ALICE COOPER To Release 'Breadcrumbs' EP In September (20,000 vinyl copies!)

Blabbermouth ^ | July 21, 2019 | n/a

[be-baw]

“But who,in God’s name,would buy vinyl today???? “

Vinyl started becoming popular again at least 10 years ago. There have always been those who say vinyl is and always will been superior to CDs in sound quality.

There may be some truth to that. There are some fantastic digitally remastered recordings on CD, but there is also is a lot of crap. Anything Motown, Simon and Garfunkel (because original master tapes vanished before they could be properly digitized) and, I’m sure, many others.

I gave up on vinyl after I destroyed my small (but treasured) record collection by playing them with a damaged stylus. I have several hundred CDs so I see no reason to use anything else. Never downloaded a tune and the only “streaming” I’ve done is via Youtube (if that even counts, I don’t know).

[DoodleBob]

As the link above shows, in 2019 there were 16.7MM LPs sold in the USA, up 7.2% from that in 2018 for a total dollar value of $388.5MM. Now, that's still way less than CDs sold but CDs are on the decline.

That is also likely less than the total value of albums sold since many unsigned bands - which make most of their money on merchandise sales - are doing vinyl in addition to CDs. One of my favorite old punk bands, The Undead, sell albums in different colors. I've been to shows where some old school fans the same album but in different colors. It works.

Alice is a smart businessman. He's weathered many storms, is pretty much a conservative philosophically (or at least right-libertarian) and even his 'weaker' releases like "Alice Cooper Goes to Hell" rock. He's a living legend but he keeps on going.

I saw Alice open for Iron Maiden at Jones Beach...to be fair, it was one of the first shows on Maiden's tour but Alice and his band came pretty close to blowing Maiden off the stage - and that is HARD to do.

[DoodleBob]

MC5-Kick out the Jams, Wayne State Univ, Detroit in 1970.

They take it way too fast - it can't really breath - but that's rock and roll, baby.

[Robert DeLong]

Of course there is also punt, shunt, courante, croissant, detente, enfant (if we use foreign words), & savant. 8>)

[null and void]

He has often said he intends to drop onstage.

If it was good enough for Country Dick Montana...

[null and void]

Marry me and you would.

oh wait...

[dynachrome]

I saw Cactus, some band I can’t remember due to drug use, and the MC5 in concert way back when. My ears still bleed.

[Delta 21]

Everyone loves Alice!

[DoodleBob]

Could this have been that show? Per this link:

January 28, 1971 / Cactus, MC-5, Brownsville Station *Panther Hall*, Fort Worth, Texas

Cactus' Parchman Farm is off the hook.

[dynachrome]

Somewhere in Michigan

[dynachrome]

Near Deeeetroit somewhere.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

In the last few years, some known bands delayed their new release until it could also come out on vinyl. There was only one factory at the time. I think that’s even increased. It is enjoying a rebirth.

[Mariner]

Expect an astounding show.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Just the retelling of an USAF supervisor’s experience of seeing MC-5 in Thailand during the Vietnam war makes it one of the few concerts I wish I was at.

[daler]

I’ve seen The Stones, Eagles, Hendrix, Clapton,McCartney, CSN&Y, and then some.

Vintage Alice Cooper (1972) was the best live R&R performance I’ve ever witnessed.

[LS]

When my rock band was coming up, The Spyders (Alice’s group) were ahead of us about 3 years. We weren’t old enough to get into bars (like the Red Dog a Go Go) to hear him. But his guitarist, John Tatum, quit when Vince moved to LA and changed the band’s name.

Within about two years a certain LS was playing in John Tatum’s band.

[bleach]

I have a fond place for Coop. My first real concert was Alice Cooper the band at the Keith Albee in Huntington. Killer tour 1972. Turned 18 the year the song came it. Perfect description of how I felt. I’ve had a chance to meet him a couple of times. Genuinely nice.

Long live Coop!

[DoodleBob]

I searched for Majik but can't find anything. I did find John's website and he seems to be doing well with his ministry.

It seems like a lot of those guys, if they made it out of that era alive, became religious or atheist/agnostic - little of them are in-between.

Notwithstanding your busy schedule on the HSing circuit (btw, congratulations), do you get to play out much anymore?

[Salamander]

[Salamander]

:)