Alice opened with "It's Hot Tonight" back in '08 and I thought that was a great opener for a summer tour. It went over well. In '17 he did "Pain." I think that's a real gem from the blackout period and it played well. Agree that "Fantasy Man" and "Grim Facts" went over well when he did those. He did...

This is why I love "Along Came A Spider." For me, it was the last project where it really felt like Alice was all-in. Everything since then has felt more like a collaboration among disparate voices and styles. Even "I'm Alice," which nobody should be able to express better than Alice, is a song that...

Pretty much everything on "Along Came a Spider." Especially "(In Touch With) Your Feminine Side," "KIlled By Love," and "The One That Got Away." I like a lot from the blackout period but those albums have gained enough respect that I'm not sure if it's more than most fans. Dragontown gets a lot of b...

I wasn't disappointed by "Road" but I didn't have high expectations based on recent output. On first listen, it's at least better than Detroit Stories. I'll need a few more plays to decide where it stands vs Paranormal. I agree that the lyrics are subpar in a lot of places. I know the band shares wr...

Nice review wind_up_toy. I agree with a lot of what you say. One thing: I have to admit to actually liking "The Song That Didn’t Rhyme." The punchline saves it for me. I love "The Song That Didn't Rhyme." It's all the things that it talks about but somehow it still works. That's a brilliant piece o...

We saw him in Louisville. I loved it. We made a point to go to one of the "Too Close for Comfort" shows for the best experience. I like the new set. Not as cool as the castle but I thought the video elements added to the show. Funny that it's taken him so long to get back around to that when he expe...

You mean Jesse Jane? I don't get that association at all.

The synced footage is great. You can really see how they reverted to their roots for that show. Dennis had a fire extinguisher at the end and was probably wishing for a pillow.

Greene's account rings pretty true here.

https://twitter.com/alicecooper/status/1613913898763141121 Definitely going to catch him on this leg of the tour. "Too Close For Comfort" - looks like some of these venues are pretty small. Should be great! I considered getting some nosebleed seats for the Ohio Stadium show just for the experience b...

I love it. It was the last time we got the pure, uncut "evil Alice" character. Alice is all-in on every track, chewing the scenery in the best Alice fashion. To me, this is the last album that feels like Alice was fully committed and focused on his own concept. In that, it has more in common with LT...

'She asked me why the singer's pronouns were they/them I said "Listen baby, you really wouldn't understand"' Wow man, all of this gender-bending is just so hip and modern. :yawn: Who knows maybe Lovato's guitar pop turn will inspire a few of "these kids today" to find their way into something a bit ...

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Wed Jul 13, 2022 5:40 pm

Nita, not Nina....

Ha. Somehow I always mess that up even when it's on the page in front of me.

Maybe Demi Lovato wants to go into thrash metal and she needs a shredder. :D I know nothing about her so I watched a few videos to sort her out from the rest of the pop tarts to understand what she might be doing with Nina. She's got lots of "wall of sound" racket in her shouty choruses where the gu...

Generally I agree, but in this case there was the big announcement on Roxie's podcast with all the band, Alice and Bob Ezrin present, a working title ('The Road') and they even talked about how it would be recorded. To backtrack on that will be very disappointing, if it happens. That's true. But ri...

I've read that the original band hates this book and considers that Bob Greene stirred up problems in the group for the sake of his story. But his account in the book fits pretty well with what we know about what happened in the aftermath. I get that they think that it made them the scapegoats for t...

Thanks!

Great to see some solo dates. Does Alice require any COVID restrictions or does he just go with what the venue requires?

Where do you have to be signed up to get the presale password for these? Seems like I used to get them and now I don't.

This is great. Thanks for taking the time to answer questions. I love your bass playing. It adds a style to the original group that I really don't hear elsewhere. The original band recordings benefit from the fact that your bass is pretty prominent in the mix relative to a lot of contemporary record...

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Mon Mar 01, 2021 12:18 am

Fireball is not OG.

You gonna banish Black JuJu from the catalog, too?

I'm in the "meh" camp on this one. Better than "Rise" but that's a low bar to clear. It starts out ok with "Rock & Roll." Alice's vocals are on point but Ezrin has left all the balls out of the main groove. It was Mitch Ryder adding Detroit punch to that riff that justifies putting this track on a "...