Tag Archives: Alice Cooper

DVD review: ALICE COOPER – Welcome To My Nightmare Special Edition

Posted on September 14, 2017 by GRTR! HQ

Eagle Rock [Release date 08.09.17] Alice’s long available Welcome to My Nightmare, December 1975 Wembley, Empire Pool footage gets a 2017 ‘reboot’ with the addition of a same year TV special - ‘Alice Cooper: The Nightmare’. It’s the first time … Continue reading →

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Album review: BLACKTHORNE – Afterlife/Don’t Kill The Thrill (Graham Bonnet, Bob Kulick)

Posted on October 24, 2016 by GRTR! HQ

Hear No Evil [Release date 02.09.16] Cherry Red have embarked on a fairly extensive trawl through Graham Bonnet’s back pages, ahead of some UK dates and a generally higher profile. We’ve reviewed some of his solo material which is frequently … Continue reading →

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Gig review: STONE FREE FESTIVAL Day 1 – 02 Arena, London, 18 June 2016

Posted on June 21, 2016 by andynathan

Alice Cooper - STONE FREE FESTIVAL DAY 1 - 02 Arena, London, 18 June 2016

Once upon a time, gigs took place indoors, or in football stadiums for the very largest acts, and festivals in a muddy field. While rock festival demographics have gradually got older, the havoc wreaked by the vagaries of the English … Continue reading →

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Album review: FISCHER’S FLICKER – Fornever And Never

Posted on December 10, 2015 by petefeenstra

Lavender Kartydid Music [Release date 15.08.15] ‘Fornever And Never’ by Chicago Fisher’s Flicker is a bewildering musical journey that reflects its leader’s Scott Fischer’s eclectic musical background. Described by his PR as a ‘a vast musical amusement park’, Scott Fischer … Continue reading →

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Gig review: MOTLEY CRUE – Metro Arena, Newcastle, 2 November 2015

Posted on November 5, 2015 by david.wilson

Almost 30 years ago, give or take a couple of months, I went along to the Edinburgh Playhouse to see Motley Crue who at that point were riding high on the success of their ‘Theatre Of Pain’ album. What a … Continue reading →

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Album review: CASABLANCA – Miskatonic Graffiti

Posted on October 4, 2015 by jason

Despotz Records [Release date 25.09.15] I am a big fan of the first two albums from Swedish/American band Casablanca, and album number three is no disappointment. A concept album based on Chuthulu mythology, that aside, the album has a maturer … Continue reading →

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News: VOODOO VEGAS, THE HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES, MUTE GODS – Thursday 13th August 2015

Posted on August 13, 2015 by jason

Voodoo Vegas release a new EP ‘Hypnotise’ on October 12th. It can be pre-ordered here. Status Quo bassist John ‘Rhino’ Edwards will release his second solo album, ‘Rhino’s Revenge II’, on October 23rd via Molano Music. The Mute Gods is … Continue reading →

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Gig review: RICKY WARWICK AND DAMON JOHNSON – Bannerman’s, Edinburgh, 31 May 2015

Posted on June 1, 2015 by david.wilson

It has been a busy year so far for Black Star Riders. They completed a UK tour with Europe, played shows in the US and have been supporting Def Leppard at various European shows. You would think then that having … Continue reading →

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Album review: IAN PAICE’S SUNFLOWER SUPERJAM 2012

Posted on February 24, 2015 by jason

earMUSIC [Released 09.03.15] (CD/DVD) The Sunflower Jam was started back in 2006 by Jacky Paice, wife of Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice and sister-in-law to the late Jon Lord, as a charity event to raise funds for holistic and non-toxic … Continue reading →

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Album review: STEVE HUNTER – Tone Poems Live

Posted on February 16, 2015 by petefeenstra

CD Baby [Released 01.09.14] ‘Tone Poems Live’ pairs New York guitarist Steve Hunter (Alice Cooper/Lou Reed/Julian Lennon/Aerosmith) with top session players, bassist Tony Levin, drummer Alvino Bennett and keyboards Phil Aaberg in a in live studio setting that is also … Continue reading →

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News: GILLAN, WILKO JOHNSON, VON HERTZEN BROTHERS – Wednesday 21 January 2015

Posted on January 21, 2015 by jason

Bernie Torme - Hard Rock Hell, November 2013

A Gillan box set is released on March 16th on Demon. The CD set features the original UK albums, along with 4 LP picture discs. Sleevenotes are written by Joe Geesin and include new interviews with Bernie Torme and Mick … Continue reading →

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Album review: HELIX – Bastard Of The Blues

Posted on October 2, 2014 by david.wilson

Perris Records [Release Date – out now] I got a bit of a surprise when this album popped through my door mainly because I had no idea that Helix were still in existence. I saw Helix back in 1983 in … Continue reading →

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DVD review: ALICE COOPER – Raise The Dead Live From Wacken

Posted on September 18, 2014 by david.wilson

UDR [Release date – 20.10.14] No one would begrudge Alice Cooper a quiet retirement, playing away his twilight years on the golf course fairways he loves almost as much as the concert hall stage. Alice, thankfully, shows no signs of … Continue reading →

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Album review: THEORY OF A DEADMAN – Savages

Posted on September 9, 2014 by jason

Roadrunner Records [Released 29.07.14] Theory Of A Deadman (TOAD) return with a new album, certainly darker lyrically than the last couple of albums and they are working again with Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance/Halestorm/Black Stone Cherry). They are definitely a … Continue reading →

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Gig review: HIGHWAY TO HELL – Classic Grand, Glasgow, 7 September 2014

Posted on September 8, 2014 by david.wilson

I am sure that everyone is aware of the Hard Rock Hell franchise which includes the Hard Rock Hell festival, Hammerfest and Hard Rock Hell AOR/ Prog/ Blues weekends. On top of these events for the last five years Chic, … Continue reading →

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DVD review: LIVE AT WACKEN 2013 – 24 Years Louder Than Hell

Posted on July 30, 2014 by david.wilson

UDR [Release date 04.08.14] For the last 24 years a small village in Northern Germany has become the centre of the heavy metal universe for one weekend of drunken antics, sloppy mud and loud music. Welcome to Wacken Open Air! … Continue reading →

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Album review: POOBAH – U.S. Rock

Posted on May 22, 2014 by david.wilson

Ripple Records [Release date 10.02.14] This album was originally released back in 1976 during the peak of Poobah’s career and has now been lovingly re-mastered and reissued by Ripple Records. Poobah were formed by guitarist Jim Gustafson back in 1972 … Continue reading →

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Album review: ALICE COOPER – Billion Dollar Babies

Posted on March 6, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

Audio Fidelity [Release date 01.03.14] There’s been something of a glut of Alice Cooper re-issues of late – Trash and Hey Stoopid, The Eyes Of Alice Cooper and Dirty Diamonds, and Brutally Live – to name but a few. This … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE TREATMENT – Running With The Dogs

Posted on January 27, 2014 by david.wilson

Spinefarm Records [Release date – 3.01.14] The Treatment are a band who have lived a bit of a charmed life so far. Their first album ‘This Might Hurt’’ was recorded in the studio of Steve Harris from Iron Maiden and … Continue reading →

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Album review: ALICE COOPER – Reissues (Trash/Hey Stoopid)

Posted on January 27, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

Hear No Evil [Release date 23.09.13 and 27.01.14] Alice Cooper is not an artist whose back catalogue has seen much by way of remastering and re-issues and I’ve longed for Bob Ezrin to dig out the original recordings of Love … Continue reading →

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Album review: ALICE COOPER – Brutally Live

Posted on January 27, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

Salvo (CD/DVD) [Release date] It’s ironic that as Brutally Live is about to be re-released, the whole concert has been broadcast on BBC4. So if you’ve been watching the TV schedules you’ll hopefully have had the good sense to either … Continue reading →

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Interview with JIM McCARTY (The Yardbirds) – 3 January 2014

Posted on January 5, 2014 by petefeenstra

January 21st 2014 sees The Yardbirds play their first date of an exhaustive 2014 tour which celebrates 50 years of their existence and the British Blues Invasion that changed the course of rock history. The band initially split in ‘68, … Continue reading →

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DVD review: VARIOUS – The Sunflower Superjam 2012

Posted on November 20, 2013 by jason

Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2DVD) www.thesunflowerjam.com The Sunflower Jam was started back in 2006 by Jacky Paice, wife of Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice and sister-in-law to the late Jon Lord, as a charity event to raise funds … Continue reading →

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Album review: ALICE COOPER – Brutal Planet/Dragontown

Posted on November 1, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Armoury Records [Release date 07.10.13] The Noughties saw a resurgence in form and popularity for Alice Cooper, culminating in 2009′s Along Came A Spider – an album which many pundits saw as an updating of his 1st ‘solo’ concept album … Continue reading →

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Gig review: CROPREDY, 8-10 August 2013

Posted on September 8, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

34 years ago, an English electric folk band played what was intended to be there final show in a field in Cropredy village, Oxfordshire. However, as the saying goes, ‘best laid plans’, a reunion tour was announced shortly after and … Continue reading →