Posted on 12/31/2014 9:31:15 PM PST by NetAddicted
Alice Cooper, the shock-rock megastar who makes Marilyn Manson look like a choir boy, stopped his hard-partying ways and returned to his Bible Christian roots in the late 1980s and today, still hugely popular and touring, says he isn’t shy about discussing his faith, says his early songs always warned against choosing evil, and contends that the world we live in “doesn’t belong to us, it belongs to Satan.”
“The world doesn’t belong to us, it belongs to Satan,” said Alice Cooper. “We’re living with that. We’re bombarded with that every day.”
“[A]lmost everything I wrote was good and evil,” he said. “Don’t pick evil. Even when I wasn’t Christian, I was saying that. God and the Devil. Don’t pick the Devil. It’s a bad idea.”
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier) shot to mega-stardom in the 1970s and early 1980s with hits such as “I’m 18,” ‘Schools’ Out” and the 1973 album, Billion Dollar Babies. He also was notorious for his demonic makeup and costumes and macabre theatrics on stage, which included simulated suicide and the decapitation of baby-dolls, among other dark antics.
Alice Cooper was nominated for two Grammy Awards and he and his band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. He has played roles in several movies, including Wayne’s World with Mike Myers and Dana Carvey and, perhaps most ironically given his shock-rock music career, Cooper is an avid and skilled golfer.
Cooper scored a two-over par 74 on The Champion Course in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., a world-class course; he played in the All Star Cup in Newport, South Wales; he has appeared in commercials for Callaway Golf equipment; and he is the author of Alice Cooper, Golf Monster.
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I wouldn’t agree that Alice Cooper makes Marilyn Manson look like a “choirboy”.
So that’s why I never see Alice Cooper mentioned any more in the dumb USA Weekend insert in our Gannett newsrag. He’s a Christian, and that makes them uncomfortable!
Why was I not pinged??
There’s a rule!
Lol
That statement sure made the writer look stupid
I once had a GenY insist to me Journey was way more important a band than Led Zeppelin
Some things just don’t need to be explained how ridiculous they are
The writer is woefully misinformed.
Manson is a freak.
Alice has been warning us for *years*.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEtMwWchNkA
Agreed. Cooper was a little shocking in his day but it was all theatrics and we all knew it, which is what made it fun at times. Manson was a whole ‘nuther level of darkness in my Lil opinion. I couldn’t deal with it.
If Cooper is talking gospel these days ain’t nothing wrong with that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtzne5BUOgE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhB6ZgFu9eY
Did the author just now catch a clue?
Over here!
I was going to ping you as soon as I saw the thread, but lo and behold you’re already here!
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Which version of Journey? When Gregg Rolie was running the show, they were way above Zeppelin playing-wise. Then again, so were most of Zeppelin’s contemporaries, especially Deep Purple and Uriah Heep. Zep still has it coming for all the songs they ripped off and took credit for, besides.
I remember when I first saw Purple Rain and the whole time I couldn’t get over Alice Cooper being the MC introducing Prince on stage........ And now, the Revolution....
I felt a disturbance in the force....the special force.[s]
;]
Existence is intrinsically evil.
I believe Carlos Santana kicked Neal Schon out of Santana because Neal was blowing Carlos off the stage.
If you have not bought the “Along Came A Spider” album, yet, do so!
It is beyond excellent.
It’s “Welcome To My Nightmare” excellent.
You need to find “SUCK”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHvA86OUsxk
And “Monster Dog”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms_lMCg9-MA
Sorry.....
That’s what happens when you take time to nuke popcorn first!
:D
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