One of my favorite Alice Cooper songs. Though actually, one of the more commercial sounding tunes on “Pretties for you “. Some other songs on that album, made them a legitimate avant-garde late 1960’s laurel canyon area rock band. That and “Easy Action “, are my 2 favorite albums of theirs. Though I think all 7 original Alice Cooper Band albums, are great. And a few of Alice Cooper the soli artist’s albums as well. This early stuff, was the most unique music of theirs.
Been a Cooper band fan for 50 years and have never seen this video. I've always wondered if that little blank spot in the sound during the instrumental was by design or if it was a screw up of some kind.
The first time I ever saw Alice Cooper they played this song. He was at the Grand Haven roller rink and Ballroom, and I was 16 and on LSD. So that made an impression!
those 80s metal( with a horror movie style) alice cooper album, made people forgot that the alice cooper band was one of the incluences in glam in the 70s is interesting how we talk about bowie , t rex when cooper was just at the same time ( if not slightly before) making the same things
Love that part when Glen leans into the wha pedal near the end of the song. Brilliant, but I’m pretty sure nobody saw what they would come up with in 71. This album gives us some clues as to their progression to Love It to Death, but most everyone would be wrong.
His wacked out solo on the studio version of "Dwight Fry" is a deep dive into psychosis but he managed to improve his thesis on stage regularly. Practice makes perfect.
Thank Bob Ezrin (producer) for resurrecting Reflected into Elected during the recording of BDB. He was a fan of the original song and recognized the hook. It didn't hurt that Nixon was running and even Cooper said that everyone was satirizing Nixon. Some have asked if it was a Bruce song. The song is credited to the entire band, but all members have stated it was Dunnaway's song.
@Iain Botham A lot of bands do that at the start of their careers, it's that all for one and one for all attitude. Alice Cooper did it, Ramones did, even Lennon & McCartney shared credits even when there was a singular songwriter. As the bands get more popular and that cash flows in and royalty checks come, that attitude changes pretty quick.
All of the songs on the first two albums were credited to the whole band and they only got writing credit because all were published by one of frank Zappa's publishing companies. Bizzare
Ezrin was obviously great for this band but, I blame him for dropping the ball on Elected. Great opening,great hook, but the second half of the song where the guitars disappear and here come the freakin French horns. Thanks for running the song Bob
@@60zeller this has been the way from the beginning. what we listen to always has been….and probably always will be,decided by the same group from the same country that decides everything we watch on tv, video,everything we listen to with the exception…to a degree…of Sony.
Pretties for you the ground breaking Alice Cooper album. Technical masterpiece for late 60s...I was 13 in 73 when I was introduced to these gods of ROCK history. Their music allowed me to discover self and stretch boundries.
Antony Andre' / renaissance artist and artisan this music came out of that faithful meeting at Zappa's house. Zappa left his brother to record five guys who never been in a real studio. They rehearsed for several hours, and Zappa came by to pick up the record, matter if it was finished or not. The result was Pretties For You. Cover art came from a painting Zappa had in his house.
Kim Jong Un And their first two albums are super underrated, especially I’ve always loved Easy Action. They don’t get the attention they deserve, just because of the just as great albums they led to. But I always wish they had more material similar to their early days.
Antony, should you find this comment in 2021, just know that here I am in my 30s and did a deep dive into the early rock in the 60s and found Alice Cooper here was pretty awesome. I've enjoyed more and more garage-style bands from the 60s rather than mainstream at the time. Perhaps, it's because they would give rise to metal in the 70s, and not because I'm a hipster lol. Should you read this post, I would love to read a reply about what life was like for you in your mid-30s. Thanks for the fun read!!!
Feel this is a better song than Elected. And Alice is SO CUTE here. Young Alice, what a SWEETHEART. I love him so much...............especially at this age...............
This is why "RUclips" is so #%&?$@ awesome.. where else you gonna find these great hidden treasures!?.. It would take hrs & hrs, even days to find this stuff otherwise.. the most surprising thing, to me, is that it's in color.. this has gotta be 1969.?..or 1970 ish
Back in the 80's it took over a year of haunting record shops yard sales and flea markets to get the album this is on. You are 100% right, this is why youtube is freaking amazing.
...wow.... never seen this one before... really brings back the "live" sounds of those days... I remember seeing bands that sounded like this back in '70, '71.... this rare piece of video is a gem... THANKS for posting !!...
I halfway agree. I think the whole album is a masterpiece, all 13 tracks. Nothing weak, and Alice Cooper Band’s most original work. And it’s still so powerful, even though it was not recorded very well. Frank Zappa was supposed to produce it, but he left it in the hands of his bandmate Ian Underwood, who was a great musician, but obviously didn’t know how to produce a recording for an album. “Fields of Regret “ is interesting, in that it’s both scary sounding, but strangely relaxing. And a real transition song, from hard psychedelic rock, to early heavy metal. Both kinds of music, in a way, but also neither. It’s own unique thing.
I truly believe (all by my correct self) that these two albums on Zappa's label are more like my band THE CRYSTAL DREAM & NIRVANA, than anything else in history EVER!! I know what I am talking about!!
Thank YOU all! First place I have been redeemed!! Always what I had ready for him if I ever met him! Born in '67, I played this song I took liked (and was influenced by) MORE than ELECTED!........as early as 9th grade battle of the bands in high school!! Meaning!! WE were the greatest band that night in reality but clearly nobody got it! WE were humiliated, booed, and got stuff thrown at us!! Also played ASTRONOMY DOMINE! Yeah, in the early 80's! THIS here is my first acknowledgement EVER!! Most ALICE album rankings on RUclips put these LP's way way way below the bottom!!
@@TheIndependentLens YEAH 👍 in the fact that the very first (pre first lp) single ties into the 2024 ALICE FOR PRESIDENT campaign! SURE that YOU are the retard, entirely in the dark!
This is the only Alice Cooper song from the pre-Warner Brothers period I really dig--and to me, it still stands up as one of their most KICK ASS songs! See--first, you have to be REFLECTED...then you become ELECTED.....then you become SEDATED (in that order!)
I knew them in Phoenix before they went to L.A. and visited them up there during this time. This was the music I loved. Love Alice as a friend, but really never appreciated what he did after the group broke up. Too theatrical for this rock & roller.
@@ksullivan728anymore stories you can share...about the other members of the band...? Did you know John Speer and John Tatum in Phoenix before they were replaced by Neal and Michael?
@@philipholmes5884 I can't find my incomplete response so I'll repeat it. I don't remember too much about the Johns, I mostly hung out with Vince (Alice), Glen and their "assistant" Charlie Carnal. When I visited in L.A., Alice would steal my clothes to wear on stage (dresses as shirts for him). Fond memories of going to see "Help" with Vince and listening to Sgt Peppers for the first time with him and Charlie. Vince and I and their roadie at the time (Les from England) drove down to San Diego to see Cream and got to hang with some of them afterward back at the Hilton. We were all listening to Wheels of Fire (their manager had brought the first pressing to the room to listen to). I was sitting on the bed next to Jack Bruce and he pulled out his harmonica and played along with Train Time. Wow! Then Glen and I reconnected and lived together in the mid-80's when we were both living back in Phoenix. He'd been going through some very rough times then. A few years later he moved to the Midwest and it saved his life. He really was never cut out to be a big rock star, he was kind of shy and modest. Great guy, though.
@@ksullivan728 ok ... you're a girl ...I assume (dresses as shirts)...wow... I've read about Charlie ...the light guy ... being with them from the beginning... he's seen in a couple early live shows too...I read he was making a lot of money when they hit it big ..then put on salary...I did know one of the GTO's...Pamela Des Barres...she came to see my old band play once and we'd hang out when she lived in in Hollywood near Santa Monica Blvd ...i didn't even know she hung around the Alice Cooper group until later... Glen Buxton was my favorite...I was heartbroken when I learned he didn't play on the last two studio albums...but loved his work on the first 5...you can tell the different styles...but anyways I was devastated when the band broke up...still hurts today as an old guy ..lol...you should write your memories down about the band...they are priceless...you lived with Glen in the '80's ? .. I didn't even know he passed until after my girlfriend bought a computer in the late '90's and found out...he developed a bad drug problem I heard ...I hope he found peace in his final years... thank you for responding...if you have any more memories you could share about the band I'd love to hear it ! ❤️
So many people think this song was ripped off to make the song Elected but really the song composition is completely different, the only thing similar is Elected rhymes with Reflected, I really don't think when writing Elected they where thinking about this song.
I can understand why they sold about 100 copies of this album. Now it's a collectors item, go figure. I suppose if you could get a well preserved, like a fossilized bit of George Washington's horse's pile of manure, you know, real hard like rock or something, that you might consider that to be a collectors item. Same kind of deal here. Frank Zappa heard them for about 5 minutes and figured that there was zero chance of them doing anything even worth the cost of the plastic in the record, so he taped a 40 minute rehearsal, had it mixed and pressed. So much for a debut album. The music never got any better, only the production values.....
One of my favorite Alice Cooper songs. Though actually, one of the more commercial sounding tunes on “Pretties for you “. Some other songs on that album, made them a legitimate avant-garde late 1960’s laurel canyon area rock band. That and “Easy Action “, are my 2 favorite albums of theirs. Though I think all 7 original Alice Cooper Band albums, are great. And a few of Alice Cooper the soli artist’s albums as well. This early stuff, was the most unique music of theirs.
yep ......I love the song ' return of the spiders ' .....play it often in my car ....it has a strong drive ...thx to Neil Smith's drumming
@@Spock105
It's _Neal_ Smith - not Neil.
@@SharkHustler yep
Been a Cooper band fan for 50 years and have never seen this video. I've always wondered if that little blank spot in the sound during the instrumental was by design or if it was a screw up of some kind.
The tail on Glen is hilarious. This is my favorite period for this band. They were absolutely unique.
The first time I ever saw Alice Cooper they played this song. He was at the Grand Haven roller rink and Ballroom, and I was 16 and on LSD. So that made an impression!
So great that this still exists! It's cool videos like this that make youtube such a great resource!
Agreed
those 80s metal( with a horror movie style) alice cooper album, made people forgot that the alice cooper band was one of the incluences in glam in the 70s is interesting how we talk about bowie , t rex when cooper was just at the same time ( if not slightly before) making the same things
I can't believe I never knew this song existed. The embryo of BDB hit Elected. Too cool! Thanks whomever brought this to us!
Intro from 0:21 seems a clear adaption of Syd Barrett's Interstellar Overdrive, I believe the band had met Floyd and Barrett about this time.
Maybe it was the other way around.
@@TheIndependentLens Maybe
@@rjlchristie yeah, Pink Floyd and Syd Barret didn’t invent music.
The cameraman never showed Buxton or Bruce enough. The most interesting players in the band.
Love that part when Glen leans into the wha pedal near the end of the song. Brilliant, but I’m pretty sure nobody saw what they would come up with in 71. This album gives us some clues as to their progression to Love It to Death, but most everyone would be wrong.
Glen Buxton's atonal twilight zone guitar licks still give me goose bumps.
atonal apples and amplified heat
His wacked out solo on the studio version of "Dwight Fry" is a deep dive into psychosis but he managed to improve his thesis on stage regularly. Practice makes perfect.
Thank Bob Ezrin (producer) for resurrecting Reflected into Elected during the recording of BDB. He was a fan of the original song and recognized the hook. It didn't hurt that Nixon was running and even Cooper said that everyone was satirizing Nixon. Some have asked if it was a Bruce song. The song is credited to the entire band, but all members have stated it was Dunnaway's song.
@Iain Botham A lot of bands do that at the start of their careers, it's that all for one and one for all attitude. Alice Cooper did it, Ramones did, even Lennon & McCartney shared credits even when there was a singular songwriter. As the bands get more popular and that cash flows in and royalty checks come, that attitude changes pretty quick.
All of the songs on the first two albums were credited to the whole band and they only got writing credit because all were published by one of frank Zappa's publishing companies. Bizzare
Ezrin was obviously great for this band but, I blame him for dropping the ball on Elected. Great opening,great hook, but the second half of the song where the guitars disappear and here come the freakin French horns. Thanks for running the song Bob
I didn't know this
@@60zeller this has been the way from the beginning. what we listen to always has been….and probably always will be,decided by the same group from the same country that decides everything we watch on tv, video,everything we listen to with the exception…to a degree…of Sony.
Wow! Gotta luv this video.
I can't believe this has been on RUclips for 5 years and I've never seen it.
Ditto! Weird huh?
Pretties for you the ground breaking Alice Cooper album. Technical masterpiece for late 60s...I was 13 in 73 when I was introduced to these gods of ROCK history. Their music allowed me to discover self and stretch boundries.
Antony Andre' / renaissance artist and artisan this music came out of that faithful meeting at Zappa's house. Zappa left his brother to record five guys who never been in a real studio. They rehearsed for several hours, and Zappa came by to pick up the record, matter if it was finished or not. The result was Pretties For You. Cover art came from a painting Zappa had in his house.
Kim Jong Un And their first two albums are super underrated, especially I’ve always loved Easy Action. They don’t get the attention they deserve, just because of the just as great albums they led to. But I always wish they had more material similar to their early days.
Antony, should you find this comment in 2021, just know that here I am in my 30s and did a deep dive into the early rock in the 60s and found Alice Cooper here was pretty awesome. I've enjoyed more and more garage-style bands from the 60s rather than mainstream at the time. Perhaps, it's because they would give rise to metal in the 70s, and not because I'm a hipster lol. Should you read this post, I would love to read a reply about what life was like for you in your mid-30s. Thanks for the fun read!!!
Feel this is a better song than Elected. And Alice is SO CUTE here. Young Alice, what a SWEETHEART. I love him so much...............especially at this age...............
Check out the live version in San Francisco from March '69 it really rocks Frankie !
God bless you You Tube. Thank you for this piece of history!
You can tell they knew Syd Barrett at this time
Great Alice Cooper Band Era!
Great song and cool video! Thanks for posting.
wawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Alice Cooper Band! early recording : 1969 or 1970! Happy Birthday , Alice Cooper!
Edi Curcan 1969
There was a time when alice wss the finest looking man on earth.IMHO
Wow 😲 perfect 🤩
What year is this, before Ezrin I know. This is just Great rare footage of the original band, o always liked Glen Buxton ( rip)
This is why "RUclips" is so #%&?$@ awesome.. where else you gonna find these great hidden treasures!?.. It would take hrs & hrs, even days to find this stuff otherwise.. the most surprising thing, to me, is that it's in color.. this has gotta be 1969.?..or 1970 ish
Barrison Stone Here here, and it was 1969
Back in the 80's it took over a year of haunting record shops yard sales and flea markets to get the album this is on. You are 100% right, this is why youtube is freaking amazing.
I actually like Reflected more than Elected.
Thanks.. Eventually rewrote to "I Want To Be Elected,"????? Another Michael Bruce song?
Exactly .. both songs good, but the second version was the best.
Well that was a real treat ! So great
Is there a promo of FIELDS OF REGRET??
...wow.... never seen this one before... really brings back the "live" sounds of those days... I remember seeing bands that sounded like this back in '70, '71.... this rare piece of video is a gem... THANKS for posting !!...
I'm your top prime cut of meat, I'm your choice, I wanna be elected...(was anyone else hearing that?)
So this is the rough draft for elected!
Well, duh! This is the pre-quel!
Sounds like early Pink Floyd.
The true masterpiece of the Pretties For You era is "Fields of Regret"... This is a fact, not an opinion.
Agree,,,fully..
I halfway agree. I think the whole album is a masterpiece, all 13 tracks. Nothing weak, and Alice Cooper Band’s most original work. And it’s still so powerful, even though it was not recorded very well. Frank Zappa was supposed to produce it, but he left it in the hands of his bandmate Ian Underwood, who was a great musician, but obviously didn’t know how to produce a recording for an album. “Fields of Regret “ is interesting, in that it’s both scary sounding, but strangely relaxing. And a real transition song, from hard psychedelic rock, to early heavy metal. Both kinds of music, in a way, but also neither. It’s own unique thing.
Great psichedelic band há há Alice Cooper...
Thanks Always fun to see early Alice Lol
Thanks for the awesome post!
Amazing ~ Thanks for sharing!
Isso é foda demais ❤
I truly believe (all by my correct self) that these two albums on Zappa's label are more like my band THE CRYSTAL DREAM & NIRVANA, than anything else in history EVER!! I know what I am talking about!!
Very Kool!!!
This is so cool. Didn’t know this existed. Anybody know anything more about this clip?
They did "Levity ball" too at the same session...
Thank you love it
Love this--thanks!
Thank YOU all! First place I have been redeemed!! Always what I had ready for him if I ever met him! Born in '67, I played this song I took liked (and was influenced by) MORE than ELECTED!........as early as 9th grade battle of the bands in high school!! Meaning!! WE were the greatest band that night in reality but clearly nobody got it! WE were humiliated, booed, and got stuff thrown at us!! Also played ASTRONOMY DOMINE! Yeah, in the early 80's! THIS here is my first acknowledgement EVER!! Most ALICE album rankings on RUclips put these LP's way way way below the bottom!!
I’m guessing somewhere what you wrote makes sense.
@@TheIndependentLens YEAH 👍 in the fact that the very first (pre first lp) single ties into the 2024 ALICE FOR PRESIDENT campaign! SURE that YOU are the retard, entirely in the dark!
@@TheIndependentLens do not speak of things you are entirely ignorant about and know nothing of!! Look at the comments, moron!
@@TheIndependentLens Syd Barrett! Myself! NIRVANA! MYSELF! Are YOU smarter and superior at rock and roll than that?
@@LRCw32 you’re not Syd Barrett nor Nirvana nor Kurt Cobain for that matter.
This is great stuff!
Афигеть Элис красавчик когда был блондином
Alice looks like Lestat here haha
He does ! I always thought that from the movie...😂
Just heard this on WFMU and didn't know who it was. I thought Alice Cooper stole it in "Elected." Guess I was right?
And then the Ramones turned into "Sedated"!
@@impalaman9707 Ah, so they did!
This is the only Alice Cooper song from the pre-Warner Brothers period I really dig--and to me, it still stands up as one of their most KICK ASS songs! See--first, you have to be REFLECTED...then you become ELECTED.....then you become SEDATED (in that order!)
Sounds like the who. Parts sound like Substitute. Then it goes into early Sabbath
Similar to early Amboy Dukes - which this sounds quite a bit like - it's psych hard rock that isn't quite metal yet.
Did anyone notice how this vocal melody sounds SO MUCH like Cooper's own Elected from Billion Dollar Babies?
Duhh!
*ahem* This was the "prequel* for Elected. They re-wrote it and released in for BBB.
It was intentionally reworked into Elected.
Wow, this is real early on in their career. There's no make up yet on Alice.
He wasn't even "Alice" yet, he was Vincent Furnier and the band was Alice Cooper
I knew them in Phoenix before they went to L.A. and visited them up there during this time. This was the music I loved. Love Alice as a friend, but really never appreciated what he did after the group broke up. Too theatrical for this rock & roller.
@@ksullivan728anymore stories you can share...about the other members of the band...? Did you know John Speer and John Tatum in Phoenix before they were replaced by Neal and Michael?
@@philipholmes5884 I can't find my incomplete response so I'll repeat it. I don't remember too much about the Johns, I mostly hung out with Vince (Alice), Glen and their "assistant" Charlie Carnal. When I visited in L.A., Alice would steal my clothes to wear on stage (dresses as shirts for him). Fond memories of going to see "Help" with Vince and listening to Sgt Peppers for the first time with him and Charlie. Vince and I and their roadie at the time (Les from England) drove down to San Diego to see Cream and got to hang with some of them afterward back at the Hilton. We were all listening to Wheels of Fire (their manager had brought the first pressing to the room to listen to). I was sitting on the bed next to Jack Bruce and he pulled out his harmonica and played along with Train Time. Wow! Then Glen and I reconnected and lived together in the mid-80's when we were both living back in Phoenix. He'd been going through some very rough times then. A few years later he moved to the Midwest and it saved his life. He really was never cut out to be a big rock star, he was kind of shy and modest. Great guy, though.
@@ksullivan728 ok ... you're a girl ...I assume (dresses as shirts)...wow... I've read about Charlie ...the light guy ... being with them from the beginning... he's seen in a couple early live shows too...I read he was making a lot of money when they hit it big ..then put on salary...I did know one of the GTO's...Pamela Des Barres...she came to see my old band play once and we'd hang out when she lived in in Hollywood near Santa Monica Blvd ...i didn't even know she hung around the Alice Cooper group until later... Glen Buxton was my favorite...I was heartbroken when I learned he didn't play on the last two studio albums...but loved his work on the first 5...you can tell the different styles...but anyways I was devastated when the band broke up...still hurts today as an old guy ..lol...you should write your memories down about the band...they are priceless...you lived with Glen in the '80's ? .. I didn't even know he passed until after my girlfriend bought a computer in the late '90's and found out...he developed a bad drug problem I heard ...I hope he found peace in his final years... thank you for responding...if you have any more memories you could share about the band I'd love to hear it ! ❤️
So many people think this song was ripped off to make the song Elected but really the song composition is completely different, the only thing similar is Elected rhymes with Reflected, I really don't think when writing Elected they where thinking about this song.
Elected
Its like 60s Pink Floyd, on killers they sound like ‘the doors’
How'd you get this? ida slapped my dad for a copy of this back in the 80's.
I hear elected
I wonder why???
And I want to be elected!
♫
This 3🎉
Pity about the annoying video counter.
I can understand why they sold about 100 copies of this album. Now it's a collectors item, go figure. I suppose if you could get a well preserved, like a fossilized bit of George Washington's horse's pile of manure, you know, real hard like rock or something, that you might consider that to be a collectors item. Same kind of deal here. Frank Zappa heard them for about 5 minutes and figured that there was zero chance of them doing anything even worth the cost of the plastic in the record, so he taped a 40 minute rehearsal, had it mixed and pressed. So much for a debut album. The music never got any better, only the production values.....
Jesus christ you're a Debby downer
Are you high or just an imbecile?
I love Pretties For You and East Action.