oh wow the end of that clip rules
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 July 2021 12:02 (two years ago) link
Dennis Dunaway wrote about this in his book. Apparently that's olive oil that Alice is hosing down the crowd with, so that the feathers would stick to their clothes.
― henry s, Friday, 16 July 2021 12:30 (two years ago) link
Kinda hard to imagine Richard Benjamin as an Alice Cooper fan.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Friday, 16 July 2021 12:38 (two years ago) link
Definitely more of a Leo Sayer guy.
― henry s, Friday, 16 July 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link
We know Neil Young watched this movie at the time, wonder what he made of that scene?
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 16 July 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
I think the Cooper group lived in Topanga Canyon at this time, so Neil was probably well aware of their antics.
― henry s, Friday, 16 July 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
He tried to persuade Crosby to tear up a pillow onstage.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 16 July 2021 14:52 (two years ago) link
XP...and David Briggs produced their second album.
Drummer Neal Smith later said of the record producer David Briggs, "David hated our music and us. I recall the term that he used, referring to our music, was 'Psychedelic Shit'. I think Easy Action sounded too dry, more like a TV or radio commercial and he did not help with song arrangement or positive input in any way."
― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 16 July 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
Pretty amazing, the progress they made going from Briggs to Ezrin.
― henry s, Friday, 16 July 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link
The same year, Briggs worked well with Spirit on Twelve Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus, which was pretty psychedelic, although I'm sure they were more instrumentally competent than the Alice Cooper band at that point.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 16 July 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
Just watched that “Super duper Alice Cooper”
The first half was quite interesting, up to the ‘band’ splitting. The descent and recovery of his solo years managed to gloss over all his ‘solo’stuff in favour of pics with Sinatra and Dali and his eventual “nightmare 2” show, but hey..
― Mark G, Friday, 16 July 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
Alice Cooper on The Snoop Sisters (one of the revolving programs that fell under the NBC Mystery Movie umbrella alongside Columbo and Quincy):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubIQeWtmK9o
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 July 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
The descent and recovery of his solo years managed to gloss over all his ‘solo’stuff in favour of pics with Sinatra and Dali and his eventual “nightmare 2” show, but hey..
It can be a challenge to talk about albums when the artist doesn't remember making them...
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 16 July 2021 19:28 (two years ago) link
I saw him on that Special Forces tour and man, what a wreck he was in those days. At least on the From The Inside tour he had that just-out-of-rehab energy. Just a couple years later he was a virtually unrecognizable wraith.
― henry s, Friday, 16 July 2021 20:32 (two years ago) link
I've read a few online reviewers who admire those early 80s records (which I haven't heard), is that a defensible position?
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 16 July 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
I quite liked Flush The Fashion, but had and have no use for Special Forces. I don't think I've ever heard Dada.
― henry s, Friday, 16 July 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
Flush The Fashion was easily better than the (3?) studio albums that preceded it - From The Inside, Lace And Whiskey, Goes To Hell.
― henry s, Friday, 16 July 2021 21:17 (two years ago) link
Classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJpqK8ZZbaA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDgNNbyoWdk
This changed my life trajectory when I saw it as a nine year old.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 16 July 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
Forgot the best one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz0lXNNkqac
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 16 July 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link
I like them. DaDa is a weird, dark fuckin' album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7rnFIsoYbM
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 16 July 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
Yes, Dada's pretty good.
― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Friday, 16 July 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
Flush The Fashion is one of my favourite Alice Cooper albums, but Special Forces is weak. Haven't heard Dada actually.
― bovarism, Friday, 16 July 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
Cooper reportedly has no recollection of recording DaDa, or the preceding albums Special Forces and Zipper Catches Skin, due to substance abuse. Cooper stated "I wrote them, recorded them and toured them and I don't remember much of any of that",[8] though he toured only Special Forces.[9] In 1996 Cooper said that DaDa was the scariest album he ever made,[10] and that he never had any idea what it was about. There was no tour to promote DaDa, and none of its songs have ever been played live.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 18 July 2021 03:45 (two years ago) link
Dick Wagner and Bob Ezrin really held DaDa together, and they created one hell of a creepy album. As far as theatrical "shock rock" goes, I'd list this LP right up there with Coop's best. "Pass the Gun Around" is particularly unsettling.
― A. Begrand, Sunday, 18 July 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link