It is well-known by now that the surviving members of Alice Cooper are collaborating on a brand new file collectively. Bassist Dennis Dunaway, guitarist Michael Bruce, and drummer Neal Smith have joined Alice Cooper within the band’s upcoming studio file, and it appears as if the band’s reunion would not really feel very similar to a reunion, and extra like they by no means separated.
“It did not really feel like we missed a beat,” Alice Cooper defined to Matt Bingham at Michigan-based Z93 rock radio station, “And I forgot how humorous the band was. I forgot how humorous Dennis [Dunaway] and Neal [Smith] and Mike [Bruce] had been. And each tune we simply obtained alongside on every part. There was no argument about any tune.”
It has been over 50 years for the reason that band has labored on materials collectively as a unit: “Once we disbanded in ’74, that was not like a divorce; that was a separation,” Cooper elaborated, telling Z93 that (transcribed via Blabbermouth), “All of us stayed in contact with one another. All people did their very own music.”
And due to the character of the band’s relationships through the years, it is laborious to image why they’d have gone their separate methods within the first place. However, Cooper provides a little bit of perception, saying that “one of many explanation why we did disband, I feel, in ’74 was the truth that we had been exhausted, and we actually could not put the band again collectively with out Glen [Buxton]. I imply, he was a lot part of the guts and soul of this band.”
And whereas Alice Cooper pursued his personal solo profession, the band nonetheless discovered methods to be concerned. A lot so, that “they performed on two or three of the songs,” on “the final 4 Alice Cooper albums.”
“So, I lastly simply stated, ‘Why do not we simply do an album?'” Cooper recollects – “And Bob Ezrin,” the band’s longtime producer stated, “‘I will do it.’ He did all the unique ones with us.”
And as soon as the plan had been hatched to write down as the unique Alice Cooper, the band was unstoppable: “It felt like no time had gone previous us… We did not attempt to make it sound just like the ’70s, we did not attempt to make it sound like something – it was simply precisely what would’ve occurred in 1975.”
However, the concept to write down collectively did not come with out cautious consideration of their late guitar participant, Buxton – “The entire album is devoted to Glen [Buxton].”
Past simply devoted to the guitarist, it truly options a number of of his guitar solos. Dennis Dunaway had rehearsal tapes stashed away that contained these guitar solos. “One of many luxuries we had was Dennis Dunaway by no means throws something away,” Cooper recollected, “He had tapes from us after we had been the SPIDERS in highschool. And so he had quite a lot of Glen Buxton stuff that was on that tape. And we took a few the Glen Buxton guitar solos after which wrote songs round these solos simply so we may have Glen on the album.”
The band hadn’t even heard the tapes when Dunaway talked about that he had “‘an entire bunch of Glen Buxton simply on rehearsal tapes and on demos and stuff.'” And when Ezrin requested for the tapes, he was capable of save a number of of them, “And so the stuff that we salvaged off that, that is after we wrote the tune round that bit.”
The upcoming file, The Revenge of Alice Cooper, is due out on July twenty fifth – which you’ll be able to preorder here – and is actually the closest we are going to ever get to a full Alice Cooper reunification within the studio.
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