One thing that I have to remind myself of is that although many of us these days think of the equipment you used as vintage and classic, to you guys at the time it was the vanguard of technology. From listening to Killer I’m guessing that you used the Moog to process some of Glen and Michael’s guit...

Hmm. I'll have to think about a vinyl release.

Thanks for getting your buddy to look back to the original albums. The re-issues of Killer and School's Out sound great, especially the bass. As for the Moog, I wrote about it but I'm not sure that it made the final edit in my book. The Moog arrived at the studio, we opened the box, and I looked at ...

It was 1974 so I'm not clear on who moved out first but when Alice got an apartment in New York City, he wasn't around as much as the rest of us. We pretty much moved out of the estate at the same time. I missed the camaraderie of the band and the beauty of the house but I didn't miss having a home ...

After that photo session, the other guys left and Cindy and I hung out with Avedon who showed us a bunch of unseen photos he had taken of Marilyn Monroe dressed up as other classic film stars. We later saw some of them in Life magazine.

As for the scream, I'm not sure what you're calling the solo and which version of the song - studio or live, but generally the band would yell out to each other on stage but if it was a high scream, it was me. If you're talking about a live version, it could have been someone in the crowd. AC Fan L...

When photographer icon Richard Avedon has an idea, you say yes and have fun with it. The concept was for the Billion Dollar Babies image. We liked the contrast of Alice Cooper looking like shock rockers that got wealthy. Avedon liked the contrast of Alice Cooper looking like Wall Street business men...

I touch on this in my book. I actually lived in Creswell, Oregon but in 1946, the nearest hospital was in Cottage Grove. Our family moved to Phoenix, Arizona when I was 5 years old but we visited my grandfather's farm in Creswell every year, including the summer of 1964 when I worked on grandpa's fa...

Crazy Little Child was inspired by Michael's lyrics. I'm not sure why we decided to give it a New Orleans jazz feel. You are right about it being out of our style. Personally, I thought it was too typically standard for us, however I liked the idea of doing something unexpected, and like everything ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rKw2nfGHec Hi Dennis, I just came across this video of you and a tribute band playing HOF in someones living room as it looks. Great to see a close-up of you playing the bass that way !! Can you tell something about this ? How did they manage to get you to play this...

From all of the snippets of performances, as you can see, a lot happened that day.
Through decades, whenever I've played in Canada, people come up to me and say things like, My friend's uncle was at that show.

Michael starts the song then Glen joins in and layers an ascending riff. Yes, Glen specialized in feedback while Michael favored a cleaner tone that cut through, which is true for most every song we did. They both play the riff following "She'd rather shoot me in my tracks" but Glen does the over-ha...

Thanks for the reply and a pretty darn quick one at that. So if LITD wasn’t successful you were pretty sure WB would give you another chance ? I don’t think that luxury exists in the record business anymore. And that’s a shame because bands need time to develop. But I’m not sure in the case of rock...

I talk about this i my book. Pretties For You was a low budget rush job and Easy Action was recorded before we had enough songs written and with no rehearsal space. Love It To Death had several weeks of preparation and a decent amount of studio time so we did feel more confident going into the studi...

I don't recall doing a show without Michael, or any other member.

On Pretties For You, we had no say. We used the Doors logo font for Easy Action. Love it To Death was handwritten to look more personal from Alice the character. For the following album, I wrote the name to look like a ransom note from a Killer. Then it was carved into a school desk. Then it was sta...

Despite Glen not participating at all on MOL he gets songwriting credits. Was it a unanimous decision to do this or where there any heated arguments?. I'm assuming it was done out of loyalty and an attempt to get Glen involved again. [/quote] Even though, our song writing credits weren't perfect, we...

It doesn’t work like that, as the publisher gets 50%. On School’s Out and I’m Eighteen each band member gets 10% of the performing share of royalties (radio play etc..) with 2 publishers taking the other 50% (BMG 33.34% and Universal/MCA Music 16.66%). As for mechanical royalties (record sales) the ...

That's a fascinating break down Dennis, It seems like there wasn't quite the animosity in the group (regarding song writing credits) like there was in other groups. Its weird how the songs are split, billion dollar babies (to my memory) doesn't have Neal Smith credited on it, but to me, that song l...

Michael was already focused on song writing when we met him. He urged Vince and I to write. So we wrote "Don't Blow Your Mind" which went to #11 on AM radio in Tucson, Arizona, meanwhile, on the sly, Michael was writing and recording his own songs for his other bands. He wrote songs in the tradition...