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 ❤🤘🏿🤘🏿
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 >.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!♥
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.
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.
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...
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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 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.
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?
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 ❤🤘🏿🤘🏿
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.
"I have more energy than ever". That'll be the coke then ...
no.. I heard it was Pepsi.
He was freebasing. Ahead of his time in this way, crack cocaine didnt really become a big thing till late 80s early 90s.
Him and Richard Pryor.
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!
He's not on coke in this interview but he was in the Tom Snyder interview.
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...
so glad he came off drugs-still breaks my heart seeing him like this,he looked worse than his alcoholic days x
I still think he looked far worse in 1979.
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
@@rockinrodent8137 no, in 1982 he was still using.
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.
this alice is great
"Designing the new Alice"- A crack cocaine induced new wave Alice
J Kenny you seem to know ....
***** It's in the Documentary "Super Duper Alice Cooper".... Bernie Taupin turned him onto Freebasing after he quit drinking.
And now he is addicted to diet coke. =)
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.
Planktontwo it’s because he was on Cocaine
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!
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.
Seeing him like this broke my heart.
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.
Alice dancing in his red undies at the end is the scariest Alice
lol
Haha
"I have more energy than I've ever had in my life and I don't know why." - we know why🤣
Happy that he recovered!
"I have more energy". The "new" Alice is on one helluva drug.
Glad we got the "old" Alice back.
I wouldn't want to hang out with that Alice either glad to see he's looking much better these days
30+ years sober nowadays! LEGEND
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 >.
He was smoking Shit loads of Crack at this time
Booze?
My school teacher had that kind of hairdo.
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.
This is my favorite Alice
It is hard to watch this. He was so sick. What brings us through lifts us up.
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!
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.
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.
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).
Brewzerr he did Pain when I saw him with Ace Frehley. And he did Clones a few tours before that.
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.
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.
So glad he got over the drinking. This era of interviews are hard to watch...
Alex C. It was coke at this point in time, mainly
Where do people get their stories??
I like this phase of Alice Cooper
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!
he looks like amy wienhouse and lady gaga put together in this fooyage.
I think this alice looks more shock looking than the "normal" one
Alice copper was 52 years old when he was born.
Special Forces is his best overall album.
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.
2:02 - everybody should have an Alice - LOL
AC looks jaundiced here.
Nice...
"I have more energy than I ever had in my life, I don't know why?" That would be ... crack? LOL!
Ouch. The words spoken and the imagery.
@thebruno44 Well, in fact, he had just turned 34 when this interview was shot ! And yes, he sure looked older than he was then !
Hes really scary here
ADRIAANNNNNNNNN.....im gonna fight apollo.....that was classic alice
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!
This is from the Crack Days, man Coop looks bad.
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!♥
It was strictly crack and coke for Alice from 80/83
He's really hot there
He looks so much older than he is here. He must be 35 that year.
34 years old born 1948.
ahahahaha...i just got that... dead on!
The Japanese housewife phase! He was still on the booze in 1982,
Actually, he was on Cocaine
@@ChrisB-uv2xe Much kinder on the liver.
@@rm009z0858 yes, but less kind to the heart
@@AdamLB Oh yes.
eat a goddamn sandwich alice cooper! XoXo
tensac who's talking??
he was rather nuts then!!!
The sad part is he was killing himself during this. He was probably ripped while talking to this guy.
bloody hell THAT Alice looks sick....and i don't mean the good sick
He was very sick at that time!
And he lived?
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.
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.
He had a mild eating disorder. Heartbreaking.
Who was that???
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.
long time ago...prob wasn't ok.
Alice reminds me czech actor Vladimir Hrubý.
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...
WHAT HAVE I GOT. THAT MAKES U WANT TO LOVE ME..
Now I'm convinced that Lady Gaga is the female Alice Cooper.
Al Paccino and David Bowie had a baby.
Bertrand Russell 0:01
Definitely coked out here, and he has copped up to it now.
***** rather "drunk" after being doped
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.
That would be because he cut alcohol cold turkey and was just beginning to regain his health.
"I have a little girl now..."
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.
looks a bit thin, not?
"I dont believe in tipping"
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.
He looked so frail...
😅
More energy then he ever had? All right were are the coke jokes ?
That doesn't look like the alice I know
0:58 I know why... 😉
looks like a corps brought back for an interview,,,,,,lol, glad he quit drinking.
...I know why.
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 .
Is he okay? Alice Cooper? Thats too skinny....
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
living dead
he also looks very anorexic in this footage.
In this case, Anorexia = freebasing cocaine on a daily basis for years.
Alice "The Clown" Cooper😂😂
There is a Tom Snyder interview where he looks worse. He has the same clothes & hair.
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.
Ya a Cocaine Alice Cooper
Somehow, sadly, Alice looks like he could use a shower.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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?
BayviewFinch He was free basing cocaine.
Um.......
Alice Cooper is a Gremlin.