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Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 4:07 pm
by Headbangers Ball
I just received my copy of this new hard back book. Alice Cooper @ 75. £60 on Amazon. Well presented Hard back large book complete with hard cover sleeve. Full of pictures and everything you want to know. Great collectors item. I’m chuffed to bits
Re: Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 5:14 pm
by mestreech
Is it with posters and a print?
Re: Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 5:19 pm
by mestreech
Is the hardcover the best option or will there be an even more luxurious version??
Re: Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 5:53 pm
by Headbangers Ball
mestreech wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 5:14 pm
Is it with posters and a print?
Yes. There are two posters and a print all in an envolope.
Re: Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 5:55 pm
by Headbangers Ball
mestreech wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 5:19 pm
Is the hardcover the best option or will there be an even more luxurious version??
I doubt there will be a different version. The book is very heavy. The pages are very heavy grade. It’s a really nice bit of kit.
Re: Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:10 pm
by Miller
Re: Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 2:09 am
by Rock10
It's too expensive. $75
Re: Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:12 pm
by mestreech
In the Netherlands about 50 euros is 55 dollars
Re: Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2023 11:28 am
by dadascot
Just ordered it from Amazon for £47. Coming tomorrow.
Re: Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2023 11:58 am
by patrick
First thoughts where : another book ? What possibly could be in it that we haven't seen or heard yet in these past fortysome years? But then I saw the youtube link ( thanks!) and it looked so great ...
Ordered mine yesterday, quite symbolic on the eve of AC birthday
( Surprisingly it should come in the first weeks of march ?? )
Re: Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2023 12:50 pm
by Si
I trust everyone now ordering it via Amazon are ordering through this site? Thus helping to keep it running?
Thought not....
Re: Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2023 8:48 pm
by killer wolf
ta for the head-up, didn't know about this. just finished the 50 years one, excellent, and am reading Supermensch, so this is next on the list.
Re: Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2023 3:30 pm
by dadascot
The book arrived this morning. Excellent package with some amazing pictures. So far my only complaint is that there is only 2 pages given to the early eighties.
Re: Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 5:43 pm
by VinceRaven
I'm about two-thirds of the way through it and have to say it's an odd book really.
I like the outer case a lot and there's no denying it's a chunky big book with some great photos.
Going by the minor levels of repetition from featured subject to featured subject, it really feels like it's meant for flicking through and dipping in and out of.
The written content is curious in that the main source material, going by the quotes, appears to be Shep's book and Golf Monster, with Michael's book getting additional nods during the band years.
For what must be a fairly expensive venture to get off the ground, there are a surprising number of errors, such as incorrect dates and mislabelled photographs.
I don't regret buying it but I also don't think any Alice Cooper fan who can't afford it needs to feel like they're missing out on much.
Re: Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 5:55 pm
by Si
VinceRaven wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 5:43 pm
I'm about two-thirds of the way through it and have to say it's an odd book really.
I like the outer case a lot and there's no denying it's a chunky big book with some great photos.
Going by the minor levels of repetition from featured subject to featured subject, it really feels like it's meant for flicking through and dipping in and out of.
The written content is curious in that the main source material, going by the quotes, appears to be Shep's book and Golf Monster, with Michael's book getting additional nods during the band years.
For what must be a fairly expensive venture to get off the ground, there are a surprising number of errors, such as incorrect dates and mislabelled photographs.
I don't regret buying it but I also don't think any Alice Cooper fan who can't afford it needs to feel like they're missing out on much.
Interesting. Thanks for that.
Any examples of the errors?
Re: Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 11:59 pm
by VinceRaven
Si wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 5:55 pm
VinceRaven wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 5:43 pm
I'm about two-thirds of the way through it and have to say it's an odd book really.
I like the outer case a lot and there's no denying it's a chunky big book with some great photos.
Going by the minor levels of repetition from featured subject to featured subject, it really feels like it's meant for flicking through and dipping in and out of.
The written content is curious in that the main source material, going by the quotes, appears to be Shep's book and Golf Monster, with Michael's book getting additional nods during the band years.
For what must be a fairly expensive venture to get off the ground, there are a surprising number of errors, such as incorrect dates and mislabelled photographs.
I don't regret buying it but I also don't think any Alice Cooper fan who can't afford it needs to feel like they're missing out on much.
Interesting. Thanks for that.
Any examples of the errors?
Without checking back through it right now, things that spring to mind are a (nice and big) hanging photograph that must surely be from the Raise Your Fist and Yell tour being labelled as 1981. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare being listed, twice I think, as being out in 1982 (although there's a third mention with the correct date). Stating Alice co-wrote Under My Wheels. Despite initially describing how there was no tour for Goes to Hell, later mentioning the Goes to Hell album and tour. Stuff like that.
Re: Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 12:26 am
by Si
VinceRaven wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 11:59 pm
Without checking back through it right now, things that spring to mind are a (nice and big) hanging photograph that must surely be from the Raise Your Fist and Yell tour being labelled as 1981. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare being listed, twice I think, as being out in 1982 (although there's a third mention with the correct date). Stating Alice co-wrote Under My Wheels. Despite initially describing how there was no tour for Goes to Hell, later mentioning the Goes to Hell album and tour. Stuff like that.
That's a real shame.
Re: Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:08 pm
by wind_up_toy
Here’s a few errors I spotted:
> Alice is stated as having changed his legal name “before the band’s first album” (in 1969), but this actually happened in 1974 (he was, however, named as ‘Alice Cooper’ in the credits of the first album, Pretties For You).
> In the comics section, the two Alice-themed Dynamite Comics releases are both stated as being “three-book series”. However, this isn’t correct as both the first (i.e. ‘Alice Cooper’) and second (i.e. ‘Alice Cooper Vs Chaos’) series had six editions each (all of which featured multiple cover variations).
> The Brutal Planet section contains an image that is said to be of Alice performing live in Las Vegas on the accompanying tour on the 29th September 2001. However, this is actually from the following ‘Descent Into Dragontown’ tour, which started on the very same date.
Re: Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2023 12:41 am
by Logan
I got the book when it first released but haven't a chance to read it. But I did flip through the pages and love the layout and photos. I like the way it slips into a boxed black velvet cover. It was priced at $75 but wasn't bad I was thinking well it's a $1 for each pivotal event but later got an email from amazon and price went down to $66.
Is that Winterland poster a copy or was it made up for this book? Cause I never seen that poster before.
Re: Alice Cooper @ 75
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2023 7:08 am
by Si
Logan wrote: ↑Sat Feb 11, 2023 12:41 am
Is that Winterland poster a copy or was it made up for this book? Cause I never seen that poster before.
Would have to see it. Have you checked the timeline? Pretty much every gig poster or ad I've found is on there.
