ALICE COOPER Discusses His Radio Show

May 16, 2007

Australia's Herald Sun recently conducted an interview with Alice Cooper about his syndicated radio show "Nights with Alice Cooper".

"I would say 90 per cent of my email is 'I can't believe you just played, you know, 'Lost Woman' by THE YARDBIRDS. I never thought I would ever hear that on the radio,'" Cooper said.

"I have a lot of fun with it because first of all, everybody I play I know. I said what I wanted to do was to be able to play THE YARDBIRDS, THEM, LOVE, some FRANK ZAPPA. You know, bands that were totally deserving of airplay, but never get any. To me, there was so much great hard rock from that era, from the '60s, '70s '80s . . . but we only hear 10 per cent of it."

"I kind of put myself in the position of saying, 'If I was listening to classic rock radio and let's say I'm a night watchman and I have to hear the same songs every single night, I would really go crazy,'" Cooper said.

"But all of a sudden, if I started hearing songs that were my favourite songs, from SUPERTRAMP or bands from way back like VAN MORRISON, or groups like the SWINGING BLUE JEANS, I'd be sitting there going, 'Wow, this is great, they're playing some stuff that's really wanting to make me listen to the radio again'.''

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