Alice Cooper heeft een nieuw album uit: ‘Detroit Stories’. De plaat is vernoemd naar de stad waar de originele Alice Cooper-groep haar eerste succes behaalde, is een modern eerbetoon aan de stoerste en gekste rock ’n roll-scene die er ooit was. Dat succes kwam in 1970, toen Cooper en zijn band ging samenwerken met producer Bob Ezrin in een boerderij aan de rand van Detroit. Daar werd hard gewerkt aan de sound, waarmee ze zo succesvol zouden worden.
“Detroit was Heavy Rock central then,” legt Alice uit, “You’d play the Eastown and it would be Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, the Stooges and the Who, for $4! The next weekend at the Grande it was MC5, Brownsville Station and Fleetwood Mac, or Savoy Brown or the Small Faces. You couldn’t be a soft-rock band or you’d get your ass kicked.”
“Los Angeles had its sound with The Doors, Love and Buffalo Springfield,” vervolgt de rockster, “San Francisco had the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. New York had The Rascals and The Velvet Underground. But Detroit was the birthplace of angry hard rock. After not fitting in anywhere in the US (musically or image wise) Detroit was the only place that recognized the Alice Cooper guitar driven, hard rock sound and our crazy stage show. Detroit was a haven for the outcasts. And when they found out I was born in East Detroit… we were home.” Nieuwe single: $1000 High Heel Shoes.
