I bought this album in '77 at a record store in Big Bear. I was 12. My parents weren't exactly thrilled. A year later my folks took me to Las Vegas for the first time. They said they'd take me to any show I chose. Alice happened to be there so of course I chose him. True to their word, we saw him Saturday night and my folks ended up enjoying the show almost as much as I did. RIP Mom and Pop and Bless You Coop.
My parents didn't like Alice Cooper Band. You were lucky. I believe I'm the same age....10 in '73. Dad refused to let me buy Billion Dollar Babies because on the back it has the names of songs like "Sick Things" and "I love the Dead." 😂 Did you catch Alice on Snoop Sisters? LOL!
I seen him for the first time in 77 I think too at the checkeredome in St Louis Missouri and that's where the blues play there was no four seats where the ice was usually is all open look like Bourbon Street with all the lights around the stage around the rink what a good show remember it like it was yesterday still have the flyer from the concert got my tickets at Orange Julius that was at Northwest plaza shopping mall.
Alice Cooper was my first concert. $5.00 TICKET!! Lincoln, Ne. I was 15. Took my sisters. Age 13, and 12. Our dad drove us to Lincoln from Omaha. And he waited in the car the whole concert. My dad! What an amazing thing for him to do. A great memory.
Bee sound like you really had a great dad not only did he allow you and your siblings go to this concert he waited in the car for you until it was over. That is classic !
I am going to see Alice in concert tomorrow. Can't wait. I'm 65 and played this song when I was 18. Lol So brilliant along with School's out and was a sophomore. So excited. He's a real performer.
I saw Alice in ‘75 and then two more times (including Welcome to my Nightmare tour) It was glorious. My youngest brother (whose no longer with us) painted Alice on our bedroom wall. Black lights, strobe lights, and a small record player spinning ‘killer’ in the the dark. I love you, my brother, I love you Alice, and the amazing memories this album brings.
That’s me back sitting in my Blacklight and Strobe light, and all my posters lit up, burning one and jamming to Alice! Now I’m an old man thinking about the days gone by still jamming to Alice!
I’ve seen him with my son 56 and56. 4 times on stage live and we’ll do it again. There were a lot of little kids the last concert, they were excited. The songs on this album and many others are great. Welcome to My Nightmare, Ballad of Dwight Fry, Cold Ethyl, Feed My Frankenstein, etc,…
Alice will be played 1000 years from now when we are in a different solar system and smokin better and kynder Jesus weed! Let the good times roll every time you play this album!
I just found out a couple days ago a childhood friend of mine died. We used to party and listen to this album, and here it pops up on my YT feed. Strange. RIP my friend.
My grandfather gave me a bunch if records when I was in high school, this one was among them and forever changed how I heard music. Keep on rocking people!! 🤘🔥
It has become a favorite of mine, too. I bought it when I was young and can’t say I dislike any song on the album. I can think of a few albums like that like Aja by Steely Dan or Rocks by Aerosmith, any Zeppelin Album, etc.
I CAN SHOW YOU TOBS OF KILLER MUSIC FROM THIS ERA. MUSIC WAS ABOUT THE MUSIC BACK THEN. YOU HAD TO BE FRESH AND YOU COULDNT SOUND LIKE ANYONE ELSE. SIDE NOTE I DRESSED AS ALICE COOPER IN 72 WENT TO SCHOOL.
Saw Alice Cooper at Maple Leaf Gardens on New Year's Eve, 1971. The extravaganza also featured Edgar Winter's White Trash, Dr. John, and a few Canadian bands. I think I was 15 at the time; my girlfriend, 14. I failed to meet the curfew that New Year's Eve, much to her father's annoyance.
The old days, about 1972, someone called on a Friday night. When I answered they hung up. They did it a 2nd time. This was before cell phones. I set up my brother's stereo and put on Alice Cooper's Killer album with Under My Wheels ready to play with the volume full blast. The phone rang again. I started the record player at the same time picking up the receiver and putting it to the speaker. Whoever it was didn't like Alice Cooper because they didn't call back. 😶🌫😜💥 Alice Cooper was the first concert I went to. New Orleans, 1973.
Saw Alice Cooper in 1978 with some chick from NYC...some nightclub chick from a bar called CBGBS...unfortunately Philadelphia being Philadelphia they booed her off stage...they threw ...what I was guessing beer cups...she was wearing her signature leapord skin outfit...
When I was 16[1988] I bought this cassette. My friends and I were learning as much guitar(Heavy Metal, Glam Metal, Classic Rock) as possible. I then found that staying close with my family would make all things possible! Thanks Coop.
A week before my 14th birthday, Alice was touring about 30 minutes away. It just so happened to be the same town as my favorite restaurant. Best Birthday present ever
I'm Eighteen 2:58 Is It My Body 5:37 Desperado 9:06 Under My Wheels 11:54 Be My Lover 15:14 School's Out 18:45 Hello Hooray 23:00 Elected 27:05 No More Mr. Nice Guy 30:12 Billion Dollar Babies 33:52 Teenage Lament '74 37:44 Muscle of Love
Alice was a profound influence on me, used to listen to early albums in my room in front of a mirror, and put on his makeup, including the snakeskin lips. Got this album when it came out, only wish it had “I Love the Dead” on it. Saw Alice in concert with Orianthi as his guitarist, I felt I was watching two superstars. Such great memories.
The wild age....18,school out, no more mr nice guy and muscle of love my favorites in this nice copilation album. I lost the long play album but i have on cd yet!
This and Billion Dollar Babies were the first two Alice Cooper albums I ever owned. The first line up up to Wlecome To My Nightmare is the CLASSIC Alice Cooper line up, but I've been an Alice Cooper fan all my life.
I WAS AT THIS CONCERT IN 74 - MAYBE THAT IS WHAT TEENAGE LAMENT 74 MEANS, HUH - IT SAYS AT THE VERY END THAT AFTER AN HOUR, THE CROWD DISPERSED (LIE) WE AND MOST PPL THERE BANGED THEIR FEET FOR 3 HOURS, WE STAYED 3.5 HOURS PAST. Alice Bombed in Toledo Toledo - Pelted by fireworks and debris, Alice Cooper recently walked off their "Holiday Show" at the Toledo Sports Arena. According to Ashley Pandel, Cooper's publicist, "Alice felt if they continued, there could be another Altamont." Guitarist Michael Bruce was reportedly cut on the face after fireworks thrown from the audience shattered an overhead light bar. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where a particle of metal was removed from an eye. He suffered no serious injuries. Alice and the rest of the band left the arena shortly after their walkoff. During a half-hour wait - while the audience lingered, waiting for resumption of the show - seven carloads of police were summoned to join 20 off-duty cops at the auditorium to control the near sell-out crowd of 8,000. "Security at the concert was non-existent," charged James Randi, who plays the executioner in the band's "I Love Dead Things" (sic) act. "There was only a two-foot barrier to separate the crowd from the stage." Trouble began to develop even before Cooper appeared. Fireworks, including Roman candles, were set off during Z.Z. Top's opening set. Then, according to Mark Scheerer, newsman at WIOT-FM Toledo, "Alice got the first bars of 'Hello Hooray' out and got hit in the chest with either an egg or vegetables. He did a mock stagger and went on. Then people started throwing a variety of missiles at a fairly steady pace. Alice did the second number, 'Billion Dollar Babies,' and the lights went down. Alice told the people, 'We came to play, and we don't appreciate being targets.'" A cherry bomb, as Scheerer described it - arena manger Gerald Francis said it was an M-80, equal in power to one-eighth of a stick of dynamite - went off, shattered the light, and Bruce was hit and led offstage. Alice then decided to cancel, Pandel said, "before someone got killed." The band - and most witnesses - were unable to explain the violence. Pandel said the crowd seemed more "bewildered" than angry at anything. A crush of people directly in front of the stage, he said, began pushing forward, shoving matches began "and then things were being thrown." Scheerer said Toledo rock fans had no history of violence. "It was just a handful of malcontents. I think they just felt it was obligatory. You know, to match his violence." Pandel disagreed. "Alice is only trying to relieve tension in kids. When they leave an Alice Cooper show, ther sure won't get into violence. They've seen it already." Ironically enough, the night before in Ann Arbor, Dennis Dunaway said before the concert, "We get off more on a Detroit-type crowd - crowds that physically get into a concert." After an hour's wait, the crowd was finally dispersed, according to police. No arrests or refunds were made.
Great band and immortal music! I was there! 1972 I was 17, saw cooper in concert in the 90’s at Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia; backup band was Journey (I think) got totally wasted on Black Jack, Red Bud and pure rock Coke! Now THAT was an experience! My informed field absorbed the essence and it was awesome! YEEHAW!!!
I bought this LP back in the 70s. As l no longer own a record player l haven't listened to it for many many years so this classic has resided in my loft with 100s of other LPs.
Oh,boy nothing like Alice cooper classics,,but these were some his best,,I bought this album at the record store, and played the shit ! Out of it!!especially "no more mr. Nice guy "
I playfully yelled at AC when he dedicated my Schools out album he was signing to my friend Bernie, he was cool about it and took us on the tour bus and signed me a promo poster…great guy
I cut so much school and listening to this was a big cool part I think i learned more from Alice's songs than school I seen the special forces tour it was so cool,,,love memories,,,
Saw him at a free concert on DC national mall. When he peeled off his silver trousers I thought, no class. He's still without class,but the world needs people like him.
He's definitely one of my very favorites 🐼 Welcome to my Nightmare Billion dollar Baby .... Detroit girl born 1959 lived in the best music decades ever ❤
This was the first Alice Cooper album I ever bought. I was 14 at the time and that was fifty years ago, and although there are more comprehensive "best-ofs", and even a great box set out there, this is still the one I like to blast in the car - except it's a CD now rather than an 8-track, and a Range Rover instead of a Chevy Nova - and I still get the same kick.
Listening to all this I just realised what a massive influence Alice Cooper was on early Bowie, Panic in Detroit (natch), Diamond Dogs, Suffragette City etc. As I’m sure DB would have been happy to admit (they were mates).
Yes, Alice sang elected, Bowie did Candidate from diamond dogs. Alice did I love the dead Bowie sang we are the dead from "dogs " Alice did sick things, Bowie did sweet thing. Alice cooper always lead the way
I knew a guy whose Dad owned a driving range , in Merrillville , Indiana. He said Alice came in his store, when he played Merrillville. He said he spent a lot of money, and was a very nice guy.
One of the first albums I bought when I was a young teen and had my own system. I have not listened to this in many years and then this rush of memories flooded in. I know all the words to every song... good stuff.
Does anyone remember 8 track tape players? I couldn't afford a record player I couldn't afford a stereo to plug one into.i got my drivers license at 15 and my mom let me drive her station wagon to school I got a brand new pioneer super tuner 8 track tape player,a pair of Jensen 6x9 triaxils,and a kraco 40watt power booster and I rocked alice!!!
My FIRST concert Alice n Vinnie Vincent. I wore a white leather mini skirt. 15 years old and on some random dudes shoulders right up front. I was OBSESSED with Alice from that night on. I'm 51 now but still get 15 yr old giddiness when I hear him. ❤️
I have all LP's from the first to Nightmare. Best stuff. After nope. Same with Yes after Relayer and Genesis after Lamb. First editions of bands are always the best.
cheers great album thank you for posting i hope more make comments on this because i would like to here back from you real soon, i will see you later and have a nice day and may god bless you with love because he is the only one that takes care of us all at all times also if you have faith in god then you will have his word as well and if you read the bible it would be the best thing you can do in life.
Alice Cooper was a big part of the emergence of MTV. Along with Michael Jackson he seemed to realise that he could use theatre with music. Of course theatre translated very well onto the stage as well. What a treat!
Cooper was doing his shows years before MTV was even a thought. Hell, he invented "Theatrical Rock" when little Michael was still singing, "ABC" In fact, had MTV paid a bit more attention to just how many promotional videos were around, then they would have had more to offer in the first two months other than The Buggles', "Video Killed The Radio Star". They could have shown music videos made by The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, etc. Plus tons of concert clips by any number of bands out there, but you had New York, non-musical people running MTV during their first year. I know a lot of people who called MTV's corporate offices, (myself included), to give advice, not to mention beaucoup record company phone numbers who would have killed to let MTV give their performers free air time.
Actually no. In the early 80's when MTV was on the rise, Alice Cooper was at the lowest point of his career. He sure recovered and by the end of the decade he had some popular videos on the channel (from the Trash album), but in 1983 when Michael Jackson was dominating the world, nobody was giving a damn about Alice Cooper (I think Dada is one of his best releases tough).
This was the first LP I ever bought, back in '79 or '80 when I was...12? 13? I had to pilfer a lot of coins from the coin jar next to the laundry dryer to buy this record, but more than half of them were coins from my jeans that my mom gave me to buy school lunches with anyways. And she almost never gave me an allowance so I don't see what the big deal was or why she felt she needed to throw the jar at my head (she missed, it was a rhetorical throw) when she found out about the coins. :P Anyways it was totally worth it, I still love this album nd Alice and the band all these decades later.
I like all these songs but one is missing, the Ballad of Dwight Fry, the band I was in back than did covers we played GFR Alice, Spirit and many others that was some really good music back than good times good memories. Started playin' the drums when I was 10 that would have been 63 and got in my first band in 66, just keep on rockin'.
Omg! Alice, aka Vincent, from Detroit, closed the Michigan State Fair for so many years. The cost was $5.00 to get into the fair grounds. I've been there at least 10 years straight. If it wasn't for Jennifer Grandholm, I'm sure he'd still be the closing act. My eldest daughter lives down the road from him in Scottsdale AZ. Alice, come back home! We'll fill the seats!!!!!
16 yr old 1986 driving wide open on a maze of dirt roads "dry pond" letting Alice in my head while anticipating the night full of partying with good friends and living for the day....Damn I miss those days
With From the Inside being my favorite Alice album, with Love it to Death and Muscle of Love coming in next, the best way I can describe it is like this: Solo Alice had great musicians, but here there was a great BAND. Idk if that makes sense to anyone else lol
My favorite first hard rock albums at 14 years old in 1976' were , Alice Coopers greatest hits. Grand Funk " Were an American Band ". Black Sabbath " Paranoid " . The Who " Who's next ". Kansas " Leftoverture" .
My brother turned me on to Alice Cooper back in the day. Cold Ethel and dead babies scared me but I'd go in another part of the house until those 2 songs were over.
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I bought this album in '77 at a record store in Big Bear. I was 12. My parents weren't exactly thrilled. A year later my folks took me to Las Vegas for the first time. They said they'd take me to any show I chose. Alice happened to be there so of course I chose him. True to their word, we saw him Saturday night and my folks ended up enjoying the show almost as much as I did. RIP Mom and Pop and Bless You Coop.
My parents didn't like Alice Cooper Band.
You were lucky. I believe I'm the same age....10 in '73. Dad refused to let me buy Billion Dollar Babies because on the back it has the names of songs like "Sick Things" and "I love the Dead." 😂
Did you catch Alice on Snoop Sisters? LOL!
That's a freaking beautiful memory! xo xo ❤
I seen him for the first time in 77 I think too at the checkeredome in St Louis Missouri and that's where the blues play there was no four seats where the ice was usually is all open look like Bourbon Street with all the lights around the stage around the rink what a good show remember it like it was yesterday still have the flyer from the concert got my tickets at Orange Julius that was at Northwest plaza shopping mall.
Love this!
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Alice Cooper was my first concert. $5.00 TICKET!! Lincoln, Ne. I was 15. Took my sisters. Age 13, and 12. Our dad drove us to Lincoln from Omaha. And he waited in the car the whole concert. My dad! What an amazing thing for him to do. A great memory.
Bee sound like you really had a great dad not only did he allow you and your siblings go to this concert he waited in the car for you until it was over. That is classic !
🕷🕷🕷Great.
Un gran padre, amoroso de sus hijos.
Tell me about toxic masculinity. BS!
Hell yeah what a great memory and extreme solid from your old man.👍
I am going to see Alice in concert tomorrow. Can't wait. I'm 65 and played this song when I was 18. Lol So brilliant along with School's out and was a sophomore. So excited. He's a real performer.
YES HE'S TOURING AGAIN!!!
I saw Alice in ‘75 and then two more times (including Welcome to my Nightmare tour)
It was glorious.
My youngest brother (whose no longer with us) painted Alice on our bedroom wall.
Black lights, strobe lights, and a small record player spinning ‘killer’ in the the dark.
I love you, my brother, I love you Alice, and the amazing memories this album brings.
That’s me back sitting in my Blacklight and Strobe light, and all my posters lit up, burning one and jamming to Alice! Now I’m an old man thinking about the days gone by still jamming to Alice!
Nice. I am 59 and still sing along with the Greatist Hits album!
you're talking to the choir
Gotta light
Hell yeah!
1976 and I was 14. I had a blacklight and posters and was always blasting Alice Cooper and Grand Funk and smoking pot.
I was listening to Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits when I was 16. Now I am 63 and still listening to the same album 👍
Same.
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Rock on brother
Exact same vinyl album??
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THANKS
65. Same here
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Most of my friends have passed away. I can't believe that I am still here!!! Yet we are still rocking!!
I’ve seen him with my son 56 and56. 4 times on stage live and we’ll do it again. There were a lot of little kids the last concert, they were excited. The songs on this album and many others are great. Welcome to My Nightmare, Ballad of Dwight Fry, Cold Ethyl, Feed My Frankenstein, etc,…
One of the slickest album covers in the golden era of album art.
I bought this album the week it came out...and wore it out. The classics never go away!!! Love it to death!!
Only 2 tracks from I Love It To Death though lol. Kinda surprised Dwight Frye didn't make the cut. At any rate still a great record.
One of my most memorable Concerts in early 1980's. A True Showman.
Not only a great album, but one of the greatest album covers of all time. I have it framed on my wall.
Every Alice cooper album cover is a work of art, especially 1972-1978
Yes. Scope it all. Beautiful
From Pacific Arts - original and iconic. Tru OG
Alice will be played 1000 years from now when we are in a different solar system and smokin better and kynder Jesus weed! Let the good times roll every time you play this album!
I just found out a couple days ago a childhood friend of mine died. We used to party and listen to this album, and here it pops up on my YT feed. Strange. RIP my friend.
My grandfather gave me a bunch if records when I was in high school, this one was among them and forever changed how I heard music. Keep on rocking people!! 🤘🔥
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It has become a favorite of mine, too. I bought it when I was young and can’t say I dislike any song on the album. I can think of a few albums like that like Aja by Steely Dan or Rocks by Aerosmith, any Zeppelin Album, etc.
REMEMBER THE OLD SAYING: ALICE IS THE SHIT!
I CAN SHOW YOU TOBS OF KILLER MUSIC FROM THIS ERA.
MUSIC WAS ABOUT THE MUSIC BACK THEN.
YOU HAD TO BE FRESH AND YOU COULDNT SOUND LIKE ANYONE ELSE.
SIDE NOTE I DRESSED AS ALICE COOPER IN 72 WENT TO SCHOOL.
@@ronniewall492 I love it!
I was listening to this when I turned 18 back in 1975! Still rocking to Alice...:)
@Alice Cooper Quebec Canada
@Alice Cooper Suddenly, I realize I see it all through real eyes!
Just saw you on tv, Season 5 Episode 2 of Monk - it was awesome!!!
CHEERS from AUSTRALIA
I was 16
Saw Alice Cooper at Maple Leaf Gardens on New Year's Eve, 1971. The extravaganza also featured Edgar Winter's White Trash, Dr. John, and a few Canadian bands. I think I was 15 at the time; my girlfriend, 14. I failed to meet the curfew that New Year's Eve, much to her father's annoyance.
OMG!!! This brings back SO many wonderful memories of my teens and seeing Cooper in Detroit♥️♥️♥️
so good
The old days, about 1972, someone called on a Friday night. When I answered they hung up. They did it a 2nd time. This was before cell phones. I set up my brother's stereo and put on Alice Cooper's Killer album with Under My Wheels ready to play with the volume full blast. The phone rang again. I started the record player at the same time picking up the receiver and putting it to the speaker. Whoever it was didn't like Alice Cooper because they didn't call back. 😶🌫😜💥 Alice Cooper was the first concert I went to. New Orleans, 1973.
Saw Alice the summer of 73 also on his Billion Dollar Babies tour. One of my top 3 concerts.
My first concert was Alice Cooper too, 12 years old Welcome To My Nightmare
Oh yeah, that was me. Sorry. 😂😂😂
Righteous
Saw Alice Cooper in 1978 with some chick from NYC...some nightclub chick from a bar called CBGBS...unfortunately Philadelphia being Philadelphia they booed her off stage...they threw ...what I was guessing beer cups...she was wearing her signature leapord skin outfit...
On May 5th, 1973 I took my younger brother to his 1st concert. Billion Dollar Tour,,......wow, 50 years ago!
One of the best,Rock albums,from Alice Cooper!! G
Happy 75th birthday Alice!
Отмечаю день рождения Элиса!!! Привет из России!!! Элис, пожалуйста, живи подольше...
@@ВладимирПанов-х9л Тоже люблю альбомы Alice Cooper, особенно старые!
When I was 16[1988] I bought this cassette. My friends and I were learning as much guitar(Heavy Metal, Glam Metal, Classic Rock) as possible. I then found that staying close with my family would make all things possible! Thanks Coop.
I was listening to billion dollar babies on 8- track cruises the back roads in an old 64 galaxy 500. That my friend, ROCKED.🤘
I like all eras of Alice.
But the first era is the best.
The Alice Cooper band, yeah baby....
Magic!
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I don't consider anything after Muscle of Love "Alice Cooper" personally.
@@kemouse Even Muscle of Love was like ...eh....and I HATE that album cover !
@@LannieLord Yeah that was probably the weakest one but I still liked it. Yeah a lot of work went in to the cover!
I like the early works, but I have a special place in my heart (and in my ears) for Brutal Planet and Dragon Town.
Icono del rock
12 masterpieces. What an incredible artist. Great compilation 🤘
This guy is a legend and fantastic album !
I purchased this Album at 18.That was 38 years ago .And still a go to album to play.
Ahhh yes, one of my 1st vinyl purchases from the corner drugstore. Sounds better than ever. 🖤
A week before my 14th birthday, Alice was touring about 30 minutes away. It just so happened to be the same town as my favorite restaurant. Best Birthday present ever
I'm Eighteen
2:58 Is It My Body
5:37 Desperado
9:06 Under My Wheels
11:54 Be My Lover
15:14 School's Out
18:45 Hello Hooray
23:00 Elected
27:05 No More Mr. Nice Guy
30:12 Billion Dollar Babies
33:52 Teenage Lament '74
37:44 Muscle of Love
Thanks!!
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ur da beast
The best greatest hit album I’ve heard. Love Alice cooper!
I had this one... Still One My All Time Favorite Albums!!!
Alice was a profound influence on me, used to listen to early albums in my room in front of a mirror, and put on his makeup, including the snakeskin lips. Got this album when it came out, only wish it had “I Love the Dead” on it. Saw Alice in concert with Orianthi as his guitarist, I felt I was watching two superstars. Such great memories.
Yeah the original Alice Cooper band was the BEST!!!!!!! RIP MISTER GLEN BUXTON!!!!
The wild age....18,school out, no more mr nice guy and muscle of love my favorites in this nice copilation album. I lost the long play album but i have on cd yet!
This and Billion Dollar Babies were the first two Alice Cooper albums I ever owned. The first line up up to Wlecome To My Nightmare is the CLASSIC Alice Cooper line up, but I've been an Alice Cooper fan all my life.
I WAS AT THIS CONCERT IN 74 - MAYBE THAT IS WHAT TEENAGE LAMENT 74 MEANS, HUH - IT SAYS AT THE VERY END THAT AFTER AN HOUR, THE CROWD DISPERSED (LIE) WE AND MOST PPL THERE BANGED THEIR FEET FOR 3 HOURS, WE STAYED 3.5 HOURS PAST.
Alice Bombed in Toledo
Toledo - Pelted by fireworks and debris, Alice Cooper recently walked off their "Holiday Show" at the Toledo Sports Arena. According to Ashley Pandel, Cooper's publicist, "Alice felt if they continued, there could be another Altamont."
Guitarist Michael Bruce was reportedly cut on the face after fireworks thrown from the audience shattered an overhead light bar. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where a particle of metal was removed from an eye. He suffered no serious injuries.
Alice and the rest of the band left the arena shortly after their walkoff. During a half-hour wait - while the audience lingered, waiting for resumption of the show - seven carloads of police were summoned to join 20 off-duty cops at the auditorium to control the near sell-out crowd of 8,000.
"Security at the concert was non-existent," charged James Randi, who plays the executioner in the band's "I Love Dead Things" (sic) act. "There was only a two-foot barrier to separate the crowd from the stage."
Trouble began to develop even before Cooper appeared. Fireworks, including Roman candles, were set off during Z.Z. Top's opening set. Then, according to Mark Scheerer, newsman at WIOT-FM Toledo, "Alice got the first bars of 'Hello Hooray' out and got hit in the chest with either an egg or vegetables. He did a mock stagger and went on. Then people started throwing a variety of missiles at a fairly steady pace. Alice did the second number, 'Billion Dollar Babies,' and the lights went down. Alice told the people, 'We came to play, and we don't appreciate being targets.'"
A cherry bomb, as Scheerer described it - arena manger Gerald Francis said it was an M-80, equal in power to one-eighth of a stick of dynamite - went off, shattered the light, and Bruce was hit and led offstage. Alice then decided to cancel, Pandel said, "before someone got killed."
The band - and most witnesses - were unable to explain the violence. Pandel said the crowd seemed more "bewildered" than angry at anything. A crush of people directly in front of the stage, he said, began pushing forward, shoving matches began "and then things were being thrown." Scheerer said Toledo rock fans had no history of violence. "It was just a handful of malcontents. I think they just felt it was obligatory. You know, to match his violence."
Pandel disagreed. "Alice is only trying to relieve tension in kids. When they leave an Alice Cooper show, ther sure won't get into violence. They've seen it already."
Ironically enough, the night before in Ann Arbor, Dennis Dunaway said before the concert, "We get off more on a Detroit-type crowd - crowds that physically get into a concert."
After an hour's wait, the crowd was finally dispersed, according to police. No arrests or refunds were made.
You can see how Alice Cooper started a lot of music trends (glam, punk, metal).
Va. Beach VA. Honored to get a response from you.
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I bought this when it came out. Love those classics of my teenage years. I was 15 when 'Eighteen' was released. LOL 16 For 'Schools Out' Cool stuff.
Haven't heard much of AC before - except for the odd song in a compilation. This is my first Album, and i love it 😍😍😍.
Thank you Rhino🙏
AH - 74/75 on a FRIDAY night listening to this with my mates - most dead now - CHEERS from AUSTRALIA
Great band and immortal music! I was there! 1972 I was 17, saw cooper in concert in the 90’s at Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia; backup band was Journey (I think) got totally wasted on Black Jack, Red Bud and pure rock Coke! Now THAT was an experience! My informed field absorbed the essence and it was awesome! YEEHAW!!!
I saw Cooper during his Welcome To My Nightmare tour and he’s still rocking
I bought this LP back in the 70s. As l no longer own a record player l haven't listened to it for many many years so this classic has resided in my loft with 100s of other LPs.
The best rock vocalist of all time...alice cooper forever...
Alice Cooper's the real deal and still going 4/22!🙏
🎸🎹🎵🎤🥁
I was 17 when I got a copy of this on tape, my mate's brother had a copy on tape 1987, I listened to it non stop.
Oh,boy nothing like Alice cooper classics,,but these were some his best,,I bought this album at the record store, and played the shit ! Out of it!!especially "no more mr. Nice guy "
I like that one also, good taste,Old school RockN Roll ! Elected is a good song for America too ! USA. # 1 .
“Welcome To My Nightmare,” one of the very best concerts, ever, along with the accolades everyone else here has given! ❤
Alice Cooper is one of Metal / Hard Rock's royalty. 🎸What a variety of great tunes.
I hate these categories, but I wouldn't call Cooper "metal". I suppose some do, but I don't.
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The original Alice Cooper band with the guys who penned all these great tunes - this is shizznit right here!
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One of the greatest albums of all time, but it needs to be remastered, there's too much distortion. Do it justice.
I playfully yelled at AC when he dedicated my Schools out album he was signing to my friend Bernie, he was cool about it and took us on the tour bus and signed me a promo poster…great guy
Always admired the artwork on this cover... there is so much to find...the albums pretty good
too, I still play the vinyl....❤❤
I cut so much school and listening to this was a big cool part I think i learned more from Alice's songs than school I seen the special forces tour it was so cool,,,love memories,,,
Alice Cooper was my first concert in 1984 I acquired all his albums from my older brother,I was 13, still love him
Love Alice....since Junior High.......used to play the hell out of Billion Dollar Babies!
Going to my first Alice Cooper concert in September. Can’t freaking wait!
Just before the end of grade 8(summer holidays) our principal played Schools Out over the PA system (B.C Canada)🇨🇦 1972
Did he? 😆
I growled up on alice cooper in th 70 was great years alice is a great singer of all times jack 👽👽
Ahhh, one misplaced L, and your comment takes on a whole new meaning.
Such a fantastic album cover, with some of the early days of Alice's songs.
Nothing beats the original band I'm more into the original Alice Cooper band
One of the best albums EVER! This album was a favorite every day!!! 14 and life to go...
Saw him at a free concert on DC national mall. When he peeled off his silver trousers I thought, no class.
He's still without class,but the world needs people like him.
I'm 70 years old and I've been following Alice Cooper since I was 18. I really think they're 🆒.
Saw this band play at Swiften in Cincy. Long time ago. You Rock.
He's definitely one of my very favorites 🐼 Welcome to my Nightmare Billion dollar Baby .... Detroit girl born 1959 lived in the best music decades ever ❤
This was the first Alice Cooper album I ever bought. I was 14 at the time and that was fifty years ago, and although there are more comprehensive "best-ofs", and even a great box set out there, this is still the one I like to blast in the car - except it's a CD now rather than an 8-track, and a Range Rover instead of a Chevy Nova - and I still get the same kick.
Listening to all this I just realised what a massive influence Alice Cooper was on early Bowie, Panic in Detroit (natch), Diamond Dogs, Suffragette City etc. As I’m sure DB would have been happy to admit (they were mates).
Yes, Alice sang elected, Bowie did Candidate from diamond dogs. Alice did I love the dead
Bowie sang we are the dead from "dogs " Alice did sick things, Bowie did sweet thing. Alice cooper always lead the way
GREAT ALBUM 👍👍👍, ALICE LOVES JESUS , I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HIM IN ETERNITY 💪❤🙏
Best show I have seen live and will never forget by far. The 70's were excellent!!
I knew a guy whose Dad owned a driving range , in Merrillville , Indiana. He said Alice came in his store, when he played Merrillville. He said he spent a lot of money, and was a very nice guy.
This guy is a LEGEND and Fantastic albom!!!!!❤
One of the first albums I bought when I was a young teen and had my own system. I have not listened to this in many years and then this rush of memories flooded in. I know all the words to every song... good stuff.
Hey buddy it takes me back too ❤
I lol play mynext
Does anyone remember 8 track tape players? I couldn't afford a record player I couldn't afford a stereo to plug one into.i got my drivers license at 15 and my mom let me drive her station wagon to school I got a brand new pioneer super tuner 8 track tape player,a pair of Jensen 6x9 triaxils,and a kraco 40watt power booster and I rocked alice!!!
My FIRST concert Alice n Vinnie Vincent. I wore a white leather mini skirt. 15 years old and on some random dudes shoulders right up front. I was OBSESSED with Alice from that night on. I'm 51 now but still get 15 yr old giddiness when I hear him. ❤️
I have all LP's from the first to Nightmare. Best stuff. After nope. Same with Yes after Relayer and Genesis after Lamb. First editions of bands are always the best.
Alice Cooper has a powerful testimony ‼️👍
At the time, he had the best studio band available. Btw still kicks ass
cheers great album thank you for posting i hope more make comments on this because i would like to here back from you real soon, i will see you later and have a nice day and may god bless you with love because he is the only one that takes care of us all at all times also if you have faith in god then you will have his word as well and if you read the bible it would be the best thing you can do in life.
got to see Alice and the original band at least 2 or 3 times when they were doing the hanging and guillotine shows ..really awesome rockers
I'm 65 and I like it.
Alice Cooper was a big part of the emergence of MTV. Along with Michael Jackson he seemed to realise that he could use theatre with music. Of course theatre translated very well onto the stage as well. What a treat!
Cooper was doing his shows years before MTV was even a thought. Hell, he invented "Theatrical Rock" when little Michael was still singing, "ABC" In fact, had MTV paid a bit more attention to just how many promotional videos were around, then they would have had more to offer in the first two months other than The Buggles', "Video Killed The Radio Star".
They could have shown music videos made by The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, etc. Plus tons of concert clips by any number of bands out there, but you had New York, non-musical people running MTV during their first year. I know a lot of people who called MTV's corporate offices, (myself included), to give advice, not to mention beaucoup record company phone numbers who would have killed to let MTV give their performers free air time.
Cooper's crescendo was way before MTV existed.
Actually no. In the early 80's when MTV was on the rise, Alice Cooper was at the lowest point of his career. He sure recovered and by the end of the decade he had some popular videos on the channel (from the Trash album), but in 1983 when Michael Jackson was dominating the world, nobody was giving a damn about Alice Cooper (I think Dada is one of his best releases tough).
I had this on 8-track! Good times! 😎✌️
This was the first LP I ever bought, back in '79 or '80 when I was...12? 13? I had to pilfer a lot of coins from the coin jar next to the laundry dryer to buy this record, but more than half of them were coins from my jeans that my mom gave me to buy school lunches with anyways. And she almost never gave me an allowance so I don't see what the big deal was or why she felt she needed to throw the jar at my head (she missed, it was a rhetorical throw) when she found out about the coins. :P Anyways it was totally worth it, I still love this album nd Alice and the band all these decades later.
Is it my body? Someone I might be?...best tune. Really groovin'. Love this album.
このアルバムが発売されたとき、すぐに購入したなあ！高校２年のころだった。懐かしい！！
I like all these songs but one is missing, the Ballad of Dwight Fry, the band I was in back than did covers we played GFR Alice, Spirit and many others that was some really good music back than good times good memories. Started playin' the drums when I was 10 that would have been 63 and got in my first band in 66, just keep on rockin'.
One of best all around album's ever...from the inside is probably his best album for me...
Omg! Alice, aka Vincent, from Detroit, closed the Michigan State Fair for so many years. The cost was $5.00 to get into the fair grounds. I've been there at least 10 years straight. If it wasn't for Jennifer Grandholm, I'm sure he'd still be the closing act. My eldest daughter lives down the road from him in Scottsdale AZ. Alice, come back home! We'll fill the seats!!!!!
I love your story man the good old days I believe somehow some way will have these good old days back I believe
"Elected" has long been one of my favourite Alice Cooper tracks, particularly the bit at the end:
"...we all have problems and frankly, I don't care!"
I LOVE that song!
I’m a freshman in High School got this marvellous Album.
8:04 here in Paducah Ky. I GET TO SEE ALICE COOPER OCTOBER 13th ON MY 65th BIRTHDAY CAN'T BELIEVE IT !!!
3rd time twice in Houston in the early 70's
16 yr old 1986
driving wide open on a maze of dirt roads "dry pond" letting Alice in my head while anticipating the night full of partying with good friends and living for the day....Damn I miss those days
A very good album. It's awesome! Cheers!✌️
With From the Inside being my favorite Alice album, with Love it to Death and Muscle of Love coming in next, the best way I can describe it is like this:
Solo Alice had great musicians, but here there was a great BAND.
Idk if that makes sense to anyone else lol
Vintage alice cooper still on the rise and smokin🤩
When Rock and Roll was awesome. Schools out was my first LP
My favorite first hard rock albums at 14 years old in 1976' were ,
Alice Coopers greatest hits.
Grand Funk " Were an American Band ".
Black Sabbath " Paranoid " .
The Who " Who's next ".
Kansas " Leftoverture" .
My brother turned me on to Alice Cooper back in the day. Cold Ethel and dead babies scared me but I'd go in another part of the house until those 2 songs were over.
Now this is old school I remember wayback when Alice Cooper what's playing at the Erie county fieldhouse he kicked ass playing songs