It is absolutely positively CRIMINAL that Alice Cooper is not in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.\u00c2\u00a0 While Robbie Robertson and other exalted insiders have left the boards, are sitting behind a desk instead of standing in front of a microphone, Alice Cooper is out KILLING night after night and those in power, with their multi-thousand dollar suits and private jets, are IGNORING HIM!<\/p>\n
I’m against clubs.\u00c2\u00a0 Because it’s always about us and them.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe I’ve just been an outsider too many times in my life.\u00c2\u00a0 But, if you’re gonna have an organization lauding artistic breakthroughs, and excellence, you’ve got to induct Alice Cooper LIGHT YEARS before Blondie and the rest of the dreck now passing through the doors of the Hall.<\/p>\n
Or maybe these guys just hate what Alice represented.\u00c2\u00a0 A ton of alcohol.\u00c2\u00a0 And testing LIMITS!\u00c2\u00a0 Alice pushed them way before the faux gangsters on MTV.<\/p>\n
But as dramatic and challenging and ENTERTAINING as Vince Furnier’s live show was, a great deal of the music was positively AMAZING!\u00c2\u00a0 Not only the instrumentation, and the changes, and the riffs, but the LYRICS!<\/p>\n
What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is revered as a generational breakthrough but "Eighteen" is ignored.\u00c2\u00a0 Shit, the Nirvana song has got a great riff, but its words don’t COMPETE with those of the Alice Cooper anthem.<\/p>\n
I want you to go back and listen to "Killer".\u00c2\u00a0 Like the kids.\u00c2\u00a0 The ones with barely any pubic hair who are going in droves to see Alice perform.\u00c2\u00a0 "Under My Wheels" is a better opener than anything the Stones have done in decades, and ranks right up there with THEIR best album introducing tracks.<\/p>\n
And if you didn’t dig "Halo Of Flies" when this record came out, you were just too uptight.<\/p>\n
The reason Lester Bangs is revered is he wasn’t too hip to call them like he saw them.\u00c2\u00a0 Not too inside to say an act that appeared to be all about the clothing had delivered a masterpiece.<\/p>\n
Yes, Lester turned me on to "Killer".\u00c2\u00a0 And hopefully, if he were alive, he would boycott an organization like the Hall Of Fame for veering from its true mission.<\/p>\n
Bob Ezrin might be legendary for the work he did with Pink Floyd on "The Wall", but he cut his chops with Alice Cooper.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s never done better work.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that the pricks at the R&RHOF know this.\u00c2\u00a0 But thank god LISTENERS, FANS, DO!!<\/p>\n
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