Thanks for clarifying Don Quijote- the thing is, I have never seen a poor Alice Cooper band and I have seen every tour since Special Forces. Of course a brilliant theatrical show without a decent band would be rubbish but quite frankly, Alice always has great bands so it isn't going to happen!!! I j...

Don Quijote wrote: "Theatrics (the icing) don't matter if there isn't any good songs and top musicians to back it up. Without those two you have an empty puppet show" Sorry Don Quijote but I totally disagree: the theatrics are an essential element in an any Alice Cooper show. If you have a great ban...

I have read this post with great interest. I started a thread last year after seeing the "Raise the Dead" show in which I expressed that I had been disappointed in an Alice show for the first time-I believe it is the thread Shep Gordon responded in. In essence, I received an explanation from Alice's...

Thanks for posting Kristian.

Typical NME at the time and why I stopped reading it in the early eighties. "Pretentious..Moi?" -The NME, I mean not Alice!

I read Cherrypie's post with interest and was curious about tomorrow night's free show that was mentioned so I went to the Blue Coupe site and am more puzzled.If I understand it right it says they are in Oxfordshire tonight, then Clitheroe (misspelt) tomorrow for a pub meet and greet and jam night w...

My son was given this very hefty book for Christmas-each song selected is given a description / critique as justification for it's inclusion. I thought fellow posters might be interested to note that Alice Cooper gets two entries. The first for "Elected" which the reviewer stylistically likens to th...

The kind of information that would interest me should Alice ever choose to write his memoirs would be his thoughts on the break up of the band particularly does he have any regrets that they split up? When he looks back on his career does he feel the character he has created has been a hindrance in ...

Tuney Lune wrote "Horrorholic look what you started". Indeed. This thread has raised a lot of interesting points about integrity and what if anything fans can expect from a famous rock star. Maybe at some time in the future Alice may choose to reveal more of his personal thoughts, recollections and ...

I apologise to GNDM if I have misread his position-it's just that he says he understands Toronto Bob's point of view on this and I don't!!!

I'm still waiting for an answer to my earlier question too!!!! GNDM clearly couldn't give a reasonable answer as his response was facetious to say the least (despite calling people "minions") . Perhaps Toronto Bob can answer but I am not holding my breath...

Thanks GNDM-that clears that up then.

So Ustinov , Niven, Sellers, Ali (ad nauseum) all didn't want their noses to grow either. Perhaps we should think of them as two "uncle" Peters, an uncle David and an especially avuncular but incredibly entertaining Uncle Mohammed.

In my last post on this topic I stated I remained unconvinced by the arguments of those accusing Alice of being a liar and a bs by referring to the context. I used the example of a funeral eulogy-I could add more, a wedding speech, an after dinner speech by a sportsman, a golden wedding speech, a le...

The whole point of this extended debate rests on the word context used further up the thread. To me this is the critical factor. To give an example I wrote and delivered a eulogy at my close friend's funeral. Along with grief there is a need for warmth and humour during a funeral so I recounted a nu...

I stand by my previous post. These are interviews meant to entertain a general audience they are not interrogations or a court of law!!!Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth and all that!! Some of the most outstanding interviewees have always known this. People like Ustinov, David Niven, Pe...

"Pathological liar" / compulsive liar? I don't believe that to be true about Alice at all. At the risk of stating the obvious many of the interviews where Alice recounts these half truths and embellished stories are being broadcast to mainstream audiences, many of whom have not heard the stories and...

I am looking forward to seeing this. I don't know whether it's because I have got older (and hopefully a little wiser!) but the show seems to have been dumbed down since I first started watching it in the seventies. For example on a recent show the specialist subject was the Titanic and although I a...

There is the question of rehearsal too. Bands get "gig fit" and then get (in musician's terms) "tighter" as songs are played repeatedly. nOt as easy when chopping and changing.

Patricks77 wrote: Or are you saying their music alone was/isn't good enough to get them somewhere on it's own terms?? That is impossible to prove one way or another Patrick. However, one thing I can say with certainty is that in the early to mid seventies the theatrics were genuinely ground breaking...

PatrickS77 wrote: "I go there for the music and not some bs theatrics, which is a nice extra,..." I wonder how far the original band would have got without "bs theatrics"? Similarly are all the brilliant visual effects Alice has created over the years since the original band broke up to be dismissed...

Somewhere in Aukland mentioned possible changes in reference to Shep's message. I could suggest two changes.Perhaps on the Raise the Dead section some rrecognition of Glen Buxton as a further tombstone and maybe "You Drive Me Nnervous" or another early track as a tribute. Here is another one more fa...