So much fun! Thanks! I am looking forward to the "flush the fashion, Special Forces, Zipper Catches Skin and DaDa" episode! I enjoy all of the episodes though. Woot!
Nice as per usual 😊 love it sir😊 appreciate it much😊 keep it up you're one of THE BEST teacher/player/musician/songwriters online imo again tyvm 😊 never at a loss for killer material 😊
Yes Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter and others... But i just love the 'Welcome to my nightmare', 'Goes to Hell', and 'From the inside' albums. They we're cool ! Not just metal but very diverse and polyvalent with amazing orchestral bits. Yes for pt 2 !
Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter. What an awesome guitar team. My favorite album from Alice is the criminally underrated Flush the Fashion. Especially the song Pain from it. Not too far behind is his album Zipper Catches Skin.
@NoLegalPlunder Man I love me some Zipper Catches Skin YES, It's so clever so eclectic so FREAKING UNDERAPPRECIATED ! ! But wait gotta love the SPECIAL FORCES !
Good episode (fully agree on your statement for "Cold Ethyl", completely overloooked gem)... but speaking of gems, there are so many you coudln't cover here and... some other featured here are not that essential imho. So here are a few suggestions for part 2 and, who knows, 3 of this series : "Killer" is so good that it almost sounds like a "best of" album : "Under my wheels", "Halo of flies", "Desperado" (stunning arpeggio intro), "Be my baby", the song "Killer" itself etc. From the first album, the great opener "Caught in a dream"; "Eighteen" (his biggest hit ever, how could you not cover it btw ?!?!), "Long way to go"... Of course, at least the title track from "School's out" (not my favourite album either). "Billion dollar babies" is a true masterpiece and I'm surprised you didn't include some material in this collection like "No more Mr nice guy" 'classic riffing !), "Generation landslide", of course the title track with its most disturbing lyrics, "Raped and freezin"", "Candy sweet", "Elected"... one classic after another, and the addition of guitarists extraordinaire Steve Hunter and DicK Wagner (courtesy of Bob Ezrin who felt the AC band couldn't deliver to his standards in the studio). And for part 3, dont' forget the end of the 1970's/early 1980's as well, therer are at lest two hidden gems in that era : 1978's "From the inside" (with no less than Steve Lukather on guitar) and 1981's "Special forces" which is one of his best efforts ever imho, which says it all. Lots of episodes to come I hope... Alice Cooper wasn't only a great character/singer (blessed with a unique voice to this day)/lyricist (admired by no less than Bob Dylan) but he knew how to surround himself with the best rock musicians either, so there's something for everybody in his catalogue !
Great choice. Huge influence on me from Love It to Death onwards. Then there's Bob Ezrin, had lots to do with shaping it from the beginning. Always great melodic material there.
Got his live brutal planet dvd it's really good he's an excellent frontman and entertainer. Great songwriter 2 the song only women bleed gets me everytime 😊
Any chance of you doing a licks lesson of Pete Townshend? Even though he's not the ultimate lead player, there are some really cool choices and licks from their Woodstock set :)
love billion dollar baby album..great tunes..love glen buxtons lics..theatrical rock at its best IMO....can I ask you what pickup you have in your strat..I can see what i think is seymour duncan...but could you tell me what single coils you have in there?...really love your teaching style..straight ahead no BS...i will be making a patreon thankyou in a bit..please keep adding content...
oh and Welcome to my nightmare is great too..seen him on the muppets at this time..lol...i feel asleep to "steven" i dont know how many times...my name is Steven...cool stuff
Awesome episode, but so hard to include everything, even just from the '70s! Honorable mentions: Desperado I'm Eighteen School's Out Billion Dollar Babies Never Been Sold Before Hard Hearted Alice Muscle of Love The Black Widow
nice like the original group the best...Nightmare was okay but...not like the early...he has seemed to have kept his sanity...Just don't say Trump..lol..Thanks Dave
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Buxton and Bruce with the twin SGs are still the best version of his band.
And the only one…
I agree, but Hunter and Wagner were good, and they were rockin' on the Lou Reed live album.
@olafbigandglad HELL YEAH
please do a Part 2!!!
Ah man this is fantastic! So much great guitar work with Alice’s discography!
Those first bunch of Alice Cooper albums are amazing. Great chordplay episode!
By chance are you thinking about the albums that predated Love It to Death?
So much fun! Thanks! I am looking forward to the "flush the fashion, Special Forces, Zipper Catches Skin and DaDa" episode! I enjoy all of the episodes though. Woot!
I love those Blackout albums!!!
I had been waiting for this for a long time...Thanks Dave
EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOUR VIDEO'S IS A HUGE ENORMOUS TREAT FOR ME...
David, you can absolutely make a part 2, it would be awesome. Alice is such an inflluence on me, be it the band or solo.
Nice as per usual 😊 love it sir😊 appreciate it much😊 keep it up you're one of THE BEST teacher/player/musician/songwriters online imo again tyvm 😊 never at a loss for killer material 😊
Michael Bruce rocks as well!
You keep doing chordplay of all of my favorite bands recently
I knew that it was gonna be "It's hot tonight" from that album! Great opener! Always loved it too.
very fun! thanks Dave!
You just read my mind. I was about to suggest an episode on Alice Cooper.
Yes Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter and others... But i just love the 'Welcome to my nightmare', 'Goes to Hell', and
'From the inside' albums. They we're cool ! Not just metal but very diverse and polyvalent with amazing orchestral bits. Yes for pt 2 !
Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter. What an awesome guitar team. My favorite album from Alice is the criminally underrated Flush the Fashion. Especially the song Pain from it. Not too far behind is his album Zipper Catches Skin.
@NoLegalPlunder Man I love me some Zipper Catches Skin YES, It's so clever so eclectic so FREAKING UNDERAPPRECIATED ! !
But wait gotta love the
SPECIAL FORCES !
First time seeing you doing what you do.... loving every minute of ... Thanks..... Now subscribed!
Another awesome pick for Metal Month if you went through his whole discography David it would be a two day episode 70,s Alice is some Kool stuff 👏👍🤘
Every song you picked is killer. I was hoping for something off From the inside but I'm not complaining. Great job!
Cold Ethyl! Cold, cold Ethyl!
awesome - perfect choice
Good episode (fully agree on your statement for "Cold Ethyl", completely overloooked gem)... but speaking of gems, there are so many you coudln't cover here and... some other featured here are not that essential imho. So here are a few suggestions for part 2 and, who knows, 3 of this series : "Killer" is so good that it almost sounds like a "best of" album : "Under my wheels", "Halo of flies", "Desperado" (stunning arpeggio intro), "Be my baby", the song "Killer" itself etc. From the first album, the great opener "Caught in a dream"; "Eighteen" (his biggest hit ever, how could you not cover it btw ?!?!), "Long way to go"... Of course, at least the title track from "School's out" (not my favourite album either). "Billion dollar babies" is a true masterpiece and I'm surprised you didn't include some material in this collection like "No more Mr nice guy" 'classic riffing !), "Generation landslide", of course the title track with its most disturbing lyrics, "Raped and freezin"", "Candy sweet", "Elected"... one classic after another, and the addition of guitarists extraordinaire Steve Hunter and DicK Wagner (courtesy of Bob Ezrin who felt the AC band couldn't deliver to his standards in the studio). And for part 3, dont' forget the end of the 1970's/early 1980's as well, therer are at lest two hidden gems in that era : 1978's "From the inside" (with no less than Steve Lukather on guitar) and 1981's "Special forces" which is one of his best efforts ever imho, which says it all. Lots of episodes to come I hope... Alice Cooper wasn't only a great character/singer (blessed with a unique voice to this day)/lyricist (admired by no less than Bob Dylan) but he knew how to surround himself with the best rock musicians either, so there's something for everybody in his catalogue !
Great choice. Huge influence on me from Love It to Death onwards. Then there's Bob Ezrin, had lots to do with shaping it from the beginning. Always great melodic material there.
Got his live brutal planet dvd it's really good he's an excellent frontman and entertainer. Great songwriter 2 the song only women bleed gets me everytime 😊
Can you please do a chords lesson on Uriah Heep and sometime later a solo secrets video on Mick Box? Thx, David!😁
Awesome lesson🎸🎸🤘🏻🤘🏻 Please do a part 2💀💀💀💀🎃🎃🎃👺👺👹👹👹
Any chance of you doing a licks lesson of Pete Townshend? Even though he's not the ultimate lead player, there are some really cool choices and licks from their Woodstock set :)
Early Alice unbeatable!
That slinky bass line really makes "is it my body". Dennis Dunaway
Please do a 2nd episode
love billion dollar baby album..great tunes..love glen buxtons lics..theatrical rock at its best IMO....can I ask you what pickup you have in your strat..I can see what i think is seymour duncan...but could you tell me what single coils you have in there?...really love your teaching style..straight ahead no BS...i will be making a patreon thankyou in a bit..please keep adding content...
oh and Welcome to my nightmare is great too..seen him on the muppets at this time..lol...i feel asleep to "steven" i dont know how many times...my name is Steven...cool stuff
Awesome episode, but so hard to include everything, even just from the '70s!
Honorable mentions:
Desperado
I'm Eighteen
School's Out
Billion Dollar Babies
Never Been Sold Before
Hard Hearted Alice
Muscle of Love
The Black Widow
For me Alice Cooper finished after Muscle of Love. After the departure of original members he embarked in a too commercial route.
You don't even like Welcome To My Nightmare?
You really gotta cover Captain Beyond man!
May I suggest a lesson for the chords of Armored Saint. Thanks.
Srv soloing secrets!!!
Killer tone - what you running through? Those seymour duncan PUPS?
Yeah, Kane Roberts, he was the best one, wasn't he?
He was a true hunk.
One of those songs prefigured Dokken.
Welcome to my nightmare. Neat riffs. RIP Dick.
Is it My Body only starts from the E chord on the first pass. After that it starts from the A chord to F sharp to G.
You didn't mention Frank signing him, as a bit of info.
I usually love your videos, David. But, you didn't play Cold Ethyl with your usual accuracy.
For the Boo's...
Part 2 \m/
Anyone hear Head East song "Never been any reason" @ 4:15
nice like the original group the best...Nightmare was okay but...not like the early...he has seemed to have kept his sanity...Just don't say Trump..lol..Thanks Dave
Should have been done on an SG
Doesn’t matter
Budgie please
Alice didn't sound like anyone else!
Gold.... Muscle of love nx