![]() ![]() ![]() Written by Reed, the song was famously recorded by Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels. The single and album feature several Motor City music legends, including the MC5’s Wayne Kramer, the Detroit Wheels’ drummer Johnny “Bee” Badanjek and guitarist Steve Hunter, Paul Randolph, as well as the Motor City Horns and other local musicians. And when they found out I was born in East Detroit… we were home.” After not fitting in anywhere in the US (musically or image-wise) Detroit was the only place that recognized the Alice Cooper guitar-driven, hard rock sound and our crazy stage show. But Detroit was the birthplace of angry hard rock. New York had The Rascals and The Velvet Underground. “San Francisco had the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. “Los Angeles had its sound with The Doors, Love and Buffalo Springfield,” Cooper said. Though the Cooper group initially moved to Hollywood from its hometown of Phoenix, Ariz., and were famously signed by Frank Zappa, the band was almost too weird for L.A.Īlso Read 113 Musicians Predict the 2023 Baseball Season You couldn’t be a soft-rock band or you’d get your ass kicked.” “You’d play the Eastown and it would be Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, the Stooges and the Who, for $4! The next weekend at the Grande it was MC5, Brownsville Station and Fleetwood Mac, or Savoy Brown or the Small Faces. “Detroit was Heavy Rock central then,” explains Cooper in a statement. Helmed by longtime Cooper producer by Bob Ezrin ( Pink Floyd, Lou Reed), the LP follows the 2019 EP Breadcrumbs as a continuing homage to Detroit, where Cooper was born and initially found fame at that city’s famed Grande Ballroom alongside other legendary city denizens including The Stooges and Ted Nugent. 26, 2021, release of his album Detroit Stories via earMUSIC. ![]() “School’s Out” singer Alice Cooper dropped a cool cover of the Velvet Underground’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll” today (Nov. ![]()
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