Gigography
Easy Action (1970 - 1971)
Easy Action Tour 1970 - 1971
Sun Arise / Mr. and Misdemeanor / Fields of Regret / I'm Eighteen / Levity Ball / Is It My Body (My Very Own) / Nobody Likes Me / Lay Down and Die, Goodbye
Approximate set time: 55 minutes
Pretties For You (1969):
Levity Ball / Fields Of Regret
Easy Action (1970):
Mr and Misdemeanor / Lay Down and Die, Goodbye
Love It To Death (1971):
Sun Arise / Is It My Body / I'm Eighteen / Black Juju
Non-Album Track(s):
Nobody Likes Me
1970 March
- 01: USA - Refectory, Rhode Island School Of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
- 07: USA - Five Stages, Chicago, Illinois
with Joe Kelly's Blues Band, Sun - 13: Canada - Walkerville Collegiate, Windsor, Ontario
with Rock Monopoly
Advert - 28: USA - Ludlow's Garage, Cincinnati, Ohio Ticket
1970 April
- 05: USA - Grandmother's, Lansing, Michigan
with Savage Grace, Zephyr
Two shows performed
Advert - 17: Canada - Rondeau Park Pavilion, Morpeth, Ontario Advert
- 26: USA - Cow palace, San Francisco, California
1970 May
- 08: USA - Birmingham Palladium, Birmingham, Michigan
with Wesselfox, Mighty Quick
A concert listing exists for a second night (on the 9th) with All The Lonely and Chip Stevens - 09: USA - Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, California
with Ides of March, Eric Burdon and War, Fever Tree, Haydn
Poster - 16: USA - New Old Fillmore, San Francisco, California Poster
- 18: USA - Minneapolis Labor Temple, Minneapolis, Minnesota
with Small Faces
Advert
1970 June
- 01: USA - Fesitval Of Man Earth, Thunderbird Beach, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles
- 05: Canada - Electric Circus, Toronto, Ontario
with Fatmouth
Poster - 06: Canada - Electric Circus, Toronto, Ontario
with Fatmouth
Poster - 07: Canada - Electric Circus, Toronto, Ontario
with Fatmouth
Poster - 13: USA - Cincinnati Pop Festival, Crosley Fields, Cincinnati, Ohio
Also known as the Midsummer Rock Festival. Highlights of this festival were later broadcast on Cincinnati WLWT-TV under the name "Midsummer Rock". Alice Cooper's broadcast segment showed them playing "Lay Down and Die, Goodbye" & "Black Juju". During Black Juju, someone in the audience threw a pie at Alice and it hit him in the face.
Video footage is in circulation - 21: USA - The Depot, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Two shows were performed: 7:00pm and 9:30pm
Advert - 24: USA - Sherwood Forest, Michigan with The Amboy Dukes, MC5, The Rationals, Frijid Pink
- 27: USA - Michigan State Fairground, Detroit, Michigan
with Savage Grace, Werks, Browsville Station
Advert - 30: USA - Rainy Daze, St. Louis, Illinois
1970 July
- 04: USA - Midsummer Night's Rock Festival, Michigan State Fair Grandstand, Michigan with The Rotary Connection, Catfish, SRC, Black Murder, Fugi, Wesselfox Streetnoise, Milestone, Chimo Magic Circus, Poor Souls
- 12: USA - The Factorie Ballroom, Detroit, Michigan
with Loki, The Meat Light Show, The Sun Storm Light Show
Poster - 18: USA - Terrace Ball Room, Salt Lake City, Utah Poster
- 23: USA - Chicago Underground, Warren, Michigan
with The Assemblage
Audio recording is in circulation - 25: USA - The Note, Gun Lake, Michigan with Bob Seger System, The Frost, SRC, Ormandy, Tramp, Promise, Plain Brown Wrapper, Brussels Griffen, Klass, and White Magic
- 25: USA - The International Room, General Motors Institute, Detroit, Michigan Poster
1970 August
- 07: USA - Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois with Iron Butterfly + 2 others
- 08: Canada - Strawberry Fields Festival, Mosport Park, Toronto, Ontario
A biker festival held between the 7-9th of August. Alice played one day.
Poster - 09: USA - Goose Lake International Music Festival, Goose Lake Park, Jackson, Michigan
Alice Cooper are listed on the concert poster for the show, and was scheduled to play for 15 minutes (2:45 - 3:00pm), but did not actually play.
Advert - 10: USA - Terrace, Salt Lake City, Utah [CANCELLED]
with The Amboy Dukes, Brownsville Station, Holden Cauldren
Alice Cooper band cancelled after Alice was taken ill. - 12: USA - Central States Rock Festival, Pennington County Fairgrounds, Rapid City, South Dakota
with Crow, Amboy Dukes, Frantic, Whitewing, and Cradle
Poster - 14: USA - Eastown Theater, Detroit, Michigan with Johnny Winter, Tinhouse
- 15: USA - Eastown Theater, Detroit, Michigan with Johnny Winter, Tinhouse
- 29: USA - Action House, Island Park, New York with Hog
- 30: USA - Sound Storm II, Big County Ranch Resort, Pennsylvania
1970 September
- 02: USA - Ungando's, New York City, New York
- 03: USA - Ungando's, New York City, New York
- 04: USA - Ungando's, New York City, New York
- 05: USA - Ungando's, New York City, New York
- 08: USA - Max's Kansas City, New York City, New York Bob Ezrin was reportedly in the audience, and it was the first time he had seen the band perform.
- 09: USA - Max's Kansas City, New York City, New York
- 18: USA - Rainy Daze, St Louis, Missouri The Alice Cooper group entered through the front doors of the venue, walking through the audience before climbing on stage.
- 19: USA - The Warehouse, New Orleans, Louisiana with The Stooges, MC5
- 26: USA - Gilligan's, Buffalo, New York Advert
- 27: USA - String Factory, Richmond, Virginia
with Matrix, Titfield Thunderbolt
Poster | Ticket
1970 October
- 06: USA - Dearborn Gym, University Of Maine, Farmington, Maine Poster
- 09: USA - Eastown Theater, Detroit, Michigan with Cradle, Mutzie
- 10: USA - Eastown Theater, Detroit, Michigan with The Frost, Mutzie
- 16: USA - Grand Valley Armory, Grand Rapids, Michigan
- 17: USA - Memorial Gym, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois Advert
- 18: USA - The Agora, Columbus, Ohio with Owen B.
- 31: USA - Bowen Field House, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
with Brownsville Station, SRC, Jam Band, Mutzie, and Isanity's Horse
Poster
1970 November
- 01: USA - The Frut Palace, Mount Clemens, Michigan with The Frut, The Coming
- 20: USA - Homecoming, Grand Ballroom, UCLA Ackerman Union, Los Angeles, California with Bones, Christopher Milk, and Half Nelsons
- 21: USA - Memorial Building, University of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan with Jane Fonda, The Stooges, and Damnation
- 25: USA - Fairground Coliseums, Salt Lake City, Utah with Wishful Thinking
1970 December
- 07: USA - Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, Virginia Show took place in the campus cafeteria. With Titfield Thunderbolt. An advert also exists for a show on this date at the Monroe Community College Gymnasium, Rochester, New York.
- 11: USA - The Loft, Lakeville, Michigan with The Maxx
- 20: USA - George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
- 25: USA - Eastown Theater, Detroit, Michigan with Love, Früt of the Loom
- 26: USA - Eastown Theater, Detroit, Michigan with Love, Früt of the Loom
- 31: USA - Mod World Expo, Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois
with The Byrds, Sugarloaf, Elephants Memory, McKendree Spring
Ticket
1971 January
- 01: USA - The Sherwood Forest, Davison, Michigan with Universe, Smack Dab
- 02: USA - The Palladium, Birmingham, Michigan
with Salvage, The Werks
Flyer - 15: USA - Pirates World, Dania, Florida
with MC-5
Ticket - 16: USA - Pirates World, Dania, Florida
with MC-5
Ticket - 23: USA - Autorama, Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan
with Suite Charity, Brownsville Station, Mutzie, SRC, and Woodstock band
Article/Schedule - 26: Canada - Fillmore North, Toronto, Ontario with Free, Cactus
1971 February
- 06: USA - State Theater, Toledo, Ohio
with Frut. Godfrey Dunya did not perform
Advert - 12: Canada - Rock 3, St. Catharines, Ontario
with Titanic
Advert - 14: USA - Sherwood Forest, Michigan with The Whiz Kids, Ice Nine
- 19: USA - Oelman Auditorium, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
with Stone Fox
Two shows performed; 8pm and the other at 11pm. - 26: USA - Electric Playground, Columbus, Ohio Advert
- 27: Canada - Brampton Centennial Secondary School, Brampton, Ontario with Nucleus
- 28: Canada - Polish Veterans Hall, Oshawa, Canada with Fear
Tour Materials
Walkerville Collegiate, Windsor, ON, Canada - March 13, 1970
(Advert)
Ludlow's Garage, Cincinnati, OH - March 28, 1970
(Ticket)
Grandmother's, Lansing, MI - April 5, 1970
(Advert)
Rondeau Pavilion, Rondeau Park, ON, Canada - April 17, 1970
(Advert)
Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, CA - May 9, 1970
(Poster)
New Old Fillmore, San Francisco, CA - May 16, 1970
(Poster)
Minneapolis Labor Temple, Minneapolis, MN - May 18, 1970
(Advert)
Electric Circus, Toronto, ON, Canada - June 5-7, 1970
(Poster)
The Depot, Minneapolis, MN - June 21, 1970
(Advert)
Mid-Summer Night's Rock, Michigan State Fairground, Detroit, MI - June 27, 1970
(Advert)
The Factorie Ballroom, Detroit, MI - July 12, 1970
(Poster)
Terrace Ball Room, Salt Lake City, UT - July 18, 1970
(Poster)
General Motors Institute, Detroit, MI - July 25, 1970
(Poster)
Strawberry Fields Festival, Mosport Park, Toronto, ON, Canada - August 8, 1970
(Poster)
Goose Lake International Music Festival, Goose Lake Park, Jackson, MI - August 9, 1970
(Advert)
Fairgrounds, Rapid City, SD - August 12, 1970
(Poster)
Courtesy of Kim Sherman, lead guitarist from Frantic
Gilligan's, Buffalo, NY - September 26, 1970
(Advert)
String Factory, Richmond, VA - October 27, 1970
(Poster)
String Factory, Richmond, VA - October 27, 1970
(Ticket)
Dearborn Gym, University Of Maine, Farmington, ME - October 6, 1970
(Poster)
Memorial Gym, Knox College, Galesburg, IL - October 17, 1970
(Advert)
Bowen Field House, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI - October 31, 1970
(Poster)
Mod World Expo, Coliseum, Chicago, IL - December 31, 1970
(Advert)
Palladium, Birmingham, MI - January 2, 1971
(Flyer)
Pirates World, Miami, FL - January 15-16, 1971
(Ticket)
Autorama, Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI - January 23, 1971
(Article/Schedule)
Courtesy of Stephan Blouin
State Theater, Toledo, OH - February 6, 1971
(Advert)
Rock 3, St. Catharines, ON, Canada - February 13, 1971
(Advert)
Courtesy of Stephan Blouin
Electric Playground, Columbus, OH - February 26, 1971
(Advert)