I’m reading in Shep Gordon’s bio, “They Call Me Supermensch”, that Shep told Herb Cohen, Frank Zappa’s manager, that he wanted to get Jack Richardson to produce the Alice Cooper band’s third album and put out a hit single. He said Cohen was dead set against it. He said “We don’t want a commercial hi...

The AC Group’s albums from Pretties for You to Greatest Hits were all incredible works of art; alas, never to return in the digital age. I used to look at the albums while listening to the music. There was always a lot to see and in the albums you can tell it was a BAND. In an interview, you describ...

Dennis,

I read what you said about the Hollywood Bowl show in your book.

If you'd like to comment on this excellent version of Halo of Flies...

Thanks


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd8KpOcJ5qw

Love the book and find it very entertaining although I notice this is done with a lot of other books recently and that is it has no index. Is there a reason why? Thanks. I'm not sure why we didn't have an index. I can look into that. I'd guess it was due to the cost of the extra pages, or because w...

What was so funny in Dennis’s book is what happened after the roll over. Neal who recently joined the band and recovered from being shot in the ankle by Alice was walking through the debris looking for his other boot when Glen says to him “So how do you like being in the band So far?” I actually bu...

Did you ever try auditioning for another established artist? Not starting a group from scratch with friends. In my musical circles, bass players are always in demand because everybody always wants to play the guitar. When David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright decided to come back as Pink Floyd i...

Perhaps one of the big differences between fandom now and then is the internet. (We didn't have video's,didn't see you on tv or so , only magazines carefully searched through to find anything to inform us on whatever may have happened and no way to "control" things on being truth or not.) Dennis, w...

In his book, No More Mr. Nice Guy, Mike said that Alice contacted all the guys in the band in the 80s about getting back together again and it sounded serious. All the band members agreed and were ready. Then Alice contacted Bob Ezrin and Bob declined to do it. After that, Alice completely dropped ...

At that time, no company, and I mean NO company, wanted their product to be associated with the Alice Cooper image, which was the basis of the joke. Its just another example of Alice's ironic humor. I never repeated the Excedrin headache story to anyone, thank goodness, but I saw Alice’s quote agai...

In the “16 magazine” interview, Alice stated that one of his disappointments was that the band was going to be in a TV ad as Excedrin Headache # 48 but it never got on the air. How far did this get? It sounds like something was filmed. Were you guys famous at the time? Was the name Alice Cooper goi...

In the “16 magazine” interview, Alice stated that one of his disappointments was that the band was going to be in a TV ad as Excedrin Headache # 48 but it never got on the air. How far did this get? It sounds like something was filmed. Were you guys famous at the time? Was the name Alice Cooper goin...

Was it true that Mercury Records wanted to give you guys a recording contract but they wanted you to dump the singer?
Was this before Frank Zappa?

Here is the link to the magazine: http://evenspotspeaks.blogspot.com/2014/05/1973-spec-16-holiday-special-alice.html It is broken up into three parts. To view parts 2 and 3, scroll to the right and near the middle of the page you can see the links to parts 2 and 3. Thanks for the link. I checked it...

Wow! A t-shirt like that in sixth grade? Were we crazy? I also became a musician because of AC. I performed my first gig at age 15 at a 1st period school assembly near the last day of school in front of 700 or so students and faculty in 1975. For this gig I played no instruments. I was purely the le...

Being an Alice Cooper fan in the early 70s was not always easy. In his book, Mike Bruce talked about how the band attracted its fair share of bent arrows. Bob Greene mentioned in his book that some of the fans he saw at the shows seemed to be brain damaged. In junior high school, a really cute girl ...

Here is the link to the magazine:

http://evenspotspeaks.blogspot.com/2014 ... alice.html

It is broken up into three parts. To view parts 2 and 3, scroll to the right and near the middle of the page you can see the links to parts 2 and 3.

16 magazine came out with almost a 60 page magazine dedicated to Alice Cooper after the Spring 1973 Billion Dollar Babies tour wrapped. Neal said the magazine was not "us" and I get that, but ever since I saw you guys on ABC's In Concert, I was buying every magazine with an Alice Cooper article and ...

In his book, No More Mr. Nice Guy, Mike said that Alice contacted all the guys in the band in the 80s about getting back together again and it sounded serious. All the band members agreed and were ready. Then Alice contacted Bob Ezrin and Bob declined to do it. After that, Alice completely dropped t...

During the intro to My Stars on the GTSYAAC DVD, there is a geometric light display on the stage. Was that live or was that effect added to the film?

Alice’s longtime assistant, Brian Renfield Nelson, R.I.P. said the film crew used 16 mm cameras and when they converted it to 35 mm for theatrical release it made the film dark. This still doesn’t explain why the film crew would have you guys shut off the world class stage lighting except for the sp...