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4/28/2006


Another Vote for Alice

Fred Wilson posts today on the absurdity that is the fact that Alice Cooper is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I couldn't agree more.

Fred praised four of Alice's records from the early 1970's : Love It To Death, Killer, School's Out, and Billion Dollar Babies. I owned them all too and agree that they are all excellent records. I'd add his next record Muscle of Love to the excellent list as well.

If there's a better rock anthem than I'm Eighteen, I've never heard it. Cassidy knows School's Out, via the A-Teens' cover. Like Fred, in many ways these albums are like soundtracks to my early teenage years.

I've only seen Alice live one time- around 1976 during his "Goes to Hell" tour. It was a pretty amazing show. If he plays Houston again, I will be there.

My irritation at the fact that Alice is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was summed up nicely by Bob Lefsetz in a similar post:

First this:

It is absolutely positively CRIMINAL that Alice Cooper is not in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. While Robbie Robertson and other exalted insiders have left the boards, are sitting behind a desk instead of standing in front of a microphone, Alice Cooper is out KILLING night after night and those in power, with their multi-thousand dollar suits and private jets, are IGNORING HIM!

and then the knock out punch:

What kind of crazy [screwed] up world do we live in where "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is revered as a generational breakthrough but "Eighteen" is ignored. [T]he Nirvana song has got a great riff, but its words don't COMPETE with those of the Alice Cooper anthem.

Amen, brother.

The fact that Alice Cooper isn't in the hall is a travesty.

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Great post, but just so ya know, Alice didn't do a tour for "Goes To Hell." Are you thinking of the Lace and Whiskey tour the year after?

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5/02/2006 3:07 AM  
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It was sometime between mid 1976 and the end of 1979, in either Charlotte or Greensboro, NC (we went to a ton of concerts at both). I know it was after my friends and I could drive but before I went to college.

I thought it was around the time Goes to Hell was released, but I may be mistaken.

By Blogger Kent, at 5/02/2006 7:13 AM  
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You are totally right!!!
That´s why we started a project on myspace.com to get Alice Cooper inducted.
We have a myspace-site with a link to a petition you can sign and if you are registered to myspace, you can add us to your friends list and leave a comment to support us/Alice Cooper. The link is:
AC Hall of Fame Project

Sonja and Petra

By Anonymous Sonja and Petra, at 6/25/2006 3:03 PM  
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Anonymous said...
Great post, but just so ya know, Alice didn't do a tour for "Goes To Hell."
YOUR ARE DEAD WRONG. Alice did do tour support for "Alice Cooper Goes to Hell"! The show introduced the giant black widow and spider web for the song "Devil's Food"

By Blogger Brother Crimewave (Sybil The Man), at 6/21/2007 6:47 AM  
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