Posted on 04/26/2016 8:01:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
You can think what you want, but that’s not how he came off to anyone I know. Yes, I agree that Life Is Killing Me could be the unspoken turning point, but there were 5 or 6 albums before that, and all his interviews. Come on. He was a Angry Neurotic Catholic who tossed it all over his shoulder, like the Carnivore song. Then, just like you say, after his Mom he came around.
Freegards
your firstl ink- i had forgotten about that song- His sogns were just wild, liek a really bizarre mix of ballads hard rock, twisted rock- it was like peaceful but either violent or twisted, all at once- Very unique stuff-
pretty funny interview with him here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T5jrqpoynA
So John Tatum, my guitar player in the first band I toured with, was Alice’s guitarist when they were in PHX known as the “Earwigs”.
The world should have cried the day Peter Steele died.
The guy wrote some of the most awesome rock ever, and it will never be recognized by most folks. He could have made it as a stand up comedian, he is also my pick for funniest cool rocker. Alice is also up there.
Freegards
You have not seen my FR profile, I’m guessing.
Since the early 2000’s, it’s said “Type O Negative: The Best Band You Never Heard Of”.
His last album was epic and showed his new leaf.
“These Three Things” is anti-abortion.
In spite of his lifestyle, he was always very socially conservative.
Call me a wuss, but I have not listened to more than a few minutes of TON since he died.
Just can’t.
Nagged hubby mercilessly to let me repaint my bike but it was April and too late so I spent a whole riding season, looking down at his face and it was a misery.
[Dear God, please keep Alice alive...it’s takes a lot of work and expensive materials to repaint a whole Harley..amen]
I have absolutely seen the FR page. VERY VERY COOL, ALRIGHT?
We just disagree on if Peter Steele was more likely to come back to faith than some other rock person. What other rock person wrote and spoke about his atheism so vehemently and with such precision?
Dead Again might be their best album, pound for pound. That is scary, because I wouldn’t scoff at someone that likes Bloody Kisses, October Rust, Life is killing Me more.
Freegards
used to listen to his classic rock radio program, where he did a great job. To the surprise of many, he’s a helluva golfer and loves to play.
True story..... I was travelling with a friend from my company when we decided to have dinner at Alice Cooper’s restaurant in Phoenix (about 2,000 miles from home). We were just about done when we look up and see Cooper walking through shaking hands. My friend grabbed his cell phone and called his wife and said “I think Alice Cooper is playing in a couple weeks at home... get a couple tickets right now.” By the time Alice had made his way to our table, my friend was able to hold up his phone and show Alice “My wife and I have tickets to see you in a couple weeks. We’re in the 16th row.” Cooper was blown away and we ended up chatting with him for about 15 minutes... just a downright nice guy.
I saw that one, and the tour one year earlier. IIRC, BDBs had him climbing the giant spider web. I don’t remember which had the guillotine. :-)
Ha!
I thought of you immediately and it worried me too.
Thank you!
I have never seen that one.
If you get a chance, watch Super Duper Alice Cooper.
Sounds self-aggrandizing but is far from it.
It’s his public confession.
Happy ending, though.
VH1 Classic runs it occasionally.
No idea why you’re so angry.
LOL
Bless you for that.
Talk about a great big *WHEW!*
:)
I’m pretty sure everyone on Earth either has or will eventually meet Alice, be it at a restaurant, concert, golf course or him creeping around some mall...and I never will.
If I had a dollar for everyone who’s said “Hey, I met him!”, I’d have enough for a ticket backstage to his meet-and-greets.
:D
You must be taking me the wrong way or something. I’m not angry. Probably my fault, sorry.
I just think Peter Steele is the best and most unlikely conversion story amongst cool rockers. I tried to express why I thought that.
Fregards
Saw him the first time at the Cowtown Ballroom in Kansas City. Killer had just come out. Pacific,Gas and Electric opened the show and tickets were $2.
After I moved to Phoenix, used to see him at church often.
Ah, okay.
When he went public with the return to church, I was elated.
Even though I adored him, his enmity to God always worried me.
I really did not want him ending up somewhere very bad, should his ongoing health problems finally do him in.
It was ~huge~ relief.
:)
I often wonder if “Dead Again” was not a bit of prescience.
I mean, ‘Halloween In Heaven’?
Too close to the bone.
“After I moved to Phoenix, used to see him at church often.”
See what I mean?
:D
“Most of our friends died trying to be rock stars.”
One of them was my cousin. His band and Alice’s played many gigs together when they were starting out in Phoenix. Alice used to hang out at my aunt’s house pounding down beers. Alice survived his bout with cirrhosis, Mike didn’t.
Trivia: Alice was for awhile romantically linked to Raquel Welch. Erm, don’t even wanna visualize...
I saw him live 2 times in Baton Rouge in the early 70s. He did the thing with the guillotine. Heh heh. We kids always knew he was a “straight” who drank Budweiser and played golf.
Decades later, after Katrina, while driving late at night, I used to listen to his radio show, Nights With Alice Cooper. Funny guy, an encyclopedia of music and pop culture and a hundred other less trivial subjects—history, politics, philosophy.
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