When Alice Cooper stopped playing nice

[@c.e.anderson558]

Shock rock or not ypu still have to have great songs. Alice had many,many great songs.

[@timothygrace2627]

Awesome soon-to-be award winning storytelling like always, Janda! Thank you for the full, entertaining background Janda!

[@behindthesongpodcast]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks Tim!

[@crazyconcertdude]

I love Alice! What a great dude. He’s so nice! NMMNG is my absolute favorite AC tune! Thanks for another killer episode, Janda! ❤

[@e.m.7234]

I really enjoyed this one, Janda. I’ve been listening to Alice’s Attic on The Drive lately and he is one of the best. Very nice and talented artist. Alice has the most interesting stories he shares on his show, and of course we all love his music!

[@behindthesongpodcast]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!

[@lensquires6580]

Thanks Janda, That was an informative background story to "the Coop" and the band. I was in high school when Alice Cooper came out (No play on words, really) I remember me and a friend taking the bus in our hometown of Rochester NY down to the Rochester War Memorial and seeing his show, I think it was 1970, or 71. Then saw the Billion Dollars Baby show in 72 I believe. It was like theater going to an Alice Cooper concert and he always gave 110% or more. Also I think concert tickets back then were like $7.00. 😃

[@moparmenace59]

Good video. I live 30 miles from Glen Buxton's grave, I stop whenever I'm travelling that way, it's an interesting story how he ended up in the middle of Iowa.

[@jeffgerndt2813]

Great video! I grew up near Detroit, Alice C was always gigging somewhere in the 70's.

[@lynnwillis441]

I remember watching Alice perform No More Mr. Nice Guy on American Bandstand. Here was swinging this long wood mallet around, and it was amazing! After the performance, the camera cut to Dick Clark, woo said something to the effect of Man, that guys weird. I'm not having him back on my show. I got to share this memory with Mr. Cooper a couple of years ago. I'm glad they became good friends.

[@klepetar]

BDB is part of my childhood.. i still remember all the lyrics .. all the songs are good..

[@robertrichardson5285]

I remember seeing Alice at Navy Pier. He was throwing Billion Dollar Babies albums out to the crowd. Sometime in the 70s. Good one, Janda!

[@behindthesongpodcast]

Wish I’d been there! What a time!

[@timothygrace2627]

I was there! Did you get one?

[@jeffmackovitch9987]

Imagine my surprise when I heard Alice Cooper on the Alice’s Attic show on 971 the drive The DRIVE is doing good things lately. Not to mention the Prof of Rock!

[@behindthesongpodcast]

Glad to hear it! Thanks for listening!

[@Elephant2024]

Thanks for this great backstory, Janda. Really did not have much familiarity with Alice Cooper other than the song 'School's Out', which was a popular, pre-summer anthem.😆

[@kenairockband]

Episode #138 should have been on the Misfits song "we are 138"

[@familydogg1234]

I saw " Welcome to My Nightmare" tour 1975. It was at the Garden. A photo taken was used as a poster for Circus mag. A tshirt cost $3.00 and they didnt frisk you for bottles😊 BTW- Schools Out LP became a desk. Muscle of Love was in a cardboard box. Vinyl- yeah!!!!! 10:05

[@thomasrobinson182]

The Alice Cooper band was a favorite of mine growing up. Sad to see them go.

[@richierugs6544]

is there an image of a silver motorcycle jacket somewhere on that album?-----I bought it from Glenn Buxton when he was 'having problems', I owned it for a week and then a friend of mine decided to give it to Cheryl Rixon, a Penthouse Pet of the Year who probably left it in a limousine somewhere. Glenn also gave me a really cool green velvet jacket with a Howdy Doody patch on it from Mr Freedom in London----Glenn told me some rather unflattering things about Alice--he also offered to sell the white SG Gibson, but I didn't have the heart to buy the man's axe. He was a really sweet guy.

[@armedanglican6361]

Mike Bruce went to North High in Phoenix. I was at Cortez High in those days and the Earwigs inspired me to learn guitar and bass. Still at it now.

[@DonJoyce]

Great story! Lookin' good, Janda!

[@behindthesongpodcast]

Thank you!!

[@Whitleythe13th]

thank you for this interesting story of this legendary song and a great artist...

[@behindthesongpodcast]

Thanks for listening!

[@andrewgoss9013]

When I was a silly 14 year old, I was unaware of the word "incognito" and thought that the church was in a town called Cognito 😆

[@susiespears7746]

The Best Group EVER 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️‼️

[@bird3287]

I just happened upon this video. Pretty dang cool. Big Alice fan here (especially him with his original band). The lyrics, not sure what is written, but the actually studio recording says; "Mom's been throw out of the social circle", not society. I was introduced to the Alice Cooper group at such an early age, I didn't believe the band was 100% human, lol. Ahhh- the imagination of a very young child. All I know is, their music had a profound affect on my young ears, and my being a fan was burned into my brain for life. Behind all the stage show, all the hype, the original line up were a great group of musicians and song writing talents, of course, with Bob Ezrin's production talents. "Love it to Death" has to be my favorite LP from them. The sound quality, the mood, the production and the songs were all just spot on. And the songs "Second Coming/Ballad of Dwight Fry" HAS to be their "free bird" (to me anyway). And "Is It My Body" was awesome, written very differently than most rock songs, it was simple an amazing piece of work. And "I'm Eighteen", we can thank Bob Ezrin for that. That was just a jam the band warmed up on, and when Bob heard it, he told them they should make it into a song. And as we know, they did. That song (and LP) put Alice Cooper ON THE MAP !!! The rest is history. Imagine if their song "The Man With The Golden Gun" would have been completed in time, and the movie had used it. Can you imagine the boost that would have got them? It;s a shame the original band couldn't stay together, who knows what could have been. But at least they all remained friends. I'm a musician, and the two bands that I hold in high regards is the original Alice Cooper group, and the original Lynyrd Skynyrd group. So many other awesome artists and bands, but those two are my favs. They have influenced me more than any others. Thank you Janda, for awakening my memory, awesome job. Great time in music history, great band.

[@Daniel-r9r]

The alice cooper band was blessed to have Bob Ezrin as producer. He helped them craft some great songs. The guys in the band were big jazz lovers and loved listening to the score of west side story. He helped them do what very few bands were doing and that was orchestral arrangements. Listen to blue turk or my stars ,hello hurray even dead babies . When Alice was doing the stage show and not singing they had to fill with music. The music had to convey what was being portrayed. They did this with effect...glen buxton did this to great effect. Halo of flies is a good example. But if you listen to sick things the guitar solo has no notes it's all effect that does sound sick. But even more the ending of killer when then hanging occurs the representation of somebody dying of execution is so spot on,you can feel the killer die. Excellent.

[@jimmccormick6091]

This is just the in depth podcast the world needs about a fifty year old song. When do you plan to cover that whole "aeroplane" thing happening now????

[@charlesachurch7265]

Impressive presentation xxx thanks.

[@princebonnie1357]

NMMNG is quite a rocking song indeed, but Under My Wheels gets my vote for favourite Alice tune.

[@w.llawrence86]

Just out of curiosity: wasn't Screaming Lord Sutch 1st ??

[@mazesco]

Yeah and Arthur Brown but no one did it like Alice.

[@johna8973]

Screaming Jay Hawkins

[@bose1962]

2nd album I ever bought . Saw him in 77? With Atlanta Rythm Section opening.

[@behindthesongpodcast]

What a bill!

[@c.e.anderson558]

Ater I got sober I saw his show in Vegas at the UNLV amphitheater in 1989. 3000 people maybe. Great show -woman dummy to bleed and guiotine. Boa constrictor. They put him is strait jacket and carried him off and plated a film of various escapades. The bandvwas playing whole time and he came out in full drippy makeup.

[@frankmartines3595]

No ...the crowd ripped the chicken apart and threw the parts onstage

[@petemccarry2326]

Alice Cooper was the name of a witch.

[@cmaden78]

Yeah except Marilyn Manson named himself after serial killers so it wasn't really the inverse of the style of music he played

[@FlipDahlenburg]

Nice-looking chick, but, yap, yap, yap, no Alice, no nuthin'!! Click-bait.

[@kckstnd8]

Half of the video is her recapping Alice Cooper history. I wanted to watch a video discussing billion dollar babies album but you wasted half the video talking about things alice cooper fans already know. Lame

[@zachariahwade8482]

Yep, did we really need to hear the chicken story for the gazillionith time.

[@JWCFB]

Oh well hell it should definitely be all about what you want. Start your own channel for self-centered immature people.