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Okidok,
and to make it short. What else can i say about our cult horror-rocker
number 1? Because literatually everythings has already been said within
the last 4 decades. Whereby there have been certainly times, where his
carriere had it's low and down's, exspecially between 1994 and 2000,
where not much had happened. On the
LP „Welcome
to my nightmare” the US-Filmstar and actor Vincent Price (1911-1993)
spoke the Intro for the Song „The Black Widow”.
Cooper and Price became since then good friends.. Alice is also one of
the Sponsors of the famous Hollywood sign. And he is the new Testimonial
of the electro chain Saturn. That's so far fro the Trivia, and I'm not sure anymore how often I've seen the shock rocker live on stage 'till this very day. I can only guess. But it must have been about 20 times at least. And tonight we got Nov. 6 2010, and there we go again to our Zenith venue here in Munich to experience the wonderful splatter show of Alice Cooper all over again. About 3.000 old and young fans have found their way here - elderly one's who have grown with Alice like myself, or the young dudes, who are just about to discover Alice for themselves.
These guys are on their way now for 2 years and listen to the names of Tobias (Voc/Git), Kaspar (Drums), Henrik (Voc/Bass) and Coma (Git). And there is one record out which is to promote with this supportslot. The band describes their musical style as normal Rockmusik, but this one I think so, is surrounded by a very modern touch and is made for a rather young audiance. Anyway, the first impression is not a bad one indeed. Although I can't avoid the feeling, that Straight Frank would be received much better in a smaller venue, as if they do here at the huge Zenith, where they rather seem a little lost. But well, this happens pretty often, so what?! I'm sure, that this band will find their way with more good music and a little luck - hope so! http://www.myspace.com/straightfrank
Compared to her usual headliner shows, this performance is simply just missing the neccessary light. But it's only a couple of weak spots reflecting Tarja's beauty. Well, I do a bit hard to criticize this mixture of opera vocals and Heavy Metal, as this doesn't really meet my personal taste, though it surely got something to it. - More important is, that she does go well down at Munich's audiance. And that's the most important thing.
Currently
the focus is put on the, in September released album 'What Lies Beneath',
but we also get to hear older material of course. within her 45 minutes
stint. And no, her coverversion of 'Poison' is not on the setlist on
this tour - ask why? There
is not much more left to say, exept the critics about the lack of light.
And I surey have done better photos of Tarja in the past as tonight. So
please excuse me. Last but not least -let's face it: our finnish
Metal-opera diva doesn't really fit to Alice Cooper, does she... But who
cares.
And there he is, the boss of Rock’n’Roll Horror, our Hardrock
Jekyll & Hyde and the inventor of the Hardrock Frankensteins.
And
Alice Cooper seems in his usual outfit and make up as if years have
passed by without him getting any older. Only some wrinkles on the neck
and a little double chin shows signs of aging. But this again is only
discovered, when you're as close as I am right now in the photo pit,
only 8 feet away.What's up to condion he is still up to date and not
tired at all. Another aspect is the almost perfect professionality
of this show.
Everything
is right and in place, even the smallest detail. And of course again we
got all torture utensils. Inbetween you find some newbe's as the green
monster at the song 'Feed My Frankenstein'. And only the snake is not
taking part anymore. Since his beloved Boa Contrictor had died, Alice
decided, not to have another one.
Also the Band is still the
same as 3 years ago, when Cooper had toured last time together
with Whitesnake, apart from Festival appearances. This is: Jimmy
DeGrasso (Drums), Chuck Garric (Bass), Damon Johnson (Git) and Keri
Kelli (Git) who draws some attention as well because of his sparkling
appearance.
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Pictures say usually more
than a 1.000 words. So let them speak and I spare the next sequel of
Lord of the Rings part 4
In any case, good old Alice
has collected some more points and climbed up a little higher on the
scale of popularity. Long live the cult character. And I only ask myself
in the end: what, when all our rock legends - are legends one day?
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