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Report: ALICE COOPER And Partners Dream Big For Phoenix Area Teens

July 21, 2007

Lawn Griffiths of EastValleyTribune.com reports: His four decades of shock-rock music with snakes slithering across his shoulders, fake blood and macabre black makeup would not suggest Alice Cooper entertains thoughts about providing a haven of activities for teens on a Christian college campus.

But the Valley music icon and the Solid Rock Foundation he leads are beating their drums to raise $7.3 million to create The Rock, a Christian youth center at Baptist-based Grand Canyon University in Phoenix. The 29,450-square-foot center would include sports facilities, a concert hall, recording studios and sound room, coffeehouse, computer lab, a rock-climbing wall, game room, dancing space, skateboard area and other amenities. They believe it can be the model for teen centers across the U.S., tapping into youth's desire to hear and perform music and hang out in a place with alluring activities.

In The Rock's music studio, future stars might be nurtured and inspired.

Cooper, a recovering alcoholic and son and grandson of Christian pastors, often says his ghoulish music and concerts are entertainment, farce and satire — and not the real him. The singer, whose albums have included "Alice Cooper Goes to Hell", "Lace to Whiskey" and "Prince of Darkness", repeatedly says he wants teens to have a place to be safe from drugs, gangs and guns. The man who recorded "Welcome to My Nightmare" is dreaming that Valley teenagers will make the center a kind of school of rock 'n' roll.

Read the entire article at EastValleyTribune.com.

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