Cooper's latest tour will take him to San Antonio's Tobin Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, Aug. 22.
We caught up with the Coop from a hotel room in Boston at the very un-rock 'n' roll hour of 9:30 a.m. to ask him about the new LP, how he keeps a band together and his legendary guest spot on theEven though Alice Cooper is credited as being a father of shock rock, it doesn't seem like you try to keep pace with new artists who come along trying to find new ways to terrify and offend.
Yeah, yeah, it's really just to show off the band, to be honest with you. The whole idea was I want to show the audience how big this band is. So, they're not just doing songs they've done before. We're writing the songs, and they're doing them live in the studio in two takes. So, to me, I really wanted to tip my hat to how good this band is live.
You can fill your band with a bunch of incredible players, but if their egos are so incredibly huge, it's the most miserable thing in the world. Whereas, this band is as good as anybody I've ever played with, and they're all best friends. Because I think I try to instill that — if it's the bus driver's birthday, we have a birthday party. I want everybody to feel like they are important in the production of the show. ...
Everything. Myself and Shep Gordon and my wife, Sheryl [Goddard], who is the choreographer, we are the ones that basically design the show. This new show — it's called Too Close For Comfort — we have never used video before in our shows, ever. And so ... if Alice is in a straitjacket and he's trying to get out, normally the people in the back can't really see the claustrophobia involved in that. Now, they can see it on a screen, and they can really be involved in that.
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