ALICE COOPER - Ten Songs Written For New Album
April 25, 2010, 14 years ago
Shock rocker ALICE COOPER spoke with Darryl Sterdan from Torontosun.com recently about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:
Torontosun.com: Is there a friendly rivalry between you and Rob?
Torontosun.com: "I think we both know who’s the student and who’s the teacher (laughs). But I really do respect Rob - I’ve always said his show is like a tattoo parlour coming to life. And what I like about Rob that I don’t find in anybody else’s show is a sense of humour. The only other band I can think of with a sense of humour is GWAR. Most of the other bands are trying to be so heavy and so scary. We can be scary too, but there’s humour. It’s a good match."
Torontosun.com: You’re one of the only people who could put on such a violent show without being protested.
Torontosun.com: "It’s so vaudevillian. And what makes it work is that the songs are done sincerely. I’ve told the band to look dead serious. I don’t want any smiling up there. The humour comes from the absurdity of what we’re doing."
Torontosun.com: Any plans for a new album?
Torontosun.com: "Ten songs are written already. It’s going to be called The Night Shift. The concept is, it’s a really dark radio show where I’m the disc jockey, and every song I play will be by a different fictitious band. At some point, you’ll realize this disc jockey is a little bit more than that. And I’m sure there will be some kind of a twist ending."
Read the entire interview here.
