In my crate digging, I keep running in to Tour Books and of course, I keep buying them because I think they are cool time capsules of a band. This time around, I found 2 Alice Cooper Tour Books. And these are vintage as they were both from the 70’s and they look it. The first one we have here is from Alice’s biggest and best album, ‘Welcome to My Nightmare’, from 1975. The Tour began on March 21, 1975, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, making its way across the States and even in to Europe where it ended on September 17 in Antwerp, Belgium.
The Band had a cast of characters and included the following host of people:
- Alice Cooper
- Steve Hunter – Guitar
- Dick Wagner – Guitar
- Prakash John – Bass
- Jozef Chirowski – Keyboards
- Whitey Glan – Drums
- Vincent Price – Spider Voice
- Sheryl Goddard – Ethyl
- Robyn Blythe – Bat Woman
- Gene Montoya – Voodoo Man
- Uchi Sugiyama – Frog Man
Yes, it is a cast as Alice doesn’t just put on a concert, nope! He puts on a show. A creep show and this one is all about his nightmares. But the concert is always important and the set list, on average, looked something like this…
- Welcome to My Nightmare
- Years Ago
- No More Mr. Nice Guy
- Years Ago
- Billion Dollar Babies
- Years Ago
- I’m Eighteen
- Years Ago
- Some Folks
- Cold Ethyl
- Only Women Bleed
- Devil’s Food
- The Black Widow
- Steven
- Escape
- School’s Out
- Encore: Department of Youth
Bob Ezrin hails from Toronto, Canada (and I think 2 of the other producers in this series hail from Canada) and has been producing for over 40 years. He has spanned many genres, but it his rock productions that have become the most famous and most notable. He is a member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and has actually never won a Grammy award although he has been nominated once. Let’s discuss his work…
2 Loud 2 Old Music 