The American shock rocker Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier) made an attempt to reinvent himself during his career, from 1967 onwards, but always returned to his heyday. Then Alice Cooper was still a band that made two unrelenting album classics with School's Out and Billion Dollar Babies in 1972 and 1973, full of dirty rock songs with horror-pregnant undertones, such as Sick Things, Elected, School's
… Out and I Love The Dead. With this repertoire, Cooper has been making the stages unsafe for many years to come, with choke hoses, electric chairs, straightjackets and other horror attributes. In 1987 it was no different, as witnessed by this registration during the 'Halloween' party in Detroit. No song from those successful years is skipped and a muddy python stares sinisterly into the mass audience while the 'king of shock' sings Be My Lover with black eye make-up that has run out. But it doesn't get much more dangerous, at most childish. The band sounds well tuned in and injects the classics here and there with metal influences. However, any true fan will continue to prefer the originals of the Alice Cooper band. (MR)more
