Good to See You Again,
Alice Cooper
is a 1974
feature film starring
The movie primarily features
live concert footage of
the Alice Cooper band
on their record-breaking
Billion Dollar Babies tour,
filmed in Texas
(mostly at the Sam Houston Coliseum)
in April 1973,
with some footage from
other tour stops,
including the
Memorial Coliseum,
Portland,
Oregon,
intercut with
'comedy' scenes of
a German film director
chasing the
"Cooper gang"
for revenge after they
abandoned his would-be
masterpiece movie.
Two versions of the film exist.
The alternate version
was issued for its
original theatrical release
across the US in 1974.
Poorly edited and
virtually unscripted,
the 'storyline' segments of
the original version
were replaced with
black & black excerpts of scenes
from old Hollywood movies.
Despite this the film still
failed at the box office.
This version of the film remains
commercially unreleased,
although bootleg copies
have been circulating amongst fans
and at Record Fairs readily since
the early-1980s.
The original version of the film
was eventually
restored and released
in 2005 on DVD,
which includes Cooper
providing insightful
audio commentary.
On September 14, 2010
Shout! Factory released the film
(original version)
on Blu-ray
for the first time.
The film was shown
only in
Broome County, New York
on its opening day,
the one place in the USA
that banned Alice Cooper
from playing at their arena
the year before.
The film provides a glimpse of
a far less family-friendly
Alice Cooper
than that portrayed in the
Welcome to My Nightmare
concert film
(shot two years later on the
lead singer's first solo tour).
The concert segments were performed by
the original five-piece band
(plus two live session musicians)
at their artistic and commercial peak,
and there is ample evidence of
the behavior and implications
which made the early
Alice Cooper character
such a controversial figure.
The heavy sarcasm,
pointed social satire
(mannequin stage-props equipped with pubic hair,
skewered baby dolls,
a bloody 'execution' sequence,
and in the show's finale,
when an American flag is unfurled
and a Richard M. Nixon impersonator
is 'beaten up' by the entire band),
confrontational improvisation
(frontman Cooper taunting audience members),
and the infamous boa constrictor
were all present.
TRACKLIST
- "The Lady Is a Tramp"
- (Studio segment)
- "Hello Hooray"
- "Billion Dollar Babies"
- "Elected"
- "I'm Eighteen"
- "Raped and Freezin'"
- "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
- "My Stars"
- "Unfinished Sweet"
- "Sick Things"
- "Dead Babies"
- "I Love the Dead"
- "School's Out"
- "Under My Wheels"
- Good To See You Again
- (Trailer)
- Alice Cooper Interview
- (DVD RIP)
Personnel
- Alice Cooper - Vocalist
- Michael Bruce - Guitarist
- Glen Buxton - Guitarist
- Dennis Dunaway - Bassist
- Neal Smith - Drummer
- Mick Mashbir - Guitarist
- Bob Dolin - Keyboardist
- Amazing Randi - Dentist, Executioner
- Cindy Smith - Dancing Tooth
- Fred Smoot - Director, Lone Person, Leroy
- Jefferson Kewley - Baron Krelve
- Pat McAllister - Group's Manager, Wrangler, Box Office Man
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