I haven’t actually seen Alice Cooper since 1970. They were bleeding edge radicals.
Sounds like the AC band when they were on Zappas label two LPs that sunk into obscurity. Yeah they were so bizarre the people stayed away in droves, then.
A few years later people couldn’t get enough, the band and the stage show was still out-there but producer Bob Ezra ironed out the kinks in their sound, hit singles and radio play ensued and you know the rest.
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Sounds like the AC band when they were on Zappas label
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At the risk of furthering a "slide," I've been thinking about Alice's comment in an interview I saw a few years ago where he bragged he and his band were "the stake through the heart of the flower children."
I thought it was an interesting comment at the time, particularly since he said it with such a wistful expression.
Now, having read McGowan's "Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon" and his position that Zappa, who utterly loathed hippy culture then ascendent, was part of a covert military op to influence popular music, Cooper's comment makes a lot more sense. In fact, he may have confirmed McGowan's theory.
The hippy, flower children and their lifestyle had gone far enough and needed to go. Zappa, central figure in the Laurel Canyon "scene," signs Cooper to one of his record labels and in short order, they are.
Not that anyone needs further proof that Zappa was an unusual person and arguably a genius, here's a clip of him from 1963 on the Steve Allen Show playing a bicycle.