First time you heard Alice Cooper?

First time i heard Alice Cooper my family and I were on a long road trip. I was probably 6 years old, and i had a little boom box with me in the back seat. My dad had a copy of Welcome to my Nightmare on casette. I listend to over and over again for 600 miles.

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Permalink Reply by Iranae Austin on April 18, 2009 at 7:38am

I was 18 or 19 and Jerry Mellindick used to play his guitar and sing Alice to me for hours in his basement. Alice was his idol.

Permalink Reply by Rockman on April 19, 2009 at 4:26am

I'm a lot older, When I was around 11 or 12 I heard "I'm 18" on the radio, it was the AC bands first hit single! A year later while they toured in support of the Killer album I remember all of the goodie goodie adults freaking out about the show and Alice getting hanged, seems funny now how much they hated him then. LOL.

Permalink Reply by bridgett on April 25, 2009 at 6:24pm

when i was 14 i was dating a guy who was a fan. when he told me he loved alice cooper, i was like who? (i was a bubble gum chewing pop rock teen). he listened to the Trash album constantly....i got hooked.

Permalink Reply by Dave on October 13, 2010 at 1:46pm

First time I heard Alice? I was 9, back in 1972. I had an old Firestone tube AM radio beside my bed and I would listen to it every night. People from Canada probably know who Terry David Mulligan is. Anyway, Terry was a DJ and his show was called "The Mad Dog Mulligan Show". Every night he would announce his song list and he would say "Coming up is the new single from Alice Cooper". Then he would play three songs. I couldn't figure out which song was Alice because I was listening for a WOMAN'S vocal!!! Anyway, one night Terry said "And that was "Schools Out" by Alice Cooper". So, Alice is a guy, I finally figured out! Every week, we would drive into town for an ice cream at the Tastee Freeze, and they had a juke box. Three plays for a dime! I would put Schools Out, the B side (can't remember what song), and another tune on. One day there was a group of teenagers in the Tastee Freeze, and I went over to the juke box to play some Alice. I put the dime into the machine and I could hear the teens saying "That kid is gonna put Donny Osmond on", Then the opening riff for "Schools Out" blasted out of the machine. The teenagers freaked out and came over and shook my hand and said "You are one cool kid"! By now, Alice was HUGE....our local TV station would play three Alice video's every Friday night. They were recorded live in Germany (They are out on DVD now).
A few months later "Billion Dollar Babies" came out and "No More Mr. Nice Guy" was a single on the radio. That was the first song that I ever had stuck in my head. Been a die-hard Alice fan ever since. I was lucky enough to see him in concert back in 1999. Alice played acoustic guitar for "Be My Lover" in that concert....Awesome!!!

Permalink Reply by Mast Mizzen on October 21, 2010 at 1:06pm