ALICE COOPER Guitarist KERI KELLI Seeking Pictures From Christmas Pudding Show

December 15, 2008, 15 years ago

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ALICE COOPER guitarist Keri Kelli is seeking pictures from the December 13th Christmas Pudding show. Anyone that can provide some shots should contact Kelli through his mySpace fan page at this location

The following review of the event is courtesy of Ed Masley from Azcentral.com:

This year's Christmas Pudding featured everything from country singer MARTY MITCHELL doing a heartfelt acoustic rendition of 'Stars' by DAN FOGELBERG to David Ellefson (ex-MEGADETH) and his new band, F5, pounding out the sort of heavy metal thunder you'd expect. WHISKEY FALLS did a spot-on rendition of 'Seven Bridges Road'. Stand-up comic Craig Gass did an even more spot-on rendition of Christopher Walken telling children's jokes. And FLEETWOOD MAC guitarist BOB WELCH gave 'Sentimental Lady' a cocktail jazz makeover before ROGER CLYNE & THE PEACEMAKERS joined him to rock out his other big solo hit, 'Ebony Eyes', and a rollicking version of JERRY LEE LEWIS' 'Great Balls Of Fire'.

That's pretty much par for the course at one of ALICE COOPER's yuletide bashes - an almost surreal blend of practically everything under the sun (except hip-hop and pan flutes).

The man of the hour made his first appearance at the mike sitting in for JIM MORRISON on 'Roadhouse Blues' and 'Riders On The Storm' with Robby Krieger of THE DOORS on lead guitar and reality star Les "Survivorman" Stroud on blues harp. Krieger's guitar wasn't working at first but once the stagehands got it sorted out, he was pretty amazing, especially during a call-and-response with 'Survivorman'. And Cooper sounded great on vocals, if noticeably more subdued than he is on his own songs. "In 1968," he recalled, "I had moved from Phoenix to Los Angeles and we didn't have any friends there until we met these guys the Doors."

Cooper's own set capped the night with what he said would be his biggest hits but in reality seemed more like several of his biggest hits and other songs he figured everybody knew by now. Forgoing props, he let the music do the talking and it served him well, from the opening riff of 'No More Mr. Nice Guy' through 'Under My Wheels' and a version of 'I'm Eighteen' that had to leave a lot of people wondering how the man can scream those high notes after all these years of screaming high notes. Alice really hit his frontman stride on the "We go dancing nightly in the attic part of Billion Dollar Babies, then confessed "I haven't gone this long on stage without killing something in a really long time." 'Only Women Bleed' made the most of his underrated talent for nailing the essence of a heartfelt ballad ('You And Me', 'I Never Cry', etc.). Then it was back into rock mode for the Killer classic 'Be My Lover', the darkly comic post-NIRVANA abandon of 'Lost In America' (on which he was joined by the co-writer, local guitarist Danny Wexler) and 'Elected'. Before Elected, Alice noted, "Even though we know this has already happened and we know it's not topical, this was JOHN LENNON's favorite." Elected was probably Alice's most inspired moment on of the night on vocals. He really sold the line "I propose the formation of a new party - the WILD party!!!" and ended with "I don't know why you would vote for anybody else. I'm your boy."

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