The following story is courtesy of Jim Harrington from Contracostatimes.com:

For the majority of his nearly 40-year career, shock-rocker ALICE COOPER has been associated with blood, guts, guillotines, snakes and an infamous yet erroneous rumor that he once bit the head off a chicken and drank its blood onstage.

More recently, however, Cooper has been linked in the public's eye with a much milder pastime - golf. His passion for "a good walk ruined'' is well-documented. He's played in several Pro-Am competitions, appeared in Callaway Golf commercials, hosted his own celebrity charity golf challenge and even titled his autobiography Golf Monster.'

Yet the rocker has a bomb ready to drop during any discussion of this subject -- a shocker along the lines of, say, learning that he hated horror movies, or that Halloween was his least favorite day of the year. Are you ready?

"Alice Cooper, the character, hates golf,'' the singer says during a phone interview at a tour stop in his home state of Michigan. "If you were to put golf clubs on his stage, he would look at them as weapons. He has no love for golf.''

Work is work

If that makes little to no sense, consider that the man born Vincent Damon Furnier draws a strict line between his personal life and his stage persona. That way he can enjoy all the pedestrian things during the day, golfing and going to the movies, and then gear up to be the bloody madman onstage at night. It's the latter that fans will see on Sept. 30 when the rocker takes the center spot in a heavy metal triple bill with QUEENSRŸCHE and HEAVEN AND HELL at the Sleep Train Pavilion in Concord.

"The great thing is the two sides never meet. I don't play Alice Cooper until night, so I'm going to play golf during the day,'' he says. "Three hours before the show, I start getting into Alice. Then I've got to start thinking more like Hannibal Lecter.''

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