Alice Cooper - Raise the Dead- Live from Wacken

Alice Cooper – Raise The Dead – Live From Wacken (2014)





Considered the Godfather of Shock Rock, singer Alice Cooper came to fame in the 1970s, alarming audiences with his garish, often ghoulish stage performances.
Born in Detroit, rock musician Alice Cooper formed his first band in high school and by the late 1960s had caught the attention of guitarist Frank Zappa. The group hit it big with several successful albums in the mid-1970s. Cooper went solo in 1974 and continued the success. In 2011, Cooper and his former band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Early Years
American rock singer Alice Cooper was born Vincent Damon Furnier on February 4, 1948, in Detroit. The son of a pastor, Cooper moved with his family when he was 12, first to California and later to Arizona, where the Furniers lived in a trailer park.
Cooper developed an early passion for music and in high school formed his first rock band. The group, first called the Earwigs and later renamed the Spiders, covered the bands—the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who—that Cooper adored.
After exhausting the local bar scene, the group moved to Los Angeles, where they hoped to make it big. By this time, the band had developed an angry, up-front and dark sound, which critics initially abhorred. But with Cooper as front man, its music caught the attention of Frank Zappa, who inked the young musicians to a record deal.

Commercial Success
In 1969, the group, which had changed its name to Alice Cooper (the name comes from a witch doctor who supposedly spoke to the lead singer through a Ouija board), released its first album, Pretties for You. A follow-up album, Easy Action, came out a year later.
Almost immediately, the group gained a reputation for its outrageous performances. In one famous incident, one fan threw a live chicken on to the stage. Cooper responded by picking up the bird and throwing it into the air. When it landed back in the hands of the audience the chicken was torn into pieces. But in an altered version of the story, Cooper killed the bird himself and then drank its blood.
Other theatrical acts included "murdering" infant dolls, and using fake guillotines and electric chairs during performances. For his part, Cooper relished the shock that accompanied these performances. In 1973 the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí filmed the singer, who donned diamond necklaces and tiara, as he bit the head off a small replica of the Venus de Milo for a holographic work.
In 1971 Warner Bros. signed Alice Cooper, the band, to a new record contract. Over the next several years the group released a succession of hits, such as Killer (1972), School's Out (1972), Billion Dollar Babies (1973) and Muscle of Love (1974).





Solo Career
In 1974, Alice Cooper, the musician, split off from his bandmates and took the name with him. The following year he released his first solo album, Welcome to My Nightmare, which earned him continued critical praise and commercial success, as did 1976's Alice Cooper Goes to Hell.
But Cooper's life was also falling apart. A worn-out and strung-out Cooper eventually ended up in a New York sanatorium, where he was housed with drug addicts and criminals. Strangely enough, this time away allowed Cooper, who became a born-again Christian and eventually discovered an obsession with golf, to recover.
His music, however, didn't exactly bounce back. Two records, Special Forces (1981) and Zipper Catches Skin (1982), proved especially disappointing. But in 1989, Cooper returned to the charts with the popular album Trash.
Since then, Cooper has enjoyed a range of success, both in the studio and elsewhere. His film credits include Wayne's World (1992), among others. In 2004 he launched his hugely successful syndicated radio program, Nights With Alice Cooper.
In recent years he has reunited with the living members of his old band, and in 2011 the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.


Discography:
Welcome To My Nightmare 1975
Alice Cooper Goes To Hell 1976
Lace And Whiskey 1977
The Alice Cooper Show 1977
From The Inside 1978
Flush The Fashion 1980
Flush The Fashion 1980
Special Forces 1981
Zipper Catches Skin 1982
DaDa 1983
Constrictor 1986
Raise Your Fist And Yell 1987
Trash 1989
Hey Stoopid 1991
The Last Temptation 1994
A Fistful Of Alice 1997
Brutal Planet 2000
Dragontown 2001
The Eyes Of Alice Cooper 2003
Dirty Diamonds 2005
Live At Montreux 2005 ‎ 2006
Along Came A Spider 2008
Theatre Of Death - Live At Hammersmith [2009] 2010
Welcome 2 My Nightmare 2011
No More Mr. Nice Guy Live 2011 Tour - 29-10-2011 Alexandra Palace 2011





Alice Cooper‘s Aug. 3, 2013, concert at the Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany, will soon be available for mass consumption. ‘Raise the Dead – Live From Wacken’ will be released on Oct. 21 as a CD and DVD combo.
Featuring 22 songs — including covers of the Doors‘ ‘Break on Through,’ the Who‘s ‘My Generation’ and Pink Floyd‘s ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ — the DVD spotlights Cooper’s legendary stage show, complete with the famous guillotine. In the above video released to promote ‘Raise the Dead,’ Cooper describes how the concert was conceived to be a three-act musical, with equal parts comedy and horror.
“We’re not going there to say, ‘Gee, I hope you like us tonight,’” Cooper says. “We’re going there with the attitude of grabbing ‘em by the throat and not letting ‘em go.”
‘Raise the Dead – Live from Wacken’ is the first offering of a new series comprised of performances from the Wacken Festival. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Wacken Foundation, whose goal is to supporting the growth of new hard rock and heavy metal bands.



Playlist:
CD1
01. Hello Hooray
02. House of Fire
03. No More Mr. Nice Guy
04. Under My Wheels
05. I’ll Bite Your Face Off
06. Billion Dollar Babies
07. Caffeine
08. Department of Youth
09. Hey Stoopid
10. Dirty Diamonds
11. Welcome to My Nightmare
12. Go to Hell


CD2
13. He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)
14. Feed My Frankenstein
15. Ballad of Dwight Fry
16. Killer
17. I Love the Dead
18. Break on Through
19. Revolution
20. Foxy Lady
21. My Generation
22. I’m Eighteen
23. Poison
24. School’s Out / Another Brick in the Wall



Info:
Artist: Alice Cooper
Album: Raise The Dead – Live From Wacken
Genre: Hard Rock
SubGenre: Glam / Shock Rock
Country Of Origin: U.S.A.
Year: 2014
Audio codec: MP3
Riptype: Tracks
Bitrate: 320Kbs
Runtime:
Disc One: 00:47:21
Disc Two: 00:47:37
Combined Playing Time: 01:34:58
Combined Size: 218 MB
Included - Front Cover




Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Glam / Shock Rock
Bitrate: 320 k
Size: 217.56 MB
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