Alice Cooper and Friends
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Alice Cooper and Friends was a live music
television special
starring Alice Cooper
. Broadcast in the United States
in September 1977, it was released on VHS
in 1978. This rare video has a running time
of 52 minutes, of which 25 minutes feature Cooper. It also features live footage of The Tubes
, Nazareth
and Sha Na Na
.
Alice Cooper and Friends was filmed in concert on 19 June 1977 at the Anaheim Stadium in California
. This was the first night of Cooper's "King of the Silver Screen" tour, in support of his album Lace and Whiskey
. The special captured a very drunken and lethargic performance by Cooper, which he himself has dismissed as his worst performance. The video does include the infamous Chickens with Machine Guns sequence during the song "Lace and Whiskey". This special was the only commercially released video footage from that tour.
The video of the special has been discontinued since its original release, and has not been issued on DVD
. Used copies regularly appear for sale online.
Live Music
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television special
Television special
A television special is a television program which interrupts or temporarily replaces programming normally scheduled for a given time slot. Sometimes, however, the term is given to a telecast of a theatrical film, such as The Wizard of Oz or The Ten Commandments, which is not part of a regular...
starring Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...
. Broadcast in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
in September 1977, it was released on VHS
VHS
The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....
in 1978. This rare video has a running time
Running Time
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of 52 minutes, of which 25 minutes feature Cooper. It also features live footage of The Tubes
The Tubes
The Tubes are a San Francisco-based rock band, whose 1975 debut album included the hit single, "White Punks on Dope". During its first fifteen years or so, the band's live performances combined quasi-pornography with wild satires of media, consumerism, and politics...
, Nazareth
Nazareth (band)
Nazareth is a Scottish hard rock band, founded in 1968, that had several hits in the UK in the early 1970s, and established an international audience with their 1975 album Hair of the Dog. Perhaps their best-known hit single was a cover of the ballad "Love Hurts", in 1975...
and Sha Na Na
Sha Na Na
Sha Na Na is an American rock and roll group. The name is taken from a part of the long series of nonsense syllables in the doo-wop hit song "Get a Job", originally recorded in 1957 by the Silhouettes....
.
Alice Cooper and Friends was filmed in concert on 19 June 1977 at the Anaheim Stadium in California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. This was the first night of Cooper's "King of the Silver Screen" tour, in support of his album Lace and Whiskey
Lace and Whiskey
Lace and Whiskey is the 10th studio album by Alice Cooper, released in May 1977.After many years of portraying a dark and sinister persona Alice Cooper decided to try something new and donned the persona of a heavy drinking comic PI named "Maurice Escargot" - a fictional character in the same vein...
. The special captured a very drunken and lethargic performance by Cooper, which he himself has dismissed as his worst performance. The video does include the infamous Chickens with Machine Guns sequence during the song "Lace and Whiskey". This special was the only commercially released video footage from that tour.
The video of the special has been discontinued since its original release, and has not been issued on DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
. Used copies regularly appear for sale online.
Alice Cooper songs performed
- "School's OutSchool's Out (song)Female pop duo Daphne & Celeste, released a cover of the song in 2000. The chorus is based on Alice Cooper's hit of the same name, and some other elements of that song have been retained, although much of the song is "original", in a pop-rap style...
" - "Is It My Body?" (excerpt)
- "Under My Wheels" (excerpt)
- "Billion Dollar Babies" (excerpt)
- "You and Me"
- "Only Women BleedOnly Women Bleed"Only Women Bleed" is a song written by the musicians Alice Cooper and Dick Wagner. It is a ballad about a woman in an abusive marriage.It is one of Cooper's biggest hits, reaching #1 on the Canadian RPM national singles chart and #12 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1975. It is from...
" (excerpt) - "Lace and Whiskey"
- "I Love the Dead"