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That he's the psycho killer in all of us. He's the axe murderer, the spoiled

child, the abuser, the abused.

He's the victim, he's the perpetrator, he's the gunslinger, and he's the guy

lying dead in the middle of the street.

Baby's brain and an old man's heart.

It took 18 years to get this far.

Don't always know what I'm talking about.

Feels like I'm living in the middle of town.

Cause I'm 18.

I get confused every day.

I'm 18. I just don't know.

I gotta get away.

I gotta get out of here.

Mom and dad's got me drinking whiskey.

I'm 18 and I've done it. Yeah.

Yeah. I like it.

Oh, I like it. I love it. I like it. I love it. I'm

18. I'm 18.

I'm 18.

I'm 18. I ain't 21.

I ain't 22.

23, 24, 25.

I ain't no American fly.

I tore my shell into the leather, but the leather went dry.

Tore my shell into the leather, but my leather went dry.

Tore my shell into the leather, tore my shell into the leather.

I mean, I always said that we were the band that drove the stake through the

heart of the love generation.

And it was true. People were bored with peace and love, and we were certainly

the next thing.

Jim Morrison died.

Jim Morrison died, and here came the new excess band.

And Alice was even more excessive.

Alice wasn't subtle about it. Alice was a sledgehammer.

Everybody in the band came up with a different story of how we got the name

because everybody wanted to hear something mysterious The real true story

was that you know When I think of the name Alice Cooper, I think baby jane

lizzie borden alice cooper it has a certain rhythm to it and i always

picture some little girl standing there with a hatchet behind her back some

sweet little girl standing there with a you know that looks very innocent but

there's something very dangerous about her they were the extreme american group

you know and so it fits perfectly they expect a blonde folk singer this whole

ouija board thing got way out of hand you know what happened was one of the

guys that worked for us his mother was a Self-proclaimed medium and she said that

she had been playing with a Ouija board and she asked the Ouija board who

Vincent Fournier was Or she asked the board who Alice Cooper was and it said

spelled out Vincent Fournier

The Alice Cooper band, the most hated band in the world, the most disgusting,

parent-terrorizing, church-terrorizing, authority-terrorizing band of all time,

were all four-year Letterman in high school. And that's how we started at the

Letterman's talent show. We decided to get Beatle wigs and we would

parody the Beatles and call ourselves the Earwigs.

And the moment we changed Beatles songs to track lyrics, because we were all on

track, we were all milers.

And the funny thing was, we hired girls to yell, to scream for us, the

whole thing.

And we loved it. The second we did it and we realized we were faking it, we

loved it.

And the very next day, we went out and started learning how to play

instruments. I thought the Beatles were raw.

And then the stones came along, and then I was really in my element.

As soon as my parents saw the Rolling Stones, they thought the Beatles were

okay, you know.

And I had already had in my head, you know, I think I could put something

together that would make that look pale.

Touched by the toil And plunged into his arm

Cursed through the night Through

list.

I met Frank Zappa through Miss Christine, who was with the GTOs.

Miss Christine was babysitting for Frank Zappa. She babysitted for Moon Unit at

the time, and he lived in the log cabin.

When she said he was putting together a record company and he was looking for

freak bands, I said, well, you know, we'd like to audition.

And they told us, she says, he wants to see you at 7 o'clock tomorrow.

So we thought he meant 7 in the morning.

And we got...

there at his house and set up all the equipment and you know our street

clothes were our stage clothes so i chrome pants and you know what we wore

on the street was what we wore on stage there wasn't any big difference and we

were there at seven in the morning and we started playing in his basement and

he came down i remembered his underwear and his coffee and he says what is going

on and he says i met seven o'clock tonight And I said, well, we're here.

You might as well listen to us now.

It'll be more surrealistic to listen to us at 7 in the morning.

He said, if I had to write your music on paper, I wouldn't know how to write it

because the arrangements are so out there.

He says, I think I really got to have you on the label. And I was really proud

because Frank Zappa was another guy that was a big influence to us, truly a

genius. You know, I mean, I think Frank is one of the most underrated guitar

players on the planet, probably the best guitar player I know.

And we were just so shocked that he would even want us on his label.

The first time I saw Alice was in Venice, California.

at an annual event called the Lenny Brucemas. It took place at a club called

The Cheater that doesn't exist anymore, out at the pier.

And the doors were headlining that day.

Alice was an opening act.

When we got done, after two songs, there were four people left standing there. We

had cleared the building in about two songs.

And I think they just couldn't take the intensity of this band.

They ran out of the room, and the only four people left was Frank Zappa, Shep

Gordon, and two of the GTOs. They'd never seen that kind of reaction with an

audience.

That same audience made us so notorious that people would pay to see us so they

could walk out on us. The in thing in Los Angeles was to pay to see Alice

Cooper so you could walk out on it.

The chicken was a great story, you know.

It was...

You really don't, it's one of those things where you can go through your

whole life and never do anything, and just as long as you tell people you did

something. You know, in that case, the chicken was on stage.

We were doing the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival with John Lennon and the Doors

and everybody, and it was 70,000 people there, and it was the first big show

we'd ever done.

And at the end of the show, we always broke open a pillow.

a white you know feather pillow one white feather pillow about half filled

madison square garden somebody in the audience threw a chicken up they had the

chicken the audience they threw it on stage and i took it and you know i

figured i was from detroit i never been on a farm in my life you know i figured

it had wings it had feathers i just throw it back up and it would fly away

except it didn't quite fly and it lathered right back down in the audience

and the last seat i remember was people's hands pulling wings and legs

and blood flying it was an incredible moment the next day in the paper was

alice cooper rips chicken in half and drinks the blood and eats the chicken

and all this stuff like this from then on the aspca every show we do is like

you're gonna kill chickens tonight

Fourteen days.

I could have been gone for more.

Held up in an intensive care ward.

I was lying on the floor.

I was gone for all those days, but I

was not all alone.

friends with a lot of people in the danger zone

Sleeping don't come very easy in a straight white

vest.

Should like to see those little children. They're only

four years old.

I'd give them back all of their playthings, even the

ones I stole.

Well, Dwight Fry was based on, you know, the character that was really the truly

scary character in those RKO movies and all the horror movies.

I mean, he was, you know, he was Fritz in Frankenstein, the little guy that

stole the wrong brain.

And he was, you know, Renfield in Dracula, the guy that ate the flies and

the spiders and everything. I mean, the actual monsters weren't as scary as

Dwight Fry.

So we decided to, like, dedicate that song to him.

When we were recording the vocals for Dwight Frye, we put Alice underneath a

pile of chairs, folding chairs, to get that feeling of confinement so that

while he lay there on the floor, he could go, I gotta get out of here, I

gotta get out of here, I gotta get out of here. I wanna get out of here.

Bob Ezrin was the... I mean, he was... He was everything to Alice Cooper. He

invented a lot of the music.

He, you know, he was absolutely... He took us apart and put us back together.

Even though he didn't exactly know what he was doing, all he knew was he had

this rawness here and he had this other knowledge, put them together.

And, you know, at first we were going, we can't play that. That's not Alice

Cooper. And he says...

Nobody knows what Alice Cooper is yet. We are going to invent Alice like a

Frankenstein here in this barn.

When it came time to do Elected, it was important to treat it slightly tongue-in

-cheek, but at the same time to give it a real dramatic value, because the vocal

was so sort of campaign-like. And we were having a lot of trouble getting

that. And what we did was we finally arranged to have a full-length mirror

placed in front of Alice so that he could sell to himself this concept of

being elected.

Top five cut of meat, I'm your choice.

I wanna be a leg man.

I can't get to the dandy in a gold Rolls Royce.

I never lied to you. I always been.

I want to be elected.

I come to get the vote. And I turn to the box.

That's really it. That would have been great.

Well, there's such an enormous lack of entertainment in rock music, you know.

I mean, there's such a... It got to the point where if you go to a concert, all

you're going to see is a guitar solo and a drum solo. You know, how far can that

go? You know, you want to see something that you're going to go home and talk

about and scare your parents with, you know.

So if some 14-year-old boy goes home wearing eye makeup saying, hey, Alice

Cooper wears it, why can't I wear it? And of course his parents are going to

say, eh.

By the very first time that you see that people are actually wearing their hair

like you or suddenly wearing their shirts ripped like you are or their

Levi's, and you see bands that are copying you,

it's really a compliment, I think. I still consider it a compliment when I

see bands that... that say, wow, we got this directly from you.

And if it weren't for you, we wouldn't be doing this.

And, you know, I get that from bands that are major bands now all the time.

You know, he was rock history for having done it in the first place, right? And

he was the only one that ever has been able to pull it off and do it, so it was

really cool.

I don't care about anybody else that sort of pulled off the makeup CD trip. I

mean, he was like... the first one that just went that in that direction you

know the fact that when we came out everybody had hair down to their waist

and we had gotten into mom's makeup and smeared it on and this was pre-clockwork

orange i mean this and the band didn't mind a little bit of violence you know

and none nobody in the band was gay nobody did drugs everybody drank beer so

it was a weird all-american kind of sickness to this

We had had a smash with 18 because it was an anthem.

It was really like my generation.

And it had all this angst involved in it. And it was the idea of, I'm not a

boy, I'm not a man.

I'm awkward, but I'm this and that.

The whole song sounds like a complaint until he gets to the line where he says,

I'm 18 and I like it.

Lines form on my face and hands Lines form from the

ups and downs

Glenn Buxton was the Keith Richards of Alice Cooper. He came out on stage with

more jewelry and more accessories.

I can say he was the world's most accessorized guitar player, right? He

was a real Bowery boy. He always had at least ten weapons with him, somewhere on

his body.

Glenn got, he got laid more than anybody else. And he would always find, not the

groupies, he would get the school teachers.

He would always go for the schoolteachers, the insurance salesmen,

you know, the women that were the real estate.

And they all started out really nice women that wore suits. And every single

one of them were destroyed in about six months.

They were like living on the street.

Dennis Dunaway comes from another planet.

Dennis Dunaway... was dropped here by space parents, I think, when he was like

three or four years old. Either that or there was a spore that fell from

somewhere and grew someplace in the United States and turned into a Dennis

Dunaway. The wise old man in the moon or something, he was just always right

there, always smiling.

Good bass player.

And probably the musical core of Alice Cooper.

I've been ready.

We'll be right back.

Mike Bruce was the the pop figure of the group He was the guy that could come in

with a song and a melody We would take his songs and twist him into these

horrible little ditties I think to a great extent the push and pull between

me and Michael During the early days had a lot to do with developing the Alice

Cooper sound Neil Smith to this day is the greatest pop star ever He wore more

makeup than I did. I mean this was on the street and he you know, he was just

You'd look up like this. He would find out how many drums Keith Moon had, and

then he would buy one more so that he always had one more drum than Keith

Moon. Then he'd call him up, and he'd say, Keith, how many drums you have?

Oh, I've got 35.

He says, I have 36.

He was just arms and legs for years, sticks flying and drums all over the

place. He would play. He'd look like an octopus because he was all arms, and he

was a whole show by himself.

Somehow there was a social consciousness in Dead Babies, plus the outrage of it.

You know, Dead Babies, when you hear the title, you go, oh boy, Alice is talking

about, you know, a truckload of dead babies, you know. And what's sicker than

that? The live one at the bottom eating his way out. No.

It was like, you know, the Dead Babies thing was actually, it was an anti

-child abuse song.

I mean, when we were writing it, I already had... visions of what that was

going to be on stage.

And I already knew what the controversy was going to be.

But at the same time, you take it for what it is, and then you hope that the

message will get through.

Didn't even hear her baby call.

Ha!

Dead babies can't take things off the shelf.

Dead babies can't take things off the shelf.

We didn't take anything seriously.

We didn't even take the money seriously when we started making it. Billion

Dollar Babies, when that came out, I mean, we were flaunting it. We were

throwing it back in the audience's face.

Here's your money.

Here's just a little lipstick on it.

But I mean, that to me was, I mean, anything like that was fun because

people loved that.

I remember when we wrote Billion Dollar Babies at the Galicia estate.

We were working on it there.

And it was based around the drums.

It was based around the...

We go dancing nightly in the attic while the moon

is rising in the sky.

If I'm too rough tell me I'm so scared your little kid will come

after my

dollar baby i got you in a dance

The idea of me getting to work with Salvador Dali was unbelievable.

That was, to me, he was one of my top heroes of all time.

And he had seen one of the shows and thought it was just totally

surrealistic. And he loved it because it was so loud and so, it was terrifying

and this and that and this.

And so he wanted me to do this hologram where I was wearing a $2 million tiara

and a $3 million necklace sitting on this pedestal.

with a venus de milo as a microphone biting its head off you know like i was

singing into it and then he would film it and you could put your hand right

through it and it was you know it was really the first but working with him

was was so odd because the first time we met him he he walked in the room and he

was wearing purple crushed velvet pants and aladdin shoes a giraffe

skin coat and his sideburns were in pin curls

And he walks in and he says, I am the Dali.

The press asked me, they said, what is it like working with Dali? And I said, I

have no idea.

I said, because I don't understand a word he's saying and I don't know what

he's doing.

And Dali jumped up and he says, this is perfect.

It's the finest form of communication is confusion.

You know, I loved him. He wore Elvis Presley, a pair of socks that Elvis

Presley gave him every day.

a pair of purple sparkly socks.

You gotta like that.

If you bring a 12-foot bowl constrictor anywhere, it's gonna get reaction.

I was just interested to seeing the reaction, so I went and we got one. I

brought it out the first night, and it was just headlines the next day.

It was UPI, it was everything, you know.

And I think what it is, it's just it represents something different to

everyone. Like this person over here would see...

would see something funny, this person would see something sexual, this person

would see something horrifying, but no more. I got a reaction.

I don't condose the little old ladies.

I help the blind to see.

I got no friends that read the papers that can't see.

With me, I'm feeling really bad.

I feel my friends are feeling, feeling me.

I'm saying no more, nice guy.

And no more.

oh boy it's my style i

got

no friends

No more nice guy.

No more. No more nice guy.

When we went to London, the greatest publicity stunt was stalling a bus with

a huge, huge picture of Alice Cooper with nothing on but a snake. I was

wearing nothing but a snake. I did a photograph with Richard Avedon with this

huge python, and I was totally naked except this snake.

And I was laying on one side, and it was the billboard for the Wembley show.

And we had already been banned in England.

They had heard so many things about Alice Cooper that they had banned us

immediately. And then the people...

demanded that we come over.

And so we decided to stall this huge truck with this picture on it, like at

rush hour on a Friday in the middle of Piccadilly Square.

Front page.

It was the front page of every major. There was traffic backed up all over

London. There was this picture of Alice Cooper naked with a snake, and they

couldn't do anything about it. It was right in the middle of town. It was the

greatest thing we ever pulled off. And on my first trip to London, I was...

flying over and all by myself that the rumors were already rapid that I mean

that I was like the worst thing that ever happened and I was sitting next to

an old woman and She's you know, I was playing gin with her and she says

I'm gonna take a nap She says wake me up. Don't wake me up for dinner. All

right, I said, okay and So you got ready to land and she would I kept nudging her

she died The lady died next to me

So the first taste that the press got of me was I had to stay behind And like

tell the coroner that she died They take the lady off and I come out after her

and the press is all going crazy. They said what happened I said she died You

know, well who is she? I don't know she was sitting next to me I should have put

a couple of little holes right here right in her throat would have been

perfect You know just that she was dead. She wouldn't have known it Under My

Wheels was one of the great growl songs of all time, and it had one of the best

screams in it.

But she went under my wheels, honey.

Why don't you let me?

Because when you put me on the telephone, say, take me to the show.

And then I said, honey, I just can't go.

Old lady said, I can't leave her alone.

Telephone is ringing.

You got me on the run.

I got you under my wheels.

Telephone is ringing.

I got you on the run.

I'm driving in my car now.

And it's a better car.

I'm driving right up to you, man.

I can't say you couldn't see it.

But you were under my wheels, man.

Why don't you let me be? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got you on the run.

Well, TV has always been my best friend, you know. When all else fails, you can

turn on the TV and watch anything, you know.

When you spend as much time in hotel rooms as rock bands do, you either drink

or you get loaded or you become a sexual fiend or you watch a lot of television.

Which have you done? I've done all of those.

You can't stay sane on the road.

It's just impossible, especially with Alice Cooper.

We're not working on anything now. We're just trying to make it through this tour

without dying.

Look at me.

Would you buy a car from this man?

I lived in a hotel for eight years.

When people said, where do you live? And I said, I just pointed to a holiday inn.

I lived basically in a hotel. We never took time off from the tour. We just

toured constantly.

The band broke up pretty much because what I think it was, it was, first of

all, we never took time off to enjoy what we had done, really.

The only enjoyment we had was, seemed to be, going from airport to hotel to

stage, back to the airport, back to the hotel, back to the stage, and very

little time to really enjoy anything about it.

We had all, you know, everybody had a bottle of something that they were

drinking. A couple of the guys wanted to do their own albums, wanted to do solo

albums, and that was, you know, I mean, that was okay, you know.

I didn't quite agree with that. I said, you know, we're at our peak right now. I

don't know why you want to do solo albums, but, you know, that was... And

again, they didn't want to do the theatrics, and as far as I was

concerned, you know, I wanted to do more theatrics.

Welcome to my nightmare.

I think you're gonna like it.

I think you're gonna feel here alone.

Welcome to my nightmare.

Welcome to my breakdown.

I hope I didn't scare you.

That's just the way we are when we come down here.

Sweat, laugh, and scream, yeah.

Slap is just a dream, yeah.

That's just the way we are when we come down here.

Where was you, my lovely deputy?

helping to my

We spent all the money in the show. We put it all back into the show. That's

why tours like School's Out, Billion Dollar Babies, Welcome to My Nightmare

were the biggest productions.

I mean, they were like overblown Busby Berkeley gone mad productions, but

having to do with rock and roll.

cold ethel is my favorite alice cooper song for one um black widow's another

one only women bleed so it's just one of those records i can just cruise through

and at any given time even no matter how many years i've been listening to it

it's always like follows fails i can always throw this in you know it's

there's not really much to say except for it's just a cool record only women

bleed was uh i was writing with dick wagner for the welcome to my nightmare

album And we had written a lot of horrific songs for that album, lots of

really heavy mood songs and blazing rock and roll stuff. And we really needed

something to soften it in some place.

And every song was a piece of the nightmare.

So at this one point, I remember we were sitting there and writing something, and

he is playing a little line.

And somebody said something on television, and I can't remember what it

was, but it sounded like Only Women Bleed.

Man got his woman to take his need.

He got the power. Oh, she done the deed.

She spends her life through pleasing up a man.

She feeds him dinner. Oh, anything she can.

She cries alone at night too often.

Smokes and drinks and don't come home at all.

Only women bleed.

Only women bleed.

Only women bleed.

Man makes your hair gray.

He's your last mistake.

it's an even break he lies right at you you know you hate

this game slaps you once in a while and you live in love and pain

she cries alone at night too often

smokes and drinks and don't come home at all

only women

Only women bleed.

It's cold out, let's go in and kiss.

We met last night, making love like every creature in life.

At the letter from the sweetest figure in the world.

squeezed me with its tongue.

One thing, it's too cold and I'm stuck on you.

And everything's my way.

Just don't have much to say.

Let the letter come free in its arms.

Let the letter squeeze me in.

the hollywood vampires was in a very exclusive club being a hollywood vampire

took a uh a lot of stupidity because you had to want to drink as much as you

possibly could until you couldn't drink anymore every night for as long as you

could until you uh until you were absolutely paralyzed and that was a

during a very decadent time and we were more than happy to be the the leaders of

this decadence the trick was was to be the last one sitting you know uh if if

you you know if you just drank so much you just couldn't take it anymore you

just either they'd carry you down or you'd fall down the stairs but the last

one sitting was a very honored position up there

Got lost in the woods, boy.

Was in Texas or Canada.

I sleep on the step in the morning light.

And I woke the stage all night long.

At first we laughed about it.

My long hair tore me grand.

My poster toast to Timmy's post.

Now I never dreamed.

I'm stuck here. I need some. Look at us.

That ain't no big distress.

Where's my makeup?

Where's my face?

On the inside.

No, I've got some chicks.

It's so rare.

Eight, four, seven, five, six, seven, eight,

nine,

ten.

Stuck here on the inside.

Fuck that.

That ain't no big distress.

When I start to make it, when I start to dance it. On the inside.

On the inside.

I went into rehab because it was just totally necessary.

I mean, I literally committed myself in New York City. I didn't just go into a

rehab. I found out that this place was a mental hospital.

So I was the only one in there that was in there for alcohol.

Everybody else was in there for, like, killing their grandmother and, you know,

making a pie out of her and things like that.

Every song on From the Inside was based on a character that I had met in there.

Not by name and not exactly what they did.

but very close to something that they did. I could never use their names

because they might find me.

I kind of awkward and afraid the time has changed

your point of view again how you gonna see

me now

Since I've been on my own, how you gonna love the man

when the man gets home?

Now listen, darling.

Oh, I'm ready for the West.

I straightened out my head, but my old heart is still a mess.

Yes, that's natural, though.

It's like I'm waiting for a well-designed.

I'm like a trap to the hobo in the snow, yeah, yeah.

How you gonna see me now?

Please don't send me on your mail.

Cause you know I'll let you down, yeah.

You know, in so many ways.

We're just strangers again.

I might have grown out of style.

In this place I've been.

And just like the first time, you can shake it aside.

When I walk in the door,

there'll be no place to hide.

No.

Yeah, yeah.

How you gonna see me now?

Please don't see me ugly, babe.

Cause you know I'll let you down, yeah.

You know.

how you gonna see me now please don't see me

I wouldn't see you now.

But now that you're on my own, yeah.

You love me. I ain't gonna love me.

I ain't gonna love me.

Oh, yeah.

I, I, I do my best, baby.

I don't take no more.

I don't need to try to stop.

But now you don't see me now.

I think the most shocking way of dying on stage, well, we did it a lot of

different ways, you know.

They electrocuted me in the very first hanging, which we did full out.

You know, we went out and really learned how they do it in the movies.

Anything for realism.

And then the guillotine, of course, I think was the best. It was very shocking

to see.

There's something about some sort of morality play always that's worked in

the Alice Cooper show.

You know, as far as Alice getting away with a lot of stuff and then having to

be punished.

I invented a character that was a combination of Dracula,

every horror character you could think of, Salvador Dali,

and all of these villains all rolled up into one.

And I couldn't see why there shouldn't, with all the rock heroes around, why

there shouldn't be a rock villain.

He was a thing that we created.

He was a synthesis of a number of different people and a number of

different influences and so on. Of course, there was Alice himself who

played the role. But the role of Alice Cooper grew in a kind of gestalt way to

become something almost like every man with a twist.

And we would even talk about Alice in the third person. Cooper would say, oh,

Alice wouldn't say that. Alice would say this.

Alice would walk over here. And he still does. He still talks about him in the

third person. I turned into a total Mr. Hyde.

And I love that, to me, to this day, playing Alice.

I look forward to playing Alice.

Cooper is so much more than a schizophrenic.

The concept of schizophrenic is much too light for him.

You have to be schizophrenic. Because nobody in their right mind would say,

well, I think I'll go on stage tonight and behead myself.

Clones was an interesting thing because we were really searching for a new sound

at this point. I mean, I was always interested in new music. I didn't want

to get stuck in this is what Alice does and this is all that Alice does.

We destroy the government.

We destroy time.

No more problems on the way.

I'm through, Doctor.

We don't need your kind.

The other ones are the ones.

Stupid boys, wrong ones.

I'm all alone, so are we all.

Punk.

Well, I mean, I've been called the original punk.

Ripping clothing was part of our look.

Anytime you see anybody walk down the street in Hollywood now with black hair

that's too black and a white complexion and ripped-up Levi's and ripped-up

shirts and combat boots and a lot of makeup on, they're still carrying on the

Alice Cooper tradition.

So every time I see a kid or somebody walking down the street like that, I go,

yeah.

I designed this generation.

Delegation. Yeah.

And we ain't afraid of high power.

We're bulletproof.

And we never hide our life in our whistleblower justice and truth.

We're the Department of...

We talk about this old stupid world and still come out laughing.

Ha!

We never make any sense, but hell, that never mattered.

But we'll make it through our blackest hour. We're living proof.

And we never heard of Billy Sunday. Damon Runyon, man, is a coot.

We're the Department of...

It was like I had met Kane in New York.

And he was a massive character, you know, and he got bigger and bigger as

the tour went on.

But he was a great guitar player, and still is.

I mean, it's one of those things where his physique, I thought, would be one of

those things that just attracted so many people to see this kind of freak thing.

And then on top of it, he could play.

Kip Winger was, you know, Kip was playing bass and

studio bass, and he was a waiter in New York City.

And we had him play some bass on the album and everything, and the next thing

I knew, I said, Ken, let's try to get this guy in the band. I always knew that

he was going to go out on his own. It was no secret, because he was so

talented in everything he did. But he would do anything on a dare.

Kip would do anything on a dare.

He would, like, if you...

told him to take all of his clothes off in the middle of the Holiday Inn, and he

used to do a thing called the... Can I say that?

He used to do a thing called the Dick Dance, where he would go... You know, in

front of anybody. He'd go up to, like, eight big guys, football players, and

go... And we just were amazed that he would do this. I guess he was a karate

expert also, though, so he wasn't too worried.

Trash was what really brought Alice Cooper back.

You know, Trash was the album. But, you know, when I think of it, it wasn't an

accident. Every bit of Trash was planned.

Every single period and comma and quotation mark and every idea that

happened on that album was planned.

Luckily,

the stage show was more spontaneous, but the album was very, very thought out.

It ain't the way you kiss me when you slam the bedroom door.

It ain't the way you squeeze before I hit the easy cash.

It's just the way you love me when you turn to trash.

Poison was one of the classiest songs we had ever written. I think maybe Desmond

had a lot to do with that because he brought in a certain real

sophistication to that song.

But it still had the Alice sneer in it. It had the Alice sexuality, I think, in

it.

I want to hold you but my senses tell me to stop I want to kiss you but I want it

too much I want to taste you but your lips are

Oh, Hey Stupid is our school's out for 91, 1991.

And the idea of Hey Stupid is not just an anti-suicide song, but it's

saying, it's almost saying stay stupid.

back and send the end of it into read though it's amazing how consistent he

plays that yes this is alice cooper and anybody can have what they want out of

alice cooper i mean i'm not trying to press or push anything

What are the big things on your shows? The themes?

Well, the whole theme of the thing is to attack.

Well, we got no choice.

All the girls and boys making all that noise

because they found new toys.

Yeah, we can't salute you. Can't find a flag that don't suit you.

What does everybody have in common?

Everybody couldn't wait for the last, you know, in those last three hours on

the last day of school.

It was like, it was like an orgasm. You're waiting and waiting, waiting. All

of a sudden, it's over. Bam! It explodes. And everybody in the audience

wanted to go, school's out for summer. School's out forever.

Our school's been blown to pieces.

the time to

The telephone is ringing You got me on the run

I'm driving in my car now Anticipating fun

I guess that you couldn't see, yeah, yeah.

But you were under my wheels, honey.

Why don't you let me be?

Because when you called me on the telephone, said, take me to a show.

And then I said, honey, I just can't go.

Old lady said, I can't leave her home.

Telephone is ringing.

You got me on the run.

I'm driving in my car now.

I got you on my wheels.

I got you on my wheels.

I got you on my wheels.

I got you on my wheels.