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Alice Cooper - Schools Out
(1972, Warner Bros)




a thunderous LP. I saw Alice Cooper during the Billion Dollar Babies tour, loved the music but not so much all the theatrics. The early Alice Cooper music stood just fine without the sideshow.
 
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The theatrics is what makes an Alice Cooper show unique. He gets the crowd going bigtime. I remember seeing them as the middle act for Heaven and Hell w/ Queensryche the opening act. Totally stole the show, people were yelling Alice for President while he was waving a huge American flag on stage. Heaven and Hell did not even come out for an encore, they just seemed so lame in comparison that the crowd could not get into H&H's performance

Very few bands can follow an Alice Cooper show and expect to ignite the crowd
 
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Northwinds said:
The theatrics is what makes an Alice Cooper show unique. He gets the crowd going bigtime. I remember seeing them as the middle act for Heaven and Hell w/ Queensryche the opening act. Totally stole the show, people were yelling Alice for President while he was waving a huge American flag on stage. Heaven and Hell did not even come out for an encore, they just seemed so lame in comparison that the crowd could not get into H&H's performance

Very few bands can follow an Alice Cooper show and expect to ignite the crowd
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Good point, but for the Billion Dollars Babies tour it seemed to me like we were sitting back watching a performance. The A.C. show looked more like a staged circus than uncharted-breaking-the-rules-rock (the $$$ from it probably paved the way for KISS & other costume/hair metal rock bands - not that I'm qualified to make any judgement). :confused1: Love the early A.C. music.

istening to the Stooges Funhouse reminds me of what must have been closer, for a commercial recorded act, to that uncharted rules breaking stuff and must have been incendiary in person.
 
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Gene Clark - No Other
(1974, Asylum) WLP; A1/B1 & ESR in the deadwax, mastered at Elektra Sound Recorders





w/ poster insert and a nice cardboard lyrics insert. wonderful LP, great songwriter.
 
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[video=youtube;TBXv37PFcAQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBXv37PFcAQ[/video]​
 
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