All of the clips I’ve ever seen of him where he was dickish seemed, to me, to be situations where he was exasperated with people and simply could not understand that other people have different priorities than he does (and also possibly not understanding that not everyone has the same level of intelligence). IMO he seems to be a classic example of a very smart and talented person who isn’t quite as socialized as everyone around him, in part because he has always stood out from the people around him. I know lots of people (geeks, nerds, etc.) who are like that. I’d be surprised if the vast majority of Dopers don’t either know someone like that or fit that description themselves to some degree.
I think one of the reasons our conversation went well was that I specifically did not ask him about himself. We talked about music (but not musicians) and politics and drugs and the Gulf War and lots of stuff, but I never asked him about Cream or what it was like being a Drug God or what kind of drum sticks her used or anything stupid like that; we were just two regular guys talking about “stuff” while we shared some ganj.
Not very many, but more than I realized! There are a number of people I have seen perform solo or in alternate bands, but who are in the Hall of Fame as part of their main band.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Paul McCartney
Bruce Springsteen
Aerosmith
Tom Petty and the Heartbrakers
Bob Seeger
ZZ Top
Pretenders
Black Sabbath
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Rolling Stones (before & after)
The Kinks
The Who
David Bowie
Pink Floyd (post-Waters)
Paul McCartney
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (inducted separately)
The Ramones
The Clash
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
ZZ Top
Sex Pistols
R.E.M.
Van Halen (and Van Hagar, both line-ups are in the hall)
Guns and Roses
Red Hot Chili Peppers
In the “saw them solo, not with the band they were inducted with” category:
Ray Manzarek
Iggy Pop
Ray Davies (that’s in addition to the Kinks shows)
Chuck Berry (before)
James Brown (after)
Ray Charles (after)
Bo Diddley (not sure, maybe both before and after)
B.B. King (before and after)
Bob Dylan (before and after)
The Kinks (before)
John Lee Hooker (before and after)
Bobby Blue Bland (before)
Ruth Brown (before)
Etta James (before)
The Band (after, but not with a couple of the original members)
Grateful Dead (before and after)
Bruce Springsteen (before)
Bonnie Raitt (before and after)
James Taylor (after)
Paul Simon (before)
Traffic (before)
Buddy Guy (before)
Miles Davis (before)
Dr. John (before)
Albert King (before)
B.B. King
The Beach Boys
Dion
The Rolling Stones
The Kinks
Bobby “Blue” Bland
Booker T. & the M.G.'s
Van Morrison
The Band
Grateful Dead
Elton John
The Allman Brothers Band
Frank Zappa
David Bowie
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Santana
Billy Joel
Paul McCartney
Eric Clapton
James Taylor
Paul Simon
Steely Dan
Ramones
Elvis Costello & the Attractions
The Police
Traffic
U2
Black Sabbath
John Mellencamp
Run-D.M.C
Genesis
Jimmy Cliff
Beastie Boys
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rush
Peter Gabriel
I saw all of them (at least for the first time) before induction. Some, like CSN, The Stones, Allmans and Traffic - before and after.
Yes. I would say so. Despite the name and the make-up (and unlike quite a lot of other performers one could mention) there is nothing particularly androgynous or sexually ambiguous about Alice Cooper, or even about his stage persona. He is a guy (AFAIK entirely straight), and does not pretend or even hint otherwise.
The name was never originally supposed to apply to him personally anyway. It was the name of the band in which he was lead singer. As the band’s frontman, he managed to hang onto the name when the band broke up, which enabled him to hang on to the fanbase.
I was going to post the same thing. I’m sure one can find pictures of him in drag, but he’s mostly known as a shock rock kind of guy and his stage personas are masculine in nature.
Motorhead has opened for Alice before, but I can’t find anything about Alice ever opening for Motorhead. He’s opened for big bands like Black Sabbath and Iron maiden, but I can’t see him being Motorhead’s opening act.
Not so; the Alice Cooper name was always used for *both *the singer and the band, as far back as the first album. It was even commented on in their lyrics(“She asked me why the singer’s name was Alice”).
The Who
The Band
Eagles
Fleetwood Mac
Billy Joel
Bruce Springsteen
Eric Clapton
Earth, Wind and Fire
Bonnie Raitt
James Taylor
Talking Heads
Elvis Costello (w/o the Attractions)
Prince
ZZ Top
Neil Diamond
Tom Waits
Heart
Police
Big Joe Turner
Muddy Waters
Not the Grateful Dead per se, but “Jerry Garcia and Friends”, which consisted of most of the band
Didn’t go though the timeline in detail, but I’m pretty sure all were before induction.
It was a sort of persona he adopted on stage as part of the band’s act, perhaps, but I do not think it was originally intended to be understood as his name, even in the sense of a stage name. It was a bit like how Eminem (itself a stage name) performs some of the time in the character of Slim Shady. During the band’s lifetime, I do not believe Furnier was ever considered to be its leader, although,of course, as frontman he got most of the publicity.
From Wikipedia:
As I understand it, the rest of the band were very upset that Furnier had manage to seize legal control of the Alice Cooper name when he went solo, meaning that they could no longer perform under it (as they felt they had the right to do) when they reformed.
