Alice Cooper - What a strange man
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Siouxsie
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Nita was brilliant, but I thought she had moved on? ( My next one is the Cult)I intend to
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Siouxsie
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She's still hanging in with him
Where you seeing the Cult...I'm going to Manchester again next friday...birthday treat!
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London, maybe royal Albert hall.She's still hanging in with him
Where you seeing the Cult...I'm going to Manchester again next friday...birthday treat!
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Btw Siouxsie really looking for to this bit of madness, TOUR | Bloodywood
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Gerry1time
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Years ago I used to hang around outside the Wolverhampton Civic Hall collecting autographs. When Alice Cooper played there, I had to go and try to meet him and get his autograph. I turned up, and a bunch of the usual autograph collecting faces were there. Normally we'd hang out a bit, then the band would turn up. The band would then hang out with us on the street for a while generally chatting, signing autographs and taking selfies, before heading into the venue for that night's gig.
Only when Alice Cooper turned up, his double decker tour bus immediately parked itself right across the pavement where we were standing, then for a long time did nothing. Eventually someone came off the bus, and one of us asked about autographs. They looked annoyed, and went back on the bus. Eventually they came back out, and shouted instructions at us that we must give him one item each for signing. These items would then be taken onto the bus to be signed by Alice. If anyone tried to give more than one item for signing, or made any requests for what to be signed, or complained in any way, then all of our items collectively would be thrown in the bin and that would be that. We each gave in our item, and after a while they were handed back out to us from the bus with an illegible scrawled line sharpie'd across it.
After a short interlude, we were informed to stand back as Alice would now be escorted off the bus, and any interference with that would be met with the police being called. At this point we started openly laughing at the situation, as we were a bunch of friendly black country folk who had nothing but respect for the man. So we duly all stood back, and he was rushed out of the bus and into the venue under a blanket, escorted by two security guards. Accompanied, I must confess, by various black country accented shouts of 'fucking wanker', 'I didn't realise you were a dick' and 'you've done nothing since the 80's'.
I've never before or since seen an artist completely lose the crowd before they even stepped on stage. Apparently word of that evening's events spread at the gig that night. He received some stick.
Only when Alice Cooper turned up, his double decker tour bus immediately parked itself right across the pavement where we were standing, then for a long time did nothing. Eventually someone came off the bus, and one of us asked about autographs. They looked annoyed, and went back on the bus. Eventually they came back out, and shouted instructions at us that we must give him one item each for signing. These items would then be taken onto the bus to be signed by Alice. If anyone tried to give more than one item for signing, or made any requests for what to be signed, or complained in any way, then all of our items collectively would be thrown in the bin and that would be that. We each gave in our item, and after a while they were handed back out to us from the bus with an illegible scrawled line sharpie'd across it.
After a short interlude, we were informed to stand back as Alice would now be escorted off the bus, and any interference with that would be met with the police being called. At this point we started openly laughing at the situation, as we were a bunch of friendly black country folk who had nothing but respect for the man. So we duly all stood back, and he was rushed out of the bus and into the venue under a blanket, escorted by two security guards. Accompanied, I must confess, by various black country accented shouts of 'fucking wanker', 'I didn't realise you were a dick' and 'you've done nothing since the 80's'.
I've never before or since seen an artist completely lose the crowd before they even stepped on stage. Apparently word of that evening's events spread at the gig that night. He received some stick.
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
This was 1996. The impression I got was that he thought he was still thinking that he was playing massive stadiums in the USA, even at a time when his career was clearly past that, and he needed to maintain the trappings of that life still around him for his own personal validation.
For contrast, Dave Grohl played the same venue the same year with the Foo Fighters. Just two years after Nirvana's demise, and with the Foo Fighters massively on the up, he was someone that you'd think did need security. But instead he wandered off the bus by himself, spent ages hanging out on the pavement with us, gave anyone who asked for a selfie a massive hug, then eventually asked us which door he had to go through to get to 'the rock club tonight'. He also stuck a bunch of people who asked for it on the guest list for the gig too, writing down their names by hand.
For contrast, Dave Grohl played the same venue the same year with the Foo Fighters. Just two years after Nirvana's demise, and with the Foo Fighters massively on the up, he was someone that you'd think did need security. But instead he wandered off the bus by himself, spent ages hanging out on the pavement with us, gave anyone who asked for a selfie a massive hug, then eventually asked us which door he had to go through to get to 'the rock club tonight'. He also stuck a bunch of people who asked for it on the guest list for the gig too, writing down their names by hand.
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