ALICE COOPER - "Anything On CNN Is More Shocking Than Anything From MARILYN MANSON Or Alice Cooper"
July 8, 2007, 17 years ago
The following report is courtesy of Greg Thom from Perth Now:
ALICE COOPER has lost the power to shock. "You can't shock an audience any more," the one-time Prince of Darkness says.
“We’re way past shock. Anything on CNN is more shocking than anything from MARILYN MANSON or Alice Cooper.”The admission, coming from a performer who single-handedly invented shock-rock and outraged parents the world over with his satanic stage antics, is shocking in itself.
“If you wanted to shock an audience you could only do something once, like cut your arm off and eat it on stage,” he muses.Cooper denies his unique brand of show craft, which has encompassed guillotines, boa constrictors and blood-covered dolls, has changed.
“I try to get a jolt out of them,” he says of his audiences. “I try to get a laugh out of them. I try to get them to think a little deeper in places.
“When they walk out they might have stage blood all over them or they’ve got confetti all over them, but they’ll say, ‘That was the best party I’ve been to in a long time’. And that’s really my job. My job is to do rock music.”
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