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DaveG
He was very entertaining when I saw him in 1970. At one point during a song, he draped linen sheets over each of the band members while they were playing, and threw a live chicken into the audience. They were loud and radical and good.
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DaveG
I didn't know there was a "chicken show" where John Lennon played! No, the show of which I speak took place at the Rose Palace in Pasadena, California, which also featured Lee Michaels, and Eric Burdon and War. It was sometime in January of 1070.
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DaveG
It was sometime in January of 1070.
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rebelrebel
The chicken business is disgusting. I wanted to believe it wasn't true for years but it was as confirmed here. His commentary on the Good To See You Again DVD was pretty unedifying too. I totally take on board everything that's being said here about how great a man he is but it doesn't change that stuff and I'm not aware he's ever expressed regret for it.
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DaveG
It was sometime in January of 1070.
That damn sure pre-dates the Rolling Stones' 1792 tour.
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Max'sKansasCity
Cool ole Alice diddy
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rebelrebel
The chicken business is disgusting. I wanted to believe it wasn't true for years but it was as confirmed here. His commentary on the Good To See You Again DVD was pretty unedifying too. I totally take on board everything that's being said here about how great a man he is but it doesn't change that stuff and I'm not aware he's ever expressed regret for it.
it happened once- someone threw he chicken on stage - coop tossed it off thinking it could fly - that was it - but the legend remains, hewn, into the living rock of stonehenge
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Max'sKansasCity
Cool ole Alice diddy Generation Landslide
My favorite Alice tune EVER!
As said.... some goofball probably took the chicken to the show, tossed it on stage, Alice tossed it back... and then the audience sacrificed it to the Devil and then it turned into a bat and flew back on stage and then Ozzy bit off its head and then Gene Simmons spewed the blood everywhere... myths and legends of RnR.Quote
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rebelrebel
The chicken business is disgusting. I wanted to believe it wasn't true for years but it was as confirmed here. His commentary on the Good To See You Again DVD was pretty unedifying too. I totally take on board everything that's being said here about how great a man he is but it doesn't change that stuff and I'm not aware he's ever expressed regret for it.
it happened once- someone threw he chicken on stage - coop tossed it off thinking it could fly - that was it - but the legend remains, hewn, into the living rock of stonehenge
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hbwriter
I spent some time with Alice this weekend - awesome guy - talk about a Stones fan! Seeing them in '65 changed his life and totally inspired him - more on that later- but I did shoot some video of him doing No More...
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hbwriter
I spent some time with Alice this weekend - awesome guy - talk about a Stones fan! Seeing them in '65 changed his life and totally inspired him - more on that later- but I did shoot some video of him doing No More...
[www.noisecreep.com]
Couldn't agree more. I was fortunate enough to play golf with Alice a few years ago at The Phoenecian GC in Scottsdale. One of the nicest guys I've ever met. It was just he and I for 5 hours in a cart on the course.
He was humble, funny, personable and genuine. Talked to me about his family, his career and alot about the Stones.
He took photos with us and signed a picture I had taken of him at an earlier concert, personalizing it to my wife and I. He also signed our scorecard and gave it to me.
That evening, my wife and I and another couple traveling with us went to Cooperstown, his Phoenix restaurant. He called down to the restaurant and had our entire bill comped.
One of the best days of my life.
P.S. His last album- Welcome 2 My Nightmare, (follow-up from the original) is VERY good, especially if you liked the original release.
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I spent some time with Alice this weekend - awesome guy - talk about a Stones fan! Seeing them in '65 changed his life and totally inspired him - more on that later- but I did shoot some video of him doing No More...
[www.noisecreep.com]
Couldn't agree more. I was fortunate enough to play golf with Alice a few years ago at The Phoenecian GC in Scottsdale. One of the nicest guys I've ever met. It was just he and I for 5 hours in a cart on the course.
He was humble, funny, personable and genuine. Talked to me about his family, his career and alot about the Stones.
He took photos with us and signed a picture I had taken of him at an earlier concert, personalizing it to my wife and I. He also signed our scorecard and gave it to me.
That evening, my wife and I and another couple traveling with us went to Cooperstown, his Phoenix restaurant. He called down to the restaurant and had our entire bill comped.
One of the best days of my life.
P.S. His last album- Welcome 2 My Nightmare, (follow-up from the original) is VERY good, especially if you liked the original release.
I agree about Nightmare. I had relatively high hopes for it, being the sequel and everything, and having Bob Ezrin and the original band back on board. It had the makings of being a classic, although it was definitely hard for that hype to be achieved as a longtime fan. Overall, I thought it was OK. I liked about 6 or 7 songs, but nothing classic. I wasn't a fan of his industrial/metal rock stuff like Brutal Planet, but I thought his last great album was The Eyes Of Alice Cooper. That was excellent garage rock right there.Quote
keefriffhard4life
i thought welcome 2 my nightmare was pretty average. the last really great alice album was brutal planet
Completely disagree. I'm biased as an Alice fan, but his Alice Cooper Group albums are stone cold classics. Love It To Death has classics like I'm Eighteen, Ballad Of Dwight Fry, Is It My Body. Killer is arguably one of the greatest hard rock albums ever. School's Out has the title track which every person in the world knows, and the album is actually pretty underrated and showed growth from them with My Stars, Alma Mater, etc. And then there's Billion Dollar Babies, which is a powerhouse album all the way through. That string right there definitely deserves to be acknowledged and influenced tons and tons of bands.Quote
24FPS
He's definitely not Hall of Fame material. Of course some of the ones already in there aren't. Jethro Tull, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Moody Blues for god's sake, these are groups that need to be in the Hall of Fame that have been ignored. Alice was a minor player that didn't really influence anyone. We already had men dressing like women. We already had hard rock.
I was discussing this with a Cooper fan. I said in reality Alice had a couple great songs. 'I'm Eighteen' is classic of teen angst. But really, he became the equivalent of Cher, ruling the AM airwaves with smooth rock-pop singles like 'Schools Out', 'Elected', and 'No More Mr. Nice Guy'. I never found his horror shlock to be scary or interesting. Oh, sorry, I just read that Alice Cooper is already a member of the Hall of Fame, circa 2011. Well, that sucks.
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He's definitely not Hall of Fame material. Of course some of the ones already in there aren't. Jethro Tull, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Moody Blues for god's sake, these are groups that need to be in the Hall of Fame that have been ignored. Alice was a minor player that didn't really influence anyone. We already had men dressing like women. We already had hard rock.
I was discussing this with a Cooper fan. I said in reality Alice had a couple great songs. 'I'm Eighteen' is classic of teen angst. But really, he became the equivalent of Cher, ruling the AM airwaves with smooth rock-pop singles like 'Schools Out', 'Elected', and 'No More Mr. Nice Guy'. I never found his horror shlock to be scary or interesting. Oh, sorry, I just read that Alice Cooper is already a member of the Hall of Fame, circa 2011. Well, that sucks.
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RollingFreakI agree about Nightmare. I had relatively high hopes for it, being the sequel and everything, and having Bob Ezrin and the original band back on board. It had the makings of being a classic, although it was definitely hard for that hype to be achieved as a longtime fan. Overall, I thought it was OK. I liked about 6 or 7 songs, but nothing classic. I wasn't a fan of his industrial/metal rock stuff like Brutal Planet, but I thought his last great album was The Eyes Of Alice Cooper. That was excellent garage rock right there.Quote
keefriffhard4life
i thought welcome 2 my nightmare was pretty average. the last really great alice album was brutal planet
I tried Dirty Diamonds but really couldn't get as into it as Eyes. Maybe it was because I heard Eyes first and I was just totally taken aback because I wasn't expecting anything, and with Diamonds I heard it was a continuation? Either way, I just thought the first one was better, although I know alot that have said they prefer Diamonds. Eyes just seemed like such a breath of fresh air to me, in terms of the music and humorous writing again, and then with Dirty it was like "OK, now its all just starting to sound similar."Quote
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RollingFreakI agree about Nightmare. I had relatively high hopes for it, being the sequel and everything, and having Bob Ezrin and the original band back on board. It had the makings of being a classic, although it was definitely hard for that hype to be achieved as a longtime fan. Overall, I thought it was OK. I liked about 6 or 7 songs, but nothing classic. I wasn't a fan of his industrial/metal rock stuff like Brutal Planet, but I thought his last great album was The Eyes Of Alice Cooper. That was excellent garage rock right there.Quote
keefriffhard4life
i thought welcome 2 my nightmare was pretty average. the last really great alice album was brutal planet
i thought dirty diamonds was better than eyes. eyes of alice cooper has too many green day influences on it. dirty diamonds is straight up old school