Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper

Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper
Video by Alice Cooper
Released 1974 Cinema
2005 DVD
Genre Hard rock, heavy metal, shock rock
Length 100min
Label Shout! Factory
Eagle Vision
Alice Cooper chronology
Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper
1974		 Welcome To My Nightmare
1976

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 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 B/W 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 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 behaviour 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

  1. "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Studio segment)
  2. "Hello Hooray"
  3. "Billion Dollar Babies"
  4. "Elected"
  5. "I'm Eighteen"
  6. "Raped and Freezin'"
  7. "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
  8. "My Stars"
  9. "Unfinished Sweet"
  10. "Sick Things"
  11. "Dead Babies"
  12. "I Love the Dead"
  13. "School's Out"
  14. "Under My Wheels"

Personnel

DVD Features

The special features of the DVD are:

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.

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