The Coop’s new book has got me thinking. I’m quite a superfan, but after Golf Monster, biographies and endless interviews, I feel I’ve heard most of his stories. I’m more interested in the other band members’ perspectives now. Mind you, the stories change! Neal says the name came from a Ouija board, Alice says otherwise. He played down drugs before acknowledging the cocaine addiction. His recovery sometimes sounds like one miracle, although he’s also described treatment and relapse. I wonder whether he avoids certain stories because, as a Christian, he doesn’t want to encourage people. Only a thought. I’m an atheist myself, but I think he means well. I enjoy the mythology anyway. I also wonder whether sharing the singer’s name cost the band recognition. With Sabbath and Ozzy, you know the difference. Did casual fans even notice Alice Cooper splitting or reuniting? I generally prefer their writing together, although Welcome to My Nightmare was fantastic. I’d like more from the band. Anyone else?

Today (Oct. 17) marks Motionless in White frontman Chris "Motionless" Cerulli's 40th birthday, while last week Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Halestorm celebrated her birthday. That reminds me of the time I saw both singers and their respective bands join Alice Cooper onstage for a rousing performance of "School's Out" at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ, on Aug. 15, 2019. I've seen Alice Cooper live many times over the past 30 years (he was, after all, my first ever concert at 7 years old), but this is the only time I can ever recall seeing him play a song with the opening acts. It made this particular performance even more special (as if seeing Alice Cooper, Halestorm and Motionless in White on the same tour wasn't unique enough).

Check out this clip of them playing "School's Out" together at the PNC Bank Arts Center, and stay tuned for more things to come from this space (including stories from concerts like this)!

16 years ago today (Oct. 16), I saw Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie play the DCU Center in Worcester, Mass. as part of their Halloween Hootenanny Tour with openers the Murderdolls (featuring Joey Jordison, who was also playing drums in Zombie's band that year). Head over to I Heard Bruce Might Show Up's Substack (link below) to see a ton of photos I took of the Gruesome Twosome of Shock Rock that evening, as well as to find out how I ended up with then-Alice Cooper guitarist Damon Johnson's guitar pick after the show:

https://iheardbrucemightshowup.substack.com/p/that-time-i-saw-alice-cooper-and

And stay tuned for more things to come from this space, including stories from concerts like this!

Apparently, Alice will be on BBC Breakfast at 8.50 am this morning talking about the new auto biography.

Probably be available on Iplayer later

Hi all! I recieved my Constrictor print tshirt, but...i dont know if its just me but his face looks overly...saturated and bad quality or is it just my eyes betraying me? Is anyone else having this issue with their tshirts? I mean i like it of course its my first official tshirt i ordered trought he merch shop but...i dunno? My tshirt is the first photo, the 2nd one is a screenshot from the merch page

Wish his signature wasn't on a sticky note. 😐

Just curious if you are going and if you will be dressing up in costume?

So. I fucking love this song and I was trying to find out the story behind it.

But a weird thing is so many sources credit it to the brutal planet album, not dragontown.

Even genius does this.

Was it a cut song that was eventually put onto dragon town 2 years later on the special edition?

A “special signed edition” of Alice Cooper’s Devil on My Shoulder — I don’t want to potentially damage my signed copy — so could anyone please tell me if he talks about his “blackout years” in any detail?

I can’t go to Alice’s Devil on my Shoulder show at the London Palladium tonight. If anyone would like my ticket just let me know and I can transfer it to you :)

This will be a tad negative as it's one of 2 albums I don't like back to front.

But like, what's the deal with it. The album feels like it was wrote and given to cooper to write lyrics. It's heavily dated to the period of punk rock guff like green day. (Yes brutal and dragon are dated but have Alice's personality)

Like was it just insanely rushed being just a year after dragon town.

I was rather disappointed by it recently as it just didn't fit anything else. I've been listening to every album I can get my hands on and have done all but 2 upto eyes.

I'm anxious about dirty diamonds but I know I like the title track atleast

Btw the other album is pretties for you, not a fan.

So there, I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night.

Hello! I work at Rock's Backpages, the largest online archive of music journalism. Each week we feature a different artist with three free-to-read articles/interviews. This week Alice Cooper is our feature! We have an exclusive October 2026 interview, as well as two pieces from our archives. Find the following articles to read for free until next Friday 16 October:

Golf Monster, Hollywood Vampire: The Devil on Alice Cooper's Shoulder, Profile and Interview by Jim Sullivan, Rock's Backpages, October 2026

Boy-Girl Alice Cooper Puts on a Freaky Show, Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 29 May 1970

Alice Cooper: Fangs Ain't What They Used To Be, Interview by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 23 March 1974

Here's what I wrote for the instagram post:

The loveably ghoulish and golf aficionado Alice Cooper's third memoir Devil On My Shoulder was published by penguin's u/eburybooks on 8 October. At Rock's Backpages we're highlighting Alice with a new interview by golf buddy Jim Sullivan, alongside two 1970s articles from the archive.

"In the beginning, Alice Cooper was the name of a rock group. Then my stage name. And then a monster. Now I’ve written a book that tracks Alice’s 'evilution', how he and I became almost fatally intertwined, and how I’ve tamed him at last." — Coop.

With a career spanning sixty-plus years, the 78-year-old 'Godfather of Shock Rock' seems in no rush to hang up the snakes/straightjackets/gallows/severed heads/golf clubs yet. 2026 alone sees a European Tour with the Hollywood Vampires, Vegas' Welcome To Our Nightmare (with Criss Angel), Alice's Attic tour and a UK book tour. Drugs, drinking and hazing may have been replaced by golf, god and a band but the brilliant, the macabre and the crazy are here to stay. 

head to instagram to see my post there too.