INTERVIEW WITH ALICE COOPER

[@DigitalBathInAZ]

I'm not sure why the algo insists that I watch this old video, but I finally clicked! Our Phoenix local boy when he was younger. Nice. Everyone around here likes him - he's VERY likable. Devoid of rockstar ego. Intelligent. Well-spoken. He used to do local radio spots and shows all the time.

[@AccurateCrabLegs]

Alice looks like my first wife in this interview. Same hair and face shape. Haven't talked to her since 2004. I think she's in prison in Spain somewhere for arson.

[@jacoblandman7345]

Rough

[@mojoarmstretch7261]

Sorry things didn't work out for the two of you. 🙈

[@liamn8497]

haha good one...

[@edo805]

I remember thinking at this time that Alice wasn’t going to make old bones. But here he is today at 73 and looking healthier than ever thank God.

[@pablobendixiii5536]

Sounds like a lovely girl

[@jjdvideo]

Coops looks a little rough there. But a few years later, he came back, stronger than ever, and still puts on a great show. Outstanding!

[@joshuawright8990]

This was during his drug years of the early 80s. It’s a miracle he survived.

[@brianmcmanus4690]

Right?!? Hell of a tale.

[@ivycutler1907]

Thanks to Sheryl.. She was his lifesaver!!!

[@przybyltv]

@@ivycutler1907 Sheryl + Shep Gordon and Bob Ezrin...

[@jdmcd3873]

It is amazing when Alice came back in 1986 how a few of his views changed.He now tours much more than 3 weeks at a time (even in 2020) and tours overseas all the time. He still is tremendous live and still putting out great albums.

[@SubPablum]

Special Forces is one of my all time favorite albums ever. I still have my original LP and still play it often. I have the CD too but that vinyl sound can not be beat.

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

Same here, wonderful album as are all of these so-called 'blackout' albums they're intelligent hard rock with a funny bone unlike the airhead metal era that would follow.

[@spookybaba]

Include me loving those three albums, too.

[@frankiefelinesalwayswelcom5825]

This looks like about 1981 or 1982 at the time of his drug addiction. His thoughts really wander here like his interview on the Tom Snyder Show in 1982. I feel he never did look good with his hair up, but he always strived for the weirdness, and still put on good shows at that time. Looks like he had a problem with his teeth, from all the booze and drugs. From various videos and interviews you can see this. He was probably embarrassed and went through a lot of strife and pain. Now in the present, he has a gorgeous smile. This was a real treat, this interview, and thanks for posting it.

[@Jimmie_Rudolfsson]

July 21, 1981. He was playing Sunrise Music Theater in Florida that night.

[@polacatuogno137]

@@Jimmie_Rudolfsson sus últimos años de locura y sufrimiento con el alcohol...😢😢😫😱 Alice nunca fué drogadicto!..👎

[@beastieboy9286]

@@polacatuogno137More like cocaine

[@frankiefelinesalwayswelcom5825]

@@polacatuogno137Yes, he was a drug addict, thanks to Bernie Taupin. Look it up.

[@biffbifford402]

Love Alice to death! Met him one time in 1986, and saw him several times afterwards in concert. Absolute living legend. Love this guy.

[@sharonklinger912]

I have not heard his Special Forces yet but I can really dig where he gets his inspirations from. His creativity forever flows.

[@edo805]

Alice has always had a great sense of humour and always has been a decent down to earth guy - which is refreshing as there are a lot of arrogant shithead rockgods out there

[@laurencelevene4333]

Special forces is such a brilliant album. But no one seems to rate it. The same goes for muscle of love and DADA.

[@badwolf69420]

They were out of print and considered "obscure" for a long time.

[@jasonlevinevideo]

Wow, never seen this one before! Thanks for posting. Special Forces continues to be in my monthly playlist, and I always listen from start to finish. It's a sprint, just like he says here!

[@marksky5326]

Thank God Alice Cooper got sober he is the best and one of the nicest people l ever met.

[@MJForever1999]

I feel like Alice really does remember a lot from this era, but this is just a part of his life he wants to forget. If that's the case I still respect his wishes to not talk about it

[@CaretakerWanted]

I agree, and I don’t blame him.

[@pauld6400]

Why dosnt he wanna talk about it

[@MJForever1999]

@@pauld6400 It was a dark time for him physically and mentally. Not to mention his wife almost left him and Warner Bros dropped him... It was just rough

[@sharonklinger912]

I have not heard Special Forces yet but I can really dig where he got his inspirations from. His creativity forever flows!!!

[@shable1436]

Lol boohoo, life of a rock star let me cry for him

[@paulkupperman4773]

I was at that concert at the Sunrise in Florida in 1981. It was my first concert of many and it was the best. We missed the opening band called the Spiders due to my friends car overheating on Alligator Ally...but we arrived just as the show opened with Who Do You Think We Are. Alice mixed old songs like Working Up a Sweat and Raped and Freezin (he did a mexican hat dance at the end) with his newer stuff like Pain and You Look in Rags where he danced with a rag doll. Awesome show!!

[@ChristPherCaNk714]

80' Joe Louis. Billy Squire opened.12yrs old

[@JoeyP322]

“From the Inside” was an awesome album. That tour in February of ‘79 was he started falling down that rabbit hole.

[@robertwright7538]

Freebase Alice. Love the Black Out Albums!

[@romeowhiskee7874]

The best !

[@erasenegatedelete]

Totally agree! Special Forces and Dada are two of my all time favorite albums ever. Zipper Catches Skin is a little too goofy for my tastes lol.

[@Jimmie_Rudolfsson]

July 24, 1981. He played Sunrise Musical Theater, Sunrise, Florida that same night

[@roxannemoser]

Inventor of the man bun

[@ivycutler1907]

Looks so sad here.. Glad he cleaned up his act thanks to Sheryl... She was his lifesaver .. ❤❤❤❤

[@irinayudina4309]

His speed and cocaine era

[@jasonhardy9512]

Thank you! Love it.

[@klieglamp]

The innocence is in his eyes. I'm glad he found his way . . . .

[@drillbag]

i love the Crackpipe Cooper era

[@d0b0d0b]

Oh, He talks about his little daughter ! ❤

[@uriah768ok]

The coke is strong with this one

[@stevekosak8624]

All American bad ass!!! Love Alice!!!!👽

[@ВарвараРепина-у8э]

Он такой стесняшка, даже в камеру не смотрит🌚🖤🥰

[@larry-om9tg]

He started the man bun fade.

[@alexkx8599]

As with most videos I have to ask when this took place and why no one is asking?

[@lennydog666]

1981 it appears

[@gasmaskboi19371945]

Can someone tell me when this interview is from? I know it’s 1980-83 but can’t tell when specifically

[@franziskaanson1562]

Somewhere between May and August 1981 based on the fact that calico was born in May 1981 and he mentions her being a baby and the fact that special forces was about to come out soon and it came out in September.

[@gasmaskboi19371945]

@@franziskaanson1562 Thank you!

[@raymondsheffield5366]

Unfortunately, this looks like the PUNK ERA and he has admitted that, at this time he was using street drugs. :(

[@rhostatton8944]

freebase alice phase

[@jasonreese4573]

Why did he lie for so long about the drugs ?

[@blackjuju5154]

@@jasonreese4573 Alice was ashamed of being addicted. It’s the same as some young people hiding smoking from their parents.

[@DylanRoth1860]

What year was this? Seems like he was turning the corner at this point.

[@d0b0d0b]

1981.

[@spookybaba]

I guess he won't remember this interview, seeing as he didn't recall recording Special Forces. I do like those three albums he has no memory of - Flush, Zipper, and Forces.

[@damonwillis3672]

Special Forces era

[@brettcooper3893]

Special Forces publicity tour. 1981.

[@gordonteats298]

I MADE THE TEAM by APOLOGETIX a great Alice Cooper parody

[@Mad_Hatterlover]

I LOVE THE MAN BUN!!!!

[@rhyenan]

this man is born old 🤔😅 he looks better now than then 😅

[@CaretakerWanted]

Drugs would do that to you.

[@shable1436]

Yardbirds ala Cooper 😂😂😂 bless his little heart I love hot dog's but I don't open a stand in the desert lolol 😂 but I have been there

[@sbi168]

very cool. As mentioned by others some changes in views over just a couple of years. Obviously he was on and off allot of drugs in this era. (teeth looking different here for sure!)

[@kewlmark72]

so young. I got to meet him. I was looking for Lost in America. NOt even on KZbin. Great song.

[@jdmcd3873]

Lost in America is on You Tube.

[@stevencooper3202]

Hes not young here. This is over twenty years into his career

[@Shadowx011]

@@stevencooper3202 really 20 years? When did his career really start because I am quite sure this is from ‘81? He is probably much younger than he looks here as well because obviously the drugs/alcohol had a strong hold on him here. I am pretty sure he was not big in the 60’s but I could be wrong and am too lazy to Wikipedia it.

[@janets9179]

He became popular in '71 with song "18", from album "love it to death"

[@stevencooper3202]

@@Shadowx011 sixties

[@jeffprystaloski4450]

Alice is to blame for the man bun.

[@tasinbaneir4231]

Was this the year that Cooper was the future?

[@laurencelevene4333]

1986

[@laurencelevene4333]

No, I mean 1982

[@ChristPherCaNk714]

​@laurencelevene4333 It was 1984 started in a classroom

[@brianmcmanus4690]

Cocaine's a hell of a drug.

[@mjh5437]

Alice in his Sumo look.

[@Faithneverfails7]

Legend

[@LittleJohnaton]

keith cooper!

[@Mad_Hatterlover]

I love the man bun!

[@tootsieshmutsie6428]

Great

[@rudolfx1070]

Blabber versus blasé, erh. O, I know! Using a blunderbuss to empty a barrel.

[@invisibleman1028]

He's sporting the trendy yet nauseating "man-bun".

[@nolagospeltracts8264]

$10 for a ticket

[@larry-om9tg]

fad.

[@Demonizer5134]

He is hideous.