I can't tell you why we didn't do a W2MN tour. I honestly don't know. I would have loved to have been a part of that. Alice wanted to do it. To do that show would be incredibly expensive. Maybe worth it, maybe not. Who knows. If we did the show, we might not have sold any more tickets than we normally would have, but we would have spent two or three times the money to do the tour. In that case, the tour would loose money. IF the tour loses money, everybody goes home. Alice does what works on tour so that he can keep showing up. So he can keep all of us employed. People depend on him. He does it for you, the fans, and he does it for us his band and crew. That's it. I think he plays the songs most people want to hear so that he can keep playing and hopefully keep creating. He tries to add some songs that are obscure where he can. Honestly every time we add something obscure or that hasn't been played in a long time people just complain about the choice, so I don't know why he bothers to change it up at all. Really you can't win when you're always wrong no matter what you do.
And for the love of GOD, Alice is not opening for Marilyn Manson so stop crying about that. Get your facts straight. Sorry to sound irritated. I'm going on 4 hours of sleep, and so is Alice. Every damn night. Let me tell you something about Coop. Every day he is up at 6am with a full schedule that would make your head spin no matter how much sleep he has gotten. He does his radio show, a stack of interviews, he performs on stage, he does a 2 hour meet and greet AFTER every show. He goes to bed at 1 or 2 in the morning and then gets up to do it all again. He's a machine. This is a man who is doing this because he likes to tour. He works his damn ass off, he does more interviews than any celebrity I have ever seen, and he kills it on stage every night. Alice, unlike most artists touring his age, plays 8 shows in a row sometimes with one day off in between - usually a travel day. Alice tours from May thru December all over the world and has done so almost every year for the last oh I don't know... decade? He shows up on time and never makes his fans wait, he signs anything that's ever handed to him, he actually talks to his fans and cares about what's going on with them, and he does it all with a smile on his face. He almost NEVER complains. Believe me, I would hear it because I am next to him 24 hours a day. If you were in a rain storm he would give you his only umbrella. Alice Cooper is a saint, he's literally the nicest person I've ever met. I'm lucky to know him.
One day he will stop touring and you'll be begging to watch him play pinball and I'll be running a laundromat.
tim10cc wrote:2 years ago, Alice was on top of his game.
Welcome 2 my nightmare
Hall of fame
Old School Boxset
At first when NMMNG tour launched I was a bit confused why he didn't tour behind a banner of a fantastic album. Steve Hunter put his blood & sweat into it as well. I am sure it was disappointing for Hunter not to do any of those new tunes on stage. I gave in and I went and seen Alice on the 2nd leg of that tour last summer. By the time the show hit St. Louis unfortunately the setlist was altered. I will give Alice some credit, he delivered a good show and there was some gems that weren't played in a while which certainly held my interest.
I am sure many hard core fans dropped a good amount of $$ on the Old School Boxset. The hardcore fans have been starving for a good theatrical show with W2MN which was more of a teaser now because of what we heard the show would be like.
I am truly a dedicated fan like most of you. I buy the albums on release dates. There isn't a week that goes by where I don't put on a Cooper album.
There are moments from Raise your fist...Brutal Planet, to NMMNG tours that will stay.
Alice is not a has been and certainly has proved himself over the years.
During a Toronto interview around 86/87 Alice stated he threw his hardcore fans off during The Special Forces Era. As for right now...I wish Alice Cooper would tune in to his hardcore fans!
Perhaps management/politics had prevented the launch of a W2mn theater tour. We will never know.
I remember Shep defending the Raise the Dead Show last year. Why was that necessary? I still think something went on behind close doors. We will never know.
I cant drive myself to go see a greatest hits tour cramp together to open up for Manson. That is not how I want to remember Alice. Sure I am happy Alice is still out there performing but this show isn't cut out for the hardcore fans.
Alice has the potential to put on a theatrical tour. I believe the response would be a positive one.
tim10cc wrote:2 years ago, Alice was on top of his game.
Welcome 2 my nightmare
Hall of fame
Old School Boxset
At first when NMMNG tour launched I was a bit confused why he didn't tour behind a banner of a fantastic album. Steve Hunter put his blood & sweat into it as well. I am sure it was disappointing for Hunter not to do any of those new tunes on stage. I gave in and I went and seen Alice on the 2nd leg of that tour last summer. By the time the show hit St. Louis unfortunately the setlist was altered. I will give Alice some credit, he delivered a good show and there was some gems that weren't played in a while which certainly held my interest.
I am sure many hard core fans dropped a good amount of $$ on the Old School Boxset. The hardcore fans have been starving for a good theatrical show with W2MN which was more of a teaser now because of what we heard the show would be like.
I am truly a dedicated fan like most of you. I buy the albums on release dates. There isn't a week that goes by where I don't put on a Cooper album.
There are moments from Raise your fist...Brutal Planet, to NMMNG tours that will stay.
Alice is not a has been and certainly has proved himself over the years.
During a Toronto interview around 86/87 Alice stated he threw his hardcore fans off during The Special Forces Era. As for right now...I wish Alice Cooper would tune in to his hardcore fans!
Perhaps management/politics had prevented the launch of a W2mn theater tour. We will never know.
I remember Shep defending the Raise the Dead Show last year. Why was that necessary? I still think something went on behind close doors. We will never know.
I cant drive myself to go see a greatest hits tour cramp together to open up for Manson. That is not how I want to remember Alice. Sure I am happy Alice is still out there performing but this show isn't cut out for the hardcore fans.
Alice has the potential to put on a theatrical tour. I believe the response would be a positive one.