Posted on 02/17/2021 4:56:39 AM PST by DoodleBob
Legendary rocker Alice Cooper will release his new studio album, "Detroit Stories", on February 26 via earMUSIC. Named for the city that launched the original Alice Cooper group on the road to success, it follows 2019's "Breadcrumbs" EP as a modern-day homage to the toughest and craziest rock and roll scene there ever was.
Speaking about his inspiration for "Detroit Stories", Alice said (see video below): "Well, I was born in Detroit, and Detroit was the, is the hard rock capital of the United States. Los Angeles had THE DOORS, and they were kind of a sexy rock and roll sound. San Francisco had THE GRATEFUL DEAD. New York had THE YOUNG RASCALS. Detroit had THE STOOGES, the MC5, Alice Cooper, Bob Seger, Ted Nugent. We were all hard rock — guitar-driven rock and roll bands. And, for some reason, that just became the home of hard rock. And it was in the same place as Motown, which was interesting. We had, actually, two musical movements going on at the same time — Motown and hard rock — and they both got along very well together.
"So, I said, 'Let's do an album that basically celebrates Detroit, since I was born there and I owe a lot to Detroit," he continued. "But let's not just do that. Let's go in there and record there, write the album there, only use Detroit players, and make it pure Detroit.' So that was a bit of a discipline for us, because we like to use different players and everything. The only one that wasn't from Detroit was Joe Bonamassa; he was our guest in there. But everybody else on the album was Detroit rockers."
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Alice is a good dude. Look up his interview on his friend Glen Campbell’s death on youtube sometime.
The town is more than half empty. Fill it full of illegals and make it the capitol of salsa music.
I'd rather have Alice as the Spokesman for Right-Leaning musicians than Uncle Ted, the latter of whom, at times, makes me cringe and has a nasty past vs Alice.
Alice & Glen were golfing pals to the very end.
From Detroit came some amazing talent...and can’t forget The Motor City MOTOWN WOW.
British invasion was awesome too. I even enjoyed the surf music out west and the east & west coast rappers...the jazz...the classics...the...ALL enjoyable...around the world...even the throat singers.
YOU didn’t ping Salamander?! If I hear a song from Alice Cooper, I ping Salamander. Sheesh! /s :)
From what I understand he makes himself available 24/7 for other musicians that want to get clean off drugs.
music of the birds/byrds...airplane/airplanes...the bees/bee gees...disco...sounds/hearing...
snow...rain...wind...quiet...life
:)
There was also the small but influential Fortune Records diskery, home of Nolan Strong & the Diablos, Andre Williams & the Don Juans and Nathaniel Mayer.
“The only one that wasn’t from Detroit was Joe Bonamassa”
I’m looking forward to hearing this.
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I grew up listening to him in middle and high school.
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