Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper
Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper | ||||
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Video by Alice Cooper | ||||
Released | 1974 Cinema 2005 DVD | |||
Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal, shock rock | |||
Length | 100min | |||
Label | Shout! Factory Eagle Vision | |||
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Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper is a 1974 feature film starring Alice Cooper. The movie primarily features live concert footage of the Alice Cooper band on their record-breaking Billion Dollar Babies tour, filmed in Texas (mostly at the Sam Houston Coliseum) in April 1973,[1] with some footage from other tour stops, including the Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon, intercut with 'comedy' scenes of a German film director chasing the "Cooper gang" for revenge after they abandoned his would-be masterpiece movie.
Two versions of the film exist. The alternate version was issued for its original theatrical release across the US in 1974. Poorly edited and virtually unscripted, the 'storyline' segments of the original version were replaced with black & white excerpts of scenes from old Hollywood movies.[2] Despite this the film still failed at the box office. This version of the film remains commercially unreleased, although bootleg copies have been circulating amongst fans and at Record Fairs readily since the early-1980s. The original version of the film was eventually restored and released in 2005 on DVD, which includes Cooper providing insightful audio commentary. On September 14, 2010 Shout! Factory released the film (original version) on Blu-ray for the first time.
The film was shown only in Broome County, New York on its opening day, the one place in the USA that banned Alice Cooper from playing at their arena the year before.
The film provides a glimpse of a far less family-friendly Alice Cooper than that portrayed in the Welcome to My Nightmare concert film (shot two years later on the lead singer's first solo tour). The concert segments were performed by the original five-piece band (plus two live session musicians) at their artistic and commercial peak, and there is ample evidence of the behavior and implications which made the early Alice Cooper character such a controversial figure. The heavy sarcasm, pointed social satire (mannequin stage-props equipped with pubic hair, skewered baby dolls, a bloody 'execution' sequence, and in the show's finale, when an American flag is unfurled and a Richard M. Nixon impersonator is 'beaten up' by the entire band), confrontational improvisation (frontman Cooper taunting audience members), and the infamous boa constrictor were all present.
Track listing
- "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Studio segment)
- "Hello Hooray"
- "Billion Dollar Babies"
- "Elected"
- "I'm Eighteen"
- "Raped and Freezin'"
- "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
- "My Stars"
- "Unfinished Sweet"
- "Sick Things"
- "Dead Babies"
- "I Love the Dead"
- "School's Out"
- "Under My Wheels"
Personnel
- Alice Cooper - Vocalist
- Michael Bruce - Guitarist
- Glen Buxton - Guitarist
- Dennis Dunaway - Bassist
- Neal Smith - Drummer
- Mick Mashbir - Guitarist
- Bob Dolin - Keyboardist
- Amazing Randi - Dentist, Executioner
- Cindy Smith - Dancing Tooth
- Fred Smoot - Director, Lone Person, Leroy
- Jefferson Kewley - Baron Krelve
- Pat McAllister - Group's Manager, Wrangler, Box Office Man
DVD Features
The special features of the DVD are:
- Audio commentary by Alice Cooper
- "Play concert only" viewing option
- Original theatrical trailer and radio spots
- Deleted scenes and outtakes
- Poster gallery with original promotional material
- Band biographies
- Hidden Easter Eggs
References
- ^ Sherman, Dale (2009). The Illustrated Collector's Guide to Alice Cooper, 10th Anniversary Edition. Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-894959-93-3.
- ^ Sherman, Dale (2009). The Illustrated Collector's Guide to Alice Cooper, 10th Anniversary Edition. Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-894959-93-3.
External links
- Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper at IMDb
- Shout! Factory
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- Original band members
- Former solo band members
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- The Alice Cooper Show
- Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival 1969, Volume IV
- A Fistful of Alice
- Brutally Live
- Live at Montreux 2005
- Live from the Astroturf
- "Reflected"
- "I'm Eighteen"
- "Caught in a Dream"
- "Under My Wheels"
- "School's Out"
- "Elected"
- "Hello Hooray"
- "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
- "Billion Dollar Babies"
- "Halo of Flies"
- "Teenage Lament '74"
- "Only Women Bleed"
- "Department of Youth"
- "Welcome to My Nightmare"
- "I Never Cry"
- "You and Me"
- "How You Gonna See Me Now"
- "Clones (We're All)"
- "7 and 7 Is"
- "I Am the Future"
- "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)"
- "Teenage Frankenstein"
- "Freedom"
- "Poison"
- "Bed of Nails"
- "House of Fire"
- "Only My Heart Talkin'"
- "Hey Stoopid"
- "Love's a Loaded Gun"
- "Feed My Frankenstein"
- "Lost in America"
- "It's Me"
- "Brutal Planet"
- "Gimme"
- "Keepin' Halloween Alive"
and box sets
- School Days: The Early Recordings
- Greatest Hits
- Prince of Darkness
- Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival 1969, Volume IV
- Classicks
- The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper
- Mascara and Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper
- The Definitive Alice Cooper
- The Essentials: Alice Cooper
- Hell Is
- School's Out and Other Hits
- Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper
- The Nightmare
- Welcome to My Nightmare
- Alice Cooper and Friends
- The Strange Case of Alice Cooper
- The Nightmare Returns
- Alice Cooper Trashes the World
- Brutally Live
- Live at Montreux 2005
- Super Duper Alice Cooper
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