# It's Alice Cooper's birthday. Yes, dammit, he's still alive! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 5, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534 "2009-02-05T05:00:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/1 "2009-02-05T05:00:48Z")
Alive, kicking and rockin’! With a new album (out this past August) and still touring most of the year. As a matter of fact, I saw him twice in September, both awesome concerts, and finally met the man at a CD signing. Now I can die happy! So, happy birthday to the Master, the King Of Shock Rock, all around nice guy and my Rock Star, Alice! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/2 "2009-02-05T05:30:40Z")
And you didn’t invite me to this part!?? After last year, when the Maidens got him a watch (don’t even ask me how much I donated to _that_ cause 😉 ), I’ll just be sending my best wishes this time out. Happy Birthday Master!! Can’t wait to meet you in May! ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/3 "2009-02-05T05:36:17Z")
I knew you’d be along! Oh, and I’m in my usual hangout and just heard a girl mention that it’s her birthday. She was very impressed when I told her who she shares with. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/4 "2009-02-05T06:38:01Z")
February 4th was my mom’s birthday too. I like Alice Cooper. “Welcome to my nightmare” would be an appropriate celebration. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/5 "2009-02-05T08:37:31Z")
I’ve never really been a big fan of Alice’s music, but I listen to his radio show on the classic rock station. I like his show. He’s funny and tells interesting stories. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/6 "2009-02-05T09:00:49Z")
I’ve told this before, but in an all-Alice, all-the-time thread, it’s worth repeating. I used to have quite long hair. Some friends stumbled across an old copy of _Rolling Stone_ with his picture on the cover (and, in fact, [here it is](http://i.rollingstone.com/assets/rs/2/145/images/22589_lg.jpg)). They scanned it into a computer, changed his name to mine, and printed it out to give me a going-away present when I moved east. I still have it, even had it framed. I have to admit, it looked just like me (except not so much with the pearls). Happy birthday, doppelganger. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/7 "2009-02-05T09:04:57Z")
**Robot Arm** , why oh why don’t you have a picture of yourself from that time that you could share?! \< laments \> ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/8 "2009-02-05T09:34:00Z")
Happy Birthday Alice!! Last year we brought our daughter to her first concert, Alice Cooper! Long Live Alice. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/9 "2009-02-05T09:53:24Z")
Did he sing _I Love The Dead_? My parents used to hate that song. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/10 "2009-02-05T10:11:41Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > **Robot Arm** , why oh why don’t you have a picture of yourself from that time that you could share?! Don’t need one, I can just use that picture of Alice. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/11 "2009-02-05T10:11:47Z")
Happy birthday, Vincent Fournier! ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/12 "2009-02-05T10:27:02Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Don’t need one, I can just use that picture of Alice. No, no, no. See, you don’t understand. _I_ need one. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/13 "2009-02-05T12:48:22Z")
I’m not sure if any pictures of me from that era still exist. I can only think of one or two that were taken at all. The long hair wasn’t a stylistic choice, really, more of an experiment in laziness. But I’ll see what I can find. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/14 "2009-02-05T13:39:42Z")
He’s 18, right? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/15 "2009-02-05T13:54:49Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > He’s 18, right? [Lines form on my face](http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/alice-cooper-the-jacket-movie-premiere-arrivals-T7wHuQ.jpg) and hands ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/16 "2009-02-05T18:03:23Z")
And Alice may well “celebrate” by playing golf with his pal Kenny G. (I’m not kidding- they ARE pals, and DO play golf together!) Alice admits that he has a very addictive personality, and that the only way he was able to beat booze and drugs was by replacing them with another addiction (albeit a healthier one), golf. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/17 "2009-02-05T19:06:13Z")
Coop! I just had a discussion yesterday with a friend… Topic: What song most limited by the production values of the time would most benefit with the full force of current studio technology. My friend was all “Beatles this” and “Dylan that” blah blah blah. My vote: _Halo of Flies_. Man, that would kick ass if it could be given the full modern epic metal anthem retreatment. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/18 "2009-02-05T21:33:19Z")
I was a huge fan back in the day. I heard him interviewed on NPR not long ago and he struck me as kind of annoying. I guess I liked the _character_ Alice Cooper more than the real person. \*\*Love It To Death \*\*through **Billion Dollar Babies** , man I was into that! ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/19 "2009-02-06T02:07:23Z")
> [@MoodIndigo1](#): > > “Welcome to my nightmare” would be an appropriate celebration. I have several cooper albums. “Welcome” is my very favorite. I remember the summer of '75 like it was yesterday only because of that album! My brothers, my cousins, and I jammed to that thing all summer long! Wore the grooves rights off the freaking vinyl, I shit you not!!! A brownie point to anyone who can tell me who gave us the power without looking it up! > [@zoogirl](#): > > Alive, kicking and rockin’! With a new album (out this past August) I have it. Unfortunately, I wasn’t overly impressed.☹ ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-alice-coopers-birthday-yes-dammit-hes-still-alive/484534/20 "2009-02-06T02:53:35Z")
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