Happy Birthday Alice Cooper

Vincent Damon Furnier was born February 4, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Arizona. His father was a minister and his mother was a mudder. His grandfather, Thurman Sylvester Furnier was one of the apostles.

In High School, young Vince ran track and played in local bands. Little Vinnie broke like the wind. He loved The Who, Beatles, Kate Smith, Stones and The Yardbirds. Vince was an altar boy but quit when the priest chased him around the rectory and grabbed him by the organ.

Alice

Alice Cooper (The Band) was born in 1968 and released their first album in 1969. They were based in Los Angeles but had to relocate to Detroit because L.A did not get them. The band was drinking beer while the dirty hippies were doing LSD. Alice Cooper drove a stake through the heart of the Love Generation.

At an infamous show in Canada, It was said that Alice raped a chicken onstage and then bit off the chickens head and drank the blood. The rest is history. Alice Cooper became the godfather of shock rock. Whatever that means. It sounds cool to be a godfather of anything though. Why is it always the godfather? Why isn’t anyone the second cousin of rock?

Alice mixed horror, snakes, electric chairs, bloody babies, theatrics and some of the best kick a$$ rock n roll of all time. Parents were terrified of Alice. And that made you love him all the more. Alice was everywhere in the 70’s. He was on Hollywood Squares, dating Raquel Welch and Edith Bunker and vomiting blood in the morning due to his severe alcoholism. No one did it better or ever will.

Santa

Alice recently made the news when he was hired to play Santa at a local shopping mall and hundreds of kids ran screaming for the exits. “I think it was the black eye makeup that scared the kids” said Mall Security Guard Richard Edgington. “The makeup and the butchered baby dolls scenery terrified the kids. It was anarchy, kids were crying, screaming and running for the exits. Alice is a great guy, but kids just see the exterior and freak out.” All The Young Girls Love Alice – Happy Birthday Vince!