I don’t expect anyone to “like” this. I don’t expect anyone to even like this. I just wanted it on my blog.
This is a performance by Alice Cooper in 1981 on the Tom Snyder Show. It is Alice at not only a career low point, but he is also battling severe (and I mean severe) alcoholism. He was a wreck at this point—in both departments. He put out about half a dozen albums from the late Seventies to the early Eighties. How? I have no idea.
I happened upon this clip by chance. I am a huge fan of Alice Cooper, and have been since about age 14. But this period always left me at a loss.
I watched the interview; he’s likable and funny as usual. So I watched one of the performances—this one—and it’s from an album that is not great. Yet, I watched it anyway. Then again. Then again.
I have probably watched the first two and a half minutes about 30-40 times. The facial expressions, the little vocal details. The studio version of the song—“Who Do You Think We Are?”—is a snore. But this live version is outstanding.
He must have felt awful. But it does not show in the interview or the performance. This is a case of Gregory sees something wonderful. (I can’t help what I see and hear.) But just maybe you’ll like it. Please let me know if you do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7LoKr9EyyI
