ALICE COOPER Talks About ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Induction In New Interview

December 14, 2010

Andy Greene of RollingStone.com spoke to Alice Cooper about the legendary rocker's induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame at the 26th annual induction ceremony, which will be held on March 14, 2011 at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

RollingStone.com: Tell me your first reaction to the news.

Cooper: I was elated and I called the original band guys immediately, and said, "Well, remember when we started in high school?" [Laughs] "Here we are. Only took 45 years."

RollingStone.com: What does this mean to you?

Cooper: The big difference between the Hall of Fame and anything else is that you are voted in by your peers and the people that influenced you. I look at the list of people that are in there it's all of my heroes from, Pete Townshend to THE YARDBIRDS to THE BEATLES to THE [ROLLING] STONES and everybody that we listened to in order to become Alice Cooper. It's pretty amazing to us that those are the same people that actually vote on you. So that's quite a privilege.

RollingStone.com: Are you guys going to perform?

Cooper: Yeah, in fact, we've done a couple things together in recent years. The band broke up in 1976. I wanted to take it more theatrically and I can understand why, I think, the band got exhausted. It was never one of those bitter break-ups. It was a break-up that was, 'I have different ideas, you have different ideas, but let's still be friends.' But we've done different charity things together recently where we've done 40 minutes of the hits.

RollingStone.com: Are you thinking of playing in more shows with the original band in the near future?

Cooper: I think it is inevitable. We have kind of been looking for an excuse to do that anyway. Why not do four or five major cities, Detroit especially since that's where we broke out of. Los Angeles, New York, London, Toronto. Those were like the five cities where we got our biggest push. We might do that in the spring.

Read the entire interview from RollingStone.com.

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