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IsakSun
I've also seen Alice Cooper for a couple of times since 2005. I think he's fantastic but his band isn't. They´re good but they sound like a cover band who doesn't quite get it.
Compare these and you will know what I mean.
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crholmstrom
He's playing the opera house in Seattle & it was quite expensive. Sold out though. I got to meet Alice once, very nice guy. Told me that he saw me rockin' in the pit, haha. The telephone is ringing.....
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IsakSun
I've also seen Alice Cooper for a couple of times since 2005. I think he's fantastic but his band isn't. They´re good but they sound like a cover band who doesn't quite get it.
Compare these and you will know what I mean.
[www.youtube.com] (1975)
[www.youtube.com] (2017)
Thats kinda why I've never been able to pull the trigger. I LOVE the original Alice Cooper Group, and everything since has always kinda sounded like a cover band to me. Alice surrounds himself with talented musicians. In all honesty, the musicians he has in his bands end up usually becoming LA mainstay session or touring staples in the area, and he finds them before they're anybody. He has great bands, but at his direction (I don't blame the band), he wants them to make the music their own and bring it into the modern day and it strips a lot of it of its power. The music was fine, and I just don't need to pay all that money to just see Alice and hired guns behind him. I'd rather see Michael Bruce and Dennis Dunaway and Neal Smith playing those songs that they wrote and feeling them.
But thats just me. I just totally agree with you that since they left in 75 its always sounded like a cover band to me. A very good and competent one, and probably the reason its survived, but it loses the thrill of the original to me even if its heavier.
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crholmstrom
He's playing the opera house in Seattle & it was quite expensive. Sold out though. I got to meet Alice once, very nice guy. Told me that he saw me rockin' in the pit, haha. The telephone is ringing.....
Hey CR, I guess it depends on the venue size. I sat on the endzone row 18 out of 20 rows. My ticket was $60 Canadian. Floor seats were a lot more expensive than that though.
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crholmstrom
He's playing the opera house in Seattle & it was quite expensive. Sold out though. I got to meet Alice once, very nice guy. Told me that he saw me rockin' in the pit, haha. The telephone is ringing.....
Hey CR, I guess it depends on the venue size. I sat on the endzone row 18 out of 20 rows. My ticket was $60 Canadian. Floor seats were a lot more expensive than that though.
Everything at the opera house is very expensive. It's an attempt to keep the riff raff out.
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DGA35
Saw Alice Saturday night in Abbotsford just outside Vancouver. Less than half the 7000 seat arena was used so every seat was good. This would be the 7th time I've seen him I think. Great show, Buck Cherry was the opening act. Heard of them but didn't know much about them or their songs but they were decent. Surprised when the singer said they've been around since 1999.
Alice and his band are well polished and they sure play alot. Last Tuesday in Edmonton, Thursday in Calgary, Friday Penticton and Saturday Abbotsford. Four shows in five nights and lots of travelling! Pretty good for a 74 year old!
Decent setlist including I'm 18, No More Mr Nice Guy, Poison, Under My Wheels, and a few new songs from his new album he released last year. This tour he plays My Stars from School's Out, not sure if he's ever played that before! Nita Strauss is one of his guitarists and she was the only guitarist to do a solo. She took over several years ago when Orianthi left to do solo stuff.
Alice's voice is still decent and has all the stage props still including the guillotine during Dead Babies. Wife Sheryl Cooper is still part of the act.
Overall a great show at a decent price. Well worth checking out. Many clips of the current tour on Youtube.
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Elmo Lewis
Buck Cherry has indeed been around for a minute. Their name is a play on Chuck Berry.
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Elmo Lewis
Buck Cherry has indeed been around for a minute. Their name is a play on Chuck Berry.
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(Wikipedia) Although the band's name is a spoonerism of the late Chuck Berry, the group said it was inspired by a drag queen acquaintance of theirs named Buck Cherry.
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frankotero
A very close friend of mine also a big Stones Fan, saw Alice for the first time in 2010. Said he thought he was the greatest Rock And Roll clown. To me Alice is great and should be taken serious although it's a lot about the show. Like everything I suppose it's all about perspective. My opinion is he's amazing.
Buckcherry were a legitimately great band. Had two pretty solid albums to start but got lost in the pop punk of the time. Unlikely came back a few years later, and oddly enough with their best and most popular album that had Crazy Bitch and some other hits. They were solid enough and continued on that trajectory till about 2010 or so. They seemed to hit a wall at that point, then they lost members and have just kind of remained at their level ever since. Sad, because they were a kickass band (if not a screwed by their own penchant of songs just related to being drunk or sex) and the last 10 years of them have been filled with poor cliched albums and not as strong of tours as they used to do.Quote
24FPS
Buck Cherry is an underrated group. I wondered why they didn't go further.