ALICE COOPER - Halo of Flies | REACTION (Viewer Request)
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
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TODAY'S VIDEO: Into the Music Reaction/Review - “Halo of Flies” - by ALICE COOPER (Viewer Request)
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Up until about 1975, Alice Cooper was an incredible band. Clever lyrics and excellent musicianship….once Alice went solo, it was never the same. He was good, but the magic was gone… Alice was my first concert, The Billion Dollar Babies tour, it changed my life!
My first too July 6th, 1975, in NJ, I was 17, Welcome To My Nightmare tour, also on the bill was Johnny Winter, James Gang and Leslie West, a little blurry since I'm sure I took all the drugs, ALL of them and I have a good memory of a giant cyclops on stage.
@@hardboiledharry4061 l went to that tour in Des Moines Iowa july 4th. What a production with the opening with the outstanding band members walking out of the film that was on the the big screen.
The opening band was James Gang with the local boy Tommy Bolin. They were assome also. Sadly, I saw Tommy in Dallas Dec 77 all fucked up on Heroin the week before he overdosed. All the fans were booing and he would just bob his head.
Totally agree. I saw him on the Killer tour. He pretty much betrayed the band and went "Hollywood."
RIP Glenn Buxton. the true great guitarist. I got to meet him a couple of times. One cool cat.
After getting coffee,I would listen to Halo of Flies on the way to college every morning for the 1st year.Woke me right uP!.🤟🏻🖤🤙🏻X
Thanks!
Nice reaction! Glad you provided some background info. For me at least, when it comes to Alice Cooper the only albums that really matter were recorded from 1971 to 1973-4 - "Love It To Death" (With "I'm Eighteen), "Killer" (with the song you reacted to and "Under My Wheels"), "School's Out" with the gigantic hit title track, "Billion Dollar Babies" with "No More Mr. Nice Guy" and others, and "Muscle Of Love" (the title track on that album is awesome). NOTE: For those 5 albums, "Alice Cooper" refers to both the singer's name and the name of the band. When the band broke up in 1974 Alice kept the name. GUYS - If you haven't listened to those five albums in full, CHECK THEM OUT. SERIOUSLY. They hold up today as well as when they were made. Again, thanks for checking it out for more prog-like and intricate work from them, try "Black Juju", "Ballad of Dwight Frye" "Killer (the song)", "My Stars" (AWESOME SONG)", and "Unfinished Sweet".
Glad someone finally reacted to this song. One of my favorite Alice tunes. Check out 16 Horsepower, Poor Mouth or Haw.
Alice Cooper (band and solo) for me is one of few artists that manages to try out different styles and pull them off without losing personality,obviously not everything is great.
Drummer, Neal Smith, and bassist, Dennis Dunaway are hands down my favorite rock rhythm section. And, the entire band...excellent. Are you guys for real? 😎
Alice said about their name that he imagined a little girl standing there with a sweet smile on her face,and her arms behind her back with a knife(or a meat cleaver,I cant remember which) in her hands,..Alice Cooper. The name just fit her and the band.
"Halo of Flies" and "Ballad of Dwight Fry" are his finest achievements IMHO.
I would tend to agree.
Alice got the name from Jim Morrison, "Alice Cooper" was burned at the stake during the salem witch trials...Jim also got the verse, "I woke up this morning and got myself a beer" from Alice who answered that when asked "how are you?" at Sun Studios. Alice hung out with Jim from time to time.
Alice Cooper and the band hung out with the doors and Frank Zappa. I dearly oved Them both. I later met Ray manzarek and Dallas and smoked a joint with them and then left a note on his door where he lived on rodeo drive and he called me and we became friends for about 3 months. He had Robby Krieger call me up looking for a label.
Also I met Dweezil Zappa at LAX and showed him my Zappa Tshirt. He autographed it and his girlfriend Lisa Loeb took our picture. By the way my progressive rock bands chided me for not taking a picture of her. Heard her black frame glasses started a movement. She was on MTV.
Killer was the 2nd album I owned at age 13 (School's Out 1st) and of course I played it to death (maybe loved it to death 😜) particularly this track. As with all Alice Cooper the quality of the musicianship, the composition (pretty advanced in 1971), arrangement, mixing and production is superb.
Dennis Dunaway wrote a book on the band called Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! Super-interesting and very well written. I suggest reacting to Dead Babies.
It keeps changing its telling a story, like a secret agent movie. On schools out, they did a similar song, My Stars, that is like the story of the Scifi move the day the earth stood still.
I just read recently that he got the name from an ouija board. He describes Alice Cooper as a charactor. While he's on stage, he is Alice Cooper. When the show ends, he Vincent. He does that because after some years, Alice Cooper took over and he became an alcoholic and ended up in an asylum. He actually made an album out of it. I don't agree with people that say he was only good for the first couple of years. There were some good and some bad, zipper catches skin being one of the bad ones, maybe even the worst. But I liked "Welcome to my nightmare" and I really like "Alice Cooper goes to hell."
A lot of progressive rock in there earlier stuff. Even welcome to My nightmare. Bob Ezrin was their producer. He played synthesizer and Melotron on that song.
awesome song from an awesome album.
Blue turk and crazy little child 2 great tracks, jazzy and 1930s gangster song!
Interesting how the shared video fits nowhere into context with the song and it's music but somehow video portions would sync with the change in pattern. Chaos vs. Order exchange hands.
On the live concert shots it looks like somebody other than Dennis Dunaway is playing the bass guitar.
Check out 'Unfinished Sweet' for a fun trip to the dentist. The lyrics are clever.
never will forget the pair of panties,instead of a sleeve this lp came with new...👍👏✌🎵❤
lol?!
It's a great song! Found the video quite poor and distracting overall. "Killer" is a great album. The section when Dennis Dunaway's bass and Neil Smith's drums get cooking it's great. I remember reading years ago where they got their name. Apparently the band was playing an Ouija board one night. An entity took control of the board and identified itself as "Alice Cooper" and she said she had been a witch convicted and killed during the Salem witch trials. I have no idea if there is any truth to this story, but that's the story I read. "Alice Cooper" was a band back then.
Hard to find a version that wouldn't get blocked :-(
Yeah, I think it would be better to just do the song with no video at all… But it’s a great number from an awesome album.
Alice told BBC Radio that there’s no truth in that naming story. It was an urban legend that even they were surprised to hear! He says they just picked the name because it sounded sweet and wholesome. Honestly, they were a pretty normal bunch of guys, but there’s so many myths about them.
Did I get this right that Frank Zappa once said this was the first time he realised they could play their instruments after hearing Halo of Flies. If true why did he sign them to his Straight label
Hey Greg. We missed our chance in high school to form our own Cross Country band. With Jeff, Dave, Mike, you, and me. It could have been “Special!”
lol!
Have you heard the song "Betty Davis Eyes" from the early 80s.
another one is unfinished sweet guys
Your buddy needs to smoke a joint before listening to this psychedelic stuff. Everybody that I knew love Alice Cooper from the 70s. Alice's first two albums were released in late sixties and on Zappa's label straight.
His real name is Vincent Fournier.
You do viewer requests? I don’t know if you remember my comment from a few weeks back, but I recommended more Stone Roses. Specifically Breaking Into Heaven. I don’t know if you noted this, but can I make an official viewer request with this song please? That would be great
They stopped taking them about three weeks ago. This was left over from the ones they hadn't gotten around. But I imagine Greg and Chris at some point may resume them. They had a pretty big backlog.
@@hotblackdesiato3022 Ah, ok. Thanks mate for letting me know
They ouiji'd the name. This is documented
From a ouija board game
Hallooooo gieeeeeees, since i was 8-9 i got totally lost in the original band, heck
i almost hung myself in the carport by mistake.
This is unbeatable as well as every song on these 5 albums in a row
Love It To Death
Killer
Billion Dollar Babies
Schools Out
Muscle Of Love
Love you reacted to this as i tried to push it, but the idiots just want known songs many people kno3w of"
wtf!?! I offer them the true treasures but after alll they are millenials and wanna-bes and it shows.
it's pronounced Furn 'yea"
I don't get the video indicating this was 1973. Maybe that's when they put this video together. The song was on his 1971 album "Killer". This video is a terrible distraction from the awesomeness of this song.
The video is godawful. The song should be enjoyed without visuals, I think. Also, the song is from 1971, not 1973.