Alice Cooper Band reaches back 50 years

[Starship Krupa]

Inspired by @bitflipper's posting the new Styx album, I present the latest opus from Messrs Furnier, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith, and Ezrin:

 

[Old Joad]

Welcome to my nightmare 🤘

[57Gregy]

Since I was 18 and school's out, I've been working to make a billion dollars, baby.

[Rain]

I've always been a huge fan of Alice and those records with the band under Ezrin were truly special. My expectations aren't exactly sky high for this new one but it will be nice to hear them playing together again. Sad that Buxton isn't there to be a part of it. I did check out the first excerpt when it came out and I thought it wasn't bad.

I love solo Alice too, although I've not really listened to much after The Last Temptation in 1994. I think the only album I never really got was Special Forces. But the rest, even the weird ones like DaDa, I can dig.

In early December 1989,  there was a giveaway on tv to promote Alice's Trash tour. I called, hoping I could win the cassette. Well, I did win the cassette alright - along with a t-shirt and a pair of tickets for the show  in Montreal in January - almost 300 miles away. For a small-town kid like myself, without a license, and who'd never been anywhere, that was kind of problematic.  The show might as well have been on Mars.

But a friend who was a bit older, worked a blue collar job and had a little money thought this was an opportunity we could not missed so he offered to pay for the bus tickets and a hotel room for the day.

That's me under the massive hairdo at 6 am the day of the show, shortly after we arrived. First time in the big city. We'd spent the night drinking Jack Daniel's in the back of the bus...  Second photo is a bad shot of the show, obviously.