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Alice Cooper: Fellow Rockers are Treasonous Morons
Mens News Daily/Talon News ^ | August 26, 2004 | Steve Roeder

Posted on 08/26/2004 8:47:42 AM PDT by onyx

Alice Cooper: Fellow Rockers are Treasonous Morons

Rock and roll legend Alice Cooper called fellow rock stars campaigning for presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) "treasonous morons." Cooper, 56, told the Canadian Press that he was appalled that follow musicians Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, R.E.M., Sheryl Crow, James Taylor, and Dave Matthews are performing a series of concerts in hopes of defeating President George W. Bush in the November 2 election.

Cooper, whose real name is Vincent Damon Furnier, is reportedly a strong Republican and fan of Bush who joins Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) at NBA games in Phoenix.

"To me, that's treason," Cooper said. "I call it treason against rock and roll, because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics".

Cooper continued, "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."

"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," Cooper explained. "So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick.

Concluded Cooper, "Besides, 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."

Ronstadt was recently escorted off the property by the president of the Aladdin Hotels in Las Vegas after espousing her liberal political viewpoint by publicly supporting leftist, Bush-bashing film director Michael Moore. Her action prompted Aladdin President Bill Timmins, who attended the concert, to ban Ronstadt from the property. Aladdin staff checked her out of her room and escorted her to her tour bus.

Henley was booed on stage at the Pacific Amphitheatre in Orange County, CA, for expressing support for Ronstadt during one of his recent concerts. Later in the show, Henley, a former member of the Eagles, suggested his next song could be sung as a duet by President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Written by Randy Newman, "Political Science" has the U.S. dropping nukes on nearly every other part of the world.

Meanwhile, the GOP announced Monday that the country duo Brooks & Dunn will headline the entertainment at the Republican National convention next week in New York. Other talent includes country singer Lee Ann Womack, Christian rock band Third Day, and gospel vocalist Donnie McClurkin.


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To: hobbes1

Actually, he has written much worse. Check out the lyrics to I Love The Dead....or just take my word for it.


21 posted on 08/26/2004 9:50:56 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: GSWarrior

I love the Coop.


22 posted on 08/26/2004 9:51:54 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: onyx

He's always been ahead of the typical rocker curve. Lived in Phoenix instead of LA, plays golf, votes GOP. Too bad he's no longer current - only us old farts know who he is!


23 posted on 08/26/2004 9:53:19 AM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Right makes right!)
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To: hobbes1

He produced some of the best hard rock to reach AM radio in the early 70s, that's for sure.


24 posted on 08/26/2004 9:53:47 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: dmz

Obviously you know nothing about Alice Cooper. Never had any satanistic overtones. Refreshing that he is still relevant in 2004, relentlessly skewering the entertainment world's vacuous phonies.


Alice Cooper for President
"A troubled man for troubled times"


25 posted on 08/26/2004 9:56:27 AM PDT by DickBrannigan
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To: onyx
I don't Remember but he looked like a witch you would see stirring the boiling pot in the movies.
26 posted on 08/26/2004 10:45:11 AM PDT by solo gringo (Give us more of Bush/Cheney in o4.)
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To: Ouachita; Victoria Delsoul
Love it!

Victoria... thought you'd appreciate this.

How are you doing, Victoria?

Has School started yet?

27 posted on 08/26/2004 12:33:50 PM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier!)
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To: DickBrannigan

You, sir, are absolutely hilarious to suggest that Alice Cooper "never had any satanistic overtones." (your quote)

Obviously you have never read ANY of Alice's lyrics. For your edification, please read the following lyrics from Alice's 1973 release "Billion Dollar Babies". (song title is "I love the dead"

I love the dead before they're cold
They're bluing flesh for me to hold
Cadaver eyes upon me see nothing
I love the dead before they rise
No farewells, no goodbyes
I never knew your rotting face
While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave
I have other uses for you, Darling
We love the dead
We love the dead, Yeah



28 posted on 08/26/2004 1:21:29 PM PDT by dmz
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To: DickBrannigan

You should really check out this site, has all of his lyrics.

http://www.darklyrics.com/a/alicecooper.html


29 posted on 08/26/2004 1:28:20 PM PDT by dmz
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To: Northern Yankee
LOL, I love this comment:

Concluded Cooper, "Besides, 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."

Good to see you, Jay! Summer classes are over, and I get just a few days off until I start teaching Spanish the week after next.

How are you doing my friend? Long time no see.

30 posted on 08/26/2004 4:20:05 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul (Kerry, release your records as GW did. Prove you were in Cambodia under Nixon in 1968)
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To: dmz
one of the guys who mainstreamed Satanism in rock music.

Not Alice. Even some of his earlier songs were spiritual. He does act out the part of a sadistic maniac, but if you read the lyrics they have or imply that there are grave consequences to such behavior. He was criticized for blood and guts in his shows, not Satanism. BTW, he is a devout Christian, some of his earlier songs indicate that he had at least a glimmer of belief then.

31 posted on 08/27/2004 6:19:35 AM PDT by ItsTheMediaStupid
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To: dmz

Actually, Cooper is a born again Christian.


32 posted on 08/27/2004 6:23:42 AM PDT by Skooz (My Biography: Psalm 40:1-3)
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To: onyx
"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," Cooper explained.

I realize that Alice Cooper is old but what does this make the Stones? Cooper is on target with this.

33 posted on 08/27/2004 6:27:04 AM PDT by Unknown Freeper
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To: Unknown Freeper

Let me rephrase that. I didn't mean Cooper is old old but that he is mature, not some young teenage rocker.


34 posted on 08/27/2004 6:28:20 AM PDT by Unknown Freeper
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To: LuckyHat

I have tickets to see Brooks and Dunn at the York Fair - September 10th. Looking forward to it.

I saw Toby Keith 2 years ago at the York Fair - loved his show - he talked a lot about the Peter Jennings thing.

I hope Brooks and Dunn tell us about their experience at the convention.


35 posted on 08/27/2004 6:28:39 AM PDT by fawn796
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To: dmz
It would appear he is referring to himself as a treasonous moron as well, since he is spouting his political beliefs as well. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

The difference is, he's not going on a whirlwind cross-country tour to influence the vote.

36 posted on 08/27/2004 6:32:06 AM PDT by PLOM...NOT!
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To: ItsTheMediaStupid; Skooz

Please see my post #28 in which the lyrics to his 1973 song I love the dead are reprinted for your edification. A link to all of his lyrics is in post #29.

That he is born again or a devout Christian today is irrelevant to what he was doing in the early '70's, which was the point of my original post on this topic. Actually my point was that the mainstreamer of this kind of dark sensibility in rock music is now the darling of the right. I still wonder how this would play over on the Religion forum.

Please tell what the "grave" (LOL) consequences that are implied I love the Dead? And before you try to give me the Christian interpretation of the song, remember the stage act that went along with it. Not something you'd be likely to see staged at a "contemporary Christian church service".

If Marilyn Manson came out in favor of GWB and the war in Iraq, would he(?) become favored as well?


37 posted on 08/27/2004 7:12:26 AM PDT by dmz
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To: onyx
Schools Out !!


38 posted on 08/27/2004 7:17:48 AM PDT by unixfox (Close the borders, problems solved!)
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To: dmz

Not to split hairs, but necrophelia doesn't necessarily equal satanism. Cooper wrote some pretty outrageous stuff, but there was always a tongue & cheek quality to it. Heck, I had a copy of Billion Dollar Babies but as a thirteen year old never at any time took the stuff on it seriously. Lyrics aside, the guy put out some pretty good music.


39 posted on 08/27/2004 7:21:58 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: dmz
1973 was over 30 years ago. My point was that he is now a born again Christian. I was responding to your question "I wonder how those over there in the Religion forum feel about him."

I answered the question by saying that he is a Christian now.

I listened to a lot of Alice Cooper back then, and he never invoked any kind of satanism in his music. It was all a horror show much like the old 1950s horror movies. In fact, Vincent Price narrated the album "Welcome to My Nightmare."

40 posted on 08/27/2004 7:40:15 AM PDT by Skooz (My Biography: Psalm 40:1-3)
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