hanger 18', and Anita Roddick's Body Shop (food) chain. Alice is as much a part of the USA as is MacDonalds, so why should he take offence at Styrofoam and Reebok sweathouses? ...
Shock Rock Superstar Alice Cooper
(Venue, 2000-07-07)
The son of a preacher, 52-year-old Vincent Furnier first transformed into transvestite sicko Alice Cooper back in the late '60s, promising to "single-handedly drive the stake through the love generation." But it wasn't until the brilliant triumvirate of album, 'Killer', 'School's Out' and 'Billion Dollar Babies' in 1972/73 that the band became a platinum-selling monster and major target of the US religious right thanks to a stage show that incorporated an electric chair, guillotine and snakes....
Alice in bunkerland!
(South Wales Argus, 2000-07-11)
Rock star Alice Cooper has got the art of relaxation off to a tee during his stay in Gwent. ...
Seminal hard rocker invades Germany
(Kerrang!, 2000-07-15)
Five modes of transport (underground and overground train, plane, coach and taxi!) your Kerrang! team went through to bring you this report from a German town that looks like it - gets sandblasted clean on a daily basis, takes recycling very seriously, and appears to have more shops selling lethal combat knives than it does supermarkets. But that's what Alice Cooper thrives on. That little twist. That pile of dog shit in the middle of the perfect garden....
King Of The Guillotine Who Never Quite Lost His Head
(Express, 2000-07-16)
For a 52-year-old bloke who's just been guillotined and had his decapitated head kicked around a stage, Alice Cooper's looking remarkably cool. On the table there's a bottle of water and a few bananas, while next door the boys in the band - a gang of twentysomething heavy metal merchants - get up to all that rock 'n' roll nonsense. ...
Strutting and Spitting To The Geriatrics
(Evening Standard, 2000-07-20)
He shocked middle-America by adopting the name of an old witch, wearing hideous makeup, cavorting with a snake and decapitating chickens onstage. Later on he took up golf, hung out with Bob Hope in Palm Springs, befriended Groucho Marx and was immortalised in Wayne's World with the tag line "we are not worthy"....
A Clown Called Alice
(Independent, 2000-07-21)
THE YEARS pass slowly in heavy metal. Whereas most contemporary music is required to assimilate new ideas and modify its sound, this essentially conservative genre has remained locked in a timewarp for decades. It has the advantage of...
Welcome to my nightmare
(Guardian, 2000-07-22)
The stage sweats under camouflage netting; a backdrop depicts a scorched earth in green and black. Suddenly, to an explosion of lights and sonic grinding, a metal box on a plinth opens to reveal a wild-haired Methuselah consisting only of head and upper torso on a stick. He pleads with us to run for our lives. "I am the only piece of technology left on this dead planet," he thunders with staring eyes. "A lifeless, godless world, run by the sadistic megalomaniac, Alice Cooper!"...
Brutal Planet Review
(Metal Edge, 2000-08-00)
It's been five years since Alice Cooper's last studio effort, and it's certainly nice to hear that nasally, cynical whine once again. While the Coop will probably never match the utter brilliance of his early '70s heyday and albums like School's Out...
Alice Cooper Ten Strokes Over Par
(Your Flesh, 2000-08-00)
When the Alice Cooper group acrimoniously collapsed in early 1974, rock music lost the only band to successfully combine influential and masterfully conceived rock and roll with mind numbing theatrics. When the band tore through a performance, the audience was treated to a combination of stage-propped, anti-social melodrama, and searing psycho-rock. Indeed, they preceded a legion of makeup artists, some good (Marilyn Manson), most bad (all Goth bands with no guitars)....
Alice Cooper just a regular guy at home
(This Week, 2000-08-02)
Alice Cooper has spent most of his adult life trying to look like a cadaver, and, even without his ghoulish makeup he is hard to miss. Eggbeater hair, jet black to match his leather outfit. Railthin physique. In many places around the world, the 52-year-old...
Hangin' With Mr. Cooper
(Dayton Daily News, 2000-08-03)
Phoenix - Alice Cooper has spent most of his adult life trying to look like a cadaver, and even without his makeup he is hard to miss. Eggbeater hair, jet black to match his leather outfit, Rail-thin physique. In many places around the world, the 52-year-old shock rocker is mobbed by fans who bow and deliver the "We're not worthy" line from the Wayne's World movie....
Alice Cooper Takes His Legendary Show Into The Future
(Electric Basement, 2000-09-00)
In a Summer packed with classic hard rock and metal comeback tours, master player ALICE COOPER refuses to be left behind. Not only has he released one of the strongest veteran albums of the year, but he has also added a special spark to his stage show and career as a whole. For the first time since the Trash tour, ALICE COOPER appears to be on the rise again. ...
Brutal Planet Review
(Metal Sludge, 2000-09-00)
Cover: 7 Billion Dollar Babies out of 10. The cover is dark and evil looking and you can see half of Alice's old ass face. By looking at thecover you can kind of tell this is going to be a heavy album. Works formy drunk ass. Booklet: 8 Cooperstown's out of 10. Not bad for a Spitfire release. There are lyrics, some spooky photos of Alice, and shit like that. It also includes a little booklet that pimps out some Kiss like merchandise, such as Alice Cooper teddy bears, chairs, pictures, and shit like that....
Alice Cooper
(Under the Volcano, 2000-09-00)
Alice Cooper is Rock n' Roll royalty, but you'd never realize it by just speaking to him. Funny, smart, and down to earth, Cooper seems to really care about the whole interview dynamic and the world at large, the polar opposite of his dark stage persona....
Cooper blends camp with killer rock
(Toledo Blade, 2000-09-06)
The guillotine is back. What more could anyone want from an Alice Cooper concert? After a couple of relatively low-key tours, the master of rock theater put everything - including his neck - in concert last night before 1,600 fans at the Stranahan...
Alice Cooper Clarification
(Detroit News, 2000-09-08)
With the huge boa constrictors, chopped-up baby dolls, guillotines, electric chairs and fake blood that populated his stage shows during his early '70s heyday, Alice Cooper was the first to take shock rock to theatrical extremes. Today, controversy over issues generated by his well-orchestrated spectacle seem comparatively tame. ...
Cooper keeps metal's kitsch at forefront
(Milwaukee Journal, 2000-09-08)
More than anyone, Alice Cooper has proven that anything can fit into a rock 'n' roll show if you: (a) smear it with blood; (b) cover it in face paint; (c) set it on fire; and (d) swaddle it in leather.That utterly silly, but immensely effective, modus operandi has influenced such incredibly disparate cultural markers as the Flaming Lips' art-bent ultra-weirdness and the S&M predilections of whatever WWF lackey is popular this week....
News Report
(Kerrang!, 2000-09-09)
Alice will star as Satan in a new film entitled The Crossover which is being produced by Mike Myres. Described as an Irish black comedy, the film is about an over the hill rock band who sell their souls to Satan in return for fame and fortune . Cooper begins filming next month in Co Cavan, Ireland....
Alice Cooper stages metal madness as art
(Houston Chronicle, 2000-09-26)
After seeing Alice Cooper at Aerial Theater on Monday night, it's hard to understand why censors are making such a big deal out of Eminem's hateful schtick. Like the real Slim Shady, Cooper has been exploiting misogyny and gratuitous violence for decades. Eminem raps in graphic detail about tying up his women and stashing them in a car trunk for safe keeping....
Ol' Blue Eyes In Black
(Ashbury Park Press, 2000-09-29)
When he leaps onstage, his ice-blue eyes lined in black — with hair, gloves, leather jacket, trousers and boots to match &mdah; Alice Cooper is clearly someone who is not yet ready to rest on his laurels. It's a notion the seminal...
A Tempting Trade Paperback
(Comic Shop News, 2000-10-00)
Comic book stories can have some surprising inspirations. Bored guys draw costumed turtles on pizza boxes and history is made. High-school friends transform a fanzine villain into one the the world's best-known heroic icons. A concept album becomes...
Brutally Honest
(Metal Edge, 2000-10-00)
Phoenix, Arizona has its famous Suns: A great basketball team that made it to the semi-finals this year. And Phoenix also has its famous sons, one of them being a rock star by the name of Alice Cooper. Tonight especially, Cooper is indeed...
Alice Cooper: Your Travel Agent to a Brutal Planet
(Midwest Beat, 2000-10-00)
Alice Cooper, the Detroit-born son of a minister, is without a doubt one of the most all encompassing and important figures ever in the annals of rock 'n' roll. Rank him right alongside the likes of Elvis and Dylan in my book for the tremendous impact and influence he has had on the shape of the modern music....
Welcome to the Brutal Planet
(Rock n Roll Reporter, 2000-10-00)
The planet is cold and filled with dismay and destruction, something Alice Cooper likes to call the Brutal Planet. His work makes Escape from New York look like a ride at Disneyland. As always, Alice finds himself in the depth...
Real World Fuels Alice Cooper's Horror Tales
(Post Gazette, 2000-10-01)
More than 20 years after deciding his audience couldn't be shocked anymore, Alice Cooper was shocked to find the inspiration that would fuel his most frightening nightmare yet while watching CNN. "I asked myself, 'What scares me?' And what scared me was CNN.Freddy Krueger doesn't scare me. Things like that don't scare me. What scared me were things like Kosovo. Here's a guy collecting his family in a pillowcase. And it's not staged. It's not part of a movie. It's for real."...
Cooper's still rockin', still theatrical and still contemporary
(Independent, 2000-10-03)
Alice Cooper presented a full, fantastic rock show Sunday night at the Murat Theatre. To show gratitude, every person in the sold-out audience of 2,450 should buy a copy of Cooper's current album. Without the songs of Brutal Planet -- a criminally overlooked recording -- the original shock rock star can throw a mildly enjoyable oldies revue....
Cooper takes Alice out to play
(Maine Today, 2000-10-05)
Alice Cooper is not always himself. On stage, he's the same snake-thin, leather-clad, mascara-wearing rock star he was 25 years ago. And he still belts out songs that were anthems to a generation of tough-talking high schoolers, including "I'm Eighteen" and "School's Out." But off stage, Alice Cooper doesn't really exist. Sure, that's his name (legally changed from Vincent Furnier), but it's not his persona....
School's Never Out For Vet Rocker Alice Cooper
(Boston Herald, 2000-10-08)
Rock trends may come and go, but one thing never changes: Alice Cooper still gets his head chopped off at the end of every show. "We had so many requests for the guillotine that I had to borrow it back from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame," he...
Alice Cooper: Don't confuse shock with Satanism
(Knox News Sentinal, 2000-10-08)
Alice Cooper, the originator of '70s shock rock, is being rediscovered by a new generation. But Cooper is not so happy to be lumped in with the likes of Marilyn Manson and Slipknot. "Some of these bands that have professed Satanic cult things. That shouldn't include me," says Cooper, "because, for one thing, I'm a Christian. That's the biggest insult you could give me. You could call me untalented and boring, OK, I can live with that. But call me Satanic and you're stepping on what I really believe in." ...
Alice Cooper Still Basks In Mock Decadence
(Boston Globe, 2000-10-10)
No one protests or pickets Alice Cooper anymore. The angry hordes have moved on to the other concerns — death metal, hip-hop, violent Hollywood movies. This leaves old Alice right where he should be: at center stage, gleefully wallowing in mock...
World Beater
(Hit Parader, 2000-11-00)
In the light of what passes for "entertainment" in music circles these days, it's kind of hard to imagine that at one time Alice Cooper was rock and roll's unquestioned King Of Outrage. Back in the late '60s and early '70s, Cooper and his ...
Speak With The Devil
(Rue Morgue, 2000-11-00)
He's responsible for the death of countless babies. He's been romantically involved with a corpse. He's fought off black widows, he's hung with Vincent Price, he's survived attacks at the hands of Jason Voorhees, and every night he's had his head removed in the guillotine....
Best in Show
(Arizona Republic, 2000-12-28)
He may not be Eighteen anymore, but the Valley's own Alice Cooper was on a roll when he invited the public to a Web Theatre dress rehearsal for his "Brutal Planet" tour May 18. With a scorching young backup band and several costume changes...
Alice Cooper
(Classic Rock, 2001-00-00)
If there was a more entertaining stage show to hit these shores last year than Alice Cooper's 'Brutal Planet' tour, this reviewer must have missed it. Fortunately, someone thought to capture the whole thing for posperity on the new-fangled shiny disc format...
The Axe Files
(Mojo, 2001-00-00)
They couldn't even fill a bar. So what did Alice Cooper sound like before he encouraged us to skip class? Ben Edmonds know. Back in late-'60s California, in the days before the 1972 summer holiday hit, School's Out, Alice Cooper wasn't a solo artist. It was the name of a band. And not a very highly regarded one at that....
Alice Cooper
(Toyfare, 2001-02-00)
What's it like having your own action figure? There are three things that show you've made it: being an answer to a Jeopardy! question, being a joke on a Bob Hope TV Christmas Special, and having a comic book, toy or pez dispenser made after you. ...
Vital Reissues
(Billboard, 2001-02-24)
Twenty years before Marilyn Manson bared his backside, Alice Cooper gave parents plenty to despise. And unlike many of today's wannabes, his band's darkness was spiced with humor, originality, and serious rock'n'roll chops. By 1973 and the...
Billion Dollar Babies Re-issue Review
(Classic Rock, 2001-03-00)
Fans of the Coopmeister are gonna love this expanded version of his 1973 masterpiece, 'Billion Dollar Babies'. Although the new doubleCD edition doesn't come complete with the fake billion dollar bills that famously accompanied the original...
Alice Cooper
(Connection, 2001-03-00)
Rock star Alice Cooper shocked the world in the 1970s with an alcohol-fueled stage show that explored taboos raging from murder to necrophilia. Years later he shocked the rock world by quietly embracing Christianity. Cooper has rarely talked...
Alice Cooper
(Metal Maniacs, 2001-03-00)
Alice Cooper' Brutal Planet is up there (and maybe even a bit beyond) anything the man's ever recorded. It's brutal alright, a universe of rot and decay, eaten up from the inside out by sickening characters acting out their pathetic existences by spewing out hate, ultimately hastening the apocalypse. This is a planet where everybody dies ugly. There is no hope. The music is good solid guitar-driven hard rock. Yeah, the old Shock Rocker is back again. And he ain't resting on past shocks. He's got a new batch of brutality and boy does it sound good on headphones....
Alice Cooper: Sick thing had a message
(Orange County Register, 2001-03-06)
Partly that's his own fault-no sooner had his macabre clowning reached its pinnacle then it became true clowning, the sort that found him enrapt with his own celebrity and making lousy albums that were one slice away from Andrew Lloyd Webber. He has tried to shift his music back to what it was, but that's moot. It's the golfing Alice Cooper we live with now. The restaurateur Alice Cooper. The spoof-himself-in-commercials Alice Cooper. The Alice Cooper that today's suburban 50-somethings-the very same types Alice intended to tick off 30 years ago-now see pop up on "Behind the Music," then remark, "Ah, he was better when he did `Under My Wheels.'"...
Rock megastar speaks exclusively to your West Lothian Herald & Post!
(West Lothian Herald & Post, 2001-03-22)
He's the master of Shock Rock, certainly one of the world's greatest showmen, freely combining a mix of music, mayhem and the macabre....
Rock's Horror Show
(Bulletin, 2001-03-29)
Pioneer shock rock maestro Alice Cooper says the best thing about being a rock 'n' roll dinosaur is that you get to eat smaller bands for breakfast. Yes kids, the Alice Cooper horror show is coming to town and the self-confessed prophet of doom is...
Metal Wire
(Metal Edge, 2001-04-00)
Alice Cooper's Paradise Valley, AZ home was robbed Nov. 25. Over $6,400 worth of clothes and shoes (beloning to one of Cooper's daughters) and video cameras were taken. Metal Edge Asks: Which Song Best Describes Your Love Life?...
Alice Cooper
(Record Collector, 2001-04-00)
Following the 4-CD box set come this single disc anthology, which attempts to cover the career of ol' Vince over the last 30 years or so. No easy task and, despite its inclusion of 22 tracks, not all fans will agree with the selection. Where are classics...
Alice's Off Planet
(Mail, 2001-04-01)
At 53, shock-rocker Alice Cooper can no longer lay claim to the Department of Youth. But he's still telling brutal truths about our planet, writes Ritchie Yorke. The latest incarnation promises to be a pearler, even by Alice's extraordinary history of live...
Alice shocks and rocks
(Bulletin, 2001-04-16)
It may have been ahard act to follow but Alice Cooper rocked the Carrara Stadium on Saturday as much as the farewell concert by Kiss the night before. Organisers said 7000 fans turned out on Saturday night to see Alice Cooper's Live From the Brutal...
Once More, Mr. Nice Guy
(Phoenix New Times, 2001-04-19)
In other nickel-and-dime news, this year, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame short-changed Alice Cooper singularly and collectively when it again failed to nominate Vincent Furnier and friends into the old boys' club. S...
Monster with his best years behind him
(Aftonbladet, 2001-04-27)
Gothenburg. Monster of the Millennium is not a very modern concept. Both Alice Cooper, Dio and most of all Ratt, have already had their great eras. They are still worth seeing, but tonight neither of them were in top form....
Alice Cooper Plays In Another League
(Expressen, 2001-04-27)
Three veteran bands on a "Monsters Of The Millenium"-tour around Sweden and the first is located at Frolundaborg, the big concert arena of the 80's. Talk about hard rock nostalgia....
Fairway to heaven
(Observer, 2001-04-29)
Vincent Furnier, who started performing as the megalomaniac rock god Alice Cooper three decades ago, still looks more or less the same - he is long-haired, big-nosed, Cuban-heeled, with thin, pipe-cleaner legs. He is 53. He's recorded 25 albums, spent years as an alcoholic, dried out, converted to Christianity, taken up golf, opened a restaurant with a sporting theme in his home town of Phoenix, Arizona, and raised three children. Some things in his life have remained consistent - he still watches a kung-fu movie before every stage performance and eats a McDonald's quarter pounder with cheese afterwards. ...
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
(Mojo, 2001-05-00)
In the late '60s, Alice Cooper sounded like snotty-nosed Zappa/Mothers wannabes playing at being The Beatles....
Hot Shots
(Restaurant Hospitality, 2001-05-00)
Rock Legend Alice Cooper in the restaurant business? You Bet. Not everybody is crazy about the idea, but his accountant isn't complaining and neither are the customers who pack his Phoenix-based restaurant. Twenty-seven years after his original band broke up, Alice Cooper is still working the rock circuit three to four months a year with his wrap-around snakes. At age 53, you'd think this son of a Methodist minister would let it go, but Vince Damon Furnier (his birth name) never lets anything go easy. He is, after all, from Detroit; a Motor City madman who's as smart as he is wild....
Wembley Arena
(Times, The, 2001-05-23)
ALICE COOPER likes to have something in his hands when he is singing, and during the course of his show at Wembley, last Friday, he made various threatening gestures with a riding crop, a whip, a sword, a cane and even a pair of maracas...
The Last Temptation
(Publishers Weekly, 2001-05-28)
A spooky collaboration between novelist and comics writer Gaiman (Sandman; and see review of American Gods, above) and creepy shock rocker Cooper, this is the story of Steven, a boy with many fears: girls, ghost stories and growing up among them. On a dare, he steps into an odd theater and meets a mysterious, top-hatted showman, an Alice Cooper-like figure (complete with dark eye-circles) who offers him a way to avoid his fears by simply giving up his "potential" and staying forever in a dreamy netherworld of spirits and wraiths. And after encountering Mercy, a beautiful ticket-taker in the ghostly theater, Steven gives the offer serious consideration. Cooper is the inspiration for the Grand Guignol of this demonic theater, a chilling metaphor for the seductive allure of complacency and indolence. Gaiman's story is a whimsical horror tale about confronting the fears within, and Zulli's black-and-white illustrations have a dark, emotive line, presented in a brownish, bloodlike hue that makes even a mundane, autumnal street scene seem eerie and foreboding. (June) ...
Welcome To The Nightmare
(Metal Edge, 2001-06-00)
The fact that Dope were able to tour with Alice Cooper for a short time was unbelievable for me. But even more unbelievable was having the opportunity to roll into my band's hometown of New York City and share the stage with Alice on the first Halloween...
Alice Cooper har inga planer på att dra ner på tempot
(Sweden Rock Magazine, 2001-06-00)
Alice Cooper är närmast ökäand för sin theatreliska scenshow, där smink, ormar och glijotineringar blivit vardagsmat för hans fans. Turnên "Live From The Brutal Planet" är hans största satning på många år, med en scenproduktion i klass med 1975 års "Welcome To My Nightmare". Tillsammans med ratt och DIO i hårdrockspaketet "Monsters Of The Millennium", besökte Alice nyligen sverige för atta spelningar med sin extravaganta skräckrockshow....
A Life In The Day
(Times, The, 2001-09-16)
Alice Cooper, 53, releases his 28th album, Dragontown, on October 8. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife, Sheryl, and children, Calico, Dashiell and Sonora. I know this isn't going to sound very rock 'n' roll, but I'm always up early...
News Report
(Rolling Stone, 2001-09-27)
Alice Cooper's new album, Dragontown, is due out October 9th...
A Week In The Life Of Alice Cooper
(Classic Rock, 2001-10-00)
"I get up at 6.30 every morning. I haven't had a drink in 19 years, and that changes your whole physiology and lifestyle. When I was a drinker I'd be getting up at two in the afternoon, and then I'd be up for half the night. It was a whole...
Welcome to Dragontown!
(Midwest Beat, 2001-10-00)
Before Kiss first powdered their noses, before Marilyn Manson reached puberty, before Slipknot and Mudvayne applied garish makeup — there was ALICE COOPER! This Detroit-born son of a preacher started it all as far as theatrical "shock rock" goes....
Twice as Smart... And Twice as Sick
(Powerplay, 2001-10-00)
Can there be anybody in the developed world that does not know the name and face of Alice Cooper? As living rock legends go, he's the nastiest, the most over the top, the originals cock-rocker. Currently riding on a wave of popularity created by the success of last year's "Brutal Planet" and a tour that left audiences wide — yed and breathless, he releases new album "Dragontown" this month. ...
Loads More Mr Nice Guy
(A-List, 2001-10-19)
Alice Cooper is the son of a pastor, a devout Christian and devoted father of three. He boasts a golf handicap of seven and says he has never cheated on his wife in 25 years of marriage. Yet this is the same man who stabs mutant babies...
Ask Alice: The shock rocker talks about God, golf and what it's like to be Alice
(Cleveland Plain Dealer, 2001-10-19)
Alice Cooper's vision of the future depends on which Alice you happen to ask. The on-stage Alice imagines a society without morals collapsing into a radioactive pit of violence and horror. That's the theme of the legendary shock rocker's first album...
Alice Cooper: Prince Of Darkness/Lord Of Light
(Knac, 2001-10-19)
"Alice is what all other shockers strive to be. Hands down...the champion of the world. His songs sang out like nursery rythms to a demented generation. He was the first to mix music and theater into a twisted cocktail that we drank down like there was no tomorrow. He threw away the rule book on safe and sane! Alice Cooper made us all feel unsafe and insane, and we love him for it.and I will love him forever for kicking the morally correct institution called 'rock n' roll' right in the fuckin' balls. Long live The Coop!" ...
Necronomicon Of Terror
(Satellite Times, 2001-10-19)
For over twenty years Alice Cooper has been hanged, guillotined, electrocuted, and possessed by devils. Craig Cabell met the legendary host of our most vivid nightmares. Like the ancient Necronomicon so often referred to by H.P. Lovecraft in his tales of horror and suspense, Alice Cooper has weaved his own tapestry of visual grotesquery through the imagery of his albums and theatrically macabre rock tours. We spoke about his life - and death! - just like two comedians discussing the mechanics of a good joke.... but the conversation soon took on a more serious tone....
The Lovable Goth
(Hartford Courant, 2001-10-25)
One guy who can always find work Halloween week is Alice Cooper. "October is always like that," rock's top ghoul says from Mount Pleasant, Mich., on a tour that brings him to Foxwoods Resort Casino the night before Halloween, on Tuesday....
Cooper not afraid to have fun with his Image
(Whoot, 2001-10-25)
Alice Cooper still does his 1970s shock rock routine with full makeup and stage regalia - he just doesn't take himself as seriously. In a new TV commercial for Marriott's Residence Inn, for example, Cooper pokes fun at his hard-rock image. He tells a dad to spend more time with his children, and in the last frame is seen jumping rope with some little girls. "That was fun to do," says Cooper, who is appearing at 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27 at Trump Marina. "I'm not one of those guys who makes the image so precious that you can't have fun with it. Anytime you can juxtapose Alice Cooper with Middle America, I'm all for it."...
Chasing The Dragon
(Get Rhythm, 2001-11-00)
So the phone rang, "Hi, it's Sharon, Alice Cooper's publicist. Hey, Brian do you fancy doing an interview with him?" Well never being one to turn down the opportunity to meet a genuine rock'n'roll legend I hastily agreed thinking I'd eventually end up some being in a queue of writers waiting for an audience at some Hilton Hotel type suite as Alice made one of those oh so predictable whistle stop promotional visits to town. But no, I was in for a surprise. "Yes, Brian, I'm trying to arrange for a few of you writers to meet with Alice next week at Cooperstown, can you arrange your own photographer as I don't think I can cover the cost of two flights."...
The Nightmare Continues
(Record Collector, 2001-11-00)
Few artists can boast as turbulent a career as the 50-something Vincent Furnier, who has survived alcoholism, the wrath of the Christian right wing and the horror that was 80s hair-metal with equal aplomb. Decades have passed since his creepily...
The Ghoul Next Door
(Orlando Sentinel, 2001-11-06)
One guy who can always find work around Halloween is Alice Cooper. "October is always like that," rock's top ghoul says from Mount Pleasant, Mich., on the last week of a tour that brings him to Hard Rock Live on Wednesday, just a week after the...
House of Blues Concert Review
(Maximum-Rock, 2001-12-00)
"Dragontown" being the third chapter in the trilogy which began back in 1994 with "The Last Temptation", the second chapter was the outrageous tour that we witnessed at the House of Blues in Las Vegas, NV back in Sept 22nd 2000 "Brutal Planet". Brutal Planet was a great tour and it in my opinion was one of his best tours in years, but Saturday night, September 29th Alice Cooper topped the Brutal Planet tour by leaps and bounds. Dragontown is one of the best Alice Cooper shows I have seen. The Aladdin stage was set, the show opened with a new hard rock act "Lennon". They didn't seem to get a very warm welcome from the Las Vegas fans, but you have to understand the fans were there to see the King of Shock Rock "Alice Cooper"....
Nothing's Shocking
(Metal Edge, 2001-12-00)
Burning pyres of flame burst upward, searching with blazing orange heat, as beaded sweat glistens with the illumination that sweeps across a sea of faces. Adorned in black darkness, they chant, dancing the celebratory ritual of rock 'n' roll. ...
Alice Cooper cooks up Christmas Pudding show
(Get Out, 2001-12-13)
Alice Cooper, Paradise Valley's own rock'n'roll legend, has long been involved in charitable efforts through his Solid Rock Foundation and its annual celegrity golf tournament. Now he's added a Christmas show to raise funds for the organization. "All the money goes to teenagers as part of our bylaw," Cooper said of his foundation, which was created in 1995 to financially aid Christian organizations and ministries that work with youths. "This came along, and we thought it would be great to have two money markets." It all started when Cooper was approached by the folks at Celebrity Theatre. "(General manager) Reed Glick, who's always supported the Solid Rock Foundation, came to us and said, 'Hey, we've got nothing going on the 13th, why don't I give you the Celebrity Theatre?' (Concert promoter) Danny Zelisko said (his company) Evening Star would help put it together. And my wife, who's been in show business as long as I have, is going to direct it."...
Alice Cooper - Dragon You Through Hell!
(BW&BK, 2002-00-00)
Call it Hell. Call it Dragontown. Call it Ozzfest in the early afternoon. Whatever your metaphor for eternal damnation, Alice Cooper has gathered a few lost souls from the hot side to tell you what it's like, why these colourful characters are there...
'I have a dream...'
(Classic Rock, 2002-00-00)
THERE'S NO WAY OF KNOWING FROM THE cover of this record that the Alice Cooper who released 'Welcome To My Nightmare' in March 1975 had changed. But the fact was that Alice had gone solo....
News Report
(Impact Weekly, 2002-01-03)
When performing at the Hard Rock Cafe in Cleveland, the members of Alice Cooper's band ask Bluekarma if they can use Bluekarma's equipment to jam, after having performed with Cooper earlier in the evening. Bluekarma declines, shocking Cooper's band so much they return with a camcorder. A scant six weeks later, the group shares the "Good Morning Arizona" TV stage with Cooper, who's making his "secret holiday pudding" as a celebrity chef....
Saint Alice
(HM, 2002-03-00)
One of God's greatest gifts to creation has to be the sense of humor. It gets us through hard times and lifts the heart when it slips into depression. I wonder if Jesus ever pulled pranks on His disciples. Having the Apostle Peter fetch a coin from a fish's mouth, for example, was probably pretty funny. Vincent Furrier, who created and plays the musical character of Alice Cooper, wishes more people got the joke. Even after decades of escalated "shock rock" that goes way beyond Cooper's horror shtick, many casual observers still look at Cooper's macabre image and react with the alarm of a concerned parent in the midst of danger. Perhaps the "don't take it too seriously" attitude of the recent Residence Inn TV commercials will cause more folks to lighten up in their assessment of Alice Cooper, who, contrary to the song, really is a nice guy....
Rocker Cooper winning over fans on new restaurant's opening day
(Cleveland Plain Dealer, 2002-04-04)
Rocker-restaurateur Alice Cooper welcomed 500 guests — not to his nightmare, but to a pulled pork-smoked turkey dreams come true. Cooper autographed jeans, a $50 bill and a Kermit the Frog during the opening of his Cooper'stown Cleveland...
New Goth god offends good Christian like Alice Cooper
(Express, 2002-09-27)
If rock music has taught us anything, then it's not to be judgmental. Just because a guy makes a living beating up cripples and dismembering babies before being ritually executed, it doesn't make him a bad person. Take, ooh, for a wild example... Alice Cooper. For the past 30-odd years; this merchant of ghoul has been regular visitor to the UK, using more theatrical blood than a Sam Raimi film in the process and attracting process and attracting equal mounts of righteous criticism. Yet, the man's a pussycat. A caring and tea-total father of three, he plays golf every day - regular partners include former president Gerald Ford - worries about Ozzy Osbourne's well-being and has even found God, attacking Marilyn Manson for taking the Devil worship thing "way too far". What you have to remember about Alice is that it's all a morality tale. The leather-clad, panda-eyed, swordwielding maniac on stage is undoubtedly a bad person, but he pays for his sins - usually with his head. Ergo, Alice is a force for good....
Welcome to His Nightmare...
(Music Revue, 2002-10-00)
For more than 30 years, Alice Cooper has been hitting the road, treating fans to his own unique type of rock and roll horror show. The man who's famous for stage props ranging from boa constrictors to straight jackets...
Soundcheck: Alice Cooper, Shock Rocker
(Cleveland Free Times, 2002-10-02)
WHEN VINCENT DAMON Furnier decided to start calling himself Alice Cooper in the 1970s, he adopted a theatrical stage show and set a precedent of putting visuals to music. Thirty years on, he's still at it, on tour in support of a special edition of...
When The Chickens Came Home To Roost
(Mail, 2002-11-09)
ALICE COOPER thrilled audiences with his anarchic lyrics, hard-drinking ways and notorious stage antics that infamously involved a live bird. Then he took up golf, found God - and discovered the joys of family life. MICHAEL HELLICAR found out what...
American Psycho
(Kerrang!, 2002-11-16)
Long before Marilyn Manson became public enemy number one, a snake-loving, noose-wielding madman was happily enraging moralists everywhere. This is the story of how Alice Cooper became rock's original bogeyman... THE YEAR: 1969 The remaining vestiges of the Summer 0f Love are about to be trampled underfoot by the Manson Family murders. On a stage in LA's Whisky A Go-Go club, five long-haired insurrectionists are doing their own bit to drive a stake through the heart of hippy culture. Going under the deceptively wholesome name of Alice Cooper, the band churn out a cacophonous mix of harsh psychedelia, driving hard rock and pure Dadaist confusion that garners more blank stares than applause The visual aspects of the show are just as bizarre. Lacking the resources to realise his grand vision of rock theatre, the fledgling group's singer - a scrawny blonde with garish make-up and a curled-up pre-punk sneer who also bears the name Alice Cooper - utilises whatever he could find that day....
Alice isn't shocking us any more
(Sunday Post, 2002-11-17)
ALICE COOPER - the name sounds more like a clean-cut country singer than a dark monster of rock. And that's exactly why the man born as Vincent Furnier chose it. He wanted people who came to his concerts to be shocked - and he succeeded with his macabre and unsettling stage show ' and songs. Alice first shook Britain in 1972 when his single School's Out and LP Billion Dollar Babies both went to No. 1. After a successful solo career in the mid-70s, Vincent/Alice endured a long battle against alcohol and a self-imposed stay in a mental asylum....
A Thrash through the rough with Alice
(Durham Journal, 2002-11-21)
Golf club in one hand, iced water in the other. Visor pulled low to cover tired eyes and designer clothes carefully fitted to confirm his lofty financial state. This affluent 54-year-old is like so many middle-class Americans looking forward to the finer things in life following years of hard work and compromise. Yet underneath it all lies a dark and dangerous secret. A revelation which could strike fear into his fellow players, cause elderly female members to look away in horror and spark mass hysteria within the conservative world of the clubhouse....
Alice Cooper
(Smålandsbygdens Tidning, 2002-11-22)
With the bad reviews horror rocker Alice Cooper garnered in the big newspapers during his recent visit to Sweden, it's doubtful if he will return in the future. ...
Godfather of Metal Returns
(Metro, 2002-11-26)
The Monsters of Rock festival dates from a time before Rage Against The Machine and Slipknot, to a period when the likes of Def Leppard and the Scorpions bestrode the stage in unashamed Lycra with shaggy perms....
The Odd Couple: Head-master Cooper
(Sheffield Star, 2002-11-27)
BEHEADING Britney Spears on stage? Now that's a hard act to follow. Countless would-be shock rockers have tried to follow Alice Cooper. But after 30 years he's still a king (queen?) of darkness, strutting his stuff long after good little pop idols have gone to bed. He's wielding his sword, butchering effigies of babies on stage and having himself guillotined. It would be great to see Will or Gareth try to copy that one. Vince Furnier created his monster Alice 3o-odd years ago, draping himself in live snakes and singing of death, addiction and - horror of horrors - adolescence. A generation of parents worldwide were scandalised. These days everyone recognises it as just a fine piece of over-the-top rock theatre. And many parents took their youngsters along to the Arena to see. Bet they'll not be bothered about watching Fame Academy after this. School's Out was a fist-in-the-air anthem of rebellion when I was an awkward 1970s teenager....
Concert Review
(Kerrang!, 2002-11-30)
The Monsters of Rock super-tour kicks off In London FROM 1980 to the mid-'80s, the Monsters Of Rock festival celebrated all that was great about the musk we love. With bands as diverse as Motley Crue, Iron Malden and Metallica all contributing legendary performances. Now the Monsters of Rock brand has been resurrected to celebrate what was. Still, at least the line-up is impressive enough for those that still care. The pick of tonights supports are the Dogs D'Amour whose frontman Tyla is back to his gravely, heart-broken best. Thunder and The Quireboys are also on top form though. and both bands serve up what posses for greatest hits sets that keep the crowd happy....
The Complexity Of Alice Cooper
(Metal Edge, 2002-12-00)
"If you were a [traveling] band in the early '70s, people always mistook you for Alice Cooper," remembers New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, recalling that very misconception once happening to him on a transcontinental flight...
Who the **** is Alice?
(Record Collector, 2002-12-00)
The first unofficial Alice Cooper convetion, Sickcon1, was held on 2nd Novemeber at Crewe's Limelight Club. Guest of honour were Bouchard, Dunaway, Smith -- comprising founder members of the Alice Cooper band, Neal Smith (drums) and Dennis Dunaway...
Alice's elves
(Arizona Republic, 2002-12-09)
As Alice Cooper rocks Canada, Russia, Germany and Scandinavia on a three-month tour, the seemingly ageless performer has been relying on a few key people back home in the Valley to organize his second annual Christmas...
Alice Cooper - Draggin' Through Your Town
(BW&BK, 2003-00-00)
Corpse-painted shockfather Alice Cooper has hit the road once again, bringing his heavy Dragontown record (recently reissued with a spate of bonus material) plus a bevy of old hits to cities all over the world, including a Toronto date in October. First thing...
25 Awesome Arizonians
(Today's Arizona Woman, 2003-01-00)
Legendary rock performer Alice Cooper is on an honorary roll. Last year, the dark prince of shock rock and native Phoenician was awarded the 2001 Living Legend Award by the International Horror Guild at Dragon*Con, an annual science fiction...
Only Britney Bleeds: Alice Cooper in the UK
(Entertainment Design, 2003-01-01)
Who needs Ozzy Osbourne - or any of the Osbournes, for that matter? The real F***ing Prince of Darkness, Alice Cooper, is bloodying up the road right now with his usual array of heavy metal mayhem, and can currently be found devouring Europe with his Dragontown world tour. Lighting designer Mick Thornton has designed a surprisingly colorful show that illuminates a stage act encompassing everything from baby massacres to strait-jacketed lunatics being hauled off to the asylum. The pice de resistance is the nightly ritualized guillotining of Britney Spears - Alice doesn't much like her, apparently - as played by his daughter Calico. Rob Roth designed the set, built by Colorado-based Distortions, which features something called a Rejuvenator chamber, plus an assortment of macabre props and body parts. (Roth also serves as the show's choreographer.)...
Thanks a Billion
(Discoveries, 2003-02-00)
Once Upon a time in the '70s, there was an amazing band called Alice Cooper, which included vocalist Vincent Furnier, guitarists Michael Bruce and Glen Buxton, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith. Taking full advantage of a seminal period in rock music that nurtured a sort of "Wild West" environment for creative musical invention, Alice Cooper established the boiler plate for theatrical "shock rock."...
Rocker Alice Cooper on roll
(Detroit Free Press, 2003-02-09)
Rocker Alice Cooper is keeping the pedal to the metal these days in more ways than one. Cooper has signed on as a NASCAR Busch Grand National series sponsor/owner. "I'm going to be in the pits," said Cooper, 54. "But you won't see me...
Alice Cooper
(Metal Edge, 2003-03-00)
The embossed plaque of Frank Sinatra handing in the lobby of the Fox Theatre commemorates its inaugural show. With a regally fabricated elegance borne of architectural modernism, the 1,400-seat theater reflects on opulence of discriminating taste ...
Local Celebrity You'd Most Like To Dine With
(Scottsdale Life, 2003-06-00)
Famed rocker Alice Cooper topped the list when it came to what celebrity residents most wanted to dine with. It could be his bad-boy image of days gone by, it could be his local nice-guy image; whatever the case, Scottsdale loves Alice Cooper....
Alice Cooper
(Mail, 2003-09-06)
Alice says: I spent most of the 1990s recovering from my excesses of the previous three decades. But my head was clear enough to keep track of everything that was happening in the music business. For the first time since rock 'n' roll...
100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time
(Rolling Stone, 2003-09-18)
Buxton was a gifted mimic whose ability to unlock the guitar secrets of his Stones and Yardbirds 45s gave a Phoenix garage band the breathing room to develop into Alice Cooper, His dirty, elemental leads wrapped around Michael Bruce's meaty riffs to create a legacy of exemplary hard rock. Essential Recording: "Eighteen", Love It To Death (1971)...
Garagerock i Alice Coopers tappning
(Smålandsbygdens Tidning, 2003-09-19)
Strax efter halv sju på fredagskvällen är det dags för kvällens sista telefonintervju för Detroitättlingen Alice Cooper. Och det är med stor entusiasm som han berättar för mig om framtiden och hur nya skivan "The Eyes of Alice Cooper" kommit till. Efter "Brutal Planet" och "Dragontown", som båda hade en klart tyngre och hårdare framtoning än de flesta tidigare Cooperplattor, tyckte han att var dags att gå tillbaks till rötterna - gammal hederlig garagerock ifrån Detroit......
Alice Cooper: Goth star who found God
(Express, 2003-09-22)
Alice Cooper wants to make something very clear. He hates golf. Despite his handicap of seven and his killer swing Alice insists he wouldn't be seen dead on a golf course. ...
Eyes of Alice Cooper Review
(Kerrang!, 2003-09-27)
The oldest shock rocker in town goes back to his garage roots Alice Cooper has always kept one heavily made-up eye on what's going down. When hair bands ruled he teamed up with pop-rock svengali Desmond Child and had a hit with 'Poison'. He dabbled in nu-metal and now, with The White Stripes and their ilk the hippest ticket in town, he returns with and album of pure garage-rock. Whether this makes him an icon with an instinctive feel for the musical zeitgeist or a sad old chancer desperate to stay in with the kids is open to interpretation, but at least this represents a return to what Alice does best. There's no 'Under My Wheels' on here, but 'Man of the Year' and 'What do you want from me' come close and, as the band rip through this funny, raw and sneering collection it soon becomes clear that this is the best AC album in years. ...
Last Night A Record Changed My Life
(Mojo, 2003-10-00)
Back when he was dodging Phoenix rednecks as frontman of The Spiders, Alice Cooper's heart opened to a Broadway show soundtrack.. When we were known as The Spiders back in Phoenix, the West Side Story Soundtrack album had a big impact on the band. Not just me; we were all affected by that somehow. I think it was the juvenile delinquency. Remember, this was pre-Clockwork Orange. There was something about the gang thing and the band mentality that intrigued us. We made that connection right away. Glen Buxton and Neil Smith were originally from Ohio, and I was from Detroit, so we had some big town roots. West Side Story definitely helped inspire the theatrics of Alice Cooper. Certainly we weren't gonna dance like that - but there was an undeniable coolness about it. When we took it to the next level of make-up, we still had the gang attitude. In fact, none of us ever went out alone. There would have to he three or four of us together. Those were less enlightened times, and with our long hair and the clothes it was a real risk to travel solo.
Alice Cooper goes back to bare-bones rock
(Boston Herald, 2003-10-03)
Alice Cooper is fed up with rock 'n' roll. Well, that's not exactly true. He's fed up with the current state of rock 'n' roll and all its pretentiousness. "When I got into a rock band, it was so I didn't have to hear about my parents talking about tax cuts...
I didn't get where I am today without...
(Times, The, 2003-10-11)
Giving the Establishment a kick up the backside Rock should function as society's conscience. The more people squeal, "Ooh, but you can't say that!", the more we're going to say it. Of course, a lot of self-appointed moral guardians get their knickers...
I'm Rock's Original Bad Boy
(Now, 2003-10-29)
Alice Cooper invented Ozzy Osbourne-style shock rock stage acts. But unlike Ozzy, you wouldn`t catch him cleaning up dog poo on TV . With all the attention - not to mention millions being lavished on rocker-turned-TV star Ozzy Osbourne, you'd forgive Alice Cooper for feeling a bit peeved....
Alice Cooper
(Powerplay, 2003-11-00)
Talking to Alice Cooper in the cold light of day might be something of a reality check compared to hit outer persona, character and stage shows. And when Alice turns out to be the nice guy everyone always says he is, I can't help but feel he does a great job in building up his violent sides because in reality, as he will happily tell you, he's just a regular guy who happens to play rock 'n' roll for a living....
Eyes of Alice Cooper Review
(Edmonton Journal, 2003-11-15)
Will the eyes have it? Or the nays? Alice schools his "long time" band members on every phase of his career (except the Clones bit), and they all write to fit the templates. They write pandering anthems for the grandkids (I'm So Angry), lunge for cred (Detroit City) and craft a maudlin-squad ballad (Be With You Awhile). Once too smart for Broadway, Alice is finally ready for that Wind-Beneath-My-Wings moment. And he still writes better songs than 90 per cent of those clones....
The Singles
(Rolling Stone, 2003-11-27)
OutKast, "Hey Ya!" Rolling Stone says: Andre 3000 leaves hip-hop behind with a weird funk-rock shout-out. Cooper: My favorite record out of all of 'em. I think it's so unique that a black act can sound like Cheap Trick with a little bit of Frank Zappa. Every time OutKast make a record, I'm interested. The Strokes, "12:51" R: Shabbily fashionable New Yorkers strike a balance between garage-rock venom and New Wave style. Cooper: I always mention the Strokes when I talk about our new album, because we went total garage on the new one. I like that these guys point back to early Stooges, MC5 and Alice Cooper. ...
Shopping with Alice
(FHM, 2003-12-00)
Alice, who are you holiday shopping for today? The band, the family, my son, my two daughters, Uncle Axl Rose and Rob Zombie. Last year, I got Rob a Wicked Witch of the West cookie jar. He got me a cane with a removable skull on top. You can store ...
Alice Cooper
(Beat, 2003-12-10)
There are names that are mentioned when the term rock'n' roll is brought up, but there are few that embody the actual phrase like Alice Cooper. After recording for close to 40 years, the king of horror Alice Cooper is an artist who is well...
Public Animal #9
(Burn, 2004-01-00)
Alice fell into my lap the very same year that I started school, 1979. For that I hold him responsible for the best and worst times in my life. The downside of loving Alice was that I was labelled an outsider...even by other metalheads. The upside is the...
Alice Cooper on Rock
(Sain, 2004-01-00)
One of rock music's more colourful characters, Alice Cooper is a legend whose career spans close to forty years. The king of horror is certainly one to keep fans guessing which direction he'll turn to next. ...
Alice Cooper
(Stuff, 2004-01-00)
It has to be weird having Alice Cooper for a father. Or for a personal trainer, a gardener, a milkman or an ESL teacher. For starters, this 55-year-old father of two wears black mascara. He travels around the world with boa constrictors to serenade audiences (loudly, mind you) with such timeless hits as School's Out and No More Mr. Nice Guy. And he's been doing this since before the Beatles broke up. ...
Alice Cooper, New York City, Beacon Theater
(Metal Edge, 2004-03-00)
Twister Sister was my first concert ever. Maybe the first tape I ever bought. From Twisted Sister I got into Alice Cooper. From Alice Cooper, I got sent home from school. One of the lunch ladies didn't agree with the Alice Cooper t-shirt I was wearing...
Chips off the old rock
(Mail, 2004-04-03)
Blonde, pretty and articulate, Calico Cooper, 22, is perhaps the antithesis of what you might expect of Alice Cooper's daughter. But according to Alice, Calico was 'virtually born backstage' and travels the world supporting him on his ghoulish stage tours....
Alice Cooper Welcomes Canada To His Nightmare
(Chart Attack, 2004-05-28)
Alice Cooper seems to dig Canada. The veteran shock rocker has always been kind to our home and native land when it comes to touring and it was just back in April that he appeared at the Juno Awards to honour his old pal, producer Bob Ezrin...
Do You Rock?
(Blender, 2004-06-00)
Best rumor about yourself? Mr. Green Jeans is my father, and I set German shepherds on fire. Biggest celeb's home you've ever gotten drunk in? At Elvis's place at the Hilton Hotel in Vegas, they'd check you for guns. But once you got in, there were...
Billion Dollar Babies
(Classic Rock, 2004-06-00)
Alice Cooper who plays a one-off UK show at London's Hammersmith Apollo on June 27, is soon to begin a new album. The veteran shock-rock frontman released his previous album, the highly acclaimed and garage rock-flavoured 'The Eyes of...
A genious that's stopped rockin'!
(Aftonbladet, 2004-06-20)
GOTHENBURG. Recently Alice Cooper was awarded a doctorate's degree in "performance art" by a university in the United States. On several occasions during the American’s 100 minute Gothenburg show, I was beginning to form bitter...
Concert Review
(Smålandsbygdens Tidning, 2004-06-24)
Det är nu ett och ett halvt år sen senaste Sverigebesöket för Alice Cooper. Då turnerade rocklegenden med en blandning av det nya albumet "Dragontown" och den två år gamla scenshowen ifrån "Brutal Planet"-turnén, och inkasserade allmänt ljumma recensioner. Sen dess har Alice, influerad av garagerockvågen och band som Datsuns, Vines och White Stripes släppt skivan "The Eyes Of Alice Cooper" och till denna turné också satt ihop en ny scenshow. Från "The Eyes Of…" spelar han denna kväll endast fyra spår, vilket känns lite för snålt....
Alice Cooper on Ojibway just the start for WHEELZ
(Saginaw News, 2004-07-01)
Michigan shock-rocker Alice Cooper is returning to Saginaw to headline an outdoor rock fest on Ojibway Island, promoters say. Jerry Tarrants, WHEELZ program director at WILZ-FM, 104.5, and WYLZ-FM, 100.9, sponsors of the Sunday, Aug. 15, concert, said the stations would officially announce details of the event on air later today. ...
Two Faces of Alice Cooper
(Des Moines Register, 2004-07-08)
Alice Cooper is of two minds on most subjects. By day he is Alice Cooper the suburban dad, golfer and entrepreneur. But by night Cooper becomes the ringmaster of a rock 'n' roll circus that includes giant snakes, makeup and guillotines...
Alice Cooper proud of his role as an original shock rocker
(Post Crescent, 2004-07-08)
Alice Cooper believes his role in musical history will be as "the Busby Berkeley of rock 'n' roll." Berkeley, you will remember, was the innovative film choreographer and director who brought kaleidoscopic effects into filmed dance routines....
Alice Cooper
(Northwest Herald, 2004-07-09)
Before Ozzy ate the bat, Alice Cooper played with his snake, guillotine and electric chair. Scary. Now, I did interview Alice, but I interviewed Alice the golfer, family man, charity friend – not the dungeons-and-dragons ROAR Alice. In fact, he even told me I could call him Coop if I wished. After our interview, I must say I feel nothing but love for one of the creepiest characters alive. Enjoy. ...
Alice Cooper, other acts bring strong state ties to wrap up Common
Ground
(Lansing State Journal, 2004-07-11)
Each summer, rock musicians whirl around the globe, playing to strange people in strange places. Alice Cooper - who rocks tonight's Common Ground finale - can tell you that. He's been to places where the sun doesn't shine, and places where it doesn't set. "We did a show in Finland when it never got dark," Cooper said by phone from Stuttgart, Germany. "I had a (golf) tee time two hours after the show ended."...
Cooper ad doesn't make the grade
(Chicago Sun-Times, 2004-07-12)
Shock value has its place in advertising. After all, what better way to break through all that clutter and grab viewers' attention than to present them with an image or a situation -- or both -- that they couldn't imagine ever seeing....
Cooper explosive as Common Ground closes
(Lansing State Journal, 2004-07-12)
Well, he's still got it. Nearly 40 years after the Detroit-born rocker released his first single, Alice Cooper is still going strong. Cooper, along with the veteran rock group The Tubes, brought the 2004 Common Ground festival to an explosive end Sunday evening on the West Main Stage of Adado Riverfront Park. After an uncomfortably hot and humid day, the clouds began to roll in as Cooper was about to start his show. ...
Aged, but still hip rocker to appear tonight at Star Plaza
(Northwest Indiana Times, 2004-07-16)
The archetype for all theatrical rock artists, Alice Cooper long ago set the bar high for the likes of Marilyn Manson, Slipknot and other mask-wearing wannabes, even beating KISS into grease paint by nearly four years. And he still is going strong. Cooper rang up The Times long distance from Switzerland recently to chat about his return engagement to Star Plaza Theatre, his new radio show, his latest accolades and album "The Eyes Of Alice Cooper," which has re-energized both his spirit and his fan base....
Snakes alive - Alice's pet is Scottish
(Edinburgh Evening News, 2004-07-19)
He is world renowned for the use of snakes in his wild stage act. Not so well known is the fact that the current reptile of choice for US rocker Alice Cooper’s live European show is a boa constrictor named Lady Macbeth, who lives in East Lothian....
School's "IN" for Legendary Rocker Alice Cooper...
(Toronto News Wire, 2004-07-22)
Famed rocker Alice Cooper shopped the aisles of Staples Business Depot in Toronto today. Employees and customers were shocked when the Rock icon walked into the Staples store on University Avenue and began shopping for office and school...
Lovin' Alice Cooper to death
(Canoe, 2004-07-23)
When I was young, the only episode of The Muppet Show I didn't particularly care for was the one featuring Alice Cooper. The reason was, well, he scared the hell out of me with his ghoulish looks and black eyeliner. Nearly 30 years later, he's still...
Alice Cooper Slits Throats At The Amphitheatre
(Chart Attack, 2004-07-23)
Somehow, legendary shock-rocker Alice Cooper always manages to make even the cheesiest of rock ‘n’ roll clichés work in his favour. From transforming tired tricks into trademark elements to tongue-in-cheek self-deprecation, The Coop knows how...
Ol' Alice goth cred with young crowd
(Toronto Star, 2004-07-23)
There was a time when a triple bill headlined by Alice Cooper and also featuring Edgar Winter and Foghat would have been hailed as one of the boffo rock events of the summer. That time was 1974. While it would be stretching things to suggest that...
A real 'Mr. Nice Guy': Cooper in area for Gilford concert
(Citizen, 2004-07-29)
Alice Cooper paid a visit to some of his biggest fans Wednesday night, visiting the studios of a radio station that was the first in the nation to pick up his new radio show. Cooper is giving a concert at Meadowbrook in Gilford tonight. "I consider it a real...
A look inside Alice Cooper's soul
(Express Times, 2004-07-30)
On stage he's simulated hangings and guillotine executions, carried a boa constrictor and flaunted dolls dripping with fake blood. Nervous city councils banned him from performing long before Ozzy Osbourne and Marilyn Manson. His one-time drinking buddies were Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Keith Moon. Now the legendary rocker -- whose androgynous stage name was supposedly given to him by a hypnotist -- unabashedly calls himself a Christian. But when Alice Cooper comes to Bethlehem's Musikfest Aug. 7, he won't be performing Christian praise music. ...
Alice Cooper band to play charity slo-pitch match in Thunder
(Thunder Bays Source, 2004-07-30)
The Dougall Media No-Stars won't be playing Mr. Nice Guy on Aug. 19. Though it won't be a billion dollar bash, members of Alice Cooper's band have agreed to take on a team of Dougall Media employees in a five-inning slo-pitch match...
Cooper rocks State Theatre
(Sandusky Register, 2004-08-12)
Outside the State Theatre on Wednesday night, grown men wearing golf shirts and khaki shorts mingled with dog-collar toting teens, all anxiously awaiting the same man - Alice Cooper....
Alice Cooper: Photographed by Annie Leibovitz
(Rolling Stone, 2004-09-30)
"That was our snake, not Annie's," says Alice Cooper. "Her name was Kachina. I was actually afraid of snakes, but I figured that Alice should have one. We were about looking at your fears."...
The Vincent Price of Rock'n'Roll
(View, 2004-09-30)
IT'S BEEN MORE THAN three decades since the name Alice Cooper began to infiltrate the grand arena of rock 'n' roll, signifying a corrupted mix of horrific theatrics and nasty attitude. In that time Alice has been public enemy number one and tyrant of the rock charts, often at the same time, while at other times he's practically fallen off the radar. ...
Alice Cooper: The Icon of Rock Returns
(Circus, 2004-11-20)
"I really never had to compromise in any way" laughs Rock icon Alice Cooper aka Vincent Furnier, "And look how things turned out!" He was the public enemy #1 in the 70’s and shocked America and the rest of the world with alcohol-fueled stage...
500 Greatest Songs of All Time
(Rolling Stone, 2004-12-09)
Before "I'm Eighteen" Cooper was just another hairy rock oddball. But this proto-punk smash defined the age when, in Cooper's words, you're "old enough to be drafted but not old enough to vote." Years later, Johnny Rotten sang this at his audition for the Sex Pistols; by then, Cooper was a guest on The Muppet Show....