DENNIS DUNAWAY, the original bass player from the ALICE COOPER GROUP, is featured in a new interview with Legendary Rock Interviews. An excerpt is available below:

LRI: You and your high school pals wrote rock history your own way and were always outcasts the entire ride to the top and now you’re all together enshrined in the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame. There were times I thought it would never happened or at the very least that history would become revisionist and only induct Alice solo rather than the group. From a fan perspective it’s phenomenal, how does it feel to you now that you’ve had time to soak in it?

DD: "It’s definitely a proud thing to be able to look at the mantle and see that trophy there. I have other trophies that I prefer like gold albums because they’re plastic and I can hang them on the wall (laughs) but it really is just validation of what the fans like you have been saying to us all these years. To me, that’s really the reward of it all."

LRI: This is kind of a shitty question to ask. Does it heal any of the wounds of the past or the disrespect from modern pop media often remembering or viewing Alice as a solo act ?

DD: "I think we all managed and dealt with that and healed those wounds on our own years ago. I have had those talks with Alice himself many times and I am speaking for him as well as myself when I say that we are still best friends and have been since we were 14 years old. I just saw him night before last and we just pick right up whenever we’re together. There’s no awkward moments or fill in gaps we are just are right there together and that means the world to both of us. As far as the Alice Cooper Group disrespect, it was just something that had to end. We spent our entire career with knives in our back from the very beginning to the very end. We were just too much for everyone in the scene to handle, too much even for the L.A. rock scene which is saying something. Everyone wanted to bad rap us so I’m used to that. There’s been all kinds of reactions to us getting into the Hall of Fame as well. There’s people who think that it’s Alice’s current touring band that’s been inducted."

LRI: You’ve got to be kidding me.

DD: "No, well to be fair, the recent Alice Cooper tour sort of implies that with the No More Mr. Nice Guy title and the setlist consisting of so many of our classic tracks being included. I understand there’s no way to do an Alice Cooper tour without including those classic tracks of course but it does add to that confusion and also the fact that they’re playing Neal’s song 'I’ll Bite Your Face Off' and my song 'Runaway Train' which is getting airplay. Hopefully we can all work together again because the Welcome 2 My Nightmare sessions and the Hall of Fame thing all turned out to be really special. It was in the wind that we may get inducted every year since we became eligible and then every year since we have been nominated but it was a long time coming."

Go to this location for the complete interview.