Alice Cooper, the legendary godfather of Shock Rock told Rolling Stone Germany (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage) that he has already 30 songs for his two upcoming new albums that according to him are a little different. He also revealed that they are being produced by the famous Bob Ezrin, that had worked on several Cooper classic albums and with bands like Kiss, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd and Deep Purple.
Alice Cooper says he has 30 songs for his two upcoming albums:
“A lot of those were born during the plague. We couldn’t go touring for 18 months. So what a musician gonna do? Well, they’re going to write songs. Everybody has a studio in their house. So we were writing songs and doing demos.”
“At the end of this whole thing, I got in touch with Bob and said, ‘Here’s 30 songs.’ We decided, ‘Ok, let’s do two albums.’ But the two albums are definitely two different angles of coming in to Alice Cooper. One is very hard rock. The other one is hard rock but it’s twisted. Tthat’s all I can say about it right now, because there’s a couple of really important things about both albums.”
When asked about his work with Bob Ezrin, who produced many of his classic albums, Cooper replied: “Bob is my George Martin (Beatles producer), you know. What George Martin did with The Beatles is what Bob did with Alice Cooper early on with “Love It To Death” (1971) and “Killer” (1971), “School’s Out” (1972). He kind of taught us how to write a song. Even though we wrote great parts, we wrote songs but the verse was great, the b-section wasn’t great, chorus was ok.”
He continued:
“Then in another song the chorus was great but the verse wasn’t that good. He came in and taught us how to put all that together so that the verse was great, the bridge was better and the chorus was even better. That’s how we learned how to write. Ezra is the only guy on the planet that understands Alice as much as I do. When we were doing the lyrics and the vocals that’s when the real personality of Alice shows up.”
“We talk about him in the third person, so we will be sitting there listening back to a track and he will go: ‘Wait a minute, Alice would never say that’. I’ll go ‘Yeah, yeah. You’re right, let’s rewrite that’,” Alice Cooper said.
There are still no information about the release of the records. Cooper’s most recent work was “Detroit Stories” (2021).
Next Alice Cooper shows
June
- 15 Amfiteatr w Dolinie Charlotta, Poland
- 17 Stadthalle Zwickau Zwickau, Germany
- 18 Rock the Ring Hinwil 2022 Hinwil, Switzerland
- 19 Graspop Metal Meeting 2022 Dessel, Belgium
- JUN 21 Mitsubishi Electric HALLE Dusseldorf, Germany
- 22 Jahrhunderthalle Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
- 24 Hellfest 2022 Clisson, France
- 25 Retro C Pop 2022 Tilloloy, France
- 28 Wiener Stadthalle Vienna, Austria
- 29 Ippodromo Snai San Siro Milan, Italy
July
- 1 Rock Fest Barcelona 2022 Barcelona, Spain
- 2 La Nueva Cubierta Madrid, Spain
- 6 Olympic Athletic Center of Athens “Spiros Louis” Athina, Greece
September
- 7 Vision Nightclub at Wind Creek Event Center Bethlehem, PA
- 9 Blue Ridge Rock Festival 2022 Alton, VA
- 11 The Colosseum @ Cesar’s Windsor, Canada
- 13 Shea’s Buffalo Theatre Buffalo, NY
- 14 Visions Arena Binghamton, NY
- 16 The Palace Theater Albany, NY
- 17 Tropicana Casino & Resort Atlantic City, NJ
- 18 Toyota Oakdale Theatre Wallingford, CT
- 20 Emens Auditorium Muncie, IN
- 21 DeVos Hall Grand Rapids, MI
- 22 The Venue @ Horseshoe Casino Hammond, IN
- 24 Louder Than Life 2022 Louisville, KY
- 25 Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium Chattanooga, TN
- 27 Orpheum Theater Memphis, TN
- 28 Stifel Theatre St Louis, MO
- 30 Paramount Theater Cedar Rapids, IA
October
- 1 Bank of Springfield Center Springfield, IL
- 4 Budweiser Event Center Loveland, CO
- 6 Findlay Toyota Center Prescott Valley, AZ
- 7 Yaamava’ Resort & Casino Highland, CA
- 8 The Dollar Loan Center Henderson, NV