Volume 1 of ALICE COOPER's No More Mr. Nice Blog is now online.

Alice's assistant KC reports: "My name is KC, I'm Alice's assistant on and off the road. I haven't always been an assistant for Alice, I was originally a guitar tech and sort of jumped over to the assistant position when the need for a full time guy came about. Now my days on tour is full of a wide variety of activities…

Here's a run down of my typical show day: Early AM Golf, after that shopping, then lunch, then hotel, interviews, nap, travel to venue, set up Alice's wardrobe & dressing room, prep for my own gags in the show, do the show, after show meet and greets, dinner (maybe), then tape a radio show with Chuck, then bed at around 1 or 2 AM… Then it's up again at whenever we arrive at the next hotel, usually around 6am to do it all over again. It's really an all day every day job so there's no REAL day off, but there is a little down time every now and then. Those are the slow days, but at least I don't have to push cases around all day anymore like the real road guys.

So, about the tour… We're here in Ottawa, Ontario for a day off before our second Canadian show, which will be the third show of the tour. Our first two shows went great, especially when you remember that we have three new band members and several new stage gags. Here's what we've been up to for the last few weeks..."

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Footage of Alice Cooper performing the new song 'I'll Bite Your Face Off' on his current tour has surfaced on YouTube. Fan-filmed footage from an undisclosed location is available below:

As previously reported, Cooper spoke with Nicole Pajer from Noisecreep about making Welcome 2 My Nightmare, a sequel to his 1975 concept album Welcome To My Nightmare, being produced by his partner in crime Bob Ezrin (PINK FLOYD, KISS).

The assumption is that 'I'll Bit Your Face Off' will be one of the songs featured on the album.

Cooper says the album "will be out next year. We have to do the whole festivals tour first which will be South America, Australia, Europe, Canada, all over the States. That's going to be a big kind of heavy Alice show. But the [tour] after that will be Welcome To My Nightmare Part Two – Welcome 2 My Nightmare, and it's going to be a full-out nightmare so I almost can't wait for that one. The next show is going to be fun. The show after that, the nightmare show, is going to be unbelievable."

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Welcome 2 My Nightmare features some other familiar faces from Cooper's past. The original Nightmare tandem of Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner played on the album, while Vince Gill plays on a track called 'Runaway Train'. And surviving Cooper band members Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway and Neal Smith reunited on the track 'When Hell Comes Home'. "I was going to go in and say, 'What I want this thing to have is this live, '70s sound - but I didn't have to say that. That's just the way they play," Cooper tells Billboard.com.

Nightmare 2, meanwhile, will have plenty of similarities to its predecessor. "There are certain songs where we let some of the themes from (the original) 'Nightmare' slip in," Cooper says. "All of a sudden you'll hear the little piano part from 'Steven' or from 'The Awakening.' I wanted (the albums) to be married together. I think we even make reference to a couple of characters from the original (album)."

Cooper is planning a full-fledged Nightmare 2 show for 2012.

Cooper (aka Vincent Furnier) and the original members of the Alice Cooper band - rhythm guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, drummer Neal Smith and late lead guitarist Glen Buxton - will be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame during the 26th annual induction ceremony at New York City’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The ceremony airs March 20th on Fuse (9 PM ET/PT).

Footage of the band (minus Alice himself) rehearsing for the event can be seen below: