Year : 2019
Style : Hard Rock , Glam Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 198 mb
Bio:
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter, and musician whose career spans five decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors, baby dolls, crutch and dueling sword , considered by fans and peers alike to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock"; Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and macabre brand of rock designed to shock.Originating in Phoenix in the late 1960s after Furnier moved from Detroit, Alice Cooper was originally a band consisting of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and drummer Neal Smith. The original Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen" from the album Love It to Death, which was followed by the even bigger single "School's Out" in 1972. The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies.Furnier adopted the band's name as his own name in the 1970s and began a solo career with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare. In 2011 he released Welcome 2 My Nightmare, his 19th album as a solo artist, and his 26th album in total. Expanding from his Detroit rock roots, in his career Cooper has experimented with a number of musical styles, including conceptual rock, art rock, hard rock, heavy metal, new wave, pop rock, experimental rock and industrial rock.Alice Cooper is known for his social and witty persona offstage; The Rolling Stone Album Guide has called him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer".He is credited with helping to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and has been described as the artist who "first introduced horror imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre".Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur and, since 2004, a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper.In 2011, the original Alice Cooper band was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Album:
New Alice Cooper EP "The Breadcrumbs" coming September 13, 2019. The Breadcrumbs is a tribute to the Garage Rock Heroes from his hometown of Detroit. The EP features 6 brand new recordings and is available on digital and as limited & numbered 10” Vinyl - with only 20.000 copies worldwide - sold at very special price.The origins of Alice Cooper are rooted in Phoenix, AZ, but, being a Detroit native, the man is paying respects to his home city with the Breadcrumbs EP. Both the city and Cooper embed specific emotions and visceral feelings within many people and global institutions, and they are both unquestionably substantial forces within particular pockets of American culture. While it’s hard to compare a man and a city, they both share equal merits to their legacies. Both are innovative, relevant, and much respected around the world. It’s true; they’re practically larger than life and craftsmen still.Not straying from what catapulted him into an icon, Cooper’s fifty-year reign (yes, half a theoretical lifetime here) is still intact with sell-out shows across the world using a vaudeville performance that relies on imaginative craftsmanship and analog delivery. It’s a traveling circus, but one worth scoping if you’ve yet to catch him live. And Detroit? Well, the city is a story in itself, one whose innovation stretches many cultural facets commercially and within the music scene. How many Motor City native artists in r&b, rock, hip-hop, and soul carry the word Detroit in their song lyrics? It’s almost countless, and this release adds to that number.The EP is appropriately titled and intelligently arranged to feature Detroit musicians with era-specific history and landmark events in their own right. Commenting back in March on his release plans, Cooper says the plan of action for Breadcrumbs is to find that “particular Detroit sound.” As subjective a phrase as that is, he enlists Wayne Kramer, Mark Farner, Mick Collins, Johnny “Bee” Badanjek, and Paul Randolph to lay the foundation for the rock end, which is his world after all. Another note to include is that Breadcrumbs marks the fifteenth collaboration between Cooper and producer Bob Ezrin. Their relationship, which began in 1971 with Love It to Death and will persevere into 2020 with Cooper’s twenty-first album, is one of the longest functioning partnerships in music.The EP’s Side-A consists of newer tracks to whet appetites until album twenty-one’s release, while Side-B features cover songs rooted in Detroit grandeur from the writers themselves. A notable fan of the Detroit sports scene, Cooper’s barking in support of the Detroit sports and musical heritage in the lead-off “Detroit City 2020” is clear cut as he hypes the town’s folklore by name-dropping influential groups and labels (MC5 and Motown). However, his lyric of “Tiger blues being in the past” seems slightly misplaced given their poor 2019 record to date. “Go Man Go” is the choice cut on this EP and boasts a classic Alice Cooper heavy rock feel meets Ramones-ish punk with mid-tempo driving hooks throughout the track’s brief run time.ide-B is where things get interesting as the three songs are all deeply rooted in the garage rock and hard rock history that Detroit carries. In 1971, MC5 and Alice Cooper released their third and final releases for their respective labels, Atlantic and Straight, with High Time and Love It to Death respectively. Here in 2019, Wayne Kramer and Cooper pair up for a cutting rendition of the MC5 staple track, “Sister Anne.” Trading in his snarl for a cleaner vocal delivery, Cooper makes this version his own with higher production standards more readily available in 2019 than back in 1971.Cooper also pays homage to Suzi Quatro’s 1975 song “Your Mama Won’t Like Me” with a large-scale production of the classic tune. In their careers, Cooper and Quatro changed the landscape of what was taboo and accepted on a social level (i.e. Cooper’s violent theatrics and Quatro’s dominating lead woman status in the rock world), so it’s awesome to see their synergetic artistic relationship on full display.In the other Side-B offering, Cooper teams up with ex-Detroit Wheels drummer Johnny Badanjek for a slow and soulful rendition of Mitch Ryder’s “Devil with a Blue Dress on.” Which then segues into a collaboration with a contemporary figure in Detroit’s garage rock culture - Mick Collins (The Gories, The Dirtbombs, Wolfmanhattan Project) - providing back up harmonies on “Chains of Love,” an original track done by Don Davis/JJ Barnes/Melvin Davis but introduced to newer generations as a Dirtbombs cut for Ultraglide in Black released in 2001.This is quite the thrilling little EP and demonstrates Cooper’s ability to still, this far into his illustrious career, produce quality music.
Line Up:
Alice Cooper – lead vocals, harmonica, guitar, percussion, synthesizer (1964–present)
Ryan Roxie – lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1996–2006, 2012–present)
Chuck Garric – bass guitar, backing vocals (2002–present)
Tommy Henriksen – rhythm and lead guitar, backing vocals (2011–present)
Glen Sobel – drums, percussion (2011–present)
Nita Strauss – lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2014–present)
Tracklist:
01. Detroit City 2020
02. Go Man Go
03. East Side Story
04. Your Mama Won’t Like Me
05. Devil With A Blue Dress On/Chains Of Love
06. Sister Anne
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