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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Maybe I am wrong, but Cooper was a little raunchy fun, Manson is just nuts.
I believe that he means in the Biblical sense:
1Pe 5:8 Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,
Joh 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
Joh 14:30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world cometh: and he hath nothing in me;
Joh 16:11 of judgment, because the prince of this world hath been judged.
He used to attend the same church I do. He was always friendly and cheerful.
He’s great, but just an imitation Steve Perry. In effect, they’ve become their own cover band
Pretty accurate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ragdoUO6s5w&spfreload=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcOgELyNy00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Pz9uU6fNs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUApE3U3cRg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4XcBHV-Unk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFBHR9U3XbQ
Frank Sinatra actually sang that in concert because Cooper beat him at golf. He made a bet with Sinatra on the golf course, if he lost he would play a Sinatra song and if Frank lost he would sing a Cooper song. Frank lost so he sang this live in concert
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I just remembered, my wife showed me a photo a while back sent to her by her friend who sang at our wedding. It was of ‘Alice Cooper’ talking to some guests at her daughter’s wedding.
Not sure how they met, but he looked like a fairly average guy. That can’t be his real name ...
My wife was a talent agent, then a university program director and I got to meet some famous people. I became used to being surprised at how ordinary, as opposed to extraordinary, they were. Example, Henry Rollins, of ‘Black Flag’. For some reason I thought he would be trouble, but he turned out to be a very nice guy. With a neck like a fire-plug.
(Nitty Gritty) Dirt Band, very nice guys, Chicago manager, not nice are all. Kareem Jabar, jerk. Bobby Knight, real gentleman.
Enuff name dropping.
Happy New year!
Vincent Damon Furnier
Long before he became a big rock star, he used to sell painted posters at City Side Market, located just outside of the city limits of Pontiac Mi.
My older brothers bought a few. Not being able to predict the potential future value of them, they eventually redecorated their rooms before he became a big star...LOL!
My little tiny Podunk semi-rural area produced Alice Cooper and Bob Seger, among others.
About 15 years ago, when I still played softball, a couple of guys on the team, told me NUMEROUS times how I looked like Henry Rollins. (I had never heard of him)
Some time later, I saw him on tv.
Could have sworn we were brothers.
Great post and article to read to start my New Year. Thanks.
The devil is prince “of this world” by its acclaim (the world is composed of the lost).
God remains the overall master of the creation. The earth is the Lord’s, and all within it. This is very important: God controls exactly how far the devil can go.
I remember a concert in the mid 70's, where he was obviously drunk off is ass too. Great story is he was able to exercise those addiction demons.
Whoa.... Is that a joke?
I was just about to post the same thing: I was a big fan of Zeppelin in the 70’s, only to discover in the 80’s that they really were just a cover band (albeit a very good one). And we thought their music was so ingenious, there was no other band like them. LOL. The joke was on us!
Back on topic: I still have Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out” on vinyl.
From the vastly underrated and nearly ignored “Lace And Whiskey”.
/Road Rat
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