BLACK SABBATH, ALICE COOPER, SLIPKNOT Featured In Book About READING FESTIVAL
April 3, 2007BBC News reports that BLACK SABBATH, ALICE COOPER and SLIPKNOT are among the artists whose memories will be shared in a special book about the legendary U.K. festival Reading.
The author is Ian Carroll, a 41-year-old father-of-one who's enjoyed virtually every Reading Festival since 1983.
"I thought it was about time someone wrote a book," says Ian, who lives in Plymouth, "so in 2004 I started writing, I contacted (festival organisers) Mean Fiddler and it just escalated from there."
For the last two-and-a-half years Ian has been collecting memories from festival-goers and performers alike, from old veterans such as VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR and STATUS QUO to more recent artists such as OASIS and FOO FIGHTERS.
ALICE COOPER, who headlined the Sunday for the festival's 25th anniversary in 1987, has this particular gem:
"We only played it once. The cool thing about it was, all we were told was they were going to throw bottles at us!
"The funniest thing was, I said I guarantee they would not throw anything at us. ZODIAC MINDWARP went on and they got covered, there wasn't one bottle thrown at us.
"I said they wouldn't dare throw anything at Alice Cooper, they know how dangerous he can be, Alice will come after them in their dreams!"
Read more at BBC News.
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