Coal Black Model T/Slick Black Limousine

[pitkin88]

Few questions on this classic:

1) Who partially re wrote the lyrics and the title?
2) Who plays the keyboards?
3) Are Neals drums slowed down on the beginning of Slick Black?
4) Did the NME pay for the song or was it gratis?
5) How far apart where the two recordings?

[A_MichaelUK]

From pitkin88:"
"Did the NME pay for the song"

I would have thought, that back then, that was unlikely.

[pitkin88]

From pitkin88:"
"Did the NME pay for the song"

I would have thought, that back then, that was unlikely.

I'm sure they had a nice boost in sales that week.

[concolz]

NME Feb 24th 1973:-

On the rock share index the price for an Alice Cooper single is well over a million dollars. And sales of sheet music, copyright, etc., could quadruple the figure. However, the mogul of mascara and melodrama didn't redeem that master-tape for such a lucrative sum. He gave it away for nothing -- exclusively to NME readers via last week's issue.

(Note how 'they' was 'he', even then.)

According to Dennis:-

"At our first session for 'Billion Dollar Babies' we started out with a song of mine called 'Coal Black Model T'. Alice rightfully changed the lyrics, to 'Slick Black Limousine', so that it would fit the album's theme, and I went right along with that."

[pitkin88]

NME Feb 24th 1973:-

On the rock share index the price for an Alice Cooper single is well over a million dollars. And sales of sheet music, copyright, etc., could quadruple the figure. However, the mogul of mascara and melodrama didn't redeem that master-tape for such a lucrative sum. He gave it away for nothing -- exclusively to NME readers via last week's issue.

(Note how 'they' was 'he', even then.)

According to Dennis:-

"At our first session for 'Billion Dollar Babies' we started out with a song of mine called 'Coal Black Model T'. Alice rightfully changed the lyrics, to 'Slick Black Limousine', so that it would fit the album's theme, and I went right along with that."

Thanks for that. Is that quote from Dennis's book?

[concolz]

Thanks for that. Is that quote from Dennis's book?

Yes it is.