ALICE COOPER Unafraid Of Snakes, Being Fabulous
September 12, 2007New York magazine conducted an interview with Alice Cooper last night (Tuesday, September 11) in conjunction with his appearance at the John Varvatos fashion show in New York City. An excerpt from the chat follows:
New York: Fancy meeting you here. What brings you out?
Cooper: I shot a campaign with John Varvatos for his fall line. He used me as a model. Now, I don't know why. Because I'm a survivor, I guess. He kind of works with all the Detroit rockers, Iggy and myself and people like that. It makes sense. We're the ones who wear his clothes.
New York: Will you be walking a runway for Varvatos?
Cooper: No, we just did a photo spread. You'll see me with a giant snake. That was John's idea.
New York: Any problems with the snake?
Cooper: That thing weighed as much as I do — 160 pounds. It was an anaconda, which is too big to be playing with. I'm usually pretty comfortable with snakes, but this thing was a monster. I mean, this thing was out of "Jurassic Park". If it had wanted to do something, we couldn't have stopped it.
New York: Are you usually comfortable with snakes?
Cooper: I use them in my show, but we use boa constrictors. They're usually the nicest creatures in the world, but this thing would not have listened to anything. It was THIS big around. All muscle. You would have to kill it to stop it.
New York: You seemed really chummy with LL Cool J and JC Chasez, who are also here. Kind of odd.
Cooper: In this business you make strange friends. You would think that the music is so separated, but it's really not. When you're on the road, everyone's in the same business, touring. You're all kind of the same family.
Read the entire interview at this location.
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