For Bass Players Only's Jon Liebman has issued an interview with Dennis Dunaway, the original bass player from the ALICE COOPER group and current bass player in 5TH AVENUE VAMPIRES. The following is an excerpt:

Q: What’s this I hear about you writing a memoir?

A: "Yes, artistic expression comes in many forms. As a child, I was an artist who drew elephants and rabbits on a little chalkboard and everyone would go “ooh” and “ahh". In grade school, nobody knew my name. They called me the artist. Later, I developed a deep love for abstract painting. After that, I became a musician with a passion for theatrical invention. A decade or so ago, I heard another loud knock on my skull. I answered it, and low and behold, it was writing.

Would you like to ride in a beer-soaked station wagon with the Alice Cooper group as we travel to every dive across the country? Would you like to be on stage as a rowdy stadium full of people is shocked into silence? Would you like to know how five guys could grab a billion parents by the throat and shake their children loose? The story belongs to the five members of the Alice Cooper group. Every true fan should hear it, but I think it’s also a story that anybody can enjoy.

Focusing on the bonds of friendship, I paint vivid word-pictures of five teen-dreamers through our long, hard crusade in pursuit of a shared artistic vision. In other words, it’s about the purest intentions of a band known as Alice Cooper, before outside and personal interests took over. And so the closing chapter depicts the night Alice Cooper could finally say we made it: The Hollywood Bowl. I’m looking for a publisher."

Read the full interview at this location.