Alice Cooper on the Tomorrow Show withTom Snyder, Under My Wheels
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- Опубликовано: 9 мар 2012
- An excellent version of Alice Cooper performing Under My Wheels, on The Tomorrow show with Tom Snyder. This is the conclusion of a full interview which started out with a medley of songs from the "Special Forces" album, 1982....
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I met Alice with his wife on Melrose Blvd. in 1991, they were window shopping on a Sunday afternoon. I was a young musician, hair halfway down my back. I just approached him and said Mr. Cooper, I just want to say how much I appreciate your work and the huge influence on music you've had. He said thank you and smiled...
Total respect for Alice getting clean 😍
And today February 25th 2021 Alice Cooper releases his 30th album Detroit stories he's still with us he is still the best and he is overcame life to the fullest he's my favorite person in the whole world I couldn't imagine my life without the guy if he passed away in the 80s Long Live Alice Cooper he's been clean and sober since
was just watching a video where vince said that when creating a "villain," you had to add some sort of comedy to it in order to maintain the amusement. he added on that "alice could come and slice your throat, and trip on a banana peel after." not a stereotypical entertainer back in the day if you ask me, and he never even seemed insecure about it. he continues sharing his stories on stage and within his music, while incorporating theater influences, and even carrying on the character he created as well. brilliant if you ask me. he was very ahead of his time in my opinion. despite his bad mental health here, he was delivering performances like this that nobody can forget about. legend legend legend. i mean come on, he was sitting the whole time, in outrageous makeup, looking out of his mind and still thriving.. brilliant. you cannot deny his creativity.
1:27 “BA-DA-BA BA-BA-BA WHEELS!” Brilliant.
Definitely his weirdest period. Still too cool.
How does Alice Cooper keep taking over the world when he already owns it Detroit stories comes out today and he is still with us long live Alice Cooper
Still always had the best musicians
Tom Snyder and Alice. Priceless.
No matter how strung out on chemicals he got Alice was ALWAYS 100% on stage. So happy he got sober and is still with us and at nearly 80 STILL kickin ass.
This Tomorrow footage is solid gold. I love the Special Forces album.
Me too. It's great from start to finish.
I grew up listening to his music, he is a true Rock and Roll legend I am glad his alive and kicking. love Alice Cooper.
Crazy good.. When he sings, "I'm driving in my car now, anticipating fun..", one can only muster a guess what this Alice's idea of fun would be... scary!
Playing golf lol
This is the Alice Cooper I was familiar with when I started listening to rock.Flush the Fashion/Special Forces.Good days being a little snot.
What a great band he had
I love Alice, thankfully he overcame the addiction he was obviously deeply into at that point in his life.
Wow, how about his missing teeth!? A sideways smoker. But despite his terrible physical condition what an incredible performance! Alice sounds great, and Special Forces really was a top notch band. Amazing how Alice can just sit there and still deliver a brilliant performance. No one else like him
I think this may be the best "live" version of Under My Wheels...the band sounds great, Alice's voice sounds great...this is just about as Rock n Roll as it gets! And the sheer disturbingness of his appearance makes this must see for anybody that likes Shock Rock.
A sideways freebase smoker that is!
@@nathueil1 crack will do that...his teeth are perfect now...imagine that lol
@@rayjohnson2387 Totally lol and for further proof i give you another fine example of Iggy Pop!, he did so much coke with Bowie just checkout his pearly white chicklets today!😁
New York Dolls gone Macho.
My mom met Alice and all the boys early 70s. Took lots of photos back stage at Pirates World in Dania Florida. Then saw them the falling year and took one photo of each of them to get them signed. Fifty years later and she still has them with her nice collection. Her Led Zeppelin photos are the best. She's given all to me 100 times yet I prefer they stay with her for when I visit.
Alice is waaay before the New York dolls....
@@dodibenabba1378 not by much actually....only two years.
And Alice Cooper's "shock rock" reputation apparently developed almost by accident at first....yet they got that Glam thing going on around the same time as New York Dolls while in Michigan.
Their disgusting violent chicken slaughter crap "shock rock" crap was utter animal cruelty. But it was earlier that Shep Gordon (music manager) arranged an audition for the band with composer and renowned record producer Frank Zappa, who was looking to sign bizarre music acts.
Zappa liked them enough for him to sign them to a three-album deal. Another Zappa-signed act, the all-female GTO's were the ones that "dressef the Cooper boys up like full size Barbie dolls" which played a major role in developing the band's early onstage look around 1969.
Their first album 'Pretties for You' was a critical and commercial failure.
At this time, the name "Alice Cooper" referred to the band and not its lead singer Vincent Furnier.
The band's second album, Easy Action, produced by David Briggs and released in June 1970, fared even WORSE than its predecessor.
But it was late 1969/early70, when they were fed up with Californians' "indifference to their act," that they relocated to Pontiac, Michigan, where their bizarre stage act was much better received by Midwestern crowds accustomed to the proto punk styles of local bands such as the Stooges and the MC5.....and soon the New York Dolls.
Michigan would remain their steady home base until 1972. "L.A. just didn't get it," Cooper stated. "They were all on the wrong drug for us. They were on acid and we were basically drinking beer. We fit much more in Detroit than we did anywhere else."
New York City gave us David Bowie and mostly English bands.
One of the best Performers we've ever had and i adore that guy but damn...he was really fucked up back then.
So glad he pulled through.
yes and no. this era was specifically designed and not thrown together in some cocaine induced haze.
Holy SHIT! ... I had NO IDEA that Alice was ever that sick and close to death.
Watch Alice Cooper behind the music...or super duper Alice Cooper...I know the behind the music one is on here... I think just called Alice Cooper interview...its like 45 minutes...he was a train wreck there for a while
Train wrecked? more like a nuclear explosion😳
@@williamjohnson6517 The Strange Case of Alice Cooper....there was a whole bunch of chemicals going on there lol
@Lemony Bacon makeup doesn't make u weigh 95lbs or have missing teeth
@@rayjohnson2387 ...end-stage alcoholism might. He's lucky he traded 30 Budweiser a day for 36 holes of golf a day.
Loved watching tom snyder
Remember when Kiss was on OMG ACE FREHLEY
Amazing
Always loved Alice Cooper 🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿
Sucks to say this, but this is actually my fav period of Alice's and I'm a huge fan.
Loved FLUSH and SPECIALL !
Looking good there Alice .... jeeez.
Sitting on a fucking trash and dude still nails it.reameber these guys when there gone .
Great performance!
Amazing
he looks like Jack the conductor on the comedy On The Buses
The quality is amazing. Do you happen to have the full interview in this quality?
I loved Alice Cooper through Muscle of Love. My band did a lot of their songs. I thought his best songwriting and performances were with the original band...He never had that spark to me after he left. And growing up in Portland, a cultural backwater then that didn't get many tours, and only seeing Alice cooper once on Don Kirschner's Rock Concert, I wasn't aware of the theatrics, just damn good music. Same with Bowie. He's definitely still has his pipes here, but his speaking voice sounds like a pre-teen girl. And he definitely left some of his teeth in a Budweiser can somewhere. But he is a definite Original.. creative , insightful, and now he's a American Rock n' Roll Stesman, still articulate, witty and a witness to history.
A young Brian Warner was watching this and Marilyn Manson was born...
+CPapadakis
Without question.
Dee Snyder too, IMO.
No disrespect towards Alice Cooper (i'm a big fan) but his make up reminds me off that scene in 'the silence of the lambs' where they find a decapitated head in a jar. I'm sorry i just can't unsee it!
Yep, that's the point...
He'd make a great Joker.
Great performance! Alice lookin’ like Aunt Marge after a hard night at the bar. 😂
FREEBASE
Yeah it's not the original group, but this band kicks ass here. Sounds like i cranked up the speed on my turntable. Alice is sitting down but still rockin'
I'll tell you one thing...there aren't many front men that can pull off what he did here. The dude rocked the fucking house and was entertaining as hell...and he did the whole song while sitting on a trash can. This was by far the best performance he did during this Era (maybe ever)...most of the other videos he did at that time, he was a mess, and not in a good way. He was a mess here too obviously, but the dude was on fire that night performance-wise.
COOL AF ! He even did a Porky Pig imitation.before the break OMG he's IS the coolest . (Goes to Kell )
Cpl Klinger rocks on!
I love Alice cooper! I'm so glad he made it past this time in his life. God has truly saved and blessed him!
Still rocking out with his current rock virtuoso band
I loved him too. Written songs about him. But it is hard to underestimate the cultural damage that was done by the music industry . look into it if you wish and who was/is behind it all. Peace .
Woo-hoo go cooper 👏 🙌 💙 👍 💪 😀 👏 🙌 💙 👍 💪 😀 👏 🙌 💙 👍 💪 😀 👏 🙌 💙 👍 💪 😀 👏 🙌 💙 👍 💪 😀 👏 🙌 💙 👍
🤔 I wonder if that's how Alice Cooper looked when he was driving..? like when he was coked-out was that his driving face 😂
I saw this tour 80 or 81.....his band all wore fatigues...
He is just racing in this interview. Was this during his five-year blackout period? Imagine not being able to remember an entire five years of your life!
Grande Mr. Fournier
Don't do drugs kids
Only users loose drugs.
he didnt do drugs he was a big time drunk!
@@themopar426 Yes he was an alcoholic, however at this time in his life he was freebasing crack
@@heathercampbell1722 wow lucky he didnt go see his buddy moony!
@@themopar426 Yeah, glad he made it through. He's my favorite rock 'n roll villain
WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE.
I find this image of Alice sad. Probably one of my least favorite images he took on. The songs itself from Special Forces and Flush the fashion etc are great, but he’s hard to watch. He is so thin
@Lemony Bacon does that include the rotten teeth? Lol
I liked everything but the makeup and yes a couple good lp's there. You could really tell he was wrestling with his demons back then being so thin. Cought him on tour for Special Forces and he still did a great show.
He almost died in this, he went to rehab after this
Back then he had a problem with alcohol so bad it affected his health
@@lisasmith9311 more than alcohol during this time frame.
Never heard this song before. Got a real rockabilly horror style to it. I like it. Gotta laugh at the guitarist tryna squeeze in there and vibe with alice on cam though
Check out Alice, 10 years younger, doing “Under My Wheels” in the “Old Grey Whistle Test” from 1971. It is so much a better performance. And Alice is way cuter at that age.
I remember watching that performance live on TV in 1971 with my brother and Dad. I was 14, and my Dad was like 'WTF' but in more polite language. But at that age, that is exactly the reaction, or at least used to be, you want from your parents. It just made Alice all the more cool. The whole band - the clothes, the hair, Alice's spider eyes make-up, the sound. Still a thrill to watch. OGWT was a must watch back then.
That was in the 80's, he looks better now! The 80's were rough on a lot of us, me included, I was looking pretty strung out in those years, too!
🤔 the way Alice Cooper is Shifting and bumping all over the place he must be driving an 18-wheeler semi looking for her
looking scary Alice.
Does someone know who is the drummer in this video ? Thank You
Jan Uvena. He played with lots of bands, including Alcatrazz.
@@philouze1815 thank you :)
Man, he was a wreck during this whole show.
Wow. He's really really really really really scary looking. OHCH
Dont think he was going for the good look
I saw this tour at the Riviera in Chitown. It was terrible and yes Alice was a wreck 😫
Yeah, you're probably right about that, but I've seen interviews with Alice that he spoke about replacing the booze with golf and that it probably saved his life (..although he now has an addiction to golf) 😏
I think he's weirder here than he was on Pretties For You & Easy Action...his first two albums.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
sounds good but alice looks like hell
I watched it 10 times n the cracked out coked up version is superior to the drunk versions
No way comparable to the original band. Maybe for the newbs.
You're right, but these guys still kick ass on this song.
He looks like my old aunt marg 😂🤣
YES !!
This was during his heavy drug and drinking faze.
Good thing he never got strung out. He would have looked terrible.
This was when he was deep into alcohol and almost died. He did 90 days in rehab and never went back. He did good.
I used to love Alice Cooper back in the day. Now after watching this I'm scratching my head asking myself: 'What was I thinking?!" :)
Boy Vince looking rough there must have been right before he went sober, look at the rotten teeth.
This is not Michael Bruce. It is not Denis Dunway, It is not Glen Buxton.. Nope Not Neil Smith. And it's certainly not Alice Cooper. It is however, Tom Snyder, who was so stupid he went through it not aware he was being duped. Good grief...
Hehe
METH???
Him and his daughter Calico real do look a like just by seeing him in that girl makeup.
Blistering performance I just hate seeing him look this rough
I think he even used THAT to his ultimate advantage
Such a good christian boy......
There's plenty of Christians that went through Hell to get there, I'm one.
Seen the billion dollar babies show but he didnt look like that lol
Stooges, garageband
Yeah, Alice looks pretty bad here. I think this is when he quit with the drinking and started talking care of himself.
Man he looked so bad, so he decided to cut bait and made himself up to be a geisha from Hiroshima. There you go. Like Pee Wee Herman "I meant to look like this on purpose".
Exactly...somebody who gets it
I have no doubt that he was well aware of the decline in his physical appearance, and did everything he could to accentuate it and look as scary, disturbing and bizarre as he possibly could. The dude is very dedicated to his craft.
No Buxton, Bruce, Smith, Dunaway
No Alice Cooper!
Sorry to disappoint you my friend I've been a fan of the Alice Cooper band since 72 granted his special forces tour was not his prettiest the dig any live Alice show up to 2019 sorry for the original Alice Cooper band. But hey, like Black Sabbath was stupid enough to throw out Ozzy they threw out Alice and Ozzy and Alice are still kicking ass. Sabbath and the original Alice Cooper band are always leaning on their lead singers for help dig brutal planet.live. 🎩🕷️🐍💀
@@dominickcolasuonno7585
I too have been a fan since the 70s. The four Ezrin produced records which produced all the songs we love were from the "Alice Cooper Band".... Alice the solo artist using studio musicians to play those songs just isn't the same for me!
Couldn’t agree more
Yikes
Doesn’t look good, nice music, could use a shower.
You almost need a shower after just watching this vid, lol.
Obvious lip-synched performance, but still kinda fun to watch.
🤔 Lol yeah no alice cooper never lip-synced in his life...go listen to the original song If you think this isn't him singing live ..because the one thing about Alice is he always changed and ad-libbed different words or extra words when he performed
You are 100 percent wrong buddy. Alice would never lip sync anyway. But for real ? What makes you say that ? Have you actually ever heard the real track ?
@@alowicioustoollootsuoiciwo7283 you and your buddy above obviously didn't have TV growing up, if you can't watch Alice (and the band) and see they're miming to a backing track... almost all bands lip-synched their performances on TV shows back then (and many still do). It's not a dig at Alice. I'm a fan and I've seen him live. It's way too clean to be a raw live recording. "Alice would never lip-sync anyway..." LMAO I take it he told you this personally?
@@scottrew175 Are you saying that he is just moving his lips with no sound coming out in this video?
@@rockheadesq.8720 omg dude, lip-sync, LIP-SYNC, what does lip-sync mean in any language? YES, "moving your lips with no sound coming out" is what I mean.... watch any of those older TV appearances by musical acts. Half the time you can see the guitars aren't even plugged in. Not saying artists never really played live on TV, but if you can't tell that Alice as well as the rest of the band are miming to a backing track here, I don't know what to tell you.
There is little excellent about this performance. The band is playing like they are wired on speed and it is completely void of any soul & feel. A brutal & cringe-worthy performance if I've seen one.
He's a super nice guy but can't write a good song to save his life. Just like I'm a nice guy but I can't write a song to save my life. You only ever hear that one song every 10 years.
I'm sorry but that's just absolute bollocks.....you don't have a 55 year recording career by writing shit songs!
@@dodibenabba1378 Still doesn't change the fact that I've never heard a single one of his "hits" played on the radio or any streaming service other than schools out. Nobody listens to him, nothing personal.
@@markjones2349 it's funny...I've seen this guy live more than a dozen times, and the shows are usually very well attended. You're full of shit.
@@markjones2349 No more Mr nice guy, poison and I'm eighteen still get played all the time
best sound !!!!!