RANDY PIPER - The Birth Of ANIMAL...Thanks To ALICE COOPER
August 28, 2007, 17 years ago
Metal-Rules.com recently caught up with ex-W.A.S.P / ANIMAL guitarist Randy Piper. The following is an excerpt from the interview:
Metal Rules: After you split with W.A.S.P. you played briefly with Alice Cooper but something went wrong and you never made it to the final (band) line-up.
Randy: "It didn’t work! That’s when I started Animal, you know what? I played with Alice for a while and I was like, this isn’t going to work so I started my own band and that’s when we started Animal. Then there’s a huge story behind it, how we came up with the name, how I met this guy, how it started to evolve. I’ve been playing with Rich Lewis longer than I played with Blackie. Blackie and I were good friend for eight years something like that. I’ve been with Rich for 20 years! But we are going to put all this in the DVD and try and explain it all for once so I don’t have to keep telling this fucking story!"
Metal Rules: Would you still tell more about that Alice Cooper thing?
Randy: "Actually he was looking for a guitar player, I heard it through the grapevine or something, I would love to play with Alice he’s a god man. So I wanted to do it but it didn’t work out."
Go to this location for the complete interview.
