I couldn't remember exactly why I was anxiously waiting for August, but it just hit me: Super Duper Alice Cooper is finally available on iTunes!!
 

 
This could also explain why I recently felt the urge to add his whole discography to my iPhone and have been listening to those albums over and over since.
 
Even as a die hard fan of his records, I think I've probably always underestimated Alice himself. But he's an interesting fellow with a remarkable career, that's for sure, and, for some weird reason one of our constant point of reference when my wife and I speak music.
 
He's also the artist whose songs I've covered the most often, by a long shot. Ever since I got my first reel-to-reel, I'm basically always working on a cover of one of his song. Nothing I planned, it just sort of happens...

His godson is pretty interesting too. 

craigb
His godson is pretty interesting too. 

Pardon my ignorance... Who?

Heh, don't remember that recent thread, eh?  Dave Mustaine is his godson.

Yukky...

Welcome to My Nightmare was the first really big rock show I went to see. Amazing stuff for its time. Theater, film, costumes and music, all in one show. It changed everything.

ampfixer
Welcome to My Nightmare was the first really big rock show I went to see. Amazing stuff for its time. Theater, film, costumes and music, all in one show. It changed everything.

Unfortunately, I was a bit young at the time.
 
I got to see him in 1990, for the Trash tour. The French Canadian equivalent of MTV/Much Music had this Alice Cooper giveaway, and I called hoping to win the record, but I won the whole thing: pair of tickets, album, shirt.
 
Montreal was a 6 hour drive and I don't drive, so it was a bit of a headache to figure it out - plus, I'd never been to the city, and I was quite worried about it.
 
But I had a great time - even if Trash was a more commercial type of album. The show itself was totally Alice.

I was privileged to see Alice Cooper at the Fillmore East a few weeks before they closed in 1971.  It was the tour for Love It To Death.  He was doing the make-up and a few props.  It seemed to be more about the music than theatre.   Great show.