{"id":2646,"date":"2023-03-16T13:43:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T18:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2023-03-16T13:43:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T18:43:37","slug":"alice-cooper-wanted-no-overdubs-on-his-upcoming-studio-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=2646","title":{"rendered":"ALICE COOPER Wanted &#8216;No Overdubs&#8217; On His Upcoming Studio Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ALICE.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ALICE.png 730w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ALICE-300x186.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In a new interview with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/alice-cooper-interview-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ultimate Classic Rock<\/a>, legendary rocker&nbsp;<strong>Alice Cooper<\/strong>&nbsp;discussed some of the new music he has been working on. He said: &#8220;Well, there&#8217;s a new album coming out with my touring band right now. I wanted to show off the touring band, so we wrote songs, went in the studio, and I said, &#8216;Here&#8217;s the deal on this album: No overdubs.&#8217; I said, &#8216;Everything has to be done in the studio live because the whole idea of this album is showing off how good this band is live.&#8217; So when you hear this album, it sounds like a studio album, but it&#8217;s actually them playing live in the studio. That album will be coming out.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alice<\/strong>\u00a0also confirmed that he has worked on new material with some of the other members of the original\u00a0<strong>ALICE COOPER<\/strong>\u00a0band, guitarist\u00a0<strong>Michael Bruce<\/strong>, bassist\u00a0<strong>Dennis Dunaway<\/strong>\u00a0and drummer\u00a0<strong>Neal Smith<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The thing with the original band is when we broke up, we never broke up with any bad blood,&#8221;&nbsp;<strong>Alice<\/strong>&nbsp;explained. &#8220;We went to high school together, we were on the cross country and track team together, things like that. There was never bad blood between any of us, and we always &#8230; I mean, I would ask&nbsp;<strong>Dennis<\/strong>, &#8216;<strong>Dennis<\/strong>, could you come in and play bass on this song?&#8217; &#8216;Yeah. Could you sing on this song? I&#8217;ve got a thing going on with this band that I&#8217;m in.&#8217; &#8216;Okay.&#8217; So there was never that like, &#8216;Oh, I&#8217;m never gonna talk to him again,&#8217; or &#8216;I&#8217;m never gonna work with him again.&#8217; So we&#8217;ve always been writing.&nbsp;<strong>Neal Smith<\/strong>&nbsp;will send me three or four songs and I&#8217;ll do some writing lyrics on it and send it back to him, and he has his own band.&nbsp;<strong>Dennis<\/strong>&nbsp;is in two or three bands.&nbsp;<strong>Mike<\/strong>, they&#8217;re always working musicians. So when we write 10 or 12 songs, I don&#8217;t know exactly what that&#8217;s going to be, but I know that those songs exist now. So I&#8217;m thinking about in the future, that would be kind of a cool thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year,&nbsp;<strong>Cooper<\/strong>&nbsp;told Germany&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>Rolling Stone<\/strong>&nbsp;that he was working on two new albums with longtime producer&nbsp;<strong>Bob Ezrin<\/strong>. &#8220;A lot of those were born during the plague,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We couldn&#8217;t go touring for 18 months, so what&#8217;s a musician gonna do? Well, they&#8217;re going to write songs. Everybody has a studio in their house. So we were writing songs and doing demos. And at the end of this whole thing, I got in touch with&nbsp;<strong>Bob<\/strong>&nbsp;and said, &#8216;Here&#8217;s 30 songs.&#8217; And we decided, &#8216;Okay, let&#8217;s do two albums.&#8217; But the two albums are definitely two different angles of coming in to&nbsp;<strong>Alice Cooper<\/strong>. One is very hard rock; the other one is hard rock but it&#8217;s twisted. And that&#8217;s all I can say about it right now, because there&#8217;s a couple of really important things about both albums.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cooper<\/strong>\u00a0previously spoke about his new music during an appearance in January 2022 on\u00a0<strong>SiriusXM<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk&#8221;<\/strong>. &#8220;I&#8217;m working on two albums right now, actually \u2014 two studio albums,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They&#8217;re two entirely different kinds of albums, but they&#8217;re\u00a0<strong>Alice Cooper<\/strong>\u00a0pure rock and roll albums. The two albums will really be hard rock albums.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, the now-75-year-old singer expressed hope that the first of his new LPs would arrive later that year. &#8220;It&#8217;s kind of like the old days when you&#8217;re touring and putting out records at the same time,&#8221;&nbsp;<strong>Alice<\/strong>&nbsp;explained. &#8220;It kind of takes me back to when you&#8217;re doing&nbsp;<strong>&#8216;Love It To Death&#8217;<\/strong>&nbsp;and then you tour for&nbsp;<strong>&#8216;Love It To Death&#8217;<\/strong>. While you&#8217;re doing&nbsp;<strong>&#8216;Love It To Death&#8217;<\/strong>, you&#8217;re writing&nbsp;<strong>&#8216;Killer&#8217;<\/strong>. When&nbsp;<strong>&#8216;Love It To Death&#8217;<\/strong>&nbsp;is over,&nbsp;<strong>&#8216;Killer&#8217;<\/strong>&nbsp;comes out and then you go support that. And while you&#8217;re doing&nbsp;<strong>&#8216;Killer&#8217;<\/strong>, you&#8217;re writing&nbsp;<strong>&#8216;School&#8217;s Out&#8217;<\/strong>. So we&#8217;re kind of piggybacking everything. And I kind of like that. It keeps everything moving. I don&#8217;t like those big chunks of time when there&#8217;s nothing going on.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Released in February 2021,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Detroit Stories&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;was recorded with&nbsp;<strong>Ezrin<\/strong>, mostly in Royal Oak with Detroit musicians and featuring a mix of original material alongside covers of songs by&nbsp;<strong>Bob Seger<\/strong>, the&nbsp;<strong>MC5<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Mitch Ryder<\/strong>&#8216;s&nbsp;<strong>DETROIT<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>OUTRAGEOUS CHERRY<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018,\u00a0<strong>Cooper<\/strong>\u00a0issued\u00a0<strong>&#8220;A Paranormal Evening At The Olympia Paris&#8221;<\/strong>, a recording of his December 7, 2017 concert at the world-renowned Olympia venue in France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alice<\/strong>\u00a0also released two albums with\u00a0<strong>HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES<\/strong>, 2015&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Hollywood Vampires&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0and 2019&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Rise&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new interview with&nbsp;Ultimate Classic Rock, legendary rocker&nbsp;Alice Cooper&nbsp;discussed some of the new music he has been working on. He said: &#8220;Well, there&#8217;s a new album coming out with my touring band right now. I wanted to show off the touring band, so we wrote songs, went in the studio, and I said, &#8216;Here&#8217;s&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=2646\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ALICE COOPER Wanted &#8216;No Overdubs&#8217; On His Upcoming Studio Album<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2648,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions\/2648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}