Showing posts with label Alice Cooper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alice Cooper. Show all posts
Friday, December 26, 2014
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Pink Floyd Endless River CD New 888750078827 | eBay
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| English: Pink Floyd performing in the Refectory Hall at Leeds University. There was a support act called Heavy Jelly. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Photos: Alice Cooper Live in California - Hard Rock & Heavy Metal News | Music Videos |Golden Gods Awards | revolvermag.com
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| The Definitive Alice Cooper (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Monday, October 20, 2014
Alice Cooper - Eleanor Rigby BEATLES Music Video
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Alice Cooper Guitarists
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| Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Alice Cooper Guitarists VIDEO
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Alice Cooper In Encyclopedia Britannica
Alice Cooper In Encyclopedia Britannica
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Alice Cooper, American hard rock band that shared its name with its leader. In addition to producing a string of hits in the 1970s, Alice Cooper was among the first rock groups to infuse their performances with theatrics. The members were Alice Cooper (original name Vincent Furnier; b. Feb. 4, 1948, Detroit, Mich., U.S.), Michael Bruce (b. March 16, 1948), Glen Buxton (b. Nov. 10, 1947, Akron, Ohio—d. Oct. 19, 1997, Mason City, Iowa), Dennis Dunaway (b. Dec. 9, 1946, Cottage Grove, Ore.), and Neal Smith (b. Sept. 23, 1947, Akron).
The son of a preacher, Furnier formed a band with four schoolmates in Phoenix, Arizona. After moving to California in 1968, he and the band took the name Alice Cooper.
Their hyper-amplified club shows, influenced by British glam rock, earned them recognition as “the worst band in Los Angeles” and a contract with Frank Zappa’s Straight Records, for which they released two unsuccessful albums before relocating to Detroit.
With producer Bob Ezrin (who later worked with Kiss, a band much influenced by Alice Cooper’s music and presentation, as were the New York Dolls), they crafted a clear, powerful, guitar-heavy sound on such youth anthems as “I’m Eighteen” and “School’s Out.” Makeup-wearing vocalist Cooper, whose identity soon eclipsed the band’s, formed a new group in 1974, adding Welcome to My Nightmare (1975) to a list of significant albums that included Killer (1971) and Billion Dollar Babies (1973), all explorations of decadence, perversion, and psychosis. Best remembered for its shocking stage show,
Alice Cooper blended the gore and grotesquerie of horror films with the camp of 1930s Berlin cabaret. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.
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Alice Cooper, American hard rock band that shared its name with its leader. In addition to producing a string of hits in the 1970s, Alice Cooper was among the first rock groups to infuse their performances with theatrics. The members were Alice Cooper (original name Vincent Furnier; b. Feb. 4, 1948, Detroit, Mich., U.S.), Michael Bruce (b. March 16, 1948), Glen Buxton (b. Nov. 10, 1947, Akron, Ohio—d. Oct. 19, 1997, Mason City, Iowa), Dennis Dunaway (b. Dec. 9, 1946, Cottage Grove, Ore.), and Neal Smith (b. Sept. 23, 1947, Akron).
The son of a preacher, Furnier formed a band with four schoolmates in Phoenix, Arizona. After moving to California in 1968, he and the band took the name Alice Cooper.
Their hyper-amplified club shows, influenced by British glam rock, earned them recognition as “the worst band in Los Angeles” and a contract with Frank Zappa’s Straight Records, for which they released two unsuccessful albums before relocating to Detroit.
With producer Bob Ezrin (who later worked with Kiss, a band much influenced by Alice Cooper’s music and presentation, as were the New York Dolls), they crafted a clear, powerful, guitar-heavy sound on such youth anthems as “I’m Eighteen” and “School’s Out.” Makeup-wearing vocalist Cooper, whose identity soon eclipsed the band’s, formed a new group in 1974, adding Welcome to My Nightmare (1975) to a list of significant albums that included Killer (1971) and Billion Dollar Babies (1973), all explorations of decadence, perversion, and psychosis. Best remembered for its shocking stage show,
Alice Cooper blended the gore and grotesquerie of horror films with the camp of 1930s Berlin cabaret. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Glam Rock
Glam Rock
English: , English rock musician of the band Slade (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Glam rock (also known as glitter rock) is a style of rock and pop music that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s, which was performed by singers and musicians who wore outrageous clothes, makeup and hairstyles, particularly platform-soled boots and glitter.
The flamboyant costumes and visual styles of glam performers were often camp or androgynous, and have been connected with new views of gender roles. Glam rock visuals peaked during the mid-1970s with artists including T. Rex, David Bowie, Sweet, Roxy Music and Gary Glitter in the UK and New York Dolls, Lou Reed and Jobriath in the US. It declined after 1976, but had a major influence on genres including punk, glam metal, New Romantics and gothic rock and has sporadically revived since the 1990s.
Glam Rock Stars (Photo credit: avrenim_acceber)[/caption] Musically glam rock was very diverse, varying between the simple rock and roll revivalism of figures like Alvin Stardust to the complex art rock of Roxy Music, and can be seen as much as a fashion as a musical sub-genre.
Visually it was a mesh of various styles, ranging from 1930s Hollywood glamour, through 1950s pin-up sex appeal, pre-war Cabaret theatrics, Victorian literary and symbolist styles, science fiction, to ancient and occult mysticism and mythology; manifesting itself in outrageous clothes, makeup, hairstyles, and platform-soled boots. Glam is most noted for its sexual and gender ambiguity and representations of androgyny, beside extensive use of theatrics. It was prefigured by the showmanship and gender identity manipulation of American acts such as The Cockettes and Alice Cooper, (once called, "Shock Rock's Glitter King") the latter of which combined glam with what now is termed as shock rock.
Glam rock emerged out of the English psychedelic and art rock scenes of the late 1960s and can be seen as both an extension of, and reaction against, those trends. Its origins are associated with Marc Bolan, who had renamed his folk duo T. Rex and taken up electric instruments by the end of the 1960s. Often cited as the moment of inception is his appearance on the UK TV programme Top of the Pops in March 1971 wearing glitter and satins, to perform what would be his second UK Top 10 hit (and first UK Number 1 hit), "Hot Love".
These performers were soon followed in the style by acts including Roxy Music, Sweet, Slade, Mott the Hoople, Mud and Alvin Stardust. While highly successful in the single charts in the UK, very few of these musicians were able to make a serious impact in the United States; Bowie was the major exception becoming an international superstar and prompting the adoption of glam styles among acts like Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, New York Dolls and Jobriath, often known as "glitter rock" and with a darker lyrical content than their British counterparts.
Punk rock, often seen as a reaction to the artifice of glam rock, but using some elements of the genre including makeup and involving covers versions of glam rock records, helped end the fashion for glam from about 1976.
Although glam rock went into a steep decline in popularity in the second half of the 1970s it was a direct influence on acts that rose to prominence later, including Kiss and American glam metal acts like Quiet Riot, W.A.S.P., Twisted Sister and Mötley Crüe. It was a major influence on the New Romantics in Britain, acts like Adam Ant, Visage, Duran Duran, and Flock of Seagulls extended it, and its androgyny and sexual politics were picked up by acts including Culture Club, Bronski Beat and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.It also had an influence on the formation of gothic rock, which was completely informed by the make-up, clothes, theatricality and sound, and even on punk rock, which adopted some of the performance and persona-creating tendencies of the genre, as well as the genre's emphasis on pop-art qualities and simple but powerful instrumentation.
In Japan in the 1980s, visual kei was strongly influenced by glam rock aesthetics. Glam has since enjoyed continued influence and sporadic modest revivals in R&B crossover act Prince, and bands such as Marilyn Manson, Placebo, Chainsaw Kittens, Spacehog and The Darkness. courtesy Wikipedia Related articles 
Shock Rock Horror Rock
Shock Rock
Screamin' Jay Hawkins was arguably the first shock rocker. After the success of his 1957 hit "I Put a Spell on You", Hawkins began to perform a recurring stunt at many of his live shows; he would emerge from a coffin, sing into a skull-shaped microphone and set off smoke bombs.
Another artist who performed similar stunts was the British singer-songwriter Screaming Lord Sutch. The 1960s brought several proto-shock rock artists. In the UK, The Who often destroyed their instruments, The Move did the same to television sets, and Arthur Brown wore vivid makeup and a flaming headpiece. In the US, Jimi Hendrix set his guitar alight at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, while Detroit musician Iggy Pop's violent, erratic onstage persona drew widespread recognition, as Pop would often throw his body about the stage, frequently injuring his band members.
Alice Cooper performing live at Wacken Open Air in August 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
With a career spanning the mid-1960s to recent years, American band leader Alice Cooper refined shock rock, with expensive, upscale illusionary, graphic stunts, such as feigning decapitation with the use of elaborate special effects. In the early 1970s, Cooper's unique blend of heavy metal and the folk blues, complete with sardonic and inevitably controversial lyrics, proved a powerful inspiration for many future genre artists such as KISS of the mid 1970s; W.A.S.P., Gwar, and King Diamond of the 1980s; and Marilyn Manson of the 1990s. Cooper is credited for inventing true shock rock, as well as trademarking shock rock.
Manson and Alice Cooper. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In the 1980s in Richmond, Virginia, Gwar formed as a collaboration of artists and musicians. The band members make their own lavish monster costumes, which they claim are inspired by many of the creatures from H. P. Lovecraft's literary multiverse, the Cthulhu Mythos.
Gwar frequently incorporates extravagant theatrics into their shows, such as mock jousts and pretending to murder each other. Gwar condemned Eldon Hoke, the vocalist of the Mentors, during their appearance on The Jerry Springer Show, because Hoke advocated rape during his interview. In the 1990s and 2000s, Marilyn Manson became perhaps the most notable and well known act in shock rock, being dubbed by the media as one of the most controversial and shocking musicians in music history. Manson's stage antics, such as burning the American flag and ripping pages out of the bible, have been the focus of protests throughout his career.Manson argues that his visual and vocal styles and unique interpretations of familiar songs contribute to his public appeal.
Notable acts
See also
- Punk rock
- Glam rock
- Hard rock
- Instrument destruction
- Heavy metal music
- Stoner rock
- Camp (style)
- Cock rock
- Industrial metal
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