The Alice Cooper Show.....

[Toronto Bob]

Is the King Biscuit show commercially available? I don't think i've ever heard it.

No, but being a radio broadcast it's one of the most common bootleg recordings around, Saginaw '78.

Ooh, i'll have to get hunting for that then

Probably the most widely available Alice Cooper bootleg there is and usually comes in excellent stereo but many versions are truncated usually dropping L&W/IHT. Here are the original notes to the version you want.

Alice Cooper

The Band:
Steve Hunter - Guitar
Jefferson Kewley - Guitar
Dee Murray - Bass
Fred Mandel - Keyboards
Dennis Conway - Drums

Wendler Arena, Saginaw, Michigan
May 10, 1978

Quality: Excellent FM Broadcast

01) Under My Wheels
02) Billion Dollar Babies
03) I'm Eighteen
04) Is It My Body
05) Devil's Food/The Black Widow
06) You & Me
07) Only Women Bleed
08) Unfinished Sweet
09) Escape
10) I Love the Dead
11) Go to Hell/Wish You Were Here
12) I Never Cry
13) It's Hot Tonight
14) Lace & Whiskey
15) School's Out

Total Time: 61:05

Three different sources were used to make this show as complete as possible.
The original silver boot "No More Teacher's Dirty Looks" makes up most of the list, the rest is from a cdr that
I received in a trade and a vinyl boot called "Babies in School". The sound on the cd and cdr are pretty much equal,
maybe a slight edge to the cdr. The quality on the vinyl isn't quite as good but it is still from a radio broadcast.

Here is the break down.

UMW taken from the cdr due to it having the entire song. NMTDL used a fade in, missing about 1 minute of the intro.
B$B, 18, IIMB taken from NMTDL
DF/TBW taken from the cdr. These two tracks are not included on NMTDL.
Y&M, OWB, US, Escape, ILTD, GTH/WYWH, INC, IHT taken from NMTDL. I made a small edit at the end of Only Women going into
Unfinished Sweet to cover up a poor edit on the original disc. It's still noticable but less so.
L&W taken from the vinyl boot Babies in School. Sound quality dips a bit but this track wasn't on either disc so I put it where it would come in the original
concert.
SO taken from NMTDL.

Missing from this collection are Sick Things, which would of been played after I'm Eighteen and King of the Silver Screen which came before School's Out.
This show has been bootlegged a number of times and I have never seen the entire show. Too bad as a live version of KOTSS has yet to appear on any
bootleg with this kind of quality.

[mestreech]

nicely done Toronto Bob

[A_MichaelUK]

>I found it in a digipak called "Alone in a Nightmare."

No - that was a show from the "Welcome To My Nightmare" tour.

[Shoesalesman]

I never had a problem with this album. The band was excellent, & Alice sounded pretty decent, vocally.

I agree. Still play the album quite a bit.

[evil syd]

>I found it in a digipak called "Alone in a Nightmare."

No - that was a show from the "Welcome To My Nightmare" tour.

Damn....Thanks UK!

[tuneylune]

For a long time I thought the album was "doctored up" but Wagner says it isn't so waddayaknow. The King Biscuit broadcast from Saginaw 1978 is a much much better show from this era, much to do with the fact, no doubt, that Alice had sobered up. From alcoholic at least.

I just listened to this last week and it definitely is an improvement over the official live album. I really wanted to like TACS, but just find it a missed opportunity put out at a bad time-Alice's health in decline and so many fantastic live -doctored or not-live albums available around the same time.

[recoop]

When The ACS came out I was just happy to have something Live...the music is sort of like the cover..snapshots of the live show put together..liked some of the guitar playing..still got the vinyl but never bought the CD which probably says a lot as my record player isnt connected up...but was happy to have it at time as reports were such re Alice's health that we might not get much more product from him (that was a 19 yr olds prime concern-should of been more concerned for his health)...better than nothing and if it had been a bootleg I would of said it was very good..