Alice Cooper – Ladies Man
(Thunderbolt Records 1987 THBM005)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing
Sleeve in Excellent+ condition
– some wear along top edge to the right
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spans over five decades. With his distinctive raspy voice and a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, deadly snakes, baby dolls, and dueling swords, Cooper is considered by music journalists and peers alike to be “The Godfather of Shock Rock”. He has drawn equally from horror films, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre and theatrical brand of rock designed to shock people.
Originating in Phoenix, Arizona, in the late 1960s after he moved from Detroit, Michigan, “Alice Cooper” was originally a band consisting of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and drummer Neal Smith. The original Alice Cooper band released its first album in 1969 but broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit “I’m Eighteen” from their third studio album Love It to Death, which was followed by the even bigger single “School’s Out” in 1972. The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies.
Furnier adopted the band’s name as his own name in the 1970s and began a solo career with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare. In 2011, he released Welcome 2 My Nightmare, his 19th album as a solo artist and 26th album in total. In 2011, the original Alice Cooper band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Expanding from his Detroit rock roots, Cooper has experimented with a number of musical styles, including art rock, hard rock, heavy metal, new wave, glam metal, pop rock, experimental rock, and industrial rock.
Cooper is known for his social and witty persona offstage, with The Rolling Stone Album Guide calling him the world’s most “beloved heavy metal entertainer”. He is credited with helping to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and has been described as the artist who “first introduced horror imagery to rock’n’roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre”. Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and, since 2004, a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper.
Ladies Man is a live album by Alice Cooper.
Track listing
| A1 | Alice Cooper– | Freak Out |
| A2 | Alice Cooper– | Painting A Picture |
| A3 | Alice Cooper– | I’ve Written Home To Mother |
| A4 | Alice Cooper– | Science Fiction |
| B1 | Alice Cooper– | For Alice |
| B2 | Alice Cooper– | Nobody Likes Me |
| B3 | Ronnie Hawkins– | Goin’ To The River |
| B4 | Ronnie Hawkins– | Ain’t That Just Like A Woman |
Companies, etc.
- Recorded At – Toronto Rock’N’Roll Revival 1969
- Recorded At – Hallmark Studios, Toronto
- Licensed From – Darwin International
Notes
Recorded live at the Toronto Rock Festival 1969, except tracks B3 and B4 which are by Ronnie Hawkins.
Alice Cooper slapped an injunction on this LP due to the two Ronnie Hawkins tracks being included and it was withdrawn.
Titles for tracks 1-5 are bogus.
Actual titles are as follows:
1. “Freak Out” (“Don’t Blow Your Mind” {a 1966 release by group Spiders} with alternate lyrics)
2. “Painting A Picture” (“No Longer Umpire”)
3. “I’ve Written Home To Mother” (segment of “Lay Down And Die, Goodbye”)
4. “Science Fiction” (“Fields Of Regret”)
5. “For Alice” (instrumental segment of “Lay Down And Die, Goodbye”)
6. “Nobody Likes Me
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