Life and crimes of Alice Cooper
I love ballet-dancing vampires as much as anyone, but coupled with a decrepit has-been it sounds incredibly lame.
posted by Carnacki | 9/07/2005 02:16:00 PM
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12 Comments:
That, plus he's a right-wing wanker... but that could just be me.
Wow. No love for the Coop here, huh?
Dug him since I was a '70s monster-loving kid, so he'll always be nostalgically cool to me. :)
Our first and hopefully only disagreement, Keith. :)
I agree with Keith!
Alice may be old, and I haven't bought a record by him for, well, decades, but he will always have a dear, dear spot in my heart.
I was in 6th grade when I bought my first record (no cds back then). The record was Alice Cooper's Welcome To My Nightmare. Not much has been the same since. I loved how he combined a sense of humor with the macabre.
I certainly won't go and see this show, but I'm glad the old guy is still at it.
I stopped liking him the first time I saw him in golf pants. It just ruined any appreciation I might have once had for him. It was horrible seeing him looking like suburbanite caricature. The pants were plaid and he didn't wear them as a joke. I saw photo after photo of him golfing in ::shudder:: the kind of pants a grandfather would purchase.
Hey, this is the first debate in one of my threads since I buried the Robin Hood's grave debate!
Heh heh, I remember seeing Alice in golf pants for the first time, too. More shocking than anything he ever did on stage!
The great thing about Alice, though, is he always insisted his stage persona was just that, a persona. I remember hearing him say in an interview once, "I certainly wouldn't hang out with Alice."
I didn't get too hung up on the pants thing. In fact, it kind of endeared him to me more. I like it when rock stars buck convention. There's a certain type of integrity to that (if integrity could ever be linked to golf pants, that is).
He's a great golfer I hear, too.
Great debate you've got going here!
"Our first and hopefully only disagreement, Keith. :)"
I'm sure, Ben. :)
Though, to be clear, I'm not saying he isn't too old to still be trying to pull off stuff like this that you posted about. He probably is (though you're only as young as you feel, right?). But then again, some would argue, so are a lot of other popular singers and groups still performing today; The Stones come directly to mind! Do it while you still can, I guess. Heh.
As for the whole politics angle mentioned, that's obviously personal opinions and stuff. For my part, I couldn't think of anything on this planet we live on that I care less about with re: to a singer, so I can't speak to that one. As long as they're not shoving their views down my throat in their music or concerts, then it's mox-nix to me. :)
Besides, anyone who loves the original “Carnival of Souls" as much as me, is OK in my book.
I also love this quote from Alice:
"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal."
I think he meant Washington Post. Anyway, he certainly doesn't take himself too seriously. Which is very refreshing considering pop stars today.
Eh... There's still some love: he's a defining figure for my childhood as well, and I'd be hard-pressed to resist "School's Out".
That's probably why I reacted so strongly to his comments. Sort of like seeing Gene Simmons posing with an ostentatious brandy and cigar, lording it like some robber baron wannabe...
Alice Cooper influenced Tim Burton and for that I am grateful. But Alice Cooper supported Bush and that is simply macabre.
Politics aside, I'm an Alice fan too. Mark's right; his charm comes from not taking himself seriously.
plaid golf pants. ;)
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