You are so wrong my friend! This song is about his battle with addiction. He's been clean and sober for many years and has helped many other musicians with their own battle, including Dave Mustaine of Megadeth. His real name is Vincent Furnier and he grew up in Detroit. He's the son of a pastor and he himself is a devout Christian and married since 1976. He's approaching 80 (76) and still on tour with his latest record Detroit Stories. His career spans over 60 years and has sold over 50+ million albums. He's a great golfer and a champion knife thrower who won many events. He's regarded as one of the earliest Shock Rocker that included costumes, elaborate stage shows that incorporated horror theme and monsters on the stage. He also speaks many languages and a philanthropist. He his unique and a genuine good guy.
He moved to Phoenix at high school age and he has been here in Arizona ever since. He is a HUGE spokesman for many local Chairty's here in Arizona - we claim him here because he started his musical career here
The band was originally called Alice Cooper. When they broke up he legally changed his name to Alice Cooper to retain rights to his music. He's been married to his wife for over 40 years. She danced in his concerts which are theater productions. Now their daughter places that role. The song is actually about addiction, primarily alcohol. He is a recovering alcoholic. "I want to love you but I better not touch." "I wanna kiss you but your lips are venomous poison."
Alice is one of the best people on the Planet. Christian, happily married for decades, intelligent, intellectual, funny as hell, STILL great live- saw him I December for the 5th time. He plays golf, was close friends with Bob Hope, and has been sober for decades too. Talk about a rabbit hole...I LOVE THIS ❤️ SONG SO VERY MUCH!!!!
This man is like Jeckyl and Hyde. Off stage, he's a kind, gentle Christian soul. He plays golf (and kills it too). He's a philanthropist, devoting time and money to help those in need. On stage? He's the Godfather of Heavy Metal. Check out "School's Out" next! Great summertime song!
Alice Cooper has been married to the pastor's daughter and ballerina Sheryl Goddard since 1976. They have three children, Calico, Sonora and Dash, as well as several grandchildren.
Little known fact; Alice could have been a massive star on the PGA! Music became his larger passion. He played a ton of Pro/Amsterdam and regularly smoked a ton of top named PGA players.
Ahhhh. The 80s hair band Alice. You should check out 70s Alice. That was definitely some experimental prog hard rock. His albums were a fusion of jazz, country, rock, metal all thrown in a blender and set to puree. Don't get me wrong Poison is one of my favorite Cooper songs. If you want a good pretty woman song then check out Dr Hooks When you're in love with a beautiful Woman
70s Alice is not prog rock . Pink Floyd, King Crimson, E.L.P. , Procol harum, yes that's considered prog.In the 70s( when the name of the band was Alice Cooper not the man) it was called shock rock. You obviously weren't buying his LPs then . Love it to death , killer, billion dollar baby's, schools out.
Listen to Lace and Whiskey and tell me that Alice/Vincent Fournier wasn't experimenting. Yes I know he was shock rock but there is a lot of experimentation mixed in the middle songs of his albums. Or it could be that Lace and Whiskey is my favorite album and I'm judging on that. Been a fan ever since I saw him on Johnny Carson in the early 70s. I also enjoy the Kane Roberts era. I'm also loving Nita Strauss. She brings in her classical influences as well. I remember Nita telling me how excited she was to audition for Alice. And then she nailed it. Good for her. Sidebar. Did you watch Alice on the Muppet Show when it aired.
89. My senior year in HS. Alice Cooper drove around our mutual hometown of Phoenix in a red garbage truck. He was giving away tapes and CDs of his album Trash that this song is from. Just a cool dude and Phoenix legend.
Met Alice a couple of times at Gameworks in Tempe. He would take is son there. He was extremely nice and would just blend into the crowd. No one that sees the guy in public realizes hes a rock star because he just acts so normal. He was super nice.
@@somedude2440 I had a friend that sold Infinity cars years ago in Scottsdale. Some raggedy long hair guy rides into the dealership on a skateboard. None of the salesmen paid him any attention except my friend. He bought 2 new high end Infinity and referred some of his musician buddy's to my friend for years. 😂
He's actually a sober, born again Christian man. "School's Out" "No More Mr. Nice Guy" "Elected" (great song for an election year), "I'm Eighteen" are some of my faves....hope you go down this rabbit hole too!
@@greenhighlander7 He was born and raised Christian, father and grandfather were extremely influential in The Church of Jesus Christ. Fallen into? It’s a matter of perspective. Often people associate the artistic persona with reality. Often they are polar opposites.
The music video director uses a woman to illustrate the point but when Alice originally wrote the song in the studio he was referring to his ongoing battle with sobriety
Alice Cooper is the first 'shock rocker' - he came up in Detroit and rose to fame in the early 70's as his band became famous for macabre themes and theatrical visuals... He was born Vince Furnier and his dad was Church pastor; he married his wife Sheryl, who was the daughter of a Church pastor and a ballet dancer who performed in his concerts in 1975... They are both devout Christians today, still married and grandparents now... Alice Cooper is 76 yrs of age and still performs, tours and records new music. He also recently formed the band Hollywood Vampires feat. actor Johnny Depp on guitar and Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry. Vince Furnier formed a band in high school in the 60's w/ classmates... originally, they would perform Beatles songs as The Spiders... They changed their name to The Knazz... but in 1968, Furnier came up w/ the band name Alice Cooper - it sounded demented and misleading (the band was 5 guys, so who was Alice?) The band performed in L.A. as Alice Cooper and he would put on black eyeliner and assume a villain character onstage who looked deranged like his makeup was running... It freaked audiences out and they would be playing to empty rooms because they all left! After a while, people kept calling Furnier 'Alice'... so, after a while, he decided to legally change his name to Alice Cooper. The character he created onstage was drawn from cartoons and movies that he was a fan of. It was in 1970 when the Alice Cooper band met manager Shep Gordon (who still manages him) and producer Bob Ezrin (who went on to work w/ Kiss, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, etc) and they decided to "re-shape" Alice Cooper... One song they wrote stood out - "I'm Eighteen"... They recorded it and released it as a single and it was a hit in 1970... they released a full album 'Love it to death' in 1971 and it sold platinum... Alice Cooper would shock & enthrall concert audiences w/ stage props like a guillotine, a live snake, an electric chair, baby dolls, etc... and scored more platinum records like 'Killer' (1971)... "School's out" (1972)... 'Billion dollar babies' (1973)... But tensions led to the original Alice Cooper band breaking up by 1974. Alice Cooper went solo in 1975 w/ the album 'Welcome to my nightmare'... which he promoted w/ an elaborate stage show and dance routines. It became a platinum hit... However, Alice Cooper's career would decline by late 70's/ early 80's as his alcoholism became a problem and nearly cost him his life and his marriage. He got sober and took time off to recover and reconcile w/ his wife Sheryl and family. In 1986, Alice Cooper returned w/ a heavy metal sound and he was finally clean & sober for the first time in decades... He still needed a hit record and that came in 1989 when the album 'Trash' became a hit w/ the single 'Poison'... as well as the other singles - 'Bed of nails'... 'House of fire'... Alice Cooper appeared as himself in the 1992 movie "Wayne's world" performing the 1991 single 'Feed my Frankenstein' ... His '91 album 'Hey Stoopid' had an anti-drug and anti-addiction message on the title track. In 2000, Alice Cooper delivered the album 'Brutal Planet' w/ a modern, futuristic sound and he got another career comeback... He never stopped recording and touring... he released a sequel album 'Welcome 2 my nightmare' in 2011 (which had Ke$ha as a guest on the record) His latest album 'Road' was released in 2023. Alice Cooper's other notable songs - "School's out" ... 'Welcome to my nightmare' ... 'Freedom' ... 'Lost in America' ... "Love's a loaded gun" ... 'Gimme' ... 🤘🤘
@@starlaryer4165 He was born and raised in the Detroit area, regardless of where he moved as a teen... Alice Cooper band did not fare well in L.A. but were better received in the Detroit scene.
He is is not the first shock Roker. I could be wrong but I believe the first credited shock rocker was "Screamin'" Jay Hawkins the writer of "I Put A Spell On You"
Alice Cooler is one of a kind. When you see him live, it’s a show, not just a concert. Others have taken pieces of what they do, but there is only one Alice Cooper. Listen to him talk about his Christianity. Interesting point of view from someone who knows he lived rock star. Very grounded.
He's actually still performing at his age. I saw him open for Motley crue a few year back and he was amazing. Fun story.Edit- had to change what I said after rewatching Slash raised on Sunset Strip. Alice used to dabble in wearing a top hat but after (when GnR was opening for him on his Come back tour, his first tour sober) seeing Slash wear his several times Alice said Slash could have the look.
Not his first top hat at least. Slash said in an interview he bought his first top hat in a resale shop in Hollywood. He said he found an old belt that he cut up to make the decor on the hat.
@@TheDopekitty that's funny as I saw a documentary where Alice told that story. Slash said he stole his first hat. Perhaps there was more than one over time?
@@TheDopekitty Ok. I had to go back and watch the Documentary again. I misunderstood what Alice said. He was basically saying he used to wear one but after Slash wore one a few times he gave up and said "you can have it". meaning the look. not the hat.
listened to Alice since the early '70s.... In the fall of 1990 i was in the military and got on a flight from Nagasaki to LAX - there was a huge commotion at the terminal, couldn't see what was going on, then Alice, his wife Sheryl and his kids came walking through the crowd and boarded the 747 going back to the States after touring - since i was in transit, I was in full uniform. About an hour and a half into the flight, Alice came down the stairwell and was just strolling around when he stopped and asked if he could buy me a drink..... Alice Cooper bought me a Jack and Coke and we sat and talked about the War and some other trivial things for about 2 hours, I remember after we parted, thinking - Wow, what a down to earth and incredibly nice guy, still have the plane ticket - and is the only STAR I've ever had any interaction with.... just remembered - this was when smoking was still allowed on airplanes....
When Jim Morrison of The Doors wrote lyrics saying "I woke up this morn'in an' got myself a beer" he was actually quoting Alice Cooper. Jim had seen an TV interview where Alice Cooper was the guest on an early morning 'Breakfast Show'. Alice was seriously drunk during that early morning interview and was asked about being so lit at that early hour. He answered: "I woke up this morn'in an' got myself a beer". Morrison made the line famous. After being continuously drunk for years, Alice ended up giving up alcohol completely and has been sober for decades. When touring he now plays golf instead of partying.
Got to see him do a few charity shows years ago, such an amazing human being for sure. He's definitely someone you should read up on for sure. Also, check out Hey Stoopid, and Don't Give Up. His work with Johnny Depp and Joe Perry in Hollywood Vampires is good too
Him and Glen Campbell were close friends.. golfed together.. Went to my Church in Arizona when i was in high school. Met him at a restaurant after church one day. Super nice Guy.
I used to work at a place called Steamers Seafood at he Biltmore Fashion Park and waited on Alice many times, as well as Glen, and Paul Harvey. It was the place to eat back in the 80's & 90's - I am from Prescott and have been back here since 1991 but loved living in Phoenix, I was in the Arcadia area.
I think it was 2015 when I saw him live, he had a female lead guitarist that absolutely shredded. Was going to look up who she was but then I forgot about it until now. Looking it up ... her name was Nita Strauss.
You can't go wrong with Alice Cooper. He's been Rocking since the early 70's. He's in his 70's now and still doing concerts. He's the OG of Theatrical themed, Dark / Macabre, Anti Social Rock and sits on the right hand side of the actual throne of the God of Thunder himself. I saw him in concert most recently in October 2021 when Ace Frehley (from KISS) opened for Alice in Charlotte. Awesome show - two thumbs up! Alice has influenced all the greats. This song, POISON, is from '89 --- that's 35 years ago! Gen Z and Millennials grew up listening to Junk compared to what blasted out on the airwaves of the 70's & 80's.
This song is about his addictions before he got clean and sober in 1983. One of his biggest hits since Schools Out. Actually met him at a restaurant he owned years ago. Was eating dinner with a friend and this person walks up behind us and asks "How is your dinner this evening?" Turned around to answer and it was Alice. One of the few times I have been at a total loss for words.
Love Alice I like his older songs Schools Out, I'm Eighteen, Under My Wheels, Elected, No More Mister Nice Guy, Billion Dollar Babies,Ballad of Dwight Fry and my favorite Generation Landslide ❤❤❤❤ Back in the day when you went to a Cooper concert you saw a SHOW ❤❤❤❤
I lived i Scottsdale, AZ for many years very close to Alice Cooper's house. He's super intelligent and a philanthropist. He's very involved in his community and I've always been proud to say I'm a fan and a neighbor! He's amazing in his work. A true legend all around!
YES! More Alice please. One thing to keep in mind is that aome of his songs are meant to be listened to together, like Years Ago / Steven, and Chop Chop Chop / Gail. A few on the Brutal Planet album call back 30 years to some of his classics, and the entire Dragontown album has call backs to the previous Brutal Planet album.
Love Alice Cooper...I've seen him in concert 6 times. His" School's Out " was our class song in 1985. We was told we couldn't play it at our graduation but we did 😎
Cooper was one of the early shock rock artists, which was always interesting because his show character really is just that, a character. He’s supposedly very nice, mild mannered and a very religious person in his private life.
Alice is the best. He’s got some crazy crazy stuff out there. This is actually tame. Son of a reverend. Reformed alcoholic/drug user and avid golfer. Also sponsors Alice coopers rock camp in Phoenix and Mesa for kids to be involved in music. Absolutely epic man
Alice Copper you saved my life do to my job and personal life i had to hear that song from the movie frozen [let it go ] several times a day for 2 years. To keep from losing my mind I started to pretend it was sung by Alice Cooper. Now I'd like to hear a cover by Alice Cooper. If your out there Alice Copper please cover that song from Frozen❤
Had the pleasure of seeing Alice Cooper in Paducah (my home), KY on Oct. 13th; a Friday 2023. Best rock concert I've ever been to! Super nice guy, he roamed our downtown meeting people and frequenting our local businesses. A local costume shop even got to use one of their costumes in his show!
Alice Cooper (birth name Vincent Damon Furnier) is a pastor's and missionary's son. In the 1980s he became a born-again Christian after a sermon in a church that he and his wife Sheryl (a pastor's daughter) attended. In 2013 I was at a concert. He was brilliant.
This was a mid-'80s release and his return to mainstream rock. "Hey Stoopid" and "Feed My Frankenstein" were subsequent releases. He was at one point an alcoholic who received a dire warning from his physician: quit drinking or quit living. He ditched the booze and took up golf...and, according to one story, his wife now sees less of him than when he drank because he spends so much time on the golf course.
I love the song Ballad of Dwight Frye. It gets very little attention unless Alice is on stage. The stage show is amazing and if you can’t catch it live there are full concert videos on UA-cam on his channel. The female guitarist who tours with them occasionally, Nita Strauss, is phenomenal! She is one of the best I have EVER seen!
I was blessed to see Alice Cooper in my younger years! It was the Welcome To My Nightmare Tour in Jackson, Mississippi. He came out dressed as a Black Widow Spider and climbed up a cargo net at the back of the stage! It was a GREAT concert!
Yay! Alice Cooper, one of the most talented, genuine and Intelligent musicians ever! Love me some Alice Cooper ❤🎉 Check out next: Bed of Nails Feed my Frankenstein
Alice is one of the good guys of rock and roll. He's been a friend and mentor to lots of talented musicians who later became successful, his business dealings are honorable, and he supports a variety of worthwhile charities. Interesting to me: his best friend was legendary country performer Glen Campbell - the 'Rhinestone Cowboy.'
i got to see Alice Cooper in concert it was awesome and a dream come true! Alice, Black Sabbath and Kiss are the reason I got into Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Music!
You got to try these songs of Alice Cooper through out his career...... - The Ballad of the Dwight Fry - Department of Youth - Elected - Black Juju - Desperado - No More Mr. Nice Guy - Only Women Bleed - Welcome to My Nightmare - I Never Cry - Identity Crisis (from the movie Monster Dog 1986 that Alice starred in) - (No More) Love at Your Convenience - How You Gonna See Me Now - He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask) (from Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives) - Billion Dollar Babies - Teenage Frankenstein - Freedom - House of Fire - Bed of Nails - Clones (We're All) - I Got a Line on You (from film Iron Eagle 2 1988) - Only My Heart Talkin' - Lost in America - Love's a Loaded Gun - Hey Stoopid - Beginning of the End - Kane Roberts w/Alice Cooper & Alissa White-Gluz (2019) (a really different song and very heavy sound) - I'll Bite Your Face Off These are just some of the great songs of his that you need to hear....... Ps most of these songs have an official video for them
Oh snap! Love me some Alice Cooper. saw him live 70's of course. I turned my son on to his music. He loves it. He bought music tape's of his songs when my son was 12, 1999. My son was self taught on playing guitar. He had 3 and learned himself on playing Coopers song " Only Women Bleed " Alice has some good ones.
This came out in Australia in 1989, when I transferred to our local police station and it reminds me of the happiest time of my life. Great song! I have Welcome to my Nightmare from when I was 14. Love Cold Ethyl!!
Alice created music that was the equivelent a horror movie. The band started in the mid to late sixties. Alice Cooper (Band) - I'm Eighteen - Under My Wheels - Elected - Billion Dollar Babies In the mid seventies the band broke up. Alice Cooper was now a solo artist. Cue Welcome To My Nightmare, huge, brilliant album. The seventies solo years - Department Of Youth - Steven - Go To Hell - I Never Cry - You And Me The late seventies early eighties Alice was in bad shape via alcohol and drugs... still made some great music - Clones - You Want it, You Got It.... Poison was mid to late eighties and Alice was in recovery. Legend.
Alice Cooper is actually a Christian, so don't expect pentagrams or the like. He's pretty outspoken about it. My favorite quote from him is "Why let the devil have all the good music?" The song is from his Trash album and I know the single came out when I was 19, so 1989. I remember the manager at the restaurant I worked at would put this cassette on during closing. Try Hell is Living Without You or It's Only My Heart Talkin', both off the Trash album. No venomous women, but a lot of longing after what seems to be good ones. There is some really excellent guitar playing in the first one and some clever lyric chasing in the chorus where one line falls into the next. That's the only album I bought of his, so all I can recommend off of.
This song was released 35 years ago. I met the man twice in the late 80's and he looked old AF. But I was like 21 and my perception at the time might have been altered by my young age. I know he's still touring, he might be nearer to 80 than 70 now...
Alice has been putting out music since the late 60's. Alice Cooper was a band at first from 1969-1974 but Alice went solo in 1975 and has never stopped releasing music. He's definitely an Icon
Dan Rather did an interview with him and Dan said Alice wasn't what he expected. That made Alice chuckle. He's so down to earth with a good sense of humor. He said he didn't want a boring stage show so he came up with his whole shock rock persona. He's cool as hell in real life.
I saw his "Welcome to my Nightmare" tour back in the day - what a fabulous stage set. More recently, he started a supergroup with Johnny Depp and Joe Perry to honor musicians who died from drugs and/or alcohol. Their self-titled "Hollywood Vampires" album is fire.
Produced by Desmond Child. Written by him, Aluce Cooper and John McCurry. Alice Cooper had addictions to alcohol 🍷. He kicked it. 1 way he did was learning to play golf ⛳. He, late Glenn Frey and Huey Lewis play it. Suggested videos 📹: 1 Alice Cooper sings School's Out 2 Alice Cooper sings Hey Stoopid
About 30 years ago, I was in a Scottsdale, AZ antique shop when Alice Cooper stopped by to see his mom, the shop owner, before a concert tour departure.
I just found your videos. Awesome time. Thanks. As for this one, I took my son to his concert. At first he wasn't sure. When we left he was speechless. Alice has a different band now, the sounds still resenate. One of my favorite concerts... I believe that his wife is the poison. She's been married to him for years
This song was out when I was in high school. 90 or 91. Alice has been around since 69 I believe. He is in his 70s now, and I saw him in concert twice last year. He still puts on a spectacle and rocks! His latest album is awesome!
He's been playing the part of Alice for many years, but in real life he's a really nice religious guy that's been married to his wife forever and likes playing Gulf!
Alice Copper lived an interesting life, his father was an evangelist, his wife a professional dance of some sort, battle alcoholism in the 70's and has been a born-again Christian for a while now.
Grew up with Alice Cooper and parents were so paranoid about his persona & how we would all be led astray. He was fun and different and I still enjoy his music. Love your reactions, thanks for sharing.
Saw Alice the day after I graduated high school. June of 78. His wife was a dancer. Blondie was the opener. Philadelphia Spectrum. One of Alice’s best friends was the great Glen Campbell. Golfed together all the time.
SCHOOLS OUT, NO MORE MISTER NICE GUY, I'M EIGHTEEN😊 HUGE ROCK HITS IN THE EARLY 70'S ROBERT!!! 👍HIS EXPLODING ALBUM WAS ( BILLION DOLLAR BABIES ) ONLY WOMEN BLLED WAS ANOTHER LATE 70'S HIT, PLAY SOME OF THESE CLASSICS FOR SURE!💯
I met Alice when I lived in Scottsdale in the late 90's. We were both at the walgreens pharmacy. Guy was way cool. He took a few minutes to chat with me. I'm a musician and we both knew some of the same people in the local music scene.
You are so wrong my friend! This song is about his battle with addiction. He's been clean and sober for many years and has helped many other musicians with their own battle, including Dave Mustaine of Megadeth. His real name is Vincent Furnier and he grew up in Detroit. He's the son of a pastor and he himself is a devout Christian and married since 1976. He's approaching 80 (76) and still on tour with his latest record Detroit Stories. His career spans over 60 years and has sold over 50+ million albums. He's a great golfer and a champion knife thrower who won many events. He's regarded as one of the earliest Shock Rocker that included costumes, elaborate stage shows that incorporated horror theme and monsters on the stage. He also speaks many languages and a philanthropist. He his unique and a genuine good guy.
From Detroit, grew up in Phx. AZ.
He specifically explained in a video that it's about the girl you know is toxic but you want her anyway cause you can't stay away
He moved to Phoenix at high school age and he has been here in Arizona ever since. He is a HUGE spokesman for many local Chairty's here in Arizona - we claim him here because he started his musical career here
@@sophiecooper1824ok, that's not what I've been told over the years. Thanks for the info
@@starlaryer4165Nice. Thank you for pointing that out
Alice Coopers older songs "SCHOOLS OUT", "EIGHTEEN", " ELECTED", " NO MORE MR NICE GUY"...
Billion dollar babies, only women bleed!
Schools Out is a FABULOUS one.
And don't forget 'Only Women Bleed".
On his softer side I love - You and Me - How you Gonna See Me Now - Only Women Bleed
Ahhhh, School's Out - the anthem at every school in the 80s when school let's out for summer! 🤟
The band was originally called Alice Cooper.
When they broke up he legally changed his name to Alice Cooper to retain rights to his music.
He's been married to his wife for over 40 years.
She danced in his concerts which are theater productions. Now their daughter places that role.
The song is actually about addiction, primarily alcohol.
He is a recovering alcoholic.
"I want to love you but I better not touch."
"I wanna kiss you but your lips are venomous poison."
I've always taken it as comparing a toxic relationship to drug addiction.
Alice is one of the best people on the Planet. Christian, happily married for decades, intelligent, intellectual, funny as hell, STILL great live- saw him I December for the 5th time. He plays golf, was close friends with Bob Hope, and has been sober for decades too. Talk about a rabbit hole...I LOVE THIS ❤️ SONG SO VERY MUCH!!!!
Great radio presenter too. Up until a year ago he was on a station called planet rock
On the surface, under the surface he was an alcoholic drug addict for years until his wife gave him an ultimatum.
He is just...All that❤
Typical screwtube deleting the truth
You forgot to mention Vincent Price, another golfer and quiet man off camera.
This man is like Jeckyl and Hyde. Off stage, he's a kind, gentle Christian soul. He plays golf (and kills it too). He's a philanthropist, devoting time and money to help those in need. On stage? He's the Godfather of Heavy Metal. Check out "School's Out" next! Great summertime song!
The Godfather of Heavy Metal is Ozzy Osbourne... Alice is the Godfather of Shock Rock, big difference.
@@Volunteerfan8082he's the great between Screamin Jay Hawkins and Marilyn Manson
And Cooper is an avid golfer.
@@Volunteerfan8082 my apologies... I thought it was the other way around...
@Volunteerfan8082 the Godfather of Metal is actually Ronnie James Dio lol
Alice Cooper has been married to the pastor's daughter and ballerina Sheryl Goddard since 1976. They have three children, Calico, Sonora and Dash, as well as several grandchildren.
Vincent( alice )himself is a pastors son
Goddard?? That's actually my family's last name lol
@@psycojuggalo1642whoopwhoop!
@merlekeif4835 whoop whoop
At 76 years old Alice Cooper is still rocking out and touring.
I have the shirt to prove it! 😂❤
Yeah i saw him 2 days ago ❤
I have a piece of his shirt from over 40 years ago when Suzi Quatro opened for him.
He puts on a hellofa show.
@@sophiecooper1824 So in Hamburg? Was a great show and i am very happy that i was there.
Little known fact; Alice could have been a massive star on the PGA! Music became his larger passion.
He played a ton of Pro/Amsterdam and regularly smoked a ton of top named PGA players.
Poison was released in 1989, off his 18th album. Cooper had already been rocking since '64!
Poison was his first Top10 single since 1977.
The first time I saw Alice was on The Muppet Show as a child. Been fascinated with him ever since!
My all time favorite Muppet Show episode. I love Alice trying to get Gonzo to sell his soul...lol
Ahhhh. The 80s hair band Alice. You should check out 70s Alice. That was definitely some experimental prog hard rock. His albums were a fusion of jazz, country, rock, metal all thrown in a blender and set to puree. Don't get me wrong Poison is one of my favorite Cooper songs. If you want a good pretty woman song then check out Dr Hooks When you're in love with a beautiful Woman
70s Alice is not prog rock . Pink Floyd, King Crimson, E.L.P. , Procol harum, yes that's considered prog.In the 70s( when the name of the band was Alice Cooper not the man) it was called shock rock. You obviously weren't buying his LPs then . Love it to death , killer, billion dollar baby's, schools out.
Listen to Lace and Whiskey and tell me that Alice/Vincent Fournier wasn't experimenting. Yes I know he was shock rock but there is a lot of experimentation mixed in the middle songs of his albums. Or it could be that Lace and Whiskey is my favorite album and I'm judging on that. Been a fan ever since I saw him on Johnny Carson in the early 70s. I also enjoy the Kane Roberts era. I'm also loving Nita Strauss. She brings in her classical influences as well. I remember Nita telling me how excited she was to audition for Alice. And then she nailed it. Good for her. Sidebar. Did you watch Alice on the Muppet Show when it aired.
89. My senior year in HS. Alice Cooper drove around our mutual hometown of Phoenix in a red garbage truck. He was giving away tapes and CDs of his album Trash that this song is from. Just a cool dude and Phoenix legend.
Met Alice a couple of times at Gameworks in Tempe. He would take is son there. He was extremely nice and would just blend into the crowd. No one that sees the guy in public realizes hes a rock star because he just acts so normal. He was super nice.
@@somedude2440 I had a friend that sold Infinity cars years ago in Scottsdale. Some raggedy long hair guy rides into the dealership on a skateboard. None of the salesmen paid him any attention except my friend. He bought 2 new high end Infinity and referred some of his musician buddy's to my friend for years. 😂
He's actually a sober, born again Christian man. "School's Out" "No More Mr. Nice Guy" "Elected" (great song for an election year), "I'm Eighteen" are some of my faves....hope you go down this rabbit hole too!
He wasnt always sober.
Oh really.. a christian man.. really hope that he hasn't fallen to that shit..
@@xScooterAZxNo one in rock was “always” sober.
@@greenhighlander7 He was born and raised Christian, father and grandfather were extremely influential in The Church of Jesus Christ. Fallen into? It’s a matter of perspective. Often people associate the artistic persona with reality. Often they are polar opposites.
@@Mainecoonlady. you mean groomed to be christian, as it is. people don't born christian, they are groomed to be christian.
Alice and his wife are actually devout Christians.❤
And he collects cars and plays golf.
His father was a minister.
And the guy lives and breathes playing golf! 🤣
Alice is also an ordained minister
sadly he was forced that down on his throat like many others.
The music video director uses a woman to illustrate the point but when Alice originally wrote the song in the studio he was referring to his ongoing battle with sobriety
That makes alot more sense lyrically
Alice Cooper is the first 'shock rocker' - he came up in Detroit and rose to fame in the early 70's as his band became famous for macabre themes and theatrical visuals... He was born Vince Furnier and his dad was Church pastor; he married his wife Sheryl, who was the daughter of a Church pastor and a ballet dancer who performed in his concerts in 1975... They are both devout Christians today, still married and grandparents now... Alice Cooper is 76 yrs of age and still performs, tours and records new music. He also recently formed the band Hollywood Vampires feat. actor Johnny Depp on guitar and Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry.
Vince Furnier formed a band in high school in the 60's w/ classmates... originally, they would perform Beatles songs as The Spiders... They changed their name to The Knazz... but in 1968, Furnier came up w/ the band name Alice Cooper - it sounded demented and misleading (the band was 5 guys, so who was Alice?) The band performed in L.A. as Alice Cooper and he would put on black eyeliner and assume a villain character onstage who looked deranged like his makeup was running... It freaked audiences out and they would be playing to empty rooms because they all left! After a while, people kept calling Furnier 'Alice'... so, after a while, he decided to legally change his name to Alice Cooper. The character he created onstage was drawn from cartoons and movies that he was a fan of.
It was in 1970 when the Alice Cooper band met manager Shep Gordon (who still manages him) and producer Bob Ezrin (who went on to work w/ Kiss, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, etc) and they decided to "re-shape" Alice Cooper... One song they wrote stood out - "I'm Eighteen"... They recorded it and released it as a single and it was a hit in 1970... they released a full album 'Love it to death' in 1971 and it sold platinum... Alice Cooper would shock & enthrall concert audiences w/ stage props like a guillotine, a live snake, an electric chair, baby dolls, etc... and scored more platinum records like 'Killer' (1971)... "School's out" (1972)... 'Billion dollar babies' (1973)... But tensions led to the original Alice Cooper band breaking up by 1974.
Alice Cooper went solo in 1975 w/ the album 'Welcome to my nightmare'... which he promoted w/ an elaborate stage show and dance routines. It became a platinum hit... However, Alice Cooper's career would decline by late 70's/ early 80's as his alcoholism became a problem and nearly cost him his life and his marriage. He got sober and took time off to recover and reconcile w/ his wife Sheryl and family.
In 1986, Alice Cooper returned w/ a heavy metal sound and he was finally clean & sober for the first time in decades... He still needed a hit record and that came in 1989 when the album 'Trash' became a hit w/ the single 'Poison'... as well as the other singles - 'Bed of nails'... 'House of fire'... Alice Cooper appeared as himself in the 1992 movie "Wayne's world" performing the 1991 single 'Feed my Frankenstein' ... His '91 album 'Hey Stoopid' had an anti-drug and anti-addiction message on the title track.
In 2000, Alice Cooper delivered the album 'Brutal Planet' w/ a modern, futuristic sound and he got another career comeback... He never stopped recording and touring... he released a sequel album 'Welcome 2 my nightmare' in 2011 (which had Ke$ha as a guest on the record)
His latest album 'Road' was released in 2023.
Alice Cooper's other notable songs - "School's out" ... 'Welcome to my nightmare' ... 'Freedom' ... 'Lost in America' ... "Love's a loaded gun" ... 'Gimme' ... 🤘🤘
He moved to Phoenix at age 16 and has been here ever since....he is not really a Detroit boy at all - his career was started here in Arizona
@@starlaryer4165 He was born and raised in the Detroit area, regardless of where he moved as a teen...
Alice Cooper band did not fare well in L.A. but were better received in the Detroit scene.
He is is not the first shock Roker. I could be wrong but I believe the first credited shock rocker was "Screamin'" Jay Hawkins the writer of "I Put A Spell On You"
Alice Cooler is one of a kind. When you see him live, it’s a show, not just a concert. Others have taken pieces of what they do, but there is only one Alice Cooper. Listen to him talk about his Christianity. Interesting point of view from someone who knows he lived rock star. Very grounded.
Alice Cooper one of the nicest guys out there. Looks are deceiving. Hollywood Vampires are fantastic.
He's actually still performing at his age. I saw him open for Motley crue a few year back and he was amazing. Fun story.Edit- had to change what I said after rewatching Slash raised on Sunset Strip. Alice used to dabble in wearing a top hat but after (when GnR was opening for him on his Come back tour, his first tour sober) seeing Slash wear his several times Alice said Slash could have the look.
Not his first top hat at least. Slash said in an interview he bought his first top hat in a resale shop in Hollywood. He said he found an old belt that he cut up to make the decor on the hat.
I read Slash's book. He thrifted his hat.
@@TheDopekitty that's funny as I saw a documentary where Alice told that story. Slash said he stole his first hat. Perhaps there was more than one over time?
@@TheDopekitty Ok. I had to go back and watch the Documentary again. I misunderstood what Alice said. He was basically saying he used to wear one but after Slash wore one a few times he gave up and said "you can have it". meaning the look. not the hat.
listened to Alice since the early '70s.... In the fall of 1990 i was in the military and got on a flight from Nagasaki to LAX - there was a huge commotion at the terminal, couldn't see what was going on, then Alice, his wife Sheryl and his kids came walking through the crowd and boarded the 747 going back to the States after touring - since i was in transit, I was in full uniform. About an hour and a half into the flight, Alice came down the stairwell and was just strolling around when he stopped and asked if he could buy me a drink..... Alice Cooper bought me a Jack and Coke and we sat and talked about the War and some other trivial things for about 2 hours, I remember after we parted, thinking - Wow, what a down to earth and incredibly nice guy, still have the plane ticket - and is the only STAR I've ever had any interaction with.... just remembered - this was when smoking was still allowed on airplanes....
When Jim Morrison of The Doors wrote lyrics saying "I woke up this morn'in an' got myself a beer" he was actually quoting Alice Cooper. Jim had seen an TV interview where Alice Cooper was the guest on an early morning 'Breakfast Show'. Alice was seriously drunk during that early morning interview and was asked about being so lit at that early hour. He answered: "I woke up this morn'in an' got myself a beer". Morrison made the line famous. After being continuously drunk for years, Alice ended up giving up alcohol completely and has been sober for decades. When touring he now plays golf instead of partying.
He is still touring. He is actually a good golfer! 💜
Alice Cooper was my first concert in 1973. He has enough hits to keep one busy for a few days.
Got to see him do a few charity shows years ago, such an amazing human being for sure. He's definitely someone you should read up on for sure. Also, check out Hey Stoopid, and Don't Give Up. His work with Johnny Depp and Joe Perry in Hollywood Vampires is good too
Alice is a smart guy… there’s lots of clever word play woven into the lyrics of his songs
Him and Glen Campbell were close friends.. golfed together.. Went to my Church in Arizona when i was in high school. Met him at a restaurant after church one day. Super nice Guy.
I used to work at a place called Steamers Seafood at he Biltmore Fashion Park and waited on Alice many times, as well as Glen, and Paul Harvey. It was the place to eat back in the 80's & 90's - I am from Prescott and have been back here since 1991 but loved living in Phoenix, I was in the Arcadia area.
The nicest rock star I’ve ever met. He made me feel like he had nothing else to do but talk to me.
I think it was 2015 when I saw him live, he had a female lead guitarist that absolutely shredded. Was going to look up who she was but then I forgot about it until now. Looking it up ... her name was Nita Strauss.
Hurricane Nita! 🎸. She came to Alice from the all female tribute band the Iron Maidens.
You can't go wrong with Alice Cooper. He's been Rocking since the early 70's. He's in his 70's now and still doing concerts. He's the OG of Theatrical themed, Dark / Macabre, Anti Social Rock and sits on the right hand side of the actual throne of the God of Thunder himself. I saw him in concert most recently in October 2021 when Ace Frehley (from KISS) opened for Alice in Charlotte. Awesome show - two thumbs up! Alice has influenced all the greats. This song, POISON, is from '89 --- that's 35 years ago! Gen Z and Millennials grew up listening to Junk compared to what blasted out on the airwaves of the 70's & 80's.
If you ever get a chance... go see him in concert. One of the best productions you'll ever see. His wife is also part of the show too and its amazing.
An Era when music actually had lyrics and stories, almost like poems in a way with love, life, experiences... Best Era in music by far.
This song is about his addictions before he got clean and sober in 1983. One of his biggest hits since Schools Out.
Actually met him at a restaurant he owned years ago. Was eating dinner with a friend and this person walks up behind us and asks "How is your dinner this evening?" Turned around to answer and it was Alice.
One of the few times I have been at a total loss for words.
Love Alice I like his older songs Schools Out, I'm Eighteen, Under My Wheels, Elected, No More Mister Nice Guy, Billion Dollar Babies,Ballad of Dwight Fry and my favorite Generation Landslide ❤❤❤❤ Back in the day when you went to a Cooper concert you saw a SHOW ❤❤❤❤
I lived i Scottsdale, AZ for many years very close to Alice Cooper's house. He's super intelligent and a philanthropist. He's very involved in his community and I've always been proud to say I'm a fan and a neighbor! He's amazing in his work. A true legend all around!
YES! More Alice please. One thing to keep in mind is that aome of his songs are meant to be listened to together, like Years Ago / Steven, and Chop Chop Chop / Gail. A few on the Brutal Planet album call back 30 years to some of his classics, and the entire Dragontown album has call backs to the previous Brutal Planet album.
Love Alice Cooper...I've seen him in concert 6 times. His" School's Out " was our class song in 1985. We was told we couldn't play it at our graduation but we did 😎
Love Alice Cooper a son of PHX AZ and a good beloved man here. Cooper town,and his Cooper van a symbol of PHX. A great humanity giver
Very true!! I've met him a few times. Legend here in Phx am I right!!
Born Feb. 4 , 1948 in Detroit .
One of my favorite songs from my teenager era... Still rocking 30+ years later...
Cooper was one of the early shock rock artists, which was always interesting because his show character really is just that, a character. He’s supposedly very nice, mild mannered and a very religious person in his private life.
"You and me"...that's one to hear! ❤
Absolutely ❤
That was my and husbands wedding song
Alice is the best. He’s got some crazy crazy stuff out there. This is actually tame. Son of a reverend. Reformed alcoholic/drug user and avid golfer. Also sponsors Alice coopers rock camp in Phoenix and Mesa for kids to be involved in music. Absolutely epic man
Alice Copper you saved my life do to my job and personal life i had to hear that song from the movie frozen [let it go ] several times a day for 2 years. To keep from losing my mind I started to pretend it was sung by Alice Cooper. Now I'd like to hear a cover by Alice Cooper. If your out there Alice Copper please cover that song from Frozen❤
Had the pleasure of seeing Alice Cooper in Paducah (my home), KY on Oct. 13th; a Friday 2023. Best rock concert I've ever been to! Super nice guy, he roamed our downtown meeting people and frequenting our local businesses. A local costume shop even got to use one of their costumes in his show!
Fun fact about Alice Cooper - he used to babysit Monkee Micky Dolenz' daughter back when they were neighbors. 🙂
Loved this song when it came out
Alice Cooper (birth name Vincent Damon Furnier) is a pastor's and missionary's son. In the 1980s he became a born-again Christian after a sermon in a church that he and his wife Sheryl (a pastor's daughter) attended.
In 2013 I was at a concert. He was brilliant.
YES!!!!!! On of the greatest tracks ever!!!!!! - and under sung albums ever!!! - and i'm 62! So Bed Of Nails next please.
This was a mid-'80s release and his return to mainstream rock. "Hey Stoopid" and "Feed My Frankenstein" were subsequent releases.
He was at one point an alcoholic who received a dire warning from his physician: quit drinking or quit living. He ditched the booze and took up golf...and, according to one story, his wife now sees less of him than when he drank because he spends so much time on the golf course.
I love the song Ballad of Dwight Frye. It gets very little attention unless Alice is on stage. The stage show is amazing and if you can’t catch it live there are full concert videos on UA-cam on his channel. The female guitarist who tours with them occasionally, Nita Strauss, is phenomenal! She is one of the best I have EVER seen!
One of his best albums, is practically unknown. Flush The Fashion is amazing.
'Pain' is a must.
I was blessed to see Alice Cooper in my younger years! It was the Welcome To My Nightmare Tour in Jackson, Mississippi. He came out dressed as a Black Widow Spider and climbed up a cargo net at the back of the stage! It was a GREAT concert!
Yay! Alice Cooper, one of the most talented, genuine and Intelligent musicians ever! Love me some Alice Cooper ❤🎉
Check out next:
Bed of Nails
Feed my Frankenstein
This was 1990 and he was already old doing a comeback because my Boomer Hippie mom already knew all about him when I found him.
Alice is one of the good guys of rock and roll. He's been a friend and mentor to lots of talented musicians who later became successful, his business dealings are honorable, and he supports a variety of worthwhile charities. Interesting to me: his best friend was legendary country performer Glen Campbell - the 'Rhinestone Cowboy.'
what a banger of a song. I've heard it live a couple of times already and I'm never getting tired of it.
BOB DYLAN........has said; " Alice Cooper is 1 of, the Most Underated SongWriters in Music History.".
Love Alice. Epic showman and performer. Going to see Alice live tonight in Manchester, UK. I cannot wait. So looking forward to an amazing show
He is one of the best ever.. Cooper, Bowie, Prince legendary
i got to see Alice Cooper in concert it was awesome and a dream come true! Alice, Black Sabbath and Kiss are the reason I got into Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Music!
You got to try these songs of Alice Cooper through out his career......
- The Ballad of the Dwight Fry
- Department of Youth
- Elected
- Black Juju
- Desperado
- No More Mr. Nice Guy
- Only Women Bleed
- Welcome to My Nightmare
- I Never Cry
- Identity Crisis (from the movie Monster Dog 1986 that Alice starred in)
- (No More) Love at Your Convenience
- How You Gonna See Me Now
- He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask) (from Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives)
- Billion Dollar Babies
- Teenage Frankenstein
- Freedom
- House of Fire
- Bed of Nails
- Clones (We're All)
- I Got a Line on You (from film Iron Eagle 2 1988)
- Only My Heart Talkin'
- Lost in America
- Love's a Loaded Gun
- Hey Stoopid
- Beginning of the End - Kane Roberts w/Alice Cooper & Alissa White-Gluz (2019) (a really different song and very heavy sound)
- I'll Bite Your Face Off
These are just some of the great songs of his that you need to hear.......
Ps most of these songs have an official video for them
Oh snap! Love me some Alice Cooper. saw him live 70's of course. I turned my son on to his music. He loves it. He bought music tape's of his songs when my son was 12, 1999. My son was self taught on playing guitar. He had 3 and learned himself on playing Coopers song " Only Women Bleed " Alice has some good ones.
My favorite Alice Cooper song.
His concerts feel like a rock opera. A lot of fun! Still touring. Check out School’s Out, No more Mr Nice Guy
This came out in Australia in 1989, when I transferred to our local police station and it reminds me of the happiest time of my life. Great song! I have Welcome to my Nightmare from when I was 14. Love Cold Ethyl!!
Alice Cooper is my local rock radio stations night host, but it's usually reruns because he's on tour all the time
Alice created music that was the equivelent a horror movie.
The band started in the mid to late sixties.
Alice Cooper (Band)
- I'm Eighteen
- Under My Wheels
- Elected
- Billion Dollar Babies
In the mid seventies the band broke up.
Alice Cooper was now a solo artist.
Cue Welcome To My Nightmare, huge, brilliant album.
The seventies solo years
- Department Of Youth
- Steven
- Go To Hell
- I Never Cry
- You And Me
The late seventies early eighties Alice was in bad shape via alcohol and drugs... still made some great music
- Clones
- You Want it, You Got It....
Poison was mid to late eighties and Alice was in recovery.
Legend.
The song released on July 17, 1989. geeees, I'm old!
I still remember the parties as we were little children, dancing to this song.
Nostalgic!
A little over a week after my 15th birthday!
Alice Cooper is actually a Christian, so don't expect pentagrams or the like. He's pretty outspoken about it. My favorite quote from him is "Why let the devil have all the good music?" The song is from his Trash album and I know the single came out when I was 19, so 1989. I remember the manager at the restaurant I worked at would put this cassette on during closing. Try Hell is Living Without You or It's Only My Heart Talkin', both off the Trash album. No venomous women, but a lot of longing after what seems to be good ones. There is some really excellent guitar playing in the first one and some clever lyric chasing in the chorus where one line falls into the next. That's the only album I bought of his, so all I can recommend off of.
This song was released 35 years ago. I met the man twice in the late 80's and he looked old AF. But I was like 21 and my perception at the time might have been altered by my young age. I know he's still touring, he might be nearer to 80 than 70 now...
Alice has been putting out music since the late 60's. Alice Cooper was a band at first from 1969-1974 but Alice went solo in 1975 and has never stopped releasing music. He's definitely an Icon
July 1989 Released… Alice Cooper, what a performer!
Dan Rather did an interview with him and Dan said Alice wasn't what he expected. That made Alice chuckle. He's so down to earth with a good sense of humor. He said he didn't want a boring stage show so he came up with his whole shock rock persona. He's cool as hell in real life.
Alice Cooper The Best 🤘🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥 AMAZING
Great song!!! Love Alice - incredibly creative, talented and fun.
Alice is still releasing albums and still Play in live till this day
And has one incredible live show
His new tour is amazing ❤
I saw his "Welcome to my Nightmare" tour back in the day - what a fabulous stage set. More recently, he started a supergroup with Johnny Depp and Joe Perry to honor musicians who died from drugs and/or alcohol. Their self-titled "Hollywood Vampires" album is fire.
This song came out in 1989. He has AMAZING concerts!!!
Produced by Desmond Child. Written by him, Aluce Cooper and John McCurry.
Alice Cooper had addictions to alcohol 🍷. He kicked it. 1 way he did was learning to play golf ⛳. He, late Glenn Frey and Huey Lewis play it.
Suggested videos 📹: 1 Alice Cooper sings School's Out 2 Alice Cooper sings Hey Stoopid
Alice Cooper is great. He is such a nice guy, super talented and very entertaining.
With the school year coming to an end, you need to do Alice Cooper's signature song, and biggest hit: "School's Out"
About 30 years ago, I was in a Scottsdale, AZ antique shop when Alice Cooper stopped by to see his mom, the shop owner, before a concert tour departure.
I just found your videos. Awesome time. Thanks. As for this one, I took my son to his concert. At first he wasn't sure. When we left he was speechless. Alice has a different band now, the sounds still resenate. One of my favorite concerts...
I believe that his wife is the poison. She's been married to him for years
This song was out when I was in high school. 90 or 91. Alice has been around since 69 I believe. He is in his 70s now, and I saw him in concert twice last year. He still puts on a spectacle and rocks! His latest album is awesome!
I saw Alice Cooper at Rock Jam in 2010. His style in concert is still over the top and fantastic 😂 So cool that he is still touring
Check out his song "The Ballad of Dwight Fry" from the "Love It To Death" album.
In 1989 this was Alice Cooper's successful attempt at a commercial radio hit song. And indeed it was, _Poison_ was his first Top 10 single since 1977.
I absolutely love that he is a fellow brother in christ! But yes his music is awesome!!
He's been playing the part of Alice for many years, but in real life he's a really nice religious guy that's been married to his wife forever and likes playing Gulf!
It released in 1989. Great song. This was my introduction to Alice Cooper.
I remember listening to this song on the radio and jukebox at the local Putt-Putt game room while playing Elvira's excellent pinball game.
best Alice Cooper song...I Never Cry
He has been wearing his make up.like this for decades. Love it 😊❤🤘🤘
Alice Copper lived an interesting life, his father was an evangelist, his wife a professional dance of some sort, battle alcoholism in the 70's and has been a born-again Christian for a while now.
Grew up with Alice Cooper and parents were so paranoid about his persona & how we would all be led astray. He was fun and different and I still enjoy his music. Love your reactions, thanks for sharing.
Saw Alice the day after I graduated high school. June of 78. His wife was a dancer. Blondie was the opener. Philadelphia Spectrum.
One of Alice’s best friends was the great Glen Campbell. Golfed together all the time.
SCHOOLS OUT, NO MORE MISTER NICE GUY, I'M EIGHTEEN😊 HUGE ROCK HITS IN THE EARLY 70'S ROBERT!!! 👍HIS EXPLODING ALBUM WAS ( BILLION DOLLAR BABIES ) ONLY WOMEN BLLED WAS ANOTHER LATE 70'S HIT, PLAY SOME OF THESE CLASSICS FOR SURE!💯
You should find and watch his testimony. Very inspiring.
I’ve seen him live a few times! He is an amazing entertainer! Enjoy! 🤘🏻🇨🇦🤘🏻
I met Alice when I lived in Scottsdale in the late 90's. We were both at the walgreens pharmacy. Guy was way cool. He took a few minutes to chat with me. I'm a musician and we both knew some of the same people in the local music scene.
Got to check out Alice Cooper
I'm Eighteen
Inventor of shock rock and one of the nicest and most respected artists in rock.