We spoke with Alice Cooper for a career-spanning profile—culminating in his 22nd studio album, Road, which arrives this Friday.
When I was 16, before I got my first car or my first real romantic relationship, I was given a turntable. It wasn’t anything special, just the average Crosley that record snobs on TikTok now admonish even as a starter player. Many, many years before that, my dad—before he ever even considered that he may, one day, have a child and raise them to be a devotee of not just rock ‘n’ roll, but physical media altogether—took his record collection and gave it to his brother-in-law.
, too. When my folks would take me to watch a Cleveland Indians game anytime in the mid-2000s, we’d always, always, always make a pit stop at Alice’s Cooperstown restaurant on E. 9th, just beyond right field. Born Vincent Damon Furnier in Detroit, Michigan a decade before Motown would turn the automotive hub into a musical epicenter, Alice Cooper grew up with an evangelist, Bickertonite father. His paternal grandfather, Thurman Furnier, was once an apostle and future president of that church, too. After time spent in California and Pennsylvania—and a wicked case of appendicitis that later morphed into a near-death bout with peritonitis—Alice and his family finally settled down in Phoenix, Arizona.
To this day, Alice still refers to his stage name—which he adopted as his legal identity in 1973, around the time whencame out—as a character he created and nothing more. “I think people are finally getting the idea, after all of this time, that I’m not Alice. IAlice,” he tells me. “When I write songs, I don’t write songs for me. I write songs for Alice, things that Alice would say. Not things that I would say. That, really, is easy for me. I can write to a character about a subject.
Alice Cooper—Alice, Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway and Neal Smith—would become an imprint of Zappa’s Straight Records and release their debut album,, on June 25, 1969. 11 days before that, labelmate Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band would release—which might be one of the most underrated back-to-back releases of the era.
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