[Conservative Tsunami]

Bout’ time with Alice Cooper. He is an incredibly underrated songwriter and one of the most influential showmen around.

The Godfather of Goth, game-changer of Rock Shows forever....

His musical peak though substantial, was relatively brief, however. 1972-1974 was basically IT.

[a fool in paradise]

Screamin’ Lord Sutch was doing horror rock spectacles before Alice Cooper (and playing with his “heavy” friends who went on to play with the Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience). And Screamin’ Jay Hawkins was there even before.

Ugliest inductees are yet to come (when they pat Marilyn Manson on the back for doing what Cooper and even Trent Reznor did before him and with no accolades for the industrial rock of Jim Thirwell aka Foetus who spawned that whole noisy subgenre of dance/rock).

[Salamander]

Wouldn’t go so far as to that.

Of all the weird hings, his hit “Poison” is *the* number one tune used by strippers.

I’m not sure how he feels about that but it’s infamy, at least.

“Along Came A Spider” rivals “Welcome To My Nightmare” for sheer theatrical “theme” perfection.

[and “Brutal Planet” is a straight up heavy, kick-ass album, IMO]

He’s not going away and he’s just getting better...:)

FYI, Eric Bloom of BOC spat upon the RR HoF for the sole reason that Alice was not in it.

I’m assuming he’s happy Oyster, now.

[but when will BOC make it in?]