Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper - Live 1973 - Billion Dollar Babies Tour
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Actor: Alice Cooper, Dennis Dunaway, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Neal SmithDirector: Joe Gannon
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Ron Sexton
Producer: Joe Gannon
Writer: Joe Gannon
Producer: Herb Margolis
Producer: Shep Gordon
Writer: Shep Gordon
Writer: Fred Smoot
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Shout! Factory
DVD Reviews of Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper - Live 1973 - Billion Dollar Babies Tour
DVD Review: Don't believe the hype - this concert single-handedly jump-started rock history
Summary: 5 Stars
So many falsehoods surround this incredible DVD that I can't hold my peace any longer."Good to see you again, Alice Cooper" is the most brilliant, depraved, inspired, trailblazing, disturbing, enjoyable and profound concert ever captured on film in pop history. It is the standard upon which every pop/rock act since 1973 is judged. Name any act you can think of, and I mean anybody, and I will show you they fail miserably when held against Alice's Dali-esque genius. First of all, the biggest lie one reads among these slack-jawed reviews is that other acts came along after Alice and 'outdid' him, like the weak Marilyn Manson and other 'unnamed' acts. Marilyn Manson? Marilyn Manson, let's be real, never threatened anybody. Play a tape of Mediocre Marilyn to a nursing group rest home and they'd think they were watching Lawrence Welk. Throw this concert on and there would be a riot with plenty of flat-lining octagenarians screaming bloody murder. Marilyn and the ilk that followed Alice are such a poor derivative that I cannot understand anyone thinking that Alice was ever outdone. Outdone in what way? Perhaps in stagnation, or dearth of creativity, perhaps, but never in sheer pioneering uncharted territory. Pioneering uncharted territory is what this DVD is all about. This DVD is DANGEROUS. This DVD is seriously MIND-WARPING. This DVD challenges everything what you think you know about pop 'entertainment'. This DVD is so cutting edge that even 30 years later even Alice himself has not topped it, or even come close. After this concert, even Alice himself 'toned it down'. Let me explain...When one experiences this DVD one is witnessing the birth and death of western culture. How so? Listen. This concert spawned many sub-genres that so many take for granted, that even I'm not sure I spotted them all. Those hideous boots Alice wears. KISS paid attention. They all wore the huge Alice boots. Alice ran around a huge stage complete with stairways and hidden suprises. KISS ran around a huge stage with the same. Alice shoots flames out of his hands. KISS' Gene Simmons shoots flames out of his mouth. Alice spits all over himself. KISS' Gene Simmons' spits blood all over himself. How much did KISS steal from Alice Cooper? Answer: they stole it ALL. Don't take it from me. Take it from KISS' Peter Criss who said, "Our idea was from the start to have not one, but four Alice Coopers' in one band". KISS even stole Bob Ezrin, Alice's producer, to make "Destroyer" their breakthrough album. The rest is history. Alice pioneered gender-bending till it broke the back in everything. Every glam, glitter, and glock band since cashed in on Alice's formula. Bowie and Mick were contemporaries but even they tipped their fedoras Alice's way in trying to keep up with Alice...remember Mick straddling the giant inflatable phallus onstage? See this DVD and watch Alice provide the inspiration with his Cocgate Toothpaste tube. Alice outdid them all first.Punk? Don't get me started. Alice WAS the original punk. Don't take it from me. Take it from Johnny Rotten himself. Rotten and Sid Viscious himself took their cue from Alice. Rotten sang "I'm 18" in his audition for the Sex Pistols. Watch this DVD and you will see the birth of punk unfold before your eyes. Alice does it all. He self-mutilates, he insults, he never takes himself seriously; Alice is seriously so P'd Off he threatens to break some jackasses' arm, he assaults another idiot who jumps onstage and gets his nose bloodied; Alice is seriously disturbed, he's angry, he's got nothing to lose, in fact he is self-deprecating, and when he horks right in the face of the audience and smears spit on some poor girl in the audience's face, you are witnessing the very first of an act that has been attempted to be replicated in every punk gig ever since. The filth. The granduer. The musicianship. The spectacle. The violence. The disgust. The confusion. The brilliance. The genius. No-one has even come close to this ever since. NOBODY. Not even Alice himself...Alice had to tone it down after this tour. It was too real. Unfortunately he became a bit of a hack after this but in this DVD he is a total believer, he is seriously demented, and if he hadn't stepped back he would've ended up like Morrison either dead or in jail for violating decency laws or inciting riots. Alice is the real deal in this concert. Those who assail the filmaker's talents are woefully misinformed. The camera work is brilliant: the colors achieved with the contrast between Alice in the fore with bandmembers in the back are haunting; and Alice's body language is sheer debauched physical poetry. This film is pure magic from beginning to end and I simply cannot believe that it is viewed as a relative curiousity and has lain in relative obscurity up till now. But now I know why. This film is so far above and beyond anything that has been attempted either before or since that asking the average music fan to appreciate it is like casting pearls before swine. For instance some mentally-challenged reviewer said "watch it with Alice's commentary on". What? EVEN ALICE CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT HE DID WAY BACK IN '73. Some scenes are so jaw-dropping that Alice instead of commentary pauses long in silence...and so will you. Do you remember what you did and why on a particular day THIRTY YEARS AGO? NO? Well either does Alice...asking an almost 60 year old man to comment on something he was doing when he was 25 years old is unilluminating...Alice doesn't even remember the '70's, let alone one or two nights in Houston in 1973. He is just as awestruck as you will be. Like asking Mozart on his deathbed what the hell he was thinking when he composed his first masterpiece as a six-year old child. "Alice what were you thinking when you single-handedly spawned punk, metal, goth, glam, and glitter etc for the next decades in an incomprehensible burst of monumental artistic creativity way back in '73?" "Uh, well...I don't really remember, and I'm as stunned as you are watching this..." Wow.The other day I was at a party. I popped in this DVD and before long every face was glued to the big screen. Most freaks and punks think they have seen it all. But when Alice started stabbing v#ginas with a nasty steel sword the place went quiet. Girls left. Less manly men whimpered in disgust. And no-one spoke through the rest of the DVD. After it was over, the party was quiet. These freaks, who prided themselves on being cutting edge, had just been b#tch-slapped by something rawer than they had ever seen. They were shell shocked. This 'little lame concert' affected them. I'm still getting calls about it. "When was that made?" "No Way!" "Wow!"Wow indeed. This isn't just a 'concert'. It will rock, disturb, enthrall, haunt, possess, entertain and sicken you til the end of your days gauranteed. Even Alice is taken aback by viewing it now, and you can tell. This dvd goes too far, and then some. This is not some concert from 1973, this is a milestone in popculture entertainment that has never and will never be equalled. Historians in centuries to come will view this DVD as the Rozetta Stone in which to interpret the rise and fall of Western Civilization. "Good to see you again Alice Cooper" is unequivocably the most underrated event in rock history. And for good reason. Because it is TOO good for the average lemming to understand. Even Alice couldn't top it! Enjoy if you dare!
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Description of Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper - Live 1973 - Billion Dollar Babies Tour
And now, America's own Billion Dollar Babies ... the legendary ALICE COOPER!The original Rock ?n? Roll Spectacle. The groundbreaking tour. The five original members of the Alice Cooper group captured live. The 1973 Billion Dollar Babies show was the first of its kind. No other band had ever brought a more expensive, elaborate theatrical production to the rock stage -- and rarely has any since.
Now available for the FIRST TIME since it hit theaters in 1974, Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper -- the film made during the Billion Dollar Babies tour that combines stunning concert footage with an outrageous story and also features the band?s acting debut ? has been transferred in high definition and now includes a new 5.1 Surround Sound mix.
The crunching music, the snake, the guillotine, the makeup, the hatchets, mannequins and dolls, the money, the whips -- it all started here. Alice Cooper kicked the door down. All the other artists followed behind.
Featuring 13 Alice Cooper classics recorded live in concert:
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
And a studio performance of The Lady Is A Tramp
Plus These Special Features:
*Audio Commentary by Alice Cooper
*Play-Concert-Only Option
*Deleted Scene and Outtakes
*Original Theatrical Trailer and Radio Spots
*Poster Gallery With Original Promotional Material
Band Biographies
*DVD Easter Eggs
*Anamorphic Widescreen & 5.1 Surround Sound
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