Thanks Steven.steven_crayn wrote:Fantastic thread Glam Princess i've often thought about this........
or Schools Out show Green's Playhouse Glasgow (the famous gig that made the national press here with the picture of that girl with her arms outstrectched) ....
It would be interesting to hear from those lucky enough to have seen Alice live in the 1970's either in this thread or a new one. How good was it in the flesh?
At least we have the videos from the 1970's but nothing can beat the real thing.
I was actually going to mention the 1972 Glasgow show as one I wished I had seen as that's a very famous show. While Alice's 1972 Wembley show was famous because School's Out had just gone to #1 in the UK, when the ACG returned and did the Glasgow show in the fall, they were so hugely popular that the show in Glasgow garnered huge attention and the fans went nuts.
I am one of the lucky fans who did see Alice during the 70s. And it is different to actually see the show live rather than just on DVD. No DVD or recording can ever capture the excitement and electricity of actually being there! The 70s were also a very different time than the ensuing decades. Not only was it Alice Cooper's heyday, but the 70s were the heyday of hard rock music too. Kids took their rock n roll very seriously and it was their life! One could only buy tickets through the venue so 10,000 kids would sleep outside the venue the night before tickets went on sale to get tickets for the best shows! That's how important rock n roll was in those days!
I did see the legendary Welcome to My Nightmare Show. I was very young (a pre-teen at the time) but I remember the show very well. It was my first Alice show and it was very surreal. The huge spider web was amazing as was seeing Alice jump out of the split screen. I remember seeing Sheryl on the bed with Alice and I had no idea that there was any romantic involvement as the fans did not know that yet.
I will always regret not going to the winter B$B show and missing that show! I had just become a fan at the exact same time and I was a very little girl so I did not get to go. So I want to time-travel to that show!