| Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper | ||||
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| Video by Alice Cooper | ||||
| Released | 1974 Cinema 2005 DVD |
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| Genre | Hard rock, Heavy metal, Shock rock | |||
| Length | 100min | |||
| Label | Shout! Factory Eagle Vision |
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Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper is an Alice Cooper film. First released as a feature film in 1974 and eventually restored and released onto DVD in 2005, this movie features footage of a live show from the band's Billion Dollar Babies tour, filmed in Texas in April 1973,[1] with some footage from other tour stops, including the Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon, intercut with scenes of a somewhat confused storyline regarding a German film director chasing the "Cooper gang" after they abandon his would-be masterpiece movie.
Poorly edited and virtually unscripted, the 'storyline' segments were replaced during the film's original release with excerpts from old Hollywood movies.[2] The concert segments were performed by the original five-piece band line-up (plus two live session musicians) at their artistic and commercial peak, and there is ample evidence of the behaviour 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 genuinely annoys members of the audience, notices, and deliberately continues to taunt them), and the infamous boa constrictor were all present and correct.
This DVD 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 special features of the DVD are:
On September 14, 2010 Shout! Factory released the film on Blu-ray for the first time
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