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Legendary rocker Alice Cooper and his band performed on New Year's Eve at Mala Wailea, the famous oceanfront restaurant that is lobby level at Wailea Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, in Hawaii, on a bill that included "Weird Al" Yankovic, Pat Simmons and Michael McDonald of DOOBIE BROTHERS and Bob Rock. Comedian Tom Arnold will act as emcee at the event, which benefits the Maui Food Bank and the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.

Joining Alice on stage for a performance of THE BEATLES classic "Come Together" was AEROSMITH frontman Steven Tyler. Tyler also sang AEROSMITH's "Sweet Emotion" and "Walk This Way".

Video footage of the "Come Together" performance can be seen below.

Legendary rocker Alice Cooper and his band performed on New Year's Eve at Mala Wailea, the famous oceanfront restaurant that is lobby level at Wailea Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, in Hawaii, on a bill that included "Weird Al" Yankovic, Pat Simmons and Michael McDonald of DOOBIE BROTHERS and Bob Rock. Comedian Tom Arnold will act as emcee at the event, which benefits the Maui Food Bank and the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.

Joining Alice on stage for a performance of THE BEATLES classic "Come Together" was AEROSMITH frontman Steven Tyler. Tyler also sang AEROSMITH's "Sweet Emotion" and "Walk This Way".

Video footage of the "Walk This Way" performance, along with the previously released "Come Together" clip, can be seen below.

Legendary rocker Alice Cooper, along with members of his backing band — Chuck Garric, Steve Hunter, Tommy Henriksen, Keri Kelli (filling in for Orianthi) and Glen Sobel — took Montreal, Quebec, Canada by storm last night (Saturday, January 28) at the 2012 "Show Harley" event. The band played a blistering 60-minute set for a huge crowd of rowdy, Harley-Davidson-loving Alice Cooper fans. According to a post on Cooper's web site, "the setlist consisted of classics, a few covers, Alice gave away a brand new Harley, the stage lit up with fire, there were the infamously... ahem... attractive 'Show Harley' girls on stage for the biker classic 'Born To Be Wild'. It was a wild night."

Alice's setlist was as follows:

01. Black Widow
02. No More Mr. Nice Guy
03. Under My Wheels
04. I'm Eighteen
05. I'll Bite Your Face Off
06. Billion Dollar Babies
07. Muscle Love
08. Feed My Frankenstein
09. Poison
10. School's Out
11. Elected
12. Brown Sugar
13. Born To Be Wild

Fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be seen below.

Check out photos at AliceCooper.com.

Last night's premier of the new Tim Burton film, "Dark Shadows", will go down in the books of rock history. Legendary rocker Alice Cooper is featured heavily in the film, with Tim Burton relying on Dwight Frye for the movie's most pivotal scene. Alice looked great, and he shoud because they digitized his face to make him look just as he did in 1972!

As great as the film was, nothing could top Tim Burton's after-party, thrown across the street behind the El Capitan Theater, where Warner Brothers recreated the ballroom from the movie for a surprise live performance by Alice Cooper himself! Alice brought with him his band, with Orianthi, Tommy Henriksen and Keri Kelli on guitar, Chuck Garric on bass, and Glen Sobel on drums. Also guesting for the evening was Alice's old friend Johnny Depp! Johnny joined Alice on stage last year at the 100 Club, and this was the perfect opportunity to "get the band back together," as Alice put it.

As if that weren't enough, the four guitarists were then joined by legendary AEROSMITH axeman Joe Perry! The impromptu supergroup played some Cooper classics before introducing yet another surprise guest, AEROSMITH frontman and "demon of screamin" Steven Tyler. The huge behemoth of a band went through "Come Together", then Steven Tyler whispered into Chuck Garric's ear, "Know 'Whole Lotta Love'?"... you can guess what happened next!

The whole night was fantastic, and Alice performing the after-party was icing on the cake.

Check out photos at AliceCooper.com.

Fan-filmed video footage is available below.

 

NME TV recently conducted an interview with legendary rocker Alice Cooper. You can now watch the chat below.

When asked for his thoughts on "Lulu", METALLICA's collaborative album with former THE VELVET UNDERGROUND frontman Lou Reed, Alice said, "It's such an odd combination that I really wanna hear it, because I love Lou Reed and I love METALLICA. I would like to have been a fly on the wall when somebody said, 'Why doesn't Lou Reed and METALLICA get together and make an album?' 'Cause I would have gone, 'What?' It's like Iggy Pop making a record with ABBA. You're sitting there going, 'Where's the connection here?' [Laughs] So I really wanna hear it. Lou Reed's lyrics are as dark as can be. And METALLICA is this gigantic, steroid metal band. How does this gel? I can't wait to hear it."

Alice Cooper's new album, "Welcome 2 My Nightmare", sold 18,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 22 on The Billboard 200 chart. Cooper's previous CD, 2008's "Along Came A Spider", opened with just under 10,000 copies to land at No. 53.

Recorded with longtime collaborator Bob Ezrin, who produced the original multi-platinum "Welcome To My Nightmare" album in 1975, "Welcome 2 My Nightmare" picks up right where they left off, with Alice trapped in his own warped mind.

That original album is an all-time rock classic that spawned a worldwide theatrical tour and pioneering U.S. TV special and cemented Alice Cooper as a visionary trailblazer whose influence persists today in rock, metal, pop, punk, theater, television, film and much more.

Legendary rocker Alice Cooper, who attended yesterday's Revolver Golden Gods Awards press conference in Los Angeles, spoke to Rolling Stone about his upcoming summer tour with IRON MAIDEN, which is scheduled to kick off on June 21 in North Carolina.

"Those guys are really good friends of ours," Cooper said about MAIDEN. "When you've been out for five decades on the road, there's a whole section of the audience out there that have heard of Alice Cooper but never saw Alice Cooper. So an IRON MAIDEN audience is a great opportunity for us to show them what Alice is all about. We do more theatrics now than we did back then."

When asked what he is going to do on this tour with MAIDEN, Alice said, "You have to do the hits. The audience would kill you if you don't do 'Eighteen' and 'School's Out'. But then we've got to do stuff from the new album. And then you have to get what I call the underground hits — the real Alice aficionados want to hear those songs. Once in a while you throw a cover in there. We do a pretty mean 'Brown Sugar'."

ALICE COOPER drummer Glen Sobel — whose previous credits include Vivian Campbell, BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, SIXX: A.M. and IMPELLITTERI — has released a video blog recapping the 2011 ALICE COOPER "No More Mr. Nice Guy" world tour which consisted of about 100 shows in 23 countries spread out over five continents. The five-and-a-half-minute clip, which can be seen below, includes drum-cam footage, backstage warmups, hijinks and some of the best fan-filmed video from the tour.

Glen will be back for Alice's 2012 tour which will be starting in spring. Dates already announced include Bonnaroo, the U.K.'s Bloodstock festival, and four weeks with IRON MAIDEN in the U.S. starting in June.

IRON MAIDEN, ALICE COOPER, DEF LEPPARD, POISON and GODSMACK are among the confirmed bands for this year's Rock Fest, which will be held July 19-22 near Cadott, Wisconsin.

The festival billing is shaping up as follows:

Thursday, July 19

BUCKCHERRY
ART OF DYING
DILANA

Friday, July 20

GODSMACK
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH
HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD
HALESTORM
10 YEARS
BIG DEEKS
LIFE TRAGIC

Saturday, July 21

IRON MAIDEN
ALICE COOPER
PAPA ROACH
ADELITAS WAY
DORYDRIVE

Sunday, July 22

DEF LEPPARD
POISON
FIREHOUSE
CYDONIA

For more information, visit www.rock-fest.com.

 

The storage facility in Los Angeles which houses the Alice Cooper archives was broken into on March 27, along with three other storage units. A police report has been filed. Items missing include a large quantity of original vinyl records, a jacket, and the original sculpture which was used for the cover of the "Hey Stoopid" album.

With multiple units broken into, it is not believed that Alice's archives were specifically targeted.

If anyone sees anything suspicious or hears anything about these stolen items — especially on the Internet or in Los Angeles — contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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