ALICE COOPER Albany, NY October 4, 2018 - Concert Review with Photos and Videos

This show was a last minute decision.  Saw Alice Cooper was in town, seen him of plenty of times before and he and his band never disappoint, so let's do this

There was no opening act and Alice hit the stage at about 8:15 or so.  It was nice to have an early show on a Sunday.  Alice opened with "Brutal Planet" and had the whole audience on their feet for the whole show from the moment the lights went down.

Alice then immediately went into a trio of three classics starting with "No More Mr. Nice Guy."

Then "Under My Wheels"

Followed by "Billion Dollar Babies"

Alice went for a deep cut next with "Grim Facts" off of 1980's "Flush The Fashion." Here's Alice with one of his three guitarists in his great band, Ryan Roxie

Next up was one of my favorite "new" songs "Lost in America".  I say "new" because I realize as I write this that it actually came out in 1994 which is 24 years ago.  Well either way, it's fun and catchy as all hell.  

Another deeper cut with "Serious" from 1978's "From The Inside" was another treat for the long time diehard fans.

We then got a taste of their latest album "Paranormal" with "Fallen In Love"

Then another 21st century track with "Woman of Mass Distraction" off 2005's "Dirty Diamonds" which was followed by guitarist Nita Strauss' solo.

Next up was Alice's 1989 MTV hit "Poison"

Alice went back to 1971 next for "Halo of Flies" which featured a great drum solo by Glen Sobel.

"Feed My Frankenstein" was next and is one of production highlights of the show.  Here's the video I shot below:


Alice then busted out "Cold Ethyl", singing to her, dancing with her and all the while abusing her in the loving way only Alice can.

The love songs continued with the classic "Only Women Bleed" next

Another song from the newest album "Paranoiac Personality" was next before the biggest production highlight of the night. (Pictured is bassist Chuck Garric)


Alice came out in his straight jacket joined by his nurse (played by his daughter Calico Cooper) to tell the tale of the "Ballad of Dwight Fry" during which the guillotine is rolled out and Alice gets beheaded as the band plays a partial version of "Killer" and "I Love The Dead".  Here is the video I shot of the whole thing.

The main set then ended with "I'm Eighteen" with the whole crowd singing along.


After a few minutes, the band came back out to encore with "School's Out" (a bit of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" thrown in).


During the song Alice introduced the whole band including guitarist Tommy Henriksen who got some extra love as he is from Albany.


The show ended with streamers shooting out over the crowd at just before 10pm.  A great show to end the weekend.

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Alice Cooper - Madison Square Garden NYC - October 28, 2014 Live Concert Review and Photos

This tour was a no brainer.  Motley Crue was my first favorite band growing up.  I got into them around the time of "Shout at the Devil" and if this truly proves to be their final tour, well I had to see it and what better place than Madison Square Garden.

Alice Cooper was announced as opener and also a blast from the past.  Alice was two of my earliest shows in 1987 at the Mid Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie NY.  I first saw him in February of that year on the Nightmare Returns tour and then in November of the same year on the Live In The Flesh tour.  I last saw Alice in another high profile opening slot on Iron Maiden's last tour a couple of years ago...looked like this should be a solid night of hard rock.

We had a big crew come down on the train for this one and hit up the Blarney Rock for some beers before hand.  Some of the gang cut out a little early to go to Ryan Roxie's "Rock n Roll Parking Lot" which took place in the lobby of the Garden where Ryan and Nita Strauss of Alice Cooper's band were doing a meet and greet.  (Ryan and Nita are two of Alice's guitarists in addition to Tommy Henriksen on third guitar plus Chuck Garric on bass and Glen Sobel on drums.) The rest of us headed over a few minutes to Eight figuring we had plenty of time as the tickets said 7:30 and we knew The Raskins were doing a short opening set.

Well either the Raskins started early or the set was super short because we walked in a couple of minutes after eight and could hear a muffled version of "No More Mr. Nice Guy" through the arena walls.  We also heard the band play "Under My Wheels" as we worked our way up the escalators to our second level seats and made it inside to hear the band start "I'm Eighteen." (The only song we totally missed was the opener of "Hello Hooray.")



When Alice gets these opening slots on these major tours he is given a high level of respect in regards to length of set and use of stage.  Alice basically had a headlining stage set and full use of all of his props which make his show always entertaining..

He was given a full hour and the rest of his setlist was:

Billion Dollar Babies



Poison

Dirty Diamonds (with drum solo)

Welcome to My Nightmare



Feed My Frankenstein





Ballad of Dwight Fry





a little bit of "Killer" into...





 I Love The Dead





School's Out (with audience sing along of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall part 2")



A nice strong standard set of many of Alice's hits.  The lights went up and we had about a half hour before Motley Crue would hit the stage.  Continue to that post by clicking here.

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