ALICE COOPER - "When I Get On Stage I'm Still Alice, I Play A Really Horrendous Villain, But During The Day I Don't Have To Be Him"
January 22, 2009, 15 years ago
Steve Pike from Examiner.com is reporting:
Take away the makeup, the anti-establishment persona and the guillotine, ALICE COOPER is just another golf nut. The 60-year-old rock music icon (he'll be 61 on February 4) explained his passion for golf and golf equipment at the Bob Hope Classic in La Quinta, Calif. Cooper, playing in his 10th Bob Hope Classic this week, has become a fixture of sorts on the celebrity golf circuit the past several years but it wasn't always that way.
"I had to be a closet golfer when I started," Cooper said. "Nobody wanted Alice Cooper to play golf. I was the anti-establishment guy. And yet I was addicted to the game. So I was really torn between the two."So I would have to go out and put a mustache on and go out in Indiana somewhere and find a public course and go play where nobody could see me. I got tired of it and I just said 'enough of this.' If you're going to be a maverick, be a maverick all the way. So why not put Alice in a place he doesn't belong. If you can play good, who cares? Basically that's what we did. When I get on stage I'm still Alice, I play a really horrendous villain up there, but during the day I don't have to be him."
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