Did you buy a copy of "School's Out" when it came out? The one that looks like a school desk with the white panties under the lid? I still have mine. The album, that is.
Posted on 08/24/2004 1:26:47 PM PDT by PaulaB
Shock-rock legend Alice Cooper calls rock stars campaigning for Democrat John Kerry treasonous morons.
The 56-year-old Cooper says he was disgusted to learn the likes of Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, R.E.M., Sheryl Crow, James Taylor and Dave Matthews were hitting the road for a series of concerts designed to help defeat President Bush.
"To me, that's treason," Cooper told the Canadian Press. "I call it treason against rock 'n' roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics."
When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick.
"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal."
"Besides," he continued, "when I read the list of people who are supporting Kerry, if I wasn't already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched. Linda Ronstadt? Don Henley? Geez, that's a good reason right there to vote for Bush."
As WorldNetDaily previously reported, Linda Ronstadt was escorted off the property of a Las Vegas casino after publicly supporting Bush-bashing film director Michael Moore, and singer Don Henley was subsequently booed on stage in Orange County, Calif., for expressing support for Linda Ronstadt during one of his own concerts.
Cooper, whose real name is Vincent Damon Furnier, is reportedly a strong Republican who joins Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., at NBA games in Phoenix.
He continues his own summer rock tour, with upcoming dates in the Northeast, Canada, California and Las Vegas.
Love it To Death was my first AC album (yeah vinyl). I can still remember all those songs - dark stuff.
I heard this yesterday for the first time in years:
Go To Hell [5:02] - Goes To Hell, 1976
For criminal acts and violence on the stage
For being a brat
Refusing to act your age
For all the decent citizens you've enraged
You can go to Hell
For gambling and drinking alcohol constantly
For making us doubt our parents authority
For choosing to be a living obscenity
You can go to Hell
You're something that never should have happened
You even make your Grandma sick
You'd poison a blind man's dog and steal his cane
You'd gift-wrap a leper
And mail him to your Aunt Jane
You'd even force-feed a diabetic a candy cane
You can go to Hell
You're something that never should have happened
You even make your Grandma sick
For criminal acts and violence on the stage
For being a brat
Refusing to act your age
For all the decent citizens you've enraged
You can go to Hell
Are-you-here-yet? ping.
Good flick. Alice played the best role!
WE'RE SCUM!!
WE SUCK!!!
Your title?
Saw this a few days ago. Warmed the cockles of my heart, it did. (Whatever the heck cockles are...)
I don't think I wanna know. LOL
Did you buy a copy of "School's Out" when it came out? The one that looks like a school desk with the white panties under the lid? I still have mine. The album, that is.
There speaks a man with a sense of perspective...
No Worldnets title
Back in the '70s Alice wrote a song called "Elected". There was a kind of proto-video for the song where alice is behind a podium with a big Uncle Sam Hat. One of the verses in the song goes something like:
"We're gonna win this one, take the country by storm
We're gonna be elected!"
So true, Alice. Sing it out loud!
AHhhhh. Such good news. I'm so proud of Cooper. He lives here on Maui part of the time I've seen him and his family around at the restaurants etc. Everyone says how nice of a man he is and his wife and mother too. Real down to earth person. Like the rest of us Bush people. LOL
Strange.
I remember that. The plot was that Alice and the boys ran a chimpanzee for President. Had the chimp jumping up and down in a wheelbarrow full of campaign donation money. I watched it just before I got in a car and drove to Washington to protest Nixon's 2nd inauguration.
Sounds about right for me, too. The band playing before Alice was a trio of unknowns. Two guys w/beards and a heck of a sound, by the name of ZZ Top. I hear later they made it big. : )
Regardless of his politics, Alice Copoper has just become one of my favorites. He "gets it". Entertainers should entertain, NOT use their position as a bully pupit.
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