Alice Cooper band
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Topic: Alice Cooper band
Posted By: Icarium
Subject: Alice Cooper band
Date Posted: June 27 2011 at 06:34
the streak of albums from 69 to 73, are they sort of proggy, couse they are very experimental and all over the place, I have 4 of them and half of the albumtracks are rock or pub rock but half of it is, proggy music, from psychadelic, jazzrock, art rock, theatrical rock, heavy prog, and generally music full of good instrumentation like melodic bass lines, loose but steady drumming, varied guitar sounds, and an instictive and familiar vocal sound  , ( and hammonds, mellotrons and pianos, Pretties for You, 69 Easy Action, 70 Love it to Death, 71 Killer 71 Schools Out, 72 Billion Dollar Babies, 73 Muscle of Love 73 -------------  
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: June 27 2011 at 07:13
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At least a little. I consider Halo of Flies to be a prog masterpiece by a non-prog band. Some other songs are somewhat proggish as well. ------------- 
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: June 27 2011 at 13:45
| No. They were not progressive rock or prog related IMO. However, they were a fantastic and rather unique rock band! |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: June 27 2011 at 14:53
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No they are not prog related. Neither are a bunch of other bands included here. But the voice of the people has spoken. ------------- 
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: June 27 2011 at 15:08
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in the seventies, every band was more or less prog-related as prog sold very well. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: June 28 2011 at 16:58
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I dunno. Some of his stuff had some proggish flavor (e.g. "Black Juju", "Halo Of Flies"), but I think too much of his stuff was simply basic rock and roll. ------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: Warthur
Date Posted: June 29 2011 at 08:55
| Wouldn't call them prog myself (with the exception of Halo of Flies - which is still a centrepiece of Cooper's live set). But they are a great band, and Alice Cooper's gigs are wonderful to go to - especially since out of all the stars from the 1970s who incorporated a big theatrical element into their performances, he's the only one who's still doing it. David Bowie stopped pretending to be an alien ages ago, Peter Gabriel no longer dresses as a flower, but Alice Cooper still does all the classic scares and tricks you expect from his performances even today. Particularly worth it if you like a bit of stage magic (he still does the infamous hanging trick at the end of his gigs, for example, which is one that the Famous Randi worked up with him). |