Alice Cooper - "Riverside", UK 1982

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  • @Ravenoflight2275
    @Ravenoflight2275 Рік тому +10

    Alice Cooper inspired me to go sober after years of heavy drinking. Knowing that he beat his drinking addiction definitely helped me to to get sober 6 years ago. Thank you Alice Cooper ❤🤘🏿🤘🏿

  • @WastedYears76
    @WastedYears76 9 років тому +94

    "I have more energy than ever". That'll be the coke then ...

    • @Sweden2023
      @Sweden2023 6 років тому +6

      no.. I heard it was Pepsi.

    • @Mad_Axe_Man125
      @Mad_Axe_Man125 6 років тому +12

      He was freebasing. Ahead of his time in this way, crack cocaine didnt really become a big thing till late 80s early 90s.

    • @Brewzerr
      @Brewzerr 6 років тому +5

      Him and Richard Pryor.

    • @creepyskulldini581
      @creepyskulldini581 6 років тому +10

      I always here about how he was out of his mind because of drugs and alcohol during THIS period and how he doesn't even remember it, HE even says so himself, .. . yet he actually sounds pretty LUCID here!

    • @LuneyTune72
      @LuneyTune72 6 років тому +5

      He's not on coke in this interview but he was in the Tom Snyder interview.

  • @striker2479
    @striker2479 12 років тому +24

    1:00..."I have more energy now than at any time of my life. I don't know why."
    I could come up with a pretty reasonable explanation actually...

  • @mazlaar73
    @mazlaar73 10 років тому +46

    so glad he came off drugs-still breaks my heart seeing him like this,he looked worse than his alcoholic days x

    • @gasmaskboi19371945
      @gasmaskboi19371945 5 років тому +4

      I still think he looked far worse in 1979.

    • @rockinrodent8137
      @rockinrodent8137 4 роки тому

      At this point. He was off of the stuff, ever since his girl was born. He then decided to get well coming back to the States ,, way too tempting

    • @TheIndependentLens
      @TheIndependentLens 3 роки тому +5

      @@rockinrodent8137 no, in 1982 he was still using.

  • @normy999
    @normy999 14 років тому +16

    Thank goodness he managed to get well after his heavy drinking period.
    I have seen him perform live during the past 15 years & he is a treat to watch, truly a legend.

  • @jkenny7374
    @jkenny7374 10 років тому +37

    "Designing the new Alice"- A crack cocaine induced new wave Alice

    • @PgTrAxX
      @PgTrAxX 9 років тому

      J Kenny you seem to know ....

    • @jkenny7374
      @jkenny7374 9 років тому +6

      ***** It's in the Documentary "Super Duper Alice Cooper".... Bernie Taupin turned him onto Freebasing after he quit drinking.

    • @sudicalwig
      @sudicalwig 8 років тому +4

      And now he is addicted to diet coke. =)

  • @Aquabreeze
    @Aquabreeze 11 років тому +13

    As Alice once admitted to The Independent regarding the early 80's - "Crack was everywhere in LA. All my friends did it... In the end, I thought: stop. This is crazy." Alice was sober of everything "by September 28 1983, I'd beaten my demons" - this TV footage is from January, 1982.

  • @rockinrodent8137
    @rockinrodent8137 4 роки тому +8

    One of the best tours from Alice. It was different and ticket sales proved that. Even the stadium shows were sold out. Special Forces rocked, great timing on Alice's part.

  • @Brewzerr
    @Brewzerr 6 років тому +46

    Saw him around this time, on the ‘Special Forces’ tour. He looked like a corpse with make-up on, but still put on a great show. He claims to not remember much from this whole ‘80-‘83 period, but I think it’s more just an excuse to not talk about it when interviewed. I think he’s still a bit ashamed of this period in his career. Personally I find this era of Alice quite interesting. He was a total mess, trying to figure out which direction to go in after punk and post-punk had changed the landscape. I like those 3 albums he did during this period (Special Forces, Zipper Catches Skin, DaDa) much better than the ‘Muppet’ era that preceded it (‘76-‘79). They’re still almost impossible to define. Not quite new wave or post-punk, not metal, not glam, and barely even ‘rock’. T’was a very strange time for Alice, and the music reflects the coke-addled psychosis quite well. I’d love to see him revisit some of these songs in his live sets.

    • @Brewzerr
      @Brewzerr 6 років тому +13

      The self-loathing is very evident here. He had just had a baby, and he was completely strung out on freebase cocaine. No wonder he hates discussing this point of his career. This kind of reminds me of that infamous 1974 Dick Cavett interview with Bowie where he’s in a similar state.

    • @dummytree
      @dummytree 6 років тому +6

      Funnily enough, Bowie claimed he couldn't remember much from his coke years either. He and Alice probably remembered more than they claimed. Fascinating era for Alice musically if terrible personally. My mother saw him on the Special Forces tour too (I believe this is the first time he toured my country anyway).

    • @dalewatts1475
      @dalewatts1475 5 років тому +4

      Brewzerr he did Pain when I saw him with Ace Frehley. And he did Clones a few tours before that.

    • @ianwhite6034
      @ianwhite6034 5 років тому +2

      I also liked especially Zipper Catches Skin and Dada. I thought it was an interesting creative shift. I was very disappointed when "the old Alice" reappeared with Constrictor, Raise Your Fist And Yell and Trash. Can't stand that stuff and pretty much lost interest from that point. I'll always be a fan though.

    • @TranzparentMethods
      @TranzparentMethods 5 років тому +3

      Alice's "Blackout" albums are my favorite of his. Mainly because they're so weird. "Zipper Catches Skin", "Special Forces" and "DaDa" are among my favorite albums of all time. Those albums, I'll never delete from my sd card on my phone.

  • @andrewgram3039
    @andrewgram3039 6 років тому +14

    He's there when you think he's not
    He'll escape before he's caught
    He don't care. He don't care.
    He's the King the show
    Where now we don't know
    He like's his Coke with a fizz
    He drank it while writing 7 and 7 is
    Une pippi une pippi yeah.

  • @Planktontwo
    @Planktontwo 12 років тому +14

    So glad he got his act cleaned up and is the Alice that he is today. He looks absolutely sick here. And I enjoyed a lot of Alice's stuff. First concert I ever went to.

    • @metalfansavarani
      @metalfansavarani 7 років тому

      Planktontwo it’s because he was on Cocaine

    • @jogordon1530
      @jogordon1530 6 років тому

      Planktontwo Me too! I saw him at his Special Forces your and I was hooked on Alice! My brother saw his Nightmare tour. Yeah Alice was reved up on crack, Coke and every little pill he could guzzle down!

  • @fantoto
    @fantoto 14 років тому +9

    this alice is great

  • @gayskunk
    @gayskunk 14 років тому +7

    i know Alice is ashamed of those years, and i can understand why. I'm still a big fan of his music of ANY era, and i like seeing videos and live footage of this stuff. I wish there was more of it. I feel like people are trying to sweep it under the rug, like "oh he was messed up then, lets forget about that'. But i LIKED that stuff! I wish it was more available and not kept as this deep dark secret. Just because Alice was using booze, it didn't make his music bad >.

  • @dollydagger4306
    @dollydagger4306 4 роки тому +4

    Seeing him like this broke my heart.

  • @mutijerkoff633
    @mutijerkoff633 9 років тому +7

    I wouldn't want to hang out with that Alice either glad to see he's looking much better these days

  • @TheMaxKids
    @TheMaxKids Рік тому +4

    "I have more energy than I've ever had in my life and I don't know why." - we know why🤣

  • @andrear1751
    @andrear1751 4 роки тому +7

    "I have more energy". The "new" Alice is on one helluva drug.
    Glad we got the "old" Alice back.

  • @dalewatts1475
    @dalewatts1475 5 років тому +17

    Alice dancing in his red undies at the end is the scariest Alice

  • @markusbans1680
    @markusbans1680 5 років тому +5

    Happy that he recovered!

  • @PAULLONDEN
    @PAULLONDEN 11 років тому +12

    My school teacher had that kind of hairdo.

  • @shawndaheisser3585
    @shawndaheisser3585 6 років тому +2

    It is hard to watch this. He was so sick. What brings us through lifts us up.

  • @jaquen1977
    @jaquen1977 12 років тому +2

    He looks so much older than he was here, and younger than he is now, creating an odd effect where clips from him in 1982 don't look that much younger than clips of him today.

  • @noahhecker6672
    @noahhecker6672 3 роки тому

    This is my favorite Alice

  • @marksolarz3756
    @marksolarz3756 4 роки тому

    Few can compare! Saw him during Constrictor tour. The World needs Guts! was fantastic.....got even bigger again....with trashed! (Poison)Huge comeback! Been touring when he wants!

  • @creepyskulldini581
    @creepyskulldini581 6 років тому +4

    I always here about how he was out of his mind because of drugs and alcohol during THIS period and how he doesn't even remember it, HE even says so himself, .. . yet he actually sounds pretty LUCID here!

  • @raymondfiammetta72
    @raymondfiammetta72 11 років тому +11

    he looks like amy wienhouse and lady gaga put together in this fooyage.

  • @nasskhan4543
    @nasskhan4543 3 роки тому

    I like this phase of Alice Cooper

  • @jhonen32629
    @jhonen32629 13 років тому +6

    So glad he got over the drinking. This era of interviews are hard to watch...

  • @SlimyboyDave
    @SlimyboyDave 5 років тому +4

    30+ years sober nowadays! LEGEND

  • @JahJahBruh
    @JahJahBruh 8 років тому +3

    Ouch. The words spoken and the imagery.

  • @FieldKat
    @FieldKat 13 років тому +7

    "I have more energy than I ever had in my life, I don't know why?" That would be ... crack? LOL!

  • @chapelierfoudre
    @chapelierfoudre 14 років тому +1

    @thebruno44 Well, in fact, he had just turned 34 when this interview was shot ! And yes, he sure looked older than he was then !

  • @Thombene77
    @Thombene77 8 років тому +6

    AC looks jaundiced here.

  • @Mad_Axe_Man125
    @Mad_Axe_Man125 5 років тому +8

    Hes really scary here

  • @Tecknut75
    @Tecknut75 5 років тому +12

    This is from the Crack Days, man Coop looks bad.

  • @MrBuzwuzcuz
    @MrBuzwuzcuz 12 років тому +1

    Nice...

  • @arwestromen
    @arwestromen 14 років тому +5

    I think this alice looks more shock looking than the "normal" one

  • @acute7
    @acute7 11 років тому +5

    2:02 - everybody should have an Alice - LOL

  • @alanlloyd9986
    @alanlloyd9986 2 роки тому +1

    Special Forces is his best overall album.

    • @Shikta-poobah67
      @Shikta-poobah67 Рік тому +1

      Of his solo career, you mean? It’s nowhere close to being as good as anything the original Alice Cooper band did from Love It To Death through Muscle Of Love. No way.

    • @JohnMoss-l3m
      @JohnMoss-l3m Місяць тому

      @@Shikta-poobah67 KILLER

    • @JohnMoss-l3m
      @JohnMoss-l3m Місяць тому

      For me it's either Billion Dollar Babies or Killer. School's Out has some bangers, too. Special Forces is his best solo effort.

    • @Shikta-poobah67
      @Shikta-poobah67 Місяць тому

      @@JohnMoss-l3m Yes, Killer would be included in that timeframe.

  • @karla14ish
    @karla14ish 12 років тому +3

    Poor thing. All that drinking finally caught up to him. I'm glad he finally got some help and cleaned himself up. I'm pretty sure if he kept going on the path he was going -drinking daily- he probably wouldn't be alive today and wouldn't be blessing us with his amazing music!♥

    • @markrago5024
      @markrago5024 6 років тому +4

      It was strictly crack and coke for Alice from 80/83

  • @darksorcerermusic
    @darksorcerermusic 13 років тому +4

    ADRIAANNNNNNNNN.....im gonna fight apollo.....that was classic alice

  • @messyfilms6325
    @messyfilms6325 3 роки тому +1

    Alice copper was 52 years old when he was born.

  • @lucyfaire1980
    @lucyfaire1980 10 років тому +16

    He recently admitted that he had actually stopped drinking(much) and having gotten heavily into cocaine during 80-83. That is why he is so skinny.

    • @Brewzerr
      @Brewzerr 6 років тому +5

      It was pretty obvious at the time that he was coked out of his mind. I was only 13 when I saw him on the Special Forces tour, and me and all my friends who went could just tell right away.

    • @dollydagger4306
      @dollydagger4306 4 роки тому +2

      He had a mild eating disorder. Heartbreaking.

  • @ganj0r
    @ganj0r 10 років тому +9

    eat a goddamn sandwich alice cooper! XoXo

    • @PgTrAxX
      @PgTrAxX 9 років тому

      tensac who's talking??

  • @danmerwood5999
    @danmerwood5999 7 років тому +2

    bloody hell THAT Alice looks sick....and i don't mean the good sick

  • @CrueLoaf
    @CrueLoaf 14 років тому +1

    he was rather nuts then!!!

  • @jimszikk775
    @jimszikk775 5 років тому +3

    He looks so much older than he is here. He must be 35 that year.

  • @algu4474
    @algu4474 8 років тому +4

    He's really hot there

  • @TheAmandapanda91
    @TheAmandapanda91 13 років тому +5

    The sad part is he was killing himself during this. He was probably ripped while talking to this guy.

  • @rm009z0858
    @rm009z0858 14 років тому +4

    The Japanese housewife phase! He was still on the booze in 1982,

    • @ChrisB-uv2xe
      @ChrisB-uv2xe 4 роки тому +4

      Actually, he was on Cocaine

    • @rm009z0858
      @rm009z0858 4 роки тому +2

      @@ChrisB-uv2xe Much kinder on the liver.

    • @AdamLB
      @AdamLB 3 роки тому +1

      @@rm009z0858 yes, but less kind to the heart

    • @rm009z0858
      @rm009z0858 3 роки тому

      @@AdamLB Oh yes.

  • @leonakita
    @leonakita 12 років тому

    ahahahaha...i just got that... dead on!

  • @johnnyjohnson185
    @johnnyjohnson185 5 років тому

    Sherlock Holmes said: "I suppose that its influence is physically a bad one. I find
    it, however, so transcendently stimulating and clarifying to the
    mind that its secondary action is a matter of small moment."
    Alice's secondary action is anything BUT a small moment. Judging from this interview, he's having an ass-fucked moment.
    Cocaine: It's a hell of a drug.

  • @iluvchubbles
    @iluvchubbles 13 років тому +1

    Where did you get this? I've looked everywhere for the full video at the end! I can't find it anywhere, like it dosen't exist!

  • @jlalis
    @jlalis 14 років тому

    Alice reminds me czech actor Vladimir Hrubý.

  • @kaori_kanzaki
    @kaori_kanzaki 2 роки тому

    Now I'm convinced that Lady Gaga is the female Alice Cooper.

  • @craigcather1262
    @craigcather1262 3 роки тому

    WHAT HAVE I GOT. THAT MAKES U WANT TO LOVE ME..

  • @SitriusGaming
    @SitriusGaming 14 років тому +1

    Less thanking Golf, More thanking Calico.. If Calico hadn't entered the picture, alice would probably be dead right now.. So she saved his life by being born, and She gets to lend a hand in Killing him every show... Kind of a nice trade off...

  • @gypsyanderson1541
    @gypsyanderson1541 11 років тому +1

    long time ago...prob wasn't ok.

  • @rockinyouallnight
    @rockinyouallnight Рік тому

    And he lived?

  • @sinbysin666
    @sinbysin666 13 років тому +1

    Al Paccino and David Bowie had a baby.

  • @Mlotshaw1
    @Mlotshaw1 2 роки тому +1

    More energy then he ever had? All right were are the coke jokes ?

  • @MegadethBetterThanMetallicope
    @MegadethBetterThanMetallicope 6 років тому

    Bertrand Russell 0:01

  • @SitriusGaming
    @SitriusGaming 11 років тому

    That would be because he cut alcohol cold turkey and was just beginning to regain his health.
    "I have a little girl now..."

    • @Brewzerr
      @Brewzerr 6 років тому +2

      Yeah, he put down the alcohol and picked up the crack pipe. He didn’t exactly regain his health until a couple of years after this interview.

  • @uriah768ok
    @uriah768ok 10 років тому

    Definitely coked out here, and he has copped up to it now.

    • @PgTrAxX
      @PgTrAxX 9 років тому

      ***** rather "drunk" after being doped

    • @Shikta-poobah67
      @Shikta-poobah67 Рік тому

      Now if he would just ‘fess up to his memories of this era. I don’t buy the whole “I can’t remember any of it” crap. Shame - it’s a hell of a drug.

  • @virginiaviola5097
    @virginiaviola5097 3 роки тому

    Who was that???

  • @andrewbowen8122
    @andrewbowen8122 3 роки тому

    Just imagine being addicted to crack (it’s more of a want with crack) and having the funds to use it 24/7? To point out the obvious you just don’t want to eat on Crack and it’s actually physically difficult to eat on the stuff, just the act of chewing food and swallowing it is difficult,hence why he looks like a POW. I’m surprised just how decent the music is though.

  • @Dragslo
    @Dragslo 15 років тому +1

    He looked so frail...

  • @OPTIMISPOOH
    @OPTIMISPOOH 13 років тому +4

    The fact that he lived through THIS period is a testament to how much Christ can
    bring to somebody's life. He is much more successful again NOW than he was here and he no longer looks like a walking corpse (unless he TRIES to) Here, he looks like a skull with skin stretched over it and it isn't intentional .

  • @radiomindchatter7994
    @radiomindchatter7994 Місяць тому

    Actual scary looking Alice..

  • @demonweber666
    @demonweber666 3 роки тому

    "I dont believe in tipping"

  • @S0lidState
    @S0lidState 14 років тому +1

    looks like a corps brought back for an interview,,,,,,lol, glad he quit drinking.

  • @raymondfiammetta72
    @raymondfiammetta72 11 років тому +5

    he also looks very anorexic in this footage.

    • @Brewzerr
      @Brewzerr 6 років тому +2

      In this case, Anorexia = freebasing cocaine on a daily basis for years.

  • @blasabb
    @blasabb 14 років тому +1

    Man, he does not look well here.....
    I don´t really like to see this period in his life. Some good songs but mostly strange stuff

  • @richiebonjovi1
    @richiebonjovi1 12 років тому +1

    living dead

  • @BruhMoment-ye9pk
    @BruhMoment-ye9pk 12 років тому +1

    Is he okay? Alice Cooper? Thats too skinny....

  • @philipsanders9192
    @philipsanders9192 Рік тому

    ...I know why.

  • @kimberlysweat6890
    @kimberlysweat6890 3 роки тому

    That doesn't look like the alice I know

  • @JohnWildeFF
    @JohnWildeFF Рік тому

    0:58 I know why... 😉

  • @XidiotX
    @XidiotX 9 років тому +1

    looks a bit thin, not?

  • @aaronsilver1975
    @aaronsilver1975 3 роки тому

    There is a Tom Snyder interview where he looks worse. He has the same clothes & hair.

    • @Shikta-poobah67
      @Shikta-poobah67 Рік тому

      And then there’s that weird thing he did for French television, where he appears to be interviewing himself. I think that’s where he looked his absolute worst.

  • @vinylmonstretify
    @vinylmonstretify Рік тому

    Alice "The Clown" Cooper😂😂

  • @frankiefelinesalwayswelcom5825
    @frankiefelinesalwayswelcom5825 4 роки тому

    Alice looks so bad here from the drugs, it’s no wonder why he calls this time frame the black out years, and doesn’t remember anything. Maybe it was for the best that he doesn’t remember this time.

    • @Shikta-poobah67
      @Shikta-poobah67 Рік тому +2

      Oh I think he actually remembers a hell of a lot more from this period than he cares to admit. The ‘blackout’ thing seems a bit too convenient. I’m sure they’re hellish, horrible, shameful memories, but at some point you have to face the past and acknowledge it for what it was.

    • @frankiefelinesalwayswelcom5825
      @frankiefelinesalwayswelcom5825 Рік тому +1

      @@Shikta-poobah67 I believe your comment is very true. A lot of what he says is just to be noticed and to stay in the limelight.

    • @Shikta-poobah67
      @Shikta-poobah67 Рік тому +1

      @@frankiefelinesalwayswelcom5825 I’m mainly coming from the viewpoint of someone who’s been there myself. Not as a rock star, but as a recovering addict. When I was deep in the throes of my worst period of addiction I was basically a completely different person. The drugs and booze were in complete control of me, and not the other way around. I said and did a *LOT* of messed up things that I ended up regretting, but in order to stay clean and move on with my life I had to face up to all that shit, admit to myself and to everyone else who was affected by my actions that I was accountable, and do my best to make amends (where I could). I had burned *ALL* of my bridges and hurt a lot of people I deeply cared about, but there was no way in hell I was going to be able to maintain my sobriety without being 100% honest with myself and others about my past.
      I’m not saying that’s what Alice is doing. I have no idea what goes on in his private life. All I know is he’s doing himself and his fans a bit of a disservice by conveniently claiming that there’s 3 entire years of his life that he can’t remember at all. I just don’t buy it. Blurry memories, perhaps. A few “lost weekends” along the way, maybe… but “nothing at all”, for 3 straight years? Come on.

  • @metalfansavarani
    @metalfansavarani 7 років тому

    Ya a Cocaine Alice Cooper

  • @pr5647
    @pr5647 3 роки тому

    Somehow, sadly, Alice looks like he could use a shower.

  • @BayviewFinch
    @BayviewFinch 11 років тому +2

    What do you mean not looking healthy? I was thinking the opposite. He looks fit here. LOL. Was he really not healthy at this time? Or have views changed towards bodies so much that if you're not fat you're not considered healthy?

  • @violet.senderhauf2187
    @violet.senderhauf2187 Рік тому

    Alice Cooper is a Gremlin.