Australia-based BlacktownSun.com correspondent Matt Lawrence recently caught up with the legendary shock rocker ALICE COOPER. An excerpt from the story appears below:

Alice Cooper - The Ultimate Villain

You'd probably be within your rights to feel not all is well with the world when legendary rocker Alice Cooper admits audiences are now near impossible to shock.

But that's exactly the case, according to the man who's been executed on stage more times in 40 years than most of us have had hot dinners, not to mention the countless macabre myths surrounding his character which are best left explored elsewhere.

"I think Marilyn Manson, myself, [Rob] Zombie and all these guys ... we've all agreed on that,'' Cooper said. "You can't be more shocking than cable TV. And this didn't exist back when we were called shock rock. So now its the kind of thing where you go, 'how do you just entertain this audience?''

Speaking exclusively to the Sun from his base in Phoenix, Arizona, last week, Cooper will return to Sydney Entertainment Centre with his latest production, the Theatre Of Death tour, on Monday, August 24.

The tour follows last year's album release, Along Came A Spider, a concept album tracing the deeds of a serial killer named Spider.

Like the album, Cooper warns to expect the unexpected when it comes to the tour.

"I think we're gonna take everybody off guard with this show,'' he said. "They're gonna get the whole Alice creepy vaudeville show. Every time that you go out you have to challenge yourself on a lot of levels, because you know you have to do 'School's Out', 'Billion Dollar Babies', 'Poison', 'Eighteen' - you have about 12 songs that you have to do. The audience knows they're coming. But how do you produce them so people are gonna go, 'Oh, I never thought he was gonna go there or where did that come from?'"

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