I've never seen him behind the wheel of anything but a Corvette. But it's been decades. Looks like he has some great old Hot Rods. And......an Avanti ?!?! LOL!! 
Posted on 07/28/2017 10:23:27 AM PDT by nickcarraway
"Little Electric Chair" print was "rolled up in a tube," could be worth millions
Alice Cooper discovered an Andy Warhol silkscreen print that could be worth millions of dollars "rolled up in a tube" in a storage locker, The Guardian reports. The "Little Electric Chair" print was part of Warhol's Death and Disaster series and, coincidentally, had been laying around a facility for over 40 years alongside Cooper's Seventies-era electric chair stage prop.
Cooper and Warhol became friends in the early Seventies after the rocker moved to New York City. Warhol even came to one of Cooper's concerts where he used the electric chair to fake an execution. As Cooper's longtime manager Shep Gordon explained, "Andy was kind of a groupie, and so was Alice. They loved famous people. So they started a relationship, and they loved to hang out."
However, it was Cooper's girlfriend at the time, model Cindy Lang, who purchased the "Little Electric Chair" print from Warhol. Warhol based his print (dated either 1964 or 1965) on a 1953 press photo of the death chamber at Sing Sing prison where Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed that year for sharing secrets with the Soviet Union.
Lang apparently handed the print off to Gordon, but it quickly got lost amongst Cooper's vast assortment of gear. "At the time Alice is making two albums a year and touring the rest of the time," Gordon said. "It was a rock & roll time; none of us thought about anything. He ends up going into an insane asylum for his drinking and then leaves New York for L.A. Alice says he remembers having a conversation with Warhol about the picture. He thinks the conversation was real, but he couldn't put his hand on a Bible and say that it was."
Gordon only remembered Cooper had the piece four years ago after having dinner with an art dealer. While it was unclear where the print was, Gordon noted that, luckily, Cooper's mother remembered seeing it go into storage.
View image on Twitter View image on Twitter Follow Walker Reader @walkermag 40 years later, Alice Cooper's Warhol electric chair screenprint found "rolled up in a tube": http://wac.mn/2uu6FY8 3:02 PM - Jul 24, 2017 29 29 Retweets 33 33 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy While Cooper's "Little Electric Chair" is unsigned, Warhol expert Richard Polsky said he is certain the piece is authentic (the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts stopped authenticating work in 2011 after a dispute with a collector). In 1972, Lang paid $2,500 for the piece. In 2015, another "Little Electric Chair" print sold at auction for $11.6 million.
Gordon said that after Cooper learned of the Warhol's potential value, he declined to hang something so expensive in his house, though apparently the rocker is now reconsidering. "You should have seen Alice’s face when Richard Polsky's estimate came in," Gordon said. "His jaw dropped and he looked at me. 'Are you serious? I own that!'"
I've never seen him behind the wheel of anything but a Corvette. But it's been decades. Looks like he has some great old Hot Rods. And......an Avanti ?!?! LOL!!
I’d imagine her estate has been settled and any claims against it or on it’s behalf have been legally relinquished.
Alice Cooper, great rocker, even better GOLFER! (it’s true).
[[Ironic considering Cooper is a Christian.]]
He was a severely backslidden Christian for a long time- it happens- Christians aren’t super saints
No, it was an absolutely incredible balance of both.
His band is young and his vocals held up extremely well.
I’ve been to hundreds of concerts, played hundreds of shows myself and it was no doubt one of the best I’ve ever seen.
Guess he now knows what he wants.
"Cooper has on several occasions credited golf with playing a major role in helping him overcome his addiction to alcohol,[109] and has even gone so far as to say that when he took up golf, it was a case of replacing one addiction with another.[110][111] The importance that the game has had in his life is also reflected in the title to his 2007 autobiography, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster.[112] Cooper, who has participated in a number of Pro-Am competitions,[fn 11] plays the game six days a week, off a handicap of two.[85]
Since 1997 he has hosted an annual golf competition, the Alice Cooper Celebrity AM Golf Tournament, all proceeds from which go to his charity, the Solid Rock Foundation.
Cooper has also appeared in commercials for Callaway Golf equipment and was a guest of veteran British player and broadcaster Peter Alliss on A Golfer's Travels.[113] He wrote the foreword to the Gary McCord book Ryder Cup and participated in the second All*Star Cup in Newport, Wales.[114] In an interview with VH1, friend and fellow golfer Pat Boone said that Cooper was "this close" to being a pro."
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It sounds like it was a birthday gift. If you gift something, you transfer ownership.
Okay, maybe this version doesn’t have it, but somewhere else they said it was a birthday gift.
great birthday gift!
I trust he is suitable grateful to the late Cindy Lang!
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Beats the heck out of a 401k. :-)
Was there a Velvet Elvis there too?
The thing with cooper was he was an innovator- performing rap before rap was cool- shock rock like noone’s business- theatrical rock- big hair- makeup etc-
A lot of rock stars give him props for paving the way for various genre style rock and roll from which their styles evolved
He hit the scene at just the right time- when kids began rebelling more against authorities- school- govenrment etc- 20 years earlier and he might not have succeeded- likely wouldn’t have-
His rock wasn’t for everyone- some of his stuff was really sick- for which he later apologized and vowed to to delve into anymore-
He even did a show with the muppets characters- If anyone could make the muppets appear creepy- it was him lol-
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Lol
Whorealdo will always be 0.
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