ALICE COOPER Meets Radio Contest Winners In Hamilton; Video Posted Online
September 28, 2007Video footage of Y108 winners meeting Alice Cooper backstage at the Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on September 20, 2007 before he hit the stage opening up for HEAVEN AND HELL can be viewed below.
According to InsideBayArea.com, Cooper — at 59 — is far from ready to step aside and let young shockers like Marilyn Manson carry the scary load. That much is clear from his latest studio CD, 2005's "Dirty Diamonds", which features such sweet love tunes as "Sunset Babies (All Got Rabies)". Plus, he says that his current stage show ranks among his most elaborate and spookiest to date.
"I brought on a guy from Broadway who has worked on 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Lestat', and we put together a new production," he says. "We revamped everything. It's what Alice really is — which is kind of a dark humor, vaudeville, dark cabaret."
That dark cabaret still plays well in 2007 — especially outside the U.S. In Australia, South America and Europe, Cooper draws crowds of 20,000 or more. He pulls respectable numbers in the U.S., but they're a far cry from what he sees elsewhere. He credits the discrepancy, in part, to the plethora of entertainment options available to his fellow countrymen.
"In the States, you've got Bonnaroo and five-day festivals with 700 bands that you've never heard of. (Fans are) really not going to see the bands — they are going to be part of the event," he says. "The U.S. market, right now, is very odd."
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