I Don't Love the Dead

[Toronto Bob]

Never a fan but a little piece of Alice history died recently and his final wishes are rather Cooperesque

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 92548.html

Prolific music producer Kim Fowley, who worked with KISS, Alice Cooper and more, died at the age of 75 on Saturday. His funeral plans? To have his body abused and mutilated by fetish models for the centrefold of a magazine.

The magazine in question is Girls and Corpses (honestly a real magazine), which features pictures of scantily clad women posing with real dead bodies, recreating paintings such as Grant Wood's American Gothic (below).

Prior to his death from cancer, Kim sent a letter to the magazine's publisher, detailing the very metal way he wanted to be put to rest.

"Snow [his girlfriend] and her fetish friends, could mutilate the body, providing real blood & guts and set my bones and blood on fire," he said, according to TMZ.

Girls & Corpses passed on all the blood burning, but did agree to shoot his body surrounded by girls for its front cover.

The only problem is that Kim had since moved on to a new girlfriend who now has control of what happens to the body, and the publishers can't find her.

As absurd funerals go, this beats even that of Hunter S. Thompson, whose ashes were fired from a cannon.

Fowley was behind hundreds of rock songs in the 70s and 80s, worked with Warren Zevon and is famed for bringing The Runaways to prominence.

[evil syd]

Been there, done that....

[mestreech]

Been there, done that....

hahahaha

[pitkin88]

Wow there's even a photo of our favourite Cristian holding a copy. Pretty weird as he doesn't even do funerals.

[mr.barlow]

This sounds like something Shep would have dreamed up back in the day.

[old school vet]

Some Folks.

[killer wolf]

so it says it's going to happen then says the new girlfriend has control but they can't find her; so which is it?

[mr.barlow]

so it says it's going to happen then says the new girlfriend has control but they can't find her; so which is it?

Neither. This is what's known as a publicity stunt.

This is a perfect example of how Alice became famous--there are really people who believe this type of stuff!

[killer wolf]

bit late for publicity when you're dead.

[mr.barlow]

It's called getting one last laugh. One last hurrah! Kim Fowley was an over-the-top personality and I'm sure this was cooked up by him far in advance of his death. I'm sure those that knew him are having a good laugh at the press it generated.

A successful goof that people took seriously.

Just remember--there are people who think that a lot of of Alice tales and legends are the God's honest truth.

It's 2015 and Barnum is still right on the money!