Alice Cooper
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| AKA: Vincent Damon Furrier |
| Born: 02/04/1948 Detroit, MI |
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Biography: The son of a preacher, musician Vincent Furnier spent most of his formative years in Phoenix, AZ. It was here that Furrier formed his first rock band, the Earwigs, in 1965. He later changed the group's name to the Spiders and later the Nazz, enjoying only moderate success each time. Then, in 1968, or so the story goes, Furrier was playing with a ouija board when he suddenly "channelled" the spirit of a 16th century woman by the name of "Alice Cooper." Adopting thick, androgynous facial makeup, Furnier and a handful of like-minded musicians -- guitarists Mike Bruce and Glenn Buxton, bassist Dennis Dunaway and drummer Neal Smith -- metamorphosed into the hard rock band Alice Cooper, with Furnier himself adopting the on-stage persona of "Alice." The granddaddies of shock rock, Alice Cooper put on the most outrageous show in the business, replete with live boa constrictors, guillotines, mutilated dummies, and gallons of stage blood. Given that the 1970s was the Decade of Pointless Excess, it was only natural that Alice himself would be courted by the glitterati and cognoscenti (though it helped that he made some great records along the way). |
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DVDs that Alice Cooper appeared in...
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- 08/01/2006 - Alice Cooper: The Nightmare Returns
- 05/30/2006 - Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux, 2005
- 05/23/2006 - Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
- 11/08/2005 - Alice Cooper: Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper
- 02/15/2005 - Monster Dog
- 11/16/2004 - Alice Cooper: Trashes the World
- 10/26/2004 - Spooks and Creeps
- 08/17/2004 - Mayor of the Sunset Strip
- 03/23/2004 - John Carpenter
- 11/04/2003 - Get It On: The Seventies DVD Jukebox
DVDs that Alice Cooper worked on "behind the scenes"...
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- 06/16/2009 - Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives [Deluxe Edition] - Musical Performer
- 03/04/2008 - The Cult Fiction: Class of 1984 - Songwriter
- 02/21/2006 - Class of 1984 - Composer (Music Score)
- 09/13/2005 - Rock School - Songwriter
- 02/15/2005 - Monster Dog - Featured Music
- 09/25/2001 - Friday the 13th, Part 6: Jason Lives -
- 09/25/2001 - Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives [Circuit City Exclusive] [Checkpoint] -
- 05/04/1999 - Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare -