{"id":7132,"date":"2025-07-03T18:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=7132"},"modified":"2025-07-03T18:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:45:11","slug":"shindig-issue-165-alice-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=7132","title":{"rendered":"Shindig! Issue #165 \u2013 Alice Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>As the original ALICE COOPER band return with their first full album in 52 years, KRIS NEEDS revisits<em> Love It To Death<\/em>, the record that changed everything and ignited the infamous legend<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alice Cooper - Is It My Body (1971 4K)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ghAquk8T34M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI consider <em>Love It To Death<\/em> the first Alice Cooper album only because songs on <em>Pretties For You<\/em> and <em>Easy Action<\/em> were written during the Nazz days and even during the Spiders,\u201d says Alice. \u201c<em>Love It To Death<\/em> was the first one conceived as a real Alice Cooper album. Ezrin said, \u2018Look, the stage show is great, these songs are great but when you listen to The Doors, you know it\u2019s The Doors and when you listen to the Stones, you know it\u2019s the Stones. When I hear Alice Cooper it could be anybody. <em>Love It To Death<\/em> is going to be your signature album.\u2019 That\u2019s why we never worked harder on any other album than that one. It gave Dennis a bass sound, Neal a drum sound, Glen and Michael a guitar sound and even the voice. When we heard it all back it sounded like our band. This was the first time we had a signature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.qobuz.com\/album\/0081227858667?zone=GB-en\" width=\"378\" height=\"390\">Your browser does not support iframes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201c<em>Love It To Death<\/em> made my name,\u201d says Ezrin. \u201cIt was the first album where I was actually producing. Alice says to this day he has no idea why they listened to me and I have no idea either but I\u2019m very thankful they did. Obviously, there was some kind of kismet here. We were all meant to meet and our combination turned into that record and sound that launched their career and started them off on becoming the biggest band in the world. By <em>Billion Dollar Babies<\/em> they <em>were<\/em> the biggest band in the world, which is really remarkable. They didn\u2019t sound like anybody else and the minute you heard it you went \u2018That\u2019s Alice Cooper.\u2019 We were perfectly suited to each other for some unknown reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7134\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1971-02-00-Creem-Advert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1971-02-00-Creem-Advert.jpg 489w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1971-02-00-Creem-Advert-175x300.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alice credits unexpected \u201cleft turns\u201d slipped into the music by Dunaway that gave <em>Love It To Death <\/em>\u201cthat edge that becomes Alice Cooper\u201d. Ezrin agrees; \u201cTotally. He always did. Alice likes to tell the story that I was just saying \u2018Dumb it down, dumb it down,\u2019 which I never did. I was just trying to tighten it up, get those bass and drums to agree. Not always though; I liked it when they went off but in key parts like the chorus it was important to have a really tight and fundamental rhythm section to let the song really breathe. But I loved it when we went off on \u2018Halo Of Flies\u2019 and things like that \u2013 the whole thing was a left turn but that experimental kind of stuff was cinematic and also psychedelic. 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