Alice Cooper Father of Shock Rock?!
Question:
Alice Cooper Father of Shock Rock?
Why? and what are your favorite songs?
Answers: Fun question. Thanks!
Absolutely! Alice Cooper is more than the "father" of shock rock. . . he's the Godfather of Shock Rock. He's also the Godfather of theatrical rock. Without him, there would be no Kiss, Marilyn Manson, Slipnot, etc.
Favorite songs? I have all his vinyl albums and then re-collected all his CD's. Favorites include Ballad of Dwight Frye, I Love the Dead, Billion Dollar Babies, and Department of Youth.
Note to science. . . guy. Alice Cooper did NOT bite the head off a live chicken. Some fan threw the chicken up on stage. Alice threw the chicken back (thinking the chicken would fly away--he admitted in an interview he didn't know chickens couldn't fly). The chicken ended up in the audience and the audience tore the chicken to pieces. Alice has admitted he felt terrible. . . When the story broke, Alice wanted to set things straight but his record label/producer said 'no' because it was great for his image. Source(s):
Fan since 1974 He's not. Screamin' Jay Hawkins was frightening audiences roughly two decades earlier.
Thumbs down for facts, eh? Alice cooper is the man!!! Kids need to know that without Alice none of there bands would be around. I love the dead is my favorite song.!!!!!! I think we all owe William an apology.
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Cooper was important but it looks like even he drew inspiration from Screamin' Jay. Alice Cooper once bit the head off a chicken onstage, middle of the afternoon or at midnight... banned from venues and got thunderous applause. Written up in Rolling Stone Magazine with photos and everything. They were LA's answer to Sedate Elsewhere.
Then he became the head of the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce - and STILL kept shaking them up in the corporate world.
Good Rocker! Screaming Lord Sutch was a bigger influence and is the true father of "shock rock", considered Led Zeppelin and Jeff Beck good friends, and was also influenced by Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
Alice Cooper's early stuff is great up to the mid 70s and when he got back into metal in the late 80s, but nothing beats the early 70s classics. Right. Screamin' Jay Hawkins, being rolled out onstage in a coffin, candles burning, flames shooting from his fingertips in the 1950s. "I Put A Spell On You" scared people.
Crazy World of Arthur Brown being lowered to the stage by a crane before Alice.
Screaming Lord Sutch once stabbed his saxophone player onstage.
Keith Moon a shock drummer in the 60s!
Reaching further back, Cab Calloway was outrageous. Alice Cooper is my god. Mary Ann, bed of nails, Sun Arise and Only Women Bleed are my favourites. Words cannot describe my feelings haha. He is the King of Shock Rock