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- Fri Jun 29, 2012 2:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
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Re: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
no coincidence I make the publisher and Dave Thompson aware of this site in relation to how many errors are in this book and the reaction, and we get a failed damaged limitation exercise by a new poster called The Professor who is either a friend or relative of Thompson, Thompson himself or someone...
- Fri Jun 29, 2012 12:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
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Re: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
I find it hard to imagine anyone short of the author himself, a family member of the author, or the publisher going to the lengths The Professor has to defend this book. Or maybe just somebody who enjoyed it. and was trying to shw that it isn't as bad as so many people seem to think... But you've a...
- Thu Jun 28, 2012 6:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
- Replies: 154
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Re: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
okay, let's just agree to disagree. Maybe naively, I am going to accept that the author of the BP-era interview did quote Alice correctly, and Alice did say those words. In the same way, and maybe just as naively, I am going to assume that Thompson accurately quoted all the people he talked to for h...
- Thu Jun 28, 2012 2:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Mono Pretties For You
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Mono Pretties For You
I know mono was dead in the US by the time Pretties For You came out (except for radio station promos), but it was alive and kicking elsewhere around the world including the UK and Europe. Usually it was just the stereo mix folded down to mono, but I was wondering if anyone has ever seen/heard a mon...
- Thu Jun 28, 2012 2:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: This 'Bowie' thing.
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Re: This 'Bowie' thing.
>well Alice always argued that he wasn't glam rock, I forgot to ask you to remind us when he said that. Barney Hoskyn's Glam book, maybe? I can't remember for sure (and in all honesty it my have been one of the others who said it). But for a good argument on the subject, google "Alice Cooper, not G...
- Thu Jun 28, 2012 1:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
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Re: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
>The Russell Hall interview in 2000 http://www.alicecooperechive.com/articl ... art=000519 But given that he has always referred to "Pretties For You" in relation to this, how do you know that's what he meant and not "Easy Action"? How do you know he didn't say "Pretties For You", but that the jour...
- Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
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Re: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
Scroll back - I made a whole list of things!A_MichaelUK wrote: you've been asked twice to tell us something positive about the book (especially for those like me who have not read yet) but you still haven't come up with anything.
- Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
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Re: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
What an amazing creation! I love it!cherrypie wrote: I'm sure I have the original 'tragic waste of plastic' quote in an interview somewhere - but as it is in my school hymnbook (circa 1972) http://fountainlife.blogspot.co.uk/2010 ... -book.html
I doubt very much that I can find it
- Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
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Re: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
[quote="A_MichaelUK"] >and would later be appended to Easy Action too: - Really? What is your source for this? The Russell Hall interview in 2000 http://www.alicecooperechive.com/articles/index.php?showmag=gold&showart=000519 "After a record critic wrote that Easy Action was a tragic waste of plasti...
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: This 'Bowie' thing.
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Re: This 'Bowie' thing.
I'm trying to remember, was Alice included in the Glam Top Ten that Channel 4 did a few years back? I dont think he was, and I remember being outraged at the time.
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
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Re: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
I think the post was about a recent concert review in some other publicationGNDM wrote:Sorry if this has been dealt with.....
Is there a part in this book that mentions a 'bass' solo by Glen Buxton....or was that from some other publication/story?
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
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Re: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
Hunter - well that is always the question, isn't it. But the flip of that is, how do we know that what we already believe to be correct is the true story? When a story comes from somebody who was there at the time, I tend to believe it - or at least, believe that is how they see/remember it. That's ...
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
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Re: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
point taken. But... I'd still like to see the original review, or an earlier direct quote from Alice. Right now, we have a confirmed Alice quote about one album, recycling what seems to be an apocryphal review for another. Especially as Neal, also in 2000, said it was "Easy Action" that was describe...
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
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Re: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
>Or for Alice not to have said it in the first place No, I think deeper research is better. this is getting interesting! ... the Brutal Planet "waste of plastic" quote dates from 2000; the only printed reference to Pretties being described the same way that I've been able to find was from this inte...
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
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Re: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
[quote="A_MichaelUK"]> It would have made more sense not to have referred to it all in relation to "Brutal Planet" - it's quite simple. Or for Alice not to have said it in the first place :) But there's also a certain humour to be derived from an artist recycling his own bad reviews! I read Thompson...
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
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Re: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
First - thank you to everyone for the welcome, and secondly, apologies to Cherrypie! I just worked out how the names and ranks are laid out :nono: Re the waste of plastic... and this also applies to another posting about songwriting on Nightmare 2. The author was directly quoting Alice. Maybe he or ...
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
- Replies: 154
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Re: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
First - thank you to everyone for the welcome, and secondly, apologies to Cherrypie! I just worked out how the names and ranks are laid out :nono: Re the waste of plastic... and this also applies to another posting about songwriting on Nightmare 2. The author was directly quoting Alice. Maybe he or ...
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: First Alice Album You Ever Owned
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Re: First Alice Album You Ever Owned
My older sister loved Love at Your Convenience and bought the whole album - she hated it, I loved it, so I bought the 45 for her and she gave me the LP
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: This 'Bowie' thing.
- Replies: 107
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Re: This 'Bowie' thing.
well Alice always argued that he wasn't glam rock, so maybe they just took his word for it?
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
- Replies: 154
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Re: New book: Welcome to My Nightmare
I wanted my first posting here to be positive - I just finished the book and apart from that one major mistake (and it is major) I really enjoyed it and learned a lot, so maybe we could start a new thread talking about the book's good points? But I have to point out Fashion, you're the one who's wro...