Nice Guy.” For 1971’s “Ballad of Dwight Fry” he was fitted into a filthy pink straightjacket. He had a holster for his mic and a snake slithering around his neck during “Devil’s Food,” and he swung a black cane at the crowd for a sneering “No More Mr. He has a way with props, cutting the air with a long rapier sword or snapping a riding crop by his leg. Touring in celebration of the 40th anniversary of his School’s Out album (and with a new boxed set coming next week), Cooper’s set was heavy on the catchiest hits from his first decade, which still represent his best material: “I’m Eighteen,” “Under My Wheels,” etc. The whole show was joyously decadent, cartoonish and rebelliously loud, for a standing audience ranging from first-generation fans to younger listeners finally witnessing the legend up close.
It’s a persona that has lost nothing to age. On “Feed My Frankenstein,” Cooper was strapped to a mad scientist table amid sparks and smoke, then transformed into an oversized Alice monstrosity. 'Silence of the Lambs': 'It Broke All the Rules'ĭuring the riff-rocker “I’ll Bite Your Face Off,” Cooper and Orianthi spun around one another playfully, and on “Hey Stoopid,” she ignited a slippery solo as Cooper taunted her: “This ain’t your daddy talking. This time he was with a younger five-piece band, often sharing center stage with Australian guitar virtuoso Orianthi, who was an energetic foil for Cooper in black leather and lace and platinum hair down to her shoulders. In Los Angeles in 2011, Cooper ripped through a quick four-song set at the Revolver Golden God Awards with his original band, shortly after their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The curtain fell in a fiery shower of sparks as the ringmaster strolled out wearing tails with vivid red and white stripes, skull belt buckles across his waist and white spats spattered with blood. It was Alice Cooper in classic mode, with a stage crowded with horror props. Cooper was joined by actor Johnny Depp on guitar for several songs as he delivered 90 fast minutes of Seventies glam and trash. Opener Dokken was much more chatty with the early arriving audience, with founding members Don Dokken and drummer Mick Brown cracking constant jokes about their age and "misbehaving in the '80s."ĭokken also fought through a hot evening sun and seated, somewhat lethargic early audience to deliver a solid hour of their '80s hits like "The Hunter," "Dream Warriors," "Kiss of Death," "Breaking the Chains" and "In My Dreams.No rocker has had more wild fun in the dark than Alice Cooper, who unveiled a renewed nightmare last night at L.A.’s Orpheum Theatre, an old vaudevillian palace befitting this master horror-rock showman. While Cooper didn't chat a lot with the crowd, his show and the strength of his tunes combined to make him, still, a must-see. Nice Guy" and "Under My Wheels." From there, the energy rarely flagged even for ballads like "Only Women Bleed." "Lost in America" offered a New York Dolls-style blast of garage rock, and anthems like "Billion Dollar Babies" and "I'm Eighteen" remain live favorites for good reason. Nita Strauss was one of three guitarists bringing Alice Cooper's nightmare to life on stage.Ĭooper launched the show in a shower of sparks and the band was on fire from the jump on opener "Brutal Planet" and its follow-up of "No More Mr. In the process, he showed why he's considered a garage-rock pioneer, while still offering up the theatrics one has come to expect from an Alice Cooper show.Ī live boa constrictor for "Welcome to My Nightmare." A Frankenstein monster for "Feed My Frankenstein." Alice in a straightjacket for "The Ballad of Dwight Fry." Alice beheaded with a guillotine just before "Killer/I Love The Dead." All the eye-candy greatest hits were there, and entertaining for sure.
ALICE COOPER SPARK IN THE DARK PRINT SERIES
Sunday night, Cooper kicked off Northern Quest's Outdoor Summer Concerts series with a setlist that leaned hard on his '70s-era classics like Welcome to My Nightmare and Billion Dollar Babies. I'm not going to say that Alice Cooper made a deal with the devil to still be so spry and rocking at 69 years old - as we all know by now, the man's an avowed Christian - but there's something unnatural about how much raucous fun the man still has on stage, nearly 50 years after first hitting the public eye. Alice Cooper headlined this season's first outdoor summer concert at Northern Quest on Sunday night.
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