August 29, 2025 • 19 mins
Dennis Dunaway of the original Alice Cooper band talks about Frank Zappa's role in Alice Cooper's success, why the band broke up in 1974, and his experiences with Ozzy!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Hey, Dennis, Dennis Dunaway from the Alice Cooper
Band on the Greg Stone Show, the bass player for
all those years, and the original Alice Cooper Band is
back with their first full length in over fifty years,
The Revenge of Alice Cooper, which has a lot of
nods to the music of the old Alice Cooper Band,
(00:20):
a lot of that Detroit sound in there as well,
some eerie, creepy kind of sound in music. It's a
nice throwback of fresh new material.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
How you doing, Dennis, I'm doing, Greg, Greg. Yeah, we
go in the studio and we play and it sounds
like we always have.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Well and that helps having Bob controlling the knobs too.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm sure right, definitely, yeah, Bob. Bob just makes everything
sound better.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
He's got a great track history. Referring to a producer,
Bob Ezrind of course, longtime Knob turner for the Alice
Cooper Band. You know, I know you guys helped out
Alice with his Detroit Stories album in twenty twenty one,
but this is fifty years in the making, this Revenge
of Alice Cooper. And did you have songs from the
last fifty years tucked away? That you brought to the table, Dennis.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Some of the songs that we've done on this album
go back that far and others are more recent. Same
with Neil. I mean, we had like seventy songs to
pick from, so some of them, some of them are
pretty some of them. Two songs were written right in
the studio, so those were brand new.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Glenn appears, who passed away back in nineteen ninety seven,
the lead guitar player for the Alice Cooper band. He
appears posthumously with a guitar solo that was saved.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, it's a cassette that I've had all these years
of Glenn and I jamming at the Galacia State in
Connecticut at the band House in nineteen seventy three, and
I saved and then I told Bob Ezer and I
had it, and he said, send it. We can clean
it up digitally, and then he added a click track,
and then the band just wrote a song. It happened
(02:11):
really fast, but we wrote a song that we thought
Glenn would have liked, and a friend of ours, Rick Dedesco,
played Glenn's guitar on it. So Glenn was there on
this album. In many ways, He's always there, but to
have him actually represented in the grooves of the album,
I'm very proud of how we managed to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
That's so kick ass to have him included, you know,
because he was such a big part of the original
success of the Alice Cooper Band. Let's go back to
the early days when you formed in Phoenix, went out
to Los Angeles and Frank Zaba signed you to a
three album deal back in the late sixties. I mean,
Frank was looking for not your normal sounding music and
(03:00):
someone said you got to check out the Alice Cooper Band.
And it's my understanding that you guys showed up at
his house his studio at seven o'clock in the morning.
Got confused, you thought you were supposed to be there
at seven am, and Frank was like, anybody who's got
that sort of gumption, I need to sign.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, I mean I would have I would have shot
somebody that started playing outside my bedroom door. But he
signed us. So that was our first album, Pretties for You.
Frank was the guy that gave us our break, thanks
to the GTOs who lived at his house and unlocked
(03:41):
the door early in the morning for us to barge.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
In and then in twenty eleven, you guys got to
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I
know that you had done reunions a couple of songs
short sets over the years, but that Hall of Fame
set was something pretty special, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, that really brought the band together because we rehearsed
and whenever we're in the same room together, we always
revert to high school kids and have a lot of fun.
So that was a biggie. And then other things. I mean,
I released a book in twenty fifteen, Snake Skillotines, Electric Chairs,
(04:26):
My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group, and we played
at a book signing event at a record store in Dallas,
Texas by this guy, Christopher Todd Penn who recently passed
away unfortunately, and the original group did a surprise performance
right in the record store.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
And we didn't know they were filming it to make
a film out of it, but that's what happened. And
then Bob Ezron mixed the sound for the audio and
that was a big bringing us all back together because
you could just see how much fun we all have
when we're together. And then recently Michael Neil and Alice
(05:11):
were getting together out in Phoenix, just kicking around songs
for the fun of it, and that was the clincher.
All of a sudden, they came up with some songs
they were excited about, and then that turned into this album.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
We're talking to Dennis Dunaway, the Alice Cooper Band's bass player,
and you know, let's go back to why did the
original Alice Cooper band break up in nineteen seventy four.
I know what I've read, you know, financial woes, talking
about reinvesting money, or drug and alcohol problems. But was
(05:46):
it a culmination of everything or was there a specific
reason that the Alice Cooper band because you guys were
were like riding the waves of success.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah, I think, well, we were all young, and not
everybody was making the most sound decisions that we should
have made at the time. But we were mostly just
burn out from touring so much and wanted to take
a break, and then we intended to get back together.
But during that break, Alice recorded a solo album which
(06:23):
was successful, and then he didn't come back, so that's yeah,
And then all of a sudden, you had two people
sharing the money instead of you know, seven.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Right, You know, we recently lost a rock and roll icon,
Ozzy Osbourne passed away. Cause of death was a heart attack,
is what we found out yesterday. Did the Alice Cooper
band ever open up for Black Sabbath?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Oh yeah, several shows. There was one up in Ottawa
where I remember walking into the venue exhausted thinking, oh man,
I've got to summon my energy because we're on the
bill with Black Sabbath. And then the opening band was
this band that nobody had heard of at the time
(07:13):
called Yes, and I'm going, wait a minute, who are
these guys? And then that wasn't a Black Sabbath's best night.
They were they had all been drinking too much and
and they didn't have their best show ever. But so
I think that probably Yes had the best performance. We
(07:34):
were second, and unfortunately Black Sabbath were third. But we've
had done other shows with them where Black Sabbath of
course mopped the floor with everybody. So they were good times,
you know. And it's such a sad thing that Ossi
is gone, but it's it's kind of a it's kind
(07:55):
of it's good that everybody got to see him perform
once again, and and he carried it.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It was good, you know what a way to go
out right, play your own funeral basically.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, and and uh but still it's he's such an
icon that uh, it's it makes everybody think about, you know, reality,
it's a reality check.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Well, Dennis, how does that make you feel about your mortality?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Well, you know, I think humans tend to always think
you're going to live forever, so so hopefully you know.
And also I don't. I don't feel, as I use
the word vintage instead of old, I don't feel as
vintage as I really am because my maturity level is young.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Well, you look great, you know, you look healthy.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Okay, Well, you know that's that's a good line. Good's
this early in the morning. Usually don't look too good.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
The record, The Revenge of Alice Cooper, is available on
all platforms right now. It came out just a few
weeks back. I think it was the twenty seventh of July.
The first full length in fifty years. You've got some
guests on this album too, As we talked to Tennis Dunaway,
the bass player from the original Alice Cooper band. You've
got Robbie Kreeger from the Doors and Rob was like,
(09:25):
you guys were all buddies when you first went out
to California.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh yeah, we did a show in nineteen sixty seven,
three shows in one day with the doors, and so
between between shows we would hang out backstage and we
became friends. And then we would see him in all
over LA and they'd come over to our house and
(09:52):
stuff like that. So now we're in the studio and
we record this song, back Mamba, that has this slithering feel,
and so we imagine that Glenn Buxton, had he still
been here, would have played slide guitar on it. So
(10:13):
somebody suggested Robbie Krieger, and that was the perfect person
for it because he's the greatest slide player of anybody,
and and Glenn and Robbie had been friends. So he's
on Black Mamba and that opening slide. Yeah, so snaky
sends chills up my spine every time.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Do you still talk to Robbie or was that like
a like a crazy phone call, like, Hey, rob it's
it's Dennis. You want to play guitar on my album?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Uh? No? Actually I have a band, Blue Coop with
Joe and Albert Bouchard of Blue Oys, Occult fame, and
Robbie has played on several of our recent albums, so
we we have been in touch with him, and then
you know, whenever he comes to this to the area,
New York City area, then I go and hang out
(11:04):
backstage with him and we talk about the old days
and all that.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Speaking of the old days, how come it took the
Alice Cooper Band to move to Detroit for the Alice
Cooper Band to become famous, to get listened to. What
was it about Los Angeles that Alice Cooper didn't fit into.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I don't know. I mean we were glitzed. We were
too glitzy for Hollywood. I mean, Holly weird. We were
too weird for Hollyweired. Come on. So so you know,
Frank Zappa his approval all of a sudden, everybody had
to rethink that. But when we started, when we left
(11:47):
LA because we couldn't afford rent anymore, because apparently an
avant garde album doesn't put food on the table for
one thing, we lived out of suitcases. But as we
traveled all over the country, more and more all of
our shows were happening happening around the Midwest, and so
(12:08):
we started living in this Dive Hotel on the outskirts
of Detroit, and the Motor City bad Boys, the Stooges
and MC five and all those great bands that were
going big kind of took us under their wing, and
so we got a farm there, and finally we had
(12:30):
a rehearsal studio where we could rehearse as late as
we wanted, as loud as we wanted, and didn't bother anybody.
So that was a big part of us being able
to write an album that was coherent rather than you know,
bits and pieces out on the road at various hotels
(12:52):
so Detroit. And also Alice was born in Detroit, so
there was.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
That well, you know, you've got this record out and
it's got some really cool songs, like I said, some
nods to old motown rock, and then you got the
slithering sounds of the old school Alice Cooper Band. Is
there going to be a tour? I know that you
guys do little one off sets here and there, but
are you going to take the Alice Cooper Band out
(13:21):
on the road.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well? I hope so. I mean, let's face it, where
the band that brought spectacle to live rock shows. So
and also if you listen to this album. It's got
a live feel, so I hope. So it's the only
thing we have booked right now is November fifteenth and Phoenix, Arizona.
(13:45):
We'll probably do a short set there, but if all
it takes is a phone call and we're there.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
So you know, I know Alice will be hitting the
road with Judas Priest here in the fall. So is
that show in Phoenix part of that Judas Priest. Alice
Cooper tore that you guys are coming on since it's Phoenix,
or is it just a special one off?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
The show in Phoenix will be a benefit for the
Solid Rock teen Centers, which Alice and his wife were
a big part of. It's a great thing. Young people
from ages twelve to twenty can go there and learn
how to play bass, or learn how to produce records,
or learn how to dance or art and all kinds
of things. That's great. So we will be doing a
(14:32):
fundraiser for that, along with a lot of other celebrities.
We did set in. The original group did this thing
in London on July twenty fourth, which was the night
before the release date of the album, at the Union Chapel.
This great, beautiful Old Church and we were interviewed by
(14:54):
Sir Tim Rice, who wrote you know Avida and Jesus
Christ Superstar and all these. And then the following night,
Alice's touring band played at the Two Arena, and so
in honor of Ozzy Osbourne, Johnny Depp joined them for
Paranoid Right. I saw that Johnny stayed on stage and
(15:17):
the original group set in for the encore for Schools Out,
So we did that, But other than that, Alice's bookings
are all for his touring band at this point.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Ever thought that you'd be sitting here in twenty twenty
five still playing with the Alice Cooper band back in
nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
No, absolutely not. It's like, okay, so the Alice Cooper group,
when we broke up, we had achieved our dream. You know.
We were just high school kids that started a band
and we clawed our way the hard way, you know.
We clowed our way to the top of the glittery
(16:02):
rock pile, and we had achieved our dream. But whoever
gets a chance to achieve their dream again, it's happening
all over again.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
How fortunate? Huh? You must feel blessed.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I do.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Dennis Dunaway, the original bass player for the Alice Cooper Band.
The Revenge of Alice Cooper. The latest LP is out
on platforms everywhere. You can even buy hard copies of
it in a store. You can believe that, Yeah, a store. Hey,
Dennis is great to talk to you. What a legend.
(16:39):
I'm always big fan. The first Alice Cooper album I got,
I think was probably in seventy nine, and it was
the greatest hits And oh I played that over and
over and over again. Man, from Desperado to under My Wheels. Man,
I love that album.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Man.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I love all those old Alb Cooper tracks and been
a big fan, and I like a lot of these
new ones off of the Revenge of Alice Cooper. I
suggest if you're an Alice Cooper fan, pick up the
new record. Like I said, it is available on all platforms.
And hopefully we'll see the original Alice Cooper band out
on the road, maybe sometime this winter into the next
(17:19):
spring or something.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, fingers crossed on that. You know, we have a
lot of good memories of Colorado shows there.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, sure one with us, Dennis before you go.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Oh yeah, okay, well how about Aspen Colorado?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
We got a gig there at the ski resort, and
so we had an old van full of equipment and
then a station wagon and we're driving up through the
mountains in a blizzard and the truck went off the
slid off the road, and so the band is all out,
(17:55):
and we realized one of the wheels only had one
lug bolt, so we stole one off of each of
the other wheels and got it back on the road.
And we're going like two miles an hour. It seemed
I thought the Donner Party would pass us somewhere, and
all of a sudden, here's this bright light and we're thinking,
(18:17):
oh man, this is really terrible. It felt like it
was really late at night, but it's only like nine
o'clock or something. All these people are in a swimming
pool having drinking poos and everything, and we get to
the we get to asp and we thought the gig's
going to be ruined because of this blizzard. But no,
are you kidding, Fresh Powder, Let's.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Celebrate Dennis Dunaway from the Alice Cooper Band. The Revenge
of Alice Cooper, the latest disc is available on all platforms.
Thanks Again. We spoke to a legend Today, folks Tennis
Dunaway on the Gregs don't show Greg.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Thanks Greg, We're back courting stopped
All right, Hey, Dennis, Dennis Dunaway from the Alice Cooper
Band on the Greg Stone Show, the bass player for
all those years, and the original Alice Cooper Band is
back with their first full length in over fifty years,
The Revenge of Alice Cooper, which has a lot of
nods to the music of the old Alice Cooper Band,
(00:20):
a lot of that Detroit sound in there as well,
some eerie, creepy kind of sound in music. It's a
nice throwback of fresh new material.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
How you doing, Dennis, I'm doing, Greg, Greg. Yeah, we
go in the studio and we play and it sounds
like we always have.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Well and that helps having Bob controlling the knobs too.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm sure right, definitely, yeah, Bob. Bob just makes everything
sound better.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
He's got a great track history. Referring to a producer,
Bob Ezrind of course, longtime Knob turner for the Alice
Cooper Band. You know, I know you guys helped out
Alice with his Detroit Stories album in twenty twenty one,
but this is fifty years in the making, this Revenge
of Alice Cooper. And did you have songs from the
last fifty years tucked away? That you brought to the table, Dennis.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Some of the songs that we've done on this album
go back that far and others are more recent. Same
with Neil. I mean, we had like seventy songs to
pick from, so some of them, some of them are
pretty some of them. Two songs were written right in
the studio, so those were brand new.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Glenn appears, who passed away back in nineteen ninety seven,
the lead guitar player for the Alice Cooper band. He
appears posthumously with a guitar solo that was saved.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, it's a cassette that I've had all these years
of Glenn and I jamming at the Galacia State in
Connecticut at the band House in nineteen seventy three, and
I saved and then I told Bob Ezer and I
had it, and he said, send it. We can clean
it up digitally, and then he added a click track,
and then the band just wrote a song. It happened
(02:11):
really fast, but we wrote a song that we thought
Glenn would have liked, and a friend of ours, Rick Dedesco,
played Glenn's guitar on it. So Glenn was there on
this album. In many ways, He's always there, but to
have him actually represented in the grooves of the album,
I'm very proud of how we managed to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
That's so kick ass to have him included, you know,
because he was such a big part of the original
success of the Alice Cooper Band. Let's go back to
the early days when you formed in Phoenix, went out
to Los Angeles and Frank Zaba signed you to a
three album deal back in the late sixties. I mean,
Frank was looking for not your normal sounding music and
(03:00):
someone said you got to check out the Alice Cooper Band.
And it's my understanding that you guys showed up at
his house his studio at seven o'clock in the morning.
Got confused, you thought you were supposed to be there
at seven am, and Frank was like, anybody who's got
that sort of gumption, I need to sign.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, I mean I would have I would have shot
somebody that started playing outside my bedroom door. But he
signed us. So that was our first album, Pretties for You.
Frank was the guy that gave us our break, thanks
to the GTOs who lived at his house and unlocked
(03:41):
the door early in the morning for us to barge.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
In and then in twenty eleven, you guys got to
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I
know that you had done reunions a couple of songs
short sets over the years, but that Hall of Fame
set was something pretty special, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, that really brought the band together because we rehearsed
and whenever we're in the same room together, we always
revert to high school kids and have a lot of fun.
So that was a biggie. And then other things. I mean,
I released a book in twenty fifteen, Snake Skillotines, Electric Chairs,
(04:26):
My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group, and we played
at a book signing event at a record store in Dallas,
Texas by this guy, Christopher Todd Penn who recently passed
away unfortunately, and the original group did a surprise performance
right in the record store.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
And we didn't know they were filming it to make
a film out of it, but that's what happened. And
then Bob Ezron mixed the sound for the audio and
that was a big bringing us all back together because
you could just see how much fun we all have
when we're together. And then recently Michael Neil and Alice
(05:11):
were getting together out in Phoenix, just kicking around songs
for the fun of it, and that was the clincher.
All of a sudden, they came up with some songs
they were excited about, and then that turned into this album.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
We're talking to Dennis Dunaway, the Alice Cooper Band's bass player,
and you know, let's go back to why did the
original Alice Cooper band break up in nineteen seventy four.
I know what I've read, you know, financial woes, talking
about reinvesting money, or drug and alcohol problems. But was
(05:46):
it a culmination of everything or was there a specific
reason that the Alice Cooper band because you guys were
were like riding the waves of success.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah, I think, well, we were all young, and not
everybody was making the most sound decisions that we should
have made at the time. But we were mostly just
burn out from touring so much and wanted to take
a break, and then we intended to get back together.
But during that break, Alice recorded a solo album which
(06:23):
was successful, and then he didn't come back, so that's yeah,
And then all of a sudden, you had two people
sharing the money instead of you know, seven.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Right, You know, we recently lost a rock and roll icon,
Ozzy Osbourne passed away. Cause of death was a heart attack,
is what we found out yesterday. Did the Alice Cooper
band ever open up for Black Sabbath?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Oh yeah, several shows. There was one up in Ottawa
where I remember walking into the venue exhausted thinking, oh man,
I've got to summon my energy because we're on the
bill with Black Sabbath. And then the opening band was
this band that nobody had heard of at the time
(07:13):
called Yes, and I'm going, wait a minute, who are
these guys? And then that wasn't a Black Sabbath's best night.
They were they had all been drinking too much and
and they didn't have their best show ever. But so
I think that probably Yes had the best performance. We
(07:34):
were second, and unfortunately Black Sabbath were third. But we've
had done other shows with them where Black Sabbath of
course mopped the floor with everybody. So they were good times,
you know. And it's such a sad thing that Ossi
is gone, but it's it's kind of a it's kind
(07:55):
of it's good that everybody got to see him perform
once again, and and he carried it.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It was good, you know what a way to go
out right, play your own funeral basically.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, and and uh but still it's he's such an
icon that uh, it's it makes everybody think about, you know, reality,
it's a reality check.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Well, Dennis, how does that make you feel about your mortality?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Well, you know, I think humans tend to always think
you're going to live forever, so so hopefully you know.
And also I don't. I don't feel, as I use
the word vintage instead of old, I don't feel as
vintage as I really am because my maturity level is young.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Well, you look great, you know, you look healthy.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Okay, Well, you know that's that's a good line. Good's
this early in the morning. Usually don't look too good.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
The record, The Revenge of Alice Cooper, is available on
all platforms right now. It came out just a few
weeks back. I think it was the twenty seventh of July.
The first full length in fifty years. You've got some
guests on this album too, As we talked to Tennis Dunaway,
the bass player from the original Alice Cooper band. You've
got Robbie Kreeger from the Doors and Rob was like,
(09:25):
you guys were all buddies when you first went out
to California.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh yeah, we did a show in nineteen sixty seven,
three shows in one day with the doors, and so
between between shows we would hang out backstage and we
became friends. And then we would see him in all
over LA and they'd come over to our house and
(09:52):
stuff like that. So now we're in the studio and
we record this song, back Mamba, that has this slithering feel,
and so we imagine that Glenn Buxton, had he still
been here, would have played slide guitar on it. So
(10:13):
somebody suggested Robbie Krieger, and that was the perfect person
for it because he's the greatest slide player of anybody,
and and Glenn and Robbie had been friends. So he's
on Black Mamba and that opening slide. Yeah, so snaky
sends chills up my spine every time.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Do you still talk to Robbie or was that like
a like a crazy phone call, like, Hey, rob it's
it's Dennis. You want to play guitar on my album?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Uh? No? Actually I have a band, Blue Coop with
Joe and Albert Bouchard of Blue Oys, Occult fame, and
Robbie has played on several of our recent albums, so
we we have been in touch with him, and then
you know, whenever he comes to this to the area,
New York City area, then I go and hang out
(11:04):
backstage with him and we talk about the old days
and all that.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Speaking of the old days, how come it took the
Alice Cooper Band to move to Detroit for the Alice
Cooper Band to become famous, to get listened to. What
was it about Los Angeles that Alice Cooper didn't fit into.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I don't know. I mean we were glitzed. We were
too glitzy for Hollywood. I mean, Holly weird. We were
too weird for Hollyweired. Come on. So so you know,
Frank Zappa his approval all of a sudden, everybody had
to rethink that. But when we started, when we left
(11:47):
LA because we couldn't afford rent anymore, because apparently an
avant garde album doesn't put food on the table for
one thing, we lived out of suitcases. But as we
traveled all over the country, more and more all of
our shows were happening happening around the Midwest, and so
(12:08):
we started living in this Dive Hotel on the outskirts
of Detroit, and the Motor City bad Boys, the Stooges
and MC five and all those great bands that were
going big kind of took us under their wing, and
so we got a farm there, and finally we had
(12:30):
a rehearsal studio where we could rehearse as late as
we wanted, as loud as we wanted, and didn't bother anybody.
So that was a big part of us being able
to write an album that was coherent rather than you know,
bits and pieces out on the road at various hotels
(12:52):
so Detroit. And also Alice was born in Detroit, so
there was.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
That well, you know, you've got this record out and
it's got some really cool songs, like I said, some
nods to old motown rock, and then you got the
slithering sounds of the old school Alice Cooper Band. Is
there going to be a tour? I know that you
guys do little one off sets here and there, but
are you going to take the Alice Cooper Band out
(13:21):
on the road.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well? I hope so. I mean, let's face it, where
the band that brought spectacle to live rock shows. So
and also if you listen to this album. It's got
a live feel, so I hope. So it's the only
thing we have booked right now is November fifteenth and Phoenix, Arizona.
(13:45):
We'll probably do a short set there, but if all
it takes is a phone call and we're there.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
So you know, I know Alice will be hitting the
road with Judas Priest here in the fall. So is
that show in Phoenix part of that Judas Priest. Alice
Cooper tore that you guys are coming on since it's Phoenix,
or is it just a special one off?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
The show in Phoenix will be a benefit for the
Solid Rock teen Centers, which Alice and his wife were
a big part of. It's a great thing. Young people
from ages twelve to twenty can go there and learn
how to play bass, or learn how to produce records,
or learn how to dance or art and all kinds
of things. That's great. So we will be doing a
(14:32):
fundraiser for that, along with a lot of other celebrities.
We did set in. The original group did this thing
in London on July twenty fourth, which was the night
before the release date of the album, at the Union Chapel.
This great, beautiful Old Church and we were interviewed by
(14:54):
Sir Tim Rice, who wrote you know Avida and Jesus
Christ Superstar and all these. And then the following night,
Alice's touring band played at the Two Arena, and so
in honor of Ozzy Osbourne, Johnny Depp joined them for
Paranoid Right. I saw that Johnny stayed on stage and
(15:17):
the original group set in for the encore for Schools Out,
So we did that, But other than that, Alice's bookings
are all for his touring band at this point.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Ever thought that you'd be sitting here in twenty twenty
five still playing with the Alice Cooper band back in
nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
No, absolutely not. It's like, okay, so the Alice Cooper group,
when we broke up, we had achieved our dream. You know.
We were just high school kids that started a band
and we clawed our way the hard way, you know.
We clowed our way to the top of the glittery
(16:02):
rock pile, and we had achieved our dream. But whoever
gets a chance to achieve their dream again, it's happening
all over again.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
How fortunate? Huh? You must feel blessed.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I do.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Dennis Dunaway, the original bass player for the Alice Cooper Band.
The Revenge of Alice Cooper. The latest LP is out
on platforms everywhere. You can even buy hard copies of
it in a store. You can believe that, Yeah, a store. Hey,
Dennis is great to talk to you. What a legend.
(16:39):
I'm always big fan. The first Alice Cooper album I got,
I think was probably in seventy nine, and it was
the greatest hits And oh I played that over and
over and over again. Man, from Desperado to under My Wheels. Man,
I love that album.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Man.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I love all those old Alb Cooper tracks and been
a big fan, and I like a lot of these
new ones off of the Revenge of Alice Cooper. I
suggest if you're an Alice Cooper fan, pick up the
new record. Like I said, it is available on all platforms.
And hopefully we'll see the original Alice Cooper band out
on the road, maybe sometime this winter into the next
(17:19):
spring or something.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, fingers crossed on that. You know, we have a
lot of good memories of Colorado shows there.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, sure one with us, Dennis before you go.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Oh yeah, okay, well how about Aspen Colorado?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
We got a gig there at the ski resort, and
so we had an old van full of equipment and
then a station wagon and we're driving up through the
mountains in a blizzard and the truck went off the
slid off the road, and so the band is all out,
(17:55):
and we realized one of the wheels only had one
lug bolt, so we stole one off of each of
the other wheels and got it back on the road.
And we're going like two miles an hour. It seemed
I thought the Donner Party would pass us somewhere, and
all of a sudden, here's this bright light and we're thinking,
(18:17):
oh man, this is really terrible. It felt like it
was really late at night, but it's only like nine
o'clock or something. All these people are in a swimming
pool having drinking poos and everything, and we get to
the we get to asp and we thought the gig's
going to be ruined because of this blizzard. But no,
are you kidding, Fresh Powder, Let's.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Celebrate Dennis Dunaway from the Alice Cooper Band. The Revenge
of Alice Cooper, the latest disc is available on all platforms.
Thanks Again. We spoke to a legend Today, folks Tennis
Dunaway on the Gregs don't show Greg.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Thanks Greg, We're back courting stopped
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