{"id":16058,"date":"2016-06-22T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=16058"},"modified":"2016-06-21T09:26:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T13:26:02","slug":"content-needed-classic-alice-cooper-group-lineup-reunites-for-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=16058","title":{"rendered":"Classic Alice Cooper Group Lineup Reunites for New Album!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As you all know, I’m a HUGE Alice Cooper<\/a><\/strong>\"\" fan. Even more so, I’m a fan of the classic Alice Cooper Group. You know the one I’m talking about. The band that gave us such classics as Killer<\/a><\/strong>\"\", Love It to Death<\/a><\/strong>\"\", and Billion Dollar Babies<\/a><\/strong>\"\".\u00a0 Since Alice himself broke away from the band and went solo, Alice has over the years surrounded himself by some of the best musicians around and stayed true to the vibe and the sound of those classic songs.\u00a0 In my opinion, while these lineups have been fantastic over the years, none of them have ever come close to capturing the magic and the charisma of the classic Alice Cooper Group.<\/p>\n

Over the years, there have been a few one off reunions with the surviving members of the classic Alice Cooper line-up and with each reunion I could see and hear the excitement and the magic that this line up had.\u00a0 Even after all those years apart, it was like no time had passed since they had performed together.\u00a0 While this was great, I personally longed for an Alice Cooper reunion on album.\u00a0 I mean, what would it take to get these guys back into the studio to re-capture that magic and make a new album.\u00a0 Well, this year, it looks as if my long time dream will come true.\u00a0 In an interview with The Weekender<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Alice Cooper had this to say:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always liked the idea that Alice Cooper has always been a Detroit rock band. We\u2019ve always been a hard rock band, guitar rock, and I\u2019ll never give that up,\u201d the icon told\u00a0The Weekender<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0He went on to discuss dipping into the creative well of his past concerning a new album, stating, \u201cEvery once in awhile, though, there\u2019s just a flavor of what album do we want to go to here to give it that flavor. And it seems to be going toward the Killer<\/em> album. And I kind of go, that album, let\u2019s revisit the sound of that album and what we were kind of thinking. You can never go back and totally recapture it, but you can certainly look at the elements that made that album work the way it did.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Though his current backing band is a truly ironclad cast, Alice revealed he\u2019ll be working with some familiar faces from the early days to help recapture the vibe of the 1971 record. \u201cI wrote three or four songs with Neil Smith [original drummer] and Mike Bruce [original guitarist], and so we worked together in Phoenix for about two weeks just writing songs and demoing songs. And you never know which ones are going to make the album, but I said let\u2019s do that.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alice didn\u2019t stop there, going on to detail, \u201cDennis Dunaway [original bassist] wrote two or three things. We haven\u2019t seen those yet, but I know Dennis has always written great stuff.\u201d Excited at working with his old bandmates, he cautioned this is not an attempt to simply sound young again, but that, \u201cIt\u2019s fun to go back and work with guys you haven\u2019t worked with in awhile. It\u2019s not trying to recapture your youth. It\u2019s trying to recapture a sound, and it\u2019s a very elusive sound.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

You better believe I am excited as all hell about this.\u00a0 I cannot wait to see what lies ahead for us with this.\u00a0 Will there be a tour?\u00a0 Again, a boy can be caught in a dream can’t he?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you all know, I’m a HUGE Alice Cooper fan. Even more so, I’m a fan of the classic Alice Cooper Group. You know the one I’m talking about. The band that gave us such classics as Killer, Love It to Death, and Billion Dollar Babies.\u00a0 Since Alice himself broke away from the band and went solo, Alice has over the years surrounded himself by some of the best musicians around and stayed true to the vibe and the sound […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[13,1497,1505,1585],"class_list":["post-16058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news","tag-alice-cooper","tag-dennis-dunaway","tag-michael-bruce","tag-neal-smith"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}