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Alice's Tour Data

ALICE COOPER American Tour 1973. Starship One: Total flights — 62. Miles logged — 20,700. States visited or flown over — 43, Canadian provinces — 2. Total flight time — 66 hours, 44 minutes. Fuel consumed (for the plane!) — 51,820 gallons. Average flight length — 334 miles, average flight times — 1 hour and 5 minutes. Average speed — 310 miles per hour, highest speed attained — 490 miles per hour. Highest altitude — 24,000 feet.

Those are the statistical details as reported by Captain Harry A. Kirk, the man who piloted Alice's plane. It's over — the longest and perhaps most gruelling tour of Alice's career, and no wonder the band wants to take a year off — they're utterly and totally exhausted.

The other night Alice performed to a sellout crowd at Madison Square Garden and managed to get through a small party in his honour in the dressing rooms backstage. In the hot, crowded room where several hundred people pushed to get champagne and sandwiches, the band looked relieved that it was almost over. (There were only two concerts left at this point — Nassau Coliseum at the Garden and Providence, Rhode Island.) The dressing room was decorated by Jane Rose and Agnes Au, two lovely young women who work with Howard Stein, in the manner of a grade school party.

Balloons and crepe paper were hung about, but the best touch were several "bulletin board" type panels along the walls — "Know Your Friends" — with pictures of a policeman, a fireman, a nurse, a doctor, and Alice Cooper. "The Seven Wonders of the World" — the Grand Canyon, Yosemite National Park, Alice... "Great Men: Can You Name Them?" — George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Alice Cooper... on an and on in that vein. It was the only real delight in what quickly became a very mobbed and hot party, the room resembling a sauna bath in no time.

At Alice's Madison Square Garden concert, in addition to much of the audience being made up in Alice Cooper type makeup, and wearing top hats, there were many people seen in the crowd actually carrying live snakes.