Alice Cooper's Top 10 Halloween Songs

Posted on Yahoo today is

Alice Cooper's Top 10 Halloween Songs To Die For

includes videos of each song at

https://www.yahoo.com/music/alice-coopers-top-10-halloween-songs-to-die-for-213932454.html

of course unless you are living in a cave you all know

Alice Cooper will be appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live Halloween tonight.

'Alice Cooper's Top 10 Halloween Songs To Die For'

1. Alice Cooper, “Wind Up Toy”

This song is so psychotic, I’m afraid to listen to it myself. If features a very mature 10-year-old Calico Cooper on vocals, and it’s about a little boy that thinks of himself as nothing buy a wind-up toy to his parents. Very creepy.

2. Ozzy Osbourne, “Mr. Crowley”

It’s a tip of the hat to Aleister Crowley, who was considered the most wicked man in the world. I had a feeling that this guy was a bit of a fake, but Ozzy did a song for him, so hey, what can you do?

3. The Doors, “The End”

It tells a little story of Jim Morrison’s psychopathic trauma going on in his head. Who knows where he was when this took place, but you can’t listen to this song without getting creeped out a little bit.

4. Alice Cooper, “Feed My Frankenstein”

This of course features Steve Vai and Joe Satriani on guitar and Nikki Sixx on bass. It’s a pretty creepy little song.

5. Pink Floyd, “Careful With That Axe Eugene”

They went through a period, when Syd Barrett was writing, of just being insane. And insanity is pretty scary to me. [Editor’s note: This song was actually written during Floyd’s post-Syd era.]

6. The Rolling Stones, “Midnight Rambler”

It’s a song about the Boston Strangler. Yeah, I think this song qualifies.

7. Arthur Brown, “I Put a Spell on You” (originally by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins)

Just because Arthur Brown is as creepy as can be.

8. Alice Cooper, “Dangerous Tonight”

This is the best vampire song ever written. I’m sorry. It’s just great. If you listen to the lyrics on this [there are] all the double entendres. It’s my favorite.

9. Warren Zevon, “Werewolves of London”

This is Warren Zevon at all his scary best.

10. The Misfits, “Monster Mash” (originally by Bobby “Boris” Pickett)

I’m going to throw this in only because you can’t have Halloween without Bobby “Boris” Pickett.

The Kentucky Headhunters cover 'Caught In A Dream'

The Kentucky Headhunters new album "On Safari" should be released

November 4th cover's Alice Cooper's "Caught In A Dream" from

"Love It To Death" album. In the following video below they go through all the songs on

the new album and talk a little about each track.

On "Caught In A Dream" The Kentucky Headhunters give Michael Bruce

praise on his songwriting, guitar playing and how he influenced many bands in the day.

The "Caught In A Dream" section starts at 14:30 to 17:32

you can hear part of the song and what The Kentucky Headhunters

say about this classic tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdecA-99RBs

Original Alice Cooper Band releases live seven-inch

Article in Rolling Stone states the reunion of the

original Alice Cooper Band performing back in Dallas Record Shop

is releasing a seven inch live version of "I'm Eighteen" and "Is It My Body".

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/see-original-alice-cooper-band-perform-heavy-im-eighteen-w445503

Pre-Order The New Beasto Blanco Album

The new Beasto Blanco album is available now for pre-order. 

The release date is scheduled for November 25th in stores.

If you pre-order you get an option of 2 bundles. You can just purchase the CD

or if you want to go all out along w/ the CD is the Limited Stock version

that includes autographs from all 5 members, stickers, guitar pick, etc..

Pre-order at

http://ratpakrecordsamerica.com/beastoblanco

Gothamist Interview with Shep Gordon

With the recent release of Shep Gordon's

"They Call Me Supermensch" book.

Link below is an interview from Gothamist

http://gothamist.com/2016/09/19/shep_gordon_supermensch_interview.php

Happy Birthday Neal Smith

Happy Birthday Neal Smith

http://nealsmithrocks.com

Dennis Dunaway, Michael Bruce, Alice Cooper, Neal Smith, Glen Buxton

2011 Supagroup Touring with Alice Cooper

I just came across this post on July 2011 story from 2fast2die site

on the group Supagroup who tells of their story of touring w/ Alice Cooper.

I thought it was a cool story of how Alice looks out for the newer bands and helps them out.

...Touring with Alice Cooper was our first big break. We had opened for him in New Orleans a few years before and he remembered us when we submitted for the tour. For a band used to playing small clubs and sleeping on floors to playing hockey rinks to thousands of people … needless to say it was a pretty big deal for us. Alice was so cool. He would bring us on his bus and tell us stories of playing with Zeppelin. We started referring to him as “Uncle Alice.” He would also give us huge pointers — the kind I won’t share with your readers. His band, crew, everyone was so professional. On that tour we kind of blossomed on a different level. We wrote the entire album “Rules” on that tour. And being on that level helped us land Kevin Shirley (Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin) as our producer. 

The second time Alice asked us to tour was much different. We were scrambling right after Katrina not knowing what was going to happen, watching our city in tatters, and we were scattered all over the country. Such a horrible time. He reached out to us and asked if we’d like to come out on tour instead of watching CNN all day. Uncle Alice to the rescue! I felt bad for the band that was supposed to get that slot, but Alice was like, “Hey, you got no homes.” I cannot stress how much that meant to us. It was more than just a tour. We were traveling all over, so we got to touch base with so many people we hadn’t heard from since the storm....

I just took the Alice Cooper except from 2fast2die site 

but check out the other interesting stories as well.

http://2fast2die.com/page/13/