AAAAAARG!!
Saturday, May 6th, 2006 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meo_chanFound an article in The Barrie Advance about the Alice Cooper concert that's coming up. I'm on the laptop right now, so I'll have to type it up rather than scan it.
Alice Cooper will rip your head off
Veteran theatrical rocker takes over BMC stage next thursday
His concerts take his fans back in time to a 15th-century village, down roads to dark places they may not want to visit, travels from which they may reurn exhausted.
And he threatens to do the same to Barrie fans, Thursday, May 11 at Molson Centre.
If they don't come back feeling dazed and feeling like thier heads have been ripped off, well, Alice Cooper just plain ain't done his job!
"I like to involve the audience", the Detroit-born rocker tells The Advance. "If you're in the first 20 rows, you know you're in the show, and it's probably not a good idea to wear your best clothes. When they cut my head off, it's going to spray - no two ways about it."
And it's not just Alice who gets splattered; his whole cast of characters are also in for some love.
"When Paris Hilton (her lookalike, of course) comes wandering onto the stage with her chihuahua, what's everyone's fantasy? That the chihuahua will go for her throat - and you know the audience is going to get splattered with that."
Those characters include a bunch of villagers sceaming for Alice's head, a vampire in the guise of a Vegas showgirl, a hunchback screaming "Guillotine! Guillotine!" - all the makings of a complete show that should leave patrons limp with exhustion.
But to borrow an analogy which the artist born Vincent Furnier tosses out, you can't have the icing on the cake - the theatrics, the guillotine, the fake blood - without the cake. And that's the tunes.
"They're coming the hear 'School's Out', '18', 'No More Mr. Nice Guy', 'Million-Dollar Baby', 'Poison', 'Only Women Bleed'. We do 29 songs in he show, and it's all pure classic Alice."
Ah, yes, 'School's Out' a tune cranked out on every teenager's car stereo every June since the early 70s, which makes its creator shakes his head in wonder.
"I never really realized the power of that song," he recalls, "till I realized that the favourite part of your year is the last three minutes before summer vacation, like opening Christmas presents. When we wrote that song, I thought, if we could capture the excitement of those three mintues, that's going to be a national anthem."
Alice is also gratified at the cross-section of agegroups that turn out for his shows continent-wide - the kids going through the malls wearing T-shirts honoring the classic rock bands, like Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, yes, Alice Cooper - not just their parents who graduated when 'School's Out' first came out.
GOD!! It sounds so amazing! And if I can't find anyone to go with, I'm just going to go with my brother. Ah well.
Alice Cooper will rip your head off
Veteran theatrical rocker takes over BMC stage next thursday
His concerts take his fans back in time to a 15th-century village, down roads to dark places they may not want to visit, travels from which they may reurn exhausted.
And he threatens to do the same to Barrie fans, Thursday, May 11 at Molson Centre.
If they don't come back feeling dazed and feeling like thier heads have been ripped off, well, Alice Cooper just plain ain't done his job!
"I like to involve the audience", the Detroit-born rocker tells The Advance. "If you're in the first 20 rows, you know you're in the show, and it's probably not a good idea to wear your best clothes. When they cut my head off, it's going to spray - no two ways about it."
And it's not just Alice who gets splattered; his whole cast of characters are also in for some love.
"When Paris Hilton (her lookalike, of course) comes wandering onto the stage with her chihuahua, what's everyone's fantasy? That the chihuahua will go for her throat - and you know the audience is going to get splattered with that."
Those characters include a bunch of villagers sceaming for Alice's head, a vampire in the guise of a Vegas showgirl, a hunchback screaming "Guillotine! Guillotine!" - all the makings of a complete show that should leave patrons limp with exhustion.
But to borrow an analogy which the artist born Vincent Furnier tosses out, you can't have the icing on the cake - the theatrics, the guillotine, the fake blood - without the cake. And that's the tunes.
"They're coming the hear 'School's Out', '18', 'No More Mr. Nice Guy', 'Million-Dollar Baby', 'Poison', 'Only Women Bleed'. We do 29 songs in he show, and it's all pure classic Alice."
Ah, yes, 'School's Out' a tune cranked out on every teenager's car stereo every June since the early 70s, which makes its creator shakes his head in wonder.
"I never really realized the power of that song," he recalls, "till I realized that the favourite part of your year is the last three minutes before summer vacation, like opening Christmas presents. When we wrote that song, I thought, if we could capture the excitement of those three mintues, that's going to be a national anthem."
Alice is also gratified at the cross-section of agegroups that turn out for his shows continent-wide - the kids going through the malls wearing T-shirts honoring the classic rock bands, like Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, yes, Alice Cooper - not just their parents who graduated when 'School's Out' first came out.
GOD!! It sounds so amazing! And if I can't find anyone to go with, I'm just going to go with my brother. Ah well.
