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Alice Cooper: Friday, October 31, 1986 Poughkeepsie Journal I3D The curtain rises on another phase in the career of the godfather of ''theatrical' rock roll By Gary Graff Kalis! Ridder Newipsptri OK, students. It's time for class. Ouy Osboume, take a seat up there at the front You guys from Motley Crue, sit next to him. Kiss, Ronnie James Dlo, Ratt, W.A.S.P. everyone sit down, please.

Today we have a guest speaker. His name Is Alice Cooper. He did what all of ydu do, the hard rock roll with the makeup and the theatrics, long before you did it Now he's making a comeback, and he'd like to talk to you about it "The Idea Is for Alice to come back and more or less do a refresher course on Alice," explained Cooper, 40, from manager Shep Gordon's office In Los Angeles, where Cooper was rehearsing for his first tour In more than five years. "At the beginning, I thought, 'Who are these the Ozzys and Mot ley Crues and all of them. They're ripping off everything I did.

They've done everything, blatantly. It was so obvious they were just doing warmed over Alice. I was saying, 'You don't own that If you did it first, like I did, then you own it' Now the idea is to get out on tour and crush 'em." So says the man with a woman's name who, through chopping up baby dolls and sticking bis head in a guillotine In front of thousands of paying customers at a time, became a pop culture Icon during the 70s, a forerunner of the glitter and theatrics that are part of heavy metal today. With a new album, "Constrictor," and the tour, he's hoping to regain that status and perhaps teach his new competitors a thing or two. Back at the beginning, he was just Vincent Furnier, the son of a preacher in Detroit who relocated to Phoenix when Cooper was 10.

There he formed his first band, a hard tS mBBKaBBJI FmI Klw Hit mreT fttiat Wtniiimjjyi4 SH ON THE HUDSON 'At the beginning, I thought. 'Who are these the Ozzys and Motley Crues and all of them. They're ripping off everything I It was so obvious they were just doing warmed over Alice. I was saying, 'You don't own that. If you did it first, like I did, then you own it.

Now the idea is to get out on tour and crush Alice Cooper, on his comeback attempt rocking quintet that took the name Alice Cooper after a Ouija board told them Cooper was a 17th century witch reincarnated as Furnier and put together a bizarre stage show that was part rock 'n' roll and part psychodrama. They were odd enough to attract Frank Zappa, who produced their first album, "Pretties for You." But it took a move back to Detroit and two more albums for the Cooper ensemble to break big. In 1971, "Eighteen" started a two year string of hit singles including "School's Out," "Elected" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy" and such albums as "Love It to Death," "Killer," "School's Out" and "Billion Dollar Babies." But the real attention went to Cooper's stage shows, highly theatrical affairs In which the singer staged mock lynchings and beheadings, cavorted with a boa constrictor, danced with a giant tooth and toothbrush and was so lewd and violent that he made Elvis Presley's pelvic gyrations look positively PG. "The vision was true, at least," Cooper said.

"We predicted what everything was going to be, and that's why a lot of people did hate us. We were the stake in the heart of the love generation; they were saying, 'Oh, no. This is what's gonna be next That phase of Cooper's career fell apart In 1874, when he and the band split up over ego and stylistic differences chronicled in Bob Greene's booki "Billion Dollar Babies." "Everyone wanted to change," Cooper said. "They didn't want to do the theatrics anymore. I said, 'You guys are out of your minds! This is what it's all about'" So the band went its' way as the short lived Billion Dollar Babies, while Cooper continued to savor success with a new band and 1975's "Welcome to My Nightmare," an album, tour and TV special.

But things were never the same after that The records sold fewer and fewer copies. Cooper was photographed playing golf with celebrities and began appearing on "Hollywood Squares," mainstream moves that cost him his rock roll credentials. And there were battles with alcoholism. In 1978, Cooper, who claimed he drank a case of Budweiser and a fifth of whisky a day, committed himself to a psychiatric hospital (chronicled on an album, "From the Partial, Showers, Birthdays Bachelor Parties, Strip Grams FLOWERS BY STRIPPER "HAVE STtINO, WKL TRAVEL 485 4474 "An upbeat alternative to the same old nights out. lively music, a warm cozy atmosphere and great American food." Dr.

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Cooper has explanations: On the albums released after he said, "I'm not ashamed of any of them. The fact was, they were more or less made for the hard core Alice fans. They weren't going to be No. 1 albums, and we knew that when we' were recording them." On his mainstream moves: "The golf thing and 'Hollywood now that stuff got blown out of proportion. I liked the idea that Alice was In the enemy's camp; Alice was definitely In the enemy's camp by being on the golf course, on TV with Johnny Carson.

But It backfired on me. A lot of people didn't get the joke." On the alcoholism: "When you're an alcoholic, you're an alcoholic, there's no two ways about it I'm a total extremist in everything I do, and I drank to the point of going berserk. "I've been clean for four years now, and it feels great I've addicted myself to more positive things to Nutra sweet, which will probably give me cancer one day, and to splatter movies." During his tour year break from recording while waiting for hard rock to return to commercial favor. Cooper even starred in one splatter movie, a low budget Spanish project called "Monster Dog." "The only thing I told them was that they had to promise me there'd be nobody in 1 ii'lMMBMMBIJIJXji'lfilfflir1! i JjSMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMailSW lfatBLl a .7 mmnW Lv 1 tJpi'jKil flt S3MMMMMMMMMWSr Alice Cooper sports one of his many stage looks, left, and puts his real face forth. Cooper, 40, whose real name is Vincent Furnier, is back to regain his title as the king of rock gore with a new album and concert tour.

the cast anybody has ever heard of," he said. "That's the kind of movie I like. It came out in 1983 and was a big hit in the Philippines. And they paid me a ton of money." Of course, Cooper always knew there was a profit to be made in the world of blood and gore, so the rather aggressive approach of "Constrictor" which includes "He's Back," the title song for "Friday the 13th, Part VI" is nq surprise! And neither are the plans for his new stage show, which he said will combine the best of the old Cooper productions with some new tricks. "Technology has caught up with my imagination now," he explained.

"Now I can watch "Friday the The Evil and say, 'How can I get that effect "It used to be just the idea was enough to shock the audience. We're rfflCHAnps i Rt. 55, laGrongeTtCT. I i elk aott locomc i. rawy.

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