"Nights With Alice" includes Morrison Nov 11 2005

[darkstar]

Alice Cooper hosts the "Nights With Alice Cooper" syndicated Radio
show which will feature a segment on Jim Morrison this friday night,
November 11, 2005.

"FRIDAY 11/11 - Your night-jock Alice Cooper has LOADS of cool
things to make your Friday night better- like a FOUR shot of his
favorite Who music, a funny story about Jim Morrison getting too
drunk on an airplane, a very special cover from the Sex Pistols, and
a DOUBLE Closet Classic directly from Mr. Cooper's personal
collection. Alice spins a rowdy song in the Live and Kicking segment
to get your weekend off to a loud start, plus, Alice wants to play
with YOU! Yes, there's a little game of 'Name That Theme' with three
excellent songs, plus, still more chances to win the 'Good To See
You Alice Cooper' DVD. All this and more, on Nights with Alice
Cooper, right here!"

"MONDAY 11/14 - Nights With Alice Cooper is the ONLY good thing about Mondays! So to start the work week off in proper rockin' style, Alice will play a mini-tribute to Carlos Santana, tell you great stories about the Beatles' 'White Album,' and spin some great deeper cuts from the Doors. Alice digs up other Alice-only specialties, such as DEVO covering the Rolling Stones for Cooper's Covers, that naughty Mistress Kitty and much more of your favorite rock and talk from your favorite jock! The only way to start out your week is right here on tonight's Nights With Alice Cooper!"


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Alice broadcasts live from Manchester, England tonight.

[jym]

Alice should have some great stories about Jim they did more than a little drinking together. I think Jim told Vincent Furnier about Alice Cooper the witch from his occult reading & Vincent took the character from there.

[darkstar]

Hi Jim.....cool Alice Cooper fact. I knew that prior to Alice's band becoming Alice Cooper they were called The Nazz which opened for The Doors on a few early dates. I didn't know about the Morrison "Alice Cooper" band name connection. Interesting.

There's a recent interview that KNAC in Los Angeles did with Alice that inclues mentions of Morrison in several paragraphs of the transcript. If your interested here's the link: www.thefox.com/pages/alicecooper-index.html?feed=105068&article=334026

[jym]

darkstar said:

Hi Jim.....cool Alice Cooper fact. I knew that prior to Alice's band becoming Alice Cooper they were called The Nazz which opened for The Doors on a few early dates. I didn't know about the Morrison "Alice Cooper" band name connection. Interesting.

There's a recent interview that KNAC in Los Angeles did with Alice that inclues mentions of Morrison in several paragraphs of the transcript. If your interested here's the link: www.thefox.com/pages/alicecooper-index.html

That's really a theory of mine I wouldn't quote it as fact as I can't prove unless Alice volunteers it, but I think that's what happened. Thanks for the link I will check it out, is that the same Nazz that Todd Rundgren was in?

[darkstar]

Hi Jim. I had to look up Rundgren and Cooper to see if there was a connection this is what I found at Classic Rock:

Furnier formed his first group, the Earwigs, as an Arizona teenager in the early '60s. Changing the band's name to the Spiders in 1965, the group was eventually called the Nazz (not to be confused with Todd Rundgren's band of the same name). The Spiders and the Nazz both released local singles that were moderately popular. After discovering there was another band called the Nazz in 1968, the group changed its name to Alice Cooper. According to band legend, the name came to Furnier during a ouija board session, where he was told he was the reincarnation of a 17th-century witch of the same name. Comprised of vocalist Furnier, guitarist Mike Bruce, guitarist Glen Buxton, bassist Dennis Dunaway and drummer Neal Smith, the group moved to California in 1968. In California, the group met Frank Zappa and his manager Shep Gordon who signed Alice Cooper to their new label, Straight Records.

www.classicbands.com/cooper.html

[jym]

Thanks Sara. I should have done that shouldn't I have? But thanks for the info. The Nazz with Vincent Furnier & Todd Rundgren would have been an interesting band that undoubtably would have fallen apart because of creative differences.

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

jym said:

Alice should have some great stories about Jim they did more than a little drinking together. I think Jim told Vincent Furnier about Alice Cooper the witch from his occult reading & Vincent took the character from there.

Alice always claimed the name came from his managers mums ouija board which spelled out ALICE COOPER .....but you never know.
Alice tells the story on the Biography Channel doc of how The Doors and guys like Zappa were one of the few bands that liked the AC band in LA and how they were hated by all. Zappa persuaded them to join his Straight label and make Pretties For You and Easy Action which are actually pretty decent albums.
They shared the Varsity Stadium appearance at the 1969 Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival with The Doors which was where the famous live chicken event took place it was thrown on the stage by an audience member Alice, believing that chickens could fly picked it up and threw it back into the audience expecting it to take flight.
Alice was wrong and it was promptly torn to pieces by insane fans.
Zappa phoned him up afterwards as the press said he had torn the chickens head off but Alice said it was the audience....Zappa thought for a moment and then said to Alice ....don't tell anyone....the legend was born.
At the same gig Alice said he was getting tired of the abuse the band was getting and was thinking of jacking it in then he saw John Lennon to one side of the stage stick his thumbs up to Alice during a song then the other side was Jim Morrison going wild egging him on....how true that is who knows but its a cool Cooper story.....

[jym]

Lennon on my left, Morrison on my RIGHT! Pretty cool story what more validation is there in Rock & Roll?