In a new interview with Guitar International's obert Cavuoto, Alice Cooper discusses the Super Duper Alice Cooper documentary. An excerpt follows:

Q: You’ve had so many ups and downs in your career, is there any one period of time where things seemed the most hopeless?

A: "There is that moment in anybody’s life especially a rock ‘n’ roll guy where you are living minute to minute and album to album. Even though you get really big this year, next year it doesn’t mean anything. You’re only as good as your last album.

I got to a point where we made three or four albums in a row that didn’t do anything. My real fans loved those albums, but they were so experimental and different from Billion Dollar Babies and School’s Out which were both #1 and Welcome To My Nightmare which was in the Top 5. Those were the albums that were huge. Then I had four albums and they were cool but non-existent.

I think in that period of time from a career point of view, I said I’m never going to make another hit album again. Trash came after that and it sold 5 million copies. As soon as I got sober all of a sudden things got okay again. It took me going into a hospital and getting sober before I made another hit album."

Read the complete interview at this location.

Tomorrow, June 3rd, Eagle Rock Entertainment will release the DVD, Blu-ray and Deluxe Limited Edition Boxed set of the Banger Films documentary, Super Duper Alice Cooper. Check out an extended trailer for the release below:

Premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this past April, Super Duper Alice Cooper is the first ever “doc opera” film, presented with a dizzying blend of documentary archive footage, animation, and rock opera. The film was also screened in theaters nationally in late April.

Super Duper Alice Cooper is the story of Vincent Furnier, a preacher’s son who struck fear into the hearts of parents everywhere as the ultimate rock star of the bizarre, Alice Cooper. Yet beyond the make-up, there is a richer, deeper story. Presented here is the twisted tale of a teenage Dr. Jekyll whose rock ‘n’ roll Mr. Hyde almost kills him.

Through the advent of Alice as front man of a rock band group of Phoenix misfits in the 60s, to the hazy decadence of celebrity in the 70s, to his triumphant comeback as 80s glam metal godfather, the film reveals how Alice and Vincent battled for each other’s souls, and how these two opposite characters came to co-exist within one mind. Alice’s story is told not only by the man himself, but through exclusive interviews with members of the original Alice Cooper band, Elton John, Iggy Pop, John Lydon, and Dee Snider.

The DVD and Blu-ray version of Super Duper Alice Cooper includes bonus deleted scenes, Alice Cooper interviews from the VH1 Classic series Metal Evolution, and additional rare footage. The Deluxe Edition features not only the full film on DVD and Blu-ray, but also a second DVD of previously unreleased concert footage from Montreal University in 1972, and a CD of Cooper’s performance at the 2009 Montreux Jazz Festival, all housed in an LP-sized box with 60-page hardback photobook.

Super Duper Alice Cooper is the creation of Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn of Banger Films, producers of Iron Maiden: Flight 666 (2009 SXSW Audience Choice Winner) and Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage (2010 Grammy-nominated and Tribeca Audience Choice Winner), and much-lauded filmmaker Reginald Harkema (winner of the TIFF Special Jury Prize for his film Monkey Warfare).

Super Duper Alice Cooper will also air on VH1 Classic this September.

Deluxe tracklisting:

DVD - Montreal, 1972:

"Be My Lover"
"You Drive Me Nervous"
"I’m Eighteen"
"Is It My Body"
"Dead Babies"
"Killer"
"Long Way To Go"
"School’s Out"
"Under My Wheels"

CD – Montreaux, 2009:

"It’s Hot Tonight"
"No More Mr. Nice Guy"
"I’m Eighteen"
"Feed My Frankenstein"

Acoustic Solo

"(In Touch With) Your Feminine Side"
"Dirty Diamonds"
"Vengeance Is Mine"
"Halo Files"
"Welcome To My Nightmare"
"Only Women Bleed"
"Steven"
"Dead Babies"
"Ballad Of Dwight Fry"
"Devil’s Food / Killer / I Love The Dead"
"School’s Out"
"Billion Dollar Babies"