Critiques

Alice Cooper co-founder and Hall Of Fame inductee Dennis Dunaway answers your questions!

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Critiques

Post by ElectedPlus » Mon Jan 06, 2025 8:04 pm

Hi Dennis, I'm interested ...
As Alice Cooper rose to more fame and notoriety, how did the band handle critics? Was there any sense of wnating to learn and adapt to the feedback you were receiving, or was it a case of sheer will and bullish 'self drive', doing what you all did no matter what people said?

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Re: Critiques

Post by Dreary » Tue Jan 07, 2025 6:28 am

In the Hollywood days, most every critic bashed us. It made us become an "us against the world" band. Then as bands like Zappa, Jefferson Airplane, and the Doors showed some respect, we felt like we were thumbing our noses at the critics.
But with the success of Love It To Death and Killer, when our radio play and our following grew, and we still got bad reviews (Lester Bangs) and Rolling Stone, we took it in stride because by then we felt like we had made it on bad press.
We had become the bad boys that true fans would defend Hell or high water. We saw that and started worrying more about rave reviews.

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