Classic Rock
After 51 years Alice Cooper records album with original bandmates
Called “The Revenge of Alice Cooper, the new album marks the reunion of Vincent Furnier, who became Alice Cooper and carried the name after the original band disbanded, with his original bandmates: Guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway and drummer Neal Smith. This is the first album of the original line-up in 51 years.
He had already reunited with them live performing at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2011, for example, and collaborated with the singer multiple times since then. The new record will be out next July 26 via earMUSIC and also has a special appearance by the late guitarist Glen Buxton, who died in 1997 at the age of 49.
What Alice Cooper said about the new album with his original bandmates
Cooper talked with Billboard about the new record, saying: “It was very much like this was our next album after (1973’s) Muscle of Love, just like, ‘OK, this is the next album.’ Isn’t that funny after 50 years? All of a sudden it just falls into place. (…) If we’re gonna do an original Alice record, I want it to sound like the original Alice band. The original band has a darker sound, and a heavier sound. It’s a very different personality, and I even sing differently when I sing with those guys.
“On this (album) it was much more of a band, where each one of us has a certain say. In other words, it wasn’t like my albums. I’m not gonna have a final say on it; I had one-fourth of the say on it, and that’s the way we always did it. I think the best thing about this is normally Bob and I would go, ‘OK, wait a minute — that doesn’t necessarily fit.”
“That shouldn’t go there.’ When we’re working with this band, we go, ‘No, let it go there,’ ’cause that’s what the original Alice Cooper Band did. We would see where it should go, and 70 percent of the song went where it should go, and the about 30 percent of the song went in another direction — but it all sounded like it fit. That was the difference. When we heard that, we kinda laugh and say, ‘Let’s go there.’ On my albums I wouldn’t go there, but on this album, we go there.”
“The Revenge of Alice Cooper” tracklist
- “Black Mamba”
- “Wild Ones”
- “Up All Night”
- “Kill The Flies”
- “One Night Stand”
- “Blood On The Sun”
- “Crap That Gets In The Way Of Your Dreams”
- “Famous Face”
- “Money Screams”
- “What A Syd”
- “Inter Galactic Vagabond Blues”
- “What Happened To You”
- “I Ain’t Done Wrong”
- “See You On The Other Side”
- “Return of the Spiders 2025” (bonus track)
- “Titanic Overunderture” (bonus track)
