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Then you put those songs with those guys, then you put the Alice persona up there in full regalia and give them a show that’s lit and choreographed and produced. “I make sure I surround myself with the best rock players, and I would put my two guitarists up against anybody, same with the drummer, same with the bass player. “Hopefully, it’s the quality of the show,” he said. Nice Guy” were giants of the early ’70s.Ĭooper went solo in 1975, adopting the band’s name as his own name and releasing the concept album “Welcome to My Nightmare.” In 2008, he released “Along Came a Spider,” his 18th solo album.Ĭooper, who was born Vincent Damon Furnier, thinks he knows why music fans keep coming back to his evil alter ego. “There’s a lot of stuff in the show that’s built-in humor.”Ĭooper has been in the public eye and ear since 1971 when his band - then named “Alice Cooper” - scored a big hit single with “I’m Eighteen.” Other rockers - “School’s Out,” “Elected” and “No More Mr.
“After you see it one or two times you start going, ‘Hey, wait a minute. “To get from act to act, there are four deaths that happen on stage,” Cooper said. And if you think you know what Alice is going to do this time, if you think you’ve got the formula worked out, it’s totally upside down and backwards.”Ĭooper’s latest rock show is divided into four acts, and Alice will find himself in familiar places - Hell, a hospital for the deranged and a guillotine are on the scenic set list. “We want to do all the hits for everybody, so we do.
“Every time we do a show, we try to form a new, different type of show,” said Cooper, 62, in a telephone interview from the Turning Stone Casino in Verona, where he performed Tuesday night. The concert starts at the Proctors Mainstage at 7:30 p.m. But he expects to upset and entertain everybody who shows up at Proctors on Sunday for his 95-minute, 28-song “Theatre of Death” show. For Gazette music writer Brian McElhiney’s review of this show, click here.Ĭooper is sort of kidding about the goth golf outfit.
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