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TIMELINE 11 Lace And Whiskey
1977
March 9th `77 It`s Hot Tonight single released
April 29th `77 Lace and Whiskey released (Date from Promo copy)
May 27th-28th '77 Filming of the movie footage to be used for the magic screen on the forthcoming tour
May 30th '77 Alice attends a charity softball game at the University of Nevada baseball stadium in Las Vegas. A celebrity team defeated members of the local news media, 20-19. The game was attended by nearly 4,000 and was a benefit for the Nevada Special Olympics.
May `77 Alice is home in `Benedict Canyon`. He`s in discussions with Robert Altman about `Breakfast Of Champions` and filming is expected to start soon. He`s just finished filming `Sextette`.
May `77 The Gong Show (Taped at 3000 W Alameda, Burbank, CA at the NBC Studios)
Quote:"There was the spot with Alice Cooper singing `I Think I`m Going Out Of My Head` to a picture of Chuck Barris, while he was in a Guillotine waiting to get his head chopped off! I remember that one because I was a big Alice Cooper fan,"
May `77 Dinah Shore Show again (This show may actually have been called `Dinah`s Place` as research suggests that `The Dinah Shore Shore` finished some years earlier then this.)
13th June `77 The Snake Auditions
14th June `77 Tonight Show - Alice performs `Lace & Whiskey`
King of the Silver Screen Tour
June 19th `77 Anaheim, CA Anaheim Stadium (w/ Tubes, Nazareth, Sha Na Na, Kinks - Filmed as Alice Cooper and friends) [Ticket]
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June 23rd `77 Vancouver, BC P.N.C. (Alice also appears on CFUN Radio in Vancouver)
June 25th `77 Edmonton, Alberta Coliseum
June 26th `77 Calgary, Alberta McMahon Stadium (21,900 record attendance) (w/ Burton Cummings)
June 30th `77 Oklahoma City, OK Fairground Arena
July 1st `77 Tulsa, OK Assembly Centre
?? Ticket exists dated Friday 1977 for a show in Lake Charles, LA Civic Center which is not that far from Houston.
July 2nd `77 Houston, TX Sam Houston Coliseum (w/ REO Speedwagon) [Ticket]
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July 3rd `77 Fort Worth, TX Tarrant County Convention Center
July 5th `77 San Antonio, TX Municipal Auditorium
July 7th `77 Phoenix, AZ Veterans Memorial
July 8th `77 El Paso, TX Civic Center or Jackson
July 9th `77 Albuquerque, NM Tingley Coliseum(ticket)
July 10th `77 Macon, GA ?
July 12th `77 Mobile, AL
July 19, 1977(From Official Lucky Dog Music Hall, Worcester, MA Site (sounds very unlikely to me!)
Alice Cooper and the Everly Brothers, on the first leg of their comeback tour, play together. In a show of mutual respect Alice covers Cathy’s Clown, and the Everlys play No More Mister Nice Guy, and Phil Everly bites the head off a parakeet. He later gets sick.
July 21st `77 Long Island, NY Nassau Coliseum
July 22nd `77 Portland, ME, Cumberland County Civic Center (w/ Atlanta Rhythm Section) [Ticket]
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July 23rd `77 Boston, MA
July 24th `77 Providence, RI
July 27th(or 28th) `77 Madison, WI Dane County Coliseum (w/ Burton Cummings)
July 29th `77 Omaha, NE Civic Auditorium
July 30th `77 Kansas City, MO Kemper Arena
July 31st `77 Wichita, KS Henry Levitt Arena
August 6th `77 Nashville, TN Municiple Auditorium [Ticket]
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August 7th `77 Lexington, Louisville, KY (poss. w/ AC/DC)
August 8th-10th `77 Detroit, MI, Cobo Arena (w/ Burton Cummings) record gross for venue - 33,746 people over three shows. [Ticket] [Ticket]
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August 12th `77 Oklahoma?
Sunday August 14th `77 Shrieveport, LA Hirsch Memorial Coliseum (Ticket on Ebay, month unclear but it`s a sunday so must be August) [Ticket]
OR (August 14th `77 New Orleans, LA City Park Stadium)
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August 19th-20th `77 Las Vegas, NV Aladdin Hotel (Alice Cooper Show Live)(w/ Burton Cummings)
August 21st `77 San Diego, CA Sports Arena (w/ Dr. Hook, and poss. Atlanta Rhythm Section, Clover) [Ticket]
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August 25th `77 Milwaukee, WI Arena (ticket exists) (or poss St. Paul, MN)
August 26th `77 Terre Haute, Indiana State University Hullman Center (w/ Burton Cummings) [Ticket]
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August 27th `77 Chicago, IL International Amphitheater (w/ Burton Cummings)
August 28th `77 Cedar Falls, IA UNI-Dome (w/ Burton Cummings) [Ticket]
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UNI-Dome. When the UNI-Dome was completed, it was one of only four air-supported fabric-covered large permanent structures in the world. Alice played there again in `79.
August 30th `77 Denver, CO
Sept 4th 1977 Missoula, Montana, Adams Fieldhouse (Poster exists but show canceled)
Oct `77 Alice is in Sanitarium (Cornell Medical Centre) in Westchester County, New York
Arizona Republic 1st Nov `77: Alice Cooper, lead singer in the rock band of the same name, is in a New York sanitarium recovering from a bout of alcoholism, a spokeswoman for the entertainer said Monday. A newspaper report here had Cooper, who once boasted he drank more than a case of beer a day to keep fit, admitting himself to a hospital in suburban Westchester County, but the hospital would not confirm the report. Barbara Pepe, the Cooper spokeswoman, said that after failing to overcome his drinking problem through private, out-patient treatment, Cooper decided to take advantage of a break in his schedule to undergo a hospital program of treatment. She said she was not told where he was getting treatment. He was expected, she said, to return to the filming of "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" in Los Angeles in several weeks.
One news interview states he was there for three months.
Nov `77 Alice films his section of `Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band` on a short release from hospital
Dec `77 Alice Cooper Show released.
Dec 11th 1977 Alice is at the Rock Music Awards
Dec 16th '77 Billion Dollar Babies play Tampa, FL. One of only four shows they ever did (w/ Mothers Finest) [Ticket]
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Dec `77/Jan `78 Alice films `Sextette`
1978
March 28th-30th `78 Alice records his appearance on The Muppets that would be shown on November 2nd.
School`s Out For Summer Tour `78 (Lace And Whiskey Tour Pt 2)
"The Cornhuskers" band:
- Jefferson Kewley - guitar
- Davey Johnstone - guitar
- Dee Murray - bass
- Dennis Conway - drums
- Fred Mandel - keyboards
Setlist:
Normally(always?) the same as King Of The Silver Screen tour '77.
Be Bop Deluxe may have opened for some shows on this tour as did Blondie
This was just the 2nd part of the '77 'Lace And Whiskey' tour. I got to see Alice's very first SOBER show on that 2nd leg. They started the leg in Buffalo and flew in press from all over the country to see Alice perform sober and to start hyping the 'From The Inside' album. The night before the concert, they put on a special, closed to the public, dress rehearsal for the media and some contest winners. I managed fanagle my way in. It was amazing because there were about 200 people watching the show in an auditorium that held 17,000 people. The next night I got to see the show a 2nd time with the other 16,999 people.
(Renfield, June 1995)
April 27th `78 Des Moines, IA, Veterans Auditorium
April 28th `78 Minneapolis MN, St. Paul Civic Centre [Ticket] - Audience member lets of a Gas canister during the show
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April 29th `78 Grand Fork, ND UND Field House (w/ Michael Stanley Band) (Billboard ad)
April 30th `78 Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Arena (/ Satyr)
May 2nd `78 St. Louis, MO Checkerdome [Ticket] (w/ Charlie)
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May 4th `78 Dayton, OH University Of Dayton Arena [Ticket]
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May 5th `78 Cleveland, OH Richfield Coliseum (w/ Jay Ferguson)
May 6th `78 Evansville, IN Roberts Stadium
May 7th `78 Indianapolis, IN Market Square Arena (w/ Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
May 9th `78 Kalamazoo, MI Wings Stadium [Ticket]
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May 10th `78 Saginaw, MI Wendler Arena - This was the show recorded for King Biscuit Flower hour and subsequently released on several bootlegs. All versions appear incomplete. [Ticket]
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May 11th `78 Saginaw, MI Wendler Arena [Ticket] - possibly canceled?
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May `78 Glen Buxton joins The Dead Boys on stage at the Blitz Benefit to raise money for Dead Boys drummer johnny Blitz` hospital bills after he was stabbed.
June `78 Alice buys an 'O' in the Hollywood sign in memory of his friend Grocho Marx and to start the campaign to rebuild the Hollywood Sign.(Kerrang article)
(June 7th-20th '78 A Tour Itinerary lists these dates for the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas - more dates at teh same venue are listed for August)
June 20th `78 Buffalo, War Memorial Auditorium(w/ Climax Blues Band) [Ticket]
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June 21st `78 Baltimore, MD Civic Centre
June 23rd `78 Philadelphia, PA Spectrum (w/ Blondie)
June 24th `78 Norfolk, VA Scope (w/ AC/DC)
June 25th `78 Lexington, KY Rupp Arena (w/ AC/DC) [Ticket]
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June 26th `78 Birmingham, AL Birm-Jeff Civic Centre (w/ AC/DC) [Ticket]
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June 28th `78 Knoxville, TN Civic Coliseum (w/ AC/DC)
June 29th `78 British Columbia, SC Coliseum
June 30th `78 Greensboro, NC Coliseum (w/ The Sweet)
July 2nd `78 Easy Troy, WI Alpine Valley Music Theatre (w/ Eddie Money And Blondie)(handbill) [Ticket]
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July 4th `78 Biloxi, Mississippi Coast Arena [Ticket]
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July 5th `78 Jackson, FL, Memorial Coliseum
July 7th `78 Miami, FL Sportatorium
July 8th `78 Lakeland, FL Civic Centre (w/ Sweet) [Ticket] - Possibly originally at Memorial Coliseum
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July 9th `78 Jacksonville, FL Memorial Coliseum
July 20th `78 Alice attends the premier of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club band in New York
July 28th '78 Madison, WI Coliseum (w/ Burt Cummings)
July `78 Fort Worth, TX
(August 22nd - September 9th OR August 25th - September 7th are listed on a tour itinerary as shows at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas)
Aug 25th `78 Milwaukee, WI
Aug 27th `78 Chicago, IL
(Sept 2nd `78 Neal Smith Band (including Dennis Dunaway) at the Apple, Milford, Conn.)
`78 Alice films `The Muppet Show`
Australian Dates Canceled
Sept 21st `78 Brisbane, Australia Festival Hall CANCELED
Sept 26th `78 Melbourne, Australia Festival Hall CANCELED
Sept 27th `78 Melbourne, Australia Festival Hall (2 shows) CANCELED
Oct 3rd `78 Sydney, Australia Horden Pavilion CANCELED
Oct 4th-5th `78 Sydney, Australia Horden Pavilion (2 shows) CANCELED - Two shows could have been on same night (4th) as sources indicate one at 7pm and another at 11.45pm
Oct 8th `78 Adelaide, Australia Festival Theatre CANCELED
Oct 13th `78 Perth, Australia Entertainment Centre CANCELED
Oct `78 How You Gonna See Me Now single released.
Oct 22nd `78 Alice and other celebrities appear at a charity tennis match at the Cherry Hill Centrum between Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova. (poster)
Nov 31st `78 Alice is at WHBQ Memphis studios with Bernie Taupin for a live interview.
Nov 2nd `78 `The Muppet Show` Airs
Nov `78 From The Inside Album released