If you look at the bands that are still here - Aerosmith, Guns N’ Roses, Rolling Stones, Alice Cooper - we’re all hard rock bands. It comes out and my wife says, “Did you see this?” I looked and it says, “Alice’s album debuts at #1.” I went, “What?!”Īnd hard rock. And not only did we do it there, we wrote it about Detroit and we used all Detroit players - guys from the MC5, Grand Funk Railroad and people like that. The only place you can do a real hard rock album is Detroit. You can’t do that album in Nashville - you can’t do it in L.A.
I said I wanted to do a rock album - a full out rock album. We did the album right before the pandemic hit. How gratifying was it to see that album in particular do so well in 2021? It gets into your history and your story so much. Speaking of concept albums, Detroit Stories did so well this year, topping the Billboard Top Album Sales chart. But it was the idea that you could put horror, comedy and music together and it would make sense, you know? It certainly wasn’t anything like our show. And he said, “Well, we could do something different with my kind of music…” And that’s really basically it. Because Nightmare was a total concept album beginning to end - and a show with it. Michael told me he considered Thriller to be an offshoot of Welcome to My Nightmare. Vincent Price was on the Welcome to My Nightmare album.ĪC: We gave him his first gold album! Pre-Michael Jackson. (Photo by Michael Montfort/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Getty Images film 'Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood' in December 1975 in Los Angeles, California. LOS ANGELES - DECEMBER 1975: Musician Alice Cooper and actor Vincent Price attend a party for the. But it’s become so much of a household word now that grandparents, parents, and grandkids all come to the show. It’s a character I play - it’s not even me. And I love hearing that! This is the only time where I can really go one-on-one with fans.Īlice has become the new Vincent Price. “I saw you in 1973!” “I saw you in 1981!” “I saw you in 1995!” They all have great stories. But when I do these, everybody’s got a story. I don’t meet anybody - except the VIP’s afterwards. What’s that been like?ĪC: Here’s the deal: Generally, I get into town, we play the show and I leave. And we love the grind! MORE FROM FORBES Priscilla Presley, Billy Zane And More On Interacting With Fans Amidst Return To Convention Stage By Jim Ryanĭoing the conventions, even more so than the concerts, you’re really interacting with your fans. We’re so used to being on stage that 18 months off was like insane! Just the idea that we were going to rehearse, everybody was giddy about it - couldn’t wait to get back on stage.īecause we didn’t know if there was going to be an end to this! Maybe it was all over? Now people are out doing shows again - it’s back to the grind. And we usually average 100 to 200 shows a year. What’s it been like doing that run of conventions this year?ĪLICE COOPER: For one thing, we had 18 months off. Well, obviously your incorporation of everything from vaudeville to horror in your live set fits perfectly with the Days of the Dead convention. Breed Of Tycoon.' Magazine cover courtesy of Forbes Rocker Alice Cooper graces the cover of Forbes magazine in April of 1973, a piece entitled 'A New. Instead of ignoring us, they had to start listening to us. And so all of the sudden, with those hit records, people started following us. Because all of the sudden, they go, “Wait a minute… I gotta latch onto that…” You know, follow the money. Especially for a band that everybody thought would last a week and a half because it was so extreme.īut if you have a hit record in this business, it doesn’t just speak to the radio - it speaks to all the money in the world. That tour was so big that it got everybody’s attention. Well, people were not used to rock stars. Because we were still the same guys.ġ973. When the Forbes thing came out it was like, “Oh, could you please sit here - in first class?” Because all of the sudden they related it with Forbes, you know? It was very funny. April of 1973.ĪLICE COOPER: I’d get on an airplane - and at this time I was the scourge of rock and roll, so there was no businessman that wanted to be near me. You’ve actually graced the cover of Forbes magazine.