Vincent Damon Furnier has always been proud of his native city: even when his musical projects were not yet under the name Alice Cooper, he saw them in the tradition of Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels or MC5. His new album "Detroit Stories", recorded with such illustrious musicians as Joe Bonamassa and MC5 co-founder Wayne Kramer, is a homage to the sound of the former Motor City in the late 1960s: It celebrates early American hard rock, but doesn't forget Motown pop and soul.
When the Hollywood Vampires were founded in 2015 by longtime buddies Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and Joe Perry, nobody would have believed that the band would last long. That's exactly what she's doing. The Vampires tour regularly, worldwide, and they now released their second album "Rise". With this they prove above all that they are a real band project in which all the protagonists are musically involved.
Whenever the last opportunity for a conversation with Alice Cooper arose, it ended with statements about the state of affairs of the Hollywood vampires. "Working on a Cooper album with Bob Ezrin is always intense, but no matter who is involved, Bob and I ultimately decide. And we act like two people who write and conceive for the one art product Alice Cooper. The Hollywood Vampires, on the other hand, have a real band feeling, like the Alice Cooper Group did until 1974."
When the thin, sickly Vincent Damon veneer saw the light of day seven decades ago in Detroit Rock City, his parents had trouble keeping the human chick alive. His father, an Evangelical pastor, and his mother moved to Phoenix from Detroit, an industrial moloch. The dry-hot climate in Arizona got her young son much better. His constitution became so strong that he was to survive a wild career as a rock star in the seventies. The Coopers are also at home in Phoenix today. The female common name Alice Cooper, once conceived as a stage name, has been the officially registered name of Vincent Furnier since the early seventies. His wife and three children are called Cooper and not Veneer.
Two names, one man? And Zappa!
ETERNAL LIFE
The Alice Cooper Interview
eclipsed author Michael Lorant has interviewed Alice Cooper nine times over the last three decades. These included telephone calls, but also conversations in which people sat opposite each other. In addition, there are several so-called Meet and Greet meetings on the fringes of concerts. The last time he met the veteran shock rocker was in Essen in April during the "Rock meets Classic" concert series.
IQ
The discovery of slowness
eclipsed author Michael Lorant has interviewed Alice Cooper nine times over the last three decades. These included telephone calls, but also conversations in which people sat opposite each other. In addition, there are several so-called Meet and Greet meetings on the fringes of concerts. The last time he met the veteran shock rocker was in Essen in April during the "Rock meets Classic" concert series.
eclipsed: To fall right into the house with the door. After the appearance of the original Alice Cooper group in the "Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame" three years ago and the three songs on the "Welcome 2 My Nightmare" album, will there be a future for the band again?
Alice Cooper: The question doesn't arise that way. And not because I never want to do anything with the boys again, or ever will. There is simply no question of touring the world again with the original Alice Cooper Group.
PINK FLOYD
The refinement of the perfect
With "Why Pink Floyd?" the British rock legend Pink Floyd not only refines their back catalogue, but also launches a marketing campaign that even surpasses the Beatles madness of 2010. eclipsed drummer Nick Mason took to the verbal sweatbox and demanded Tacheles - about ongoing reunion rumours, unreleased recordings, the current band chemistry and mistakes of the past. We also interviewed sound engineer Andy Jackson about his experiences with Pink Floyd. And: We start the walk through all the studios where the band ever recorded.
STEVEN WILSON
Soli Surcharge
QUEEN The
Coronation of the Seventies
When 19-year-old bassist John Deacon joined the band of Freddie Mercury, Brian May and Roger Taylor in February 1971, Queen were ready to go. What followed was a career of intoxication. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the legendary rock band, we provide a chronology of the most exciting phase of their career: Queen in the seventies.
ELOY Time
Machine Music
Torn apart and newly formed - Frank Bornemann has experienced this with his band Eloy several times. He has kept the formation alive since 1969. After eleven years of radio silence, Eloy returned in 2009 with the CD "Visionary". In December the DVD retrospective "The Legacy Box" was released, in July Eloy will play live for the first time in 13 years. Review of the stations in the career of a German prog band.
AMPLIFIER
"We wanted to create a myth!"
YES
game without limits
"Art comes from skill!" - many retroprog acts almost defiantly carry this slogan in front of them. "Genius comes from enjoyment!" - this witty word of Ernst Penzoldt one would like to hold out to the often grim musicians. A treat is what Yes, the progenitors of "Retro-Chic", have been serving up to the progressive rock world for 40 years now: In their best moments, the group has displayed a playful sophistication and lightness that are unmatched to this day. We honor the British Symphonic Prog princes with a three-part feature.
ALICE COOPER
Schizophrenia as an Opportunity
