Welcome To My Nightmare, released in 1975, was Coop’s first solo LP. The fourth track on side two of the LP is “Steven.” From the silence, an array of soft, bright notes is played and plucked from the piano and an ensemble of strings. Although dream-like and surreal, the introduction has an eerie vibe – like a horror film’s score or musical theme…
Welcome To My Nightmare, released in 1975, was Coop’s first solo LP. It’s an ambitious album that catapulted his career into the next phase. With Bob Ezrin as a fixed partner in the mix but no “band,” so to speak, Alice found himself in new territory. Ezrin speaks fondly about this time and has disclosed a lot of the process used to create the record. With so many…
This week’s focus is “Only Women Bleed” from the ‘Welcome to My Nightmare‘ album which was released in 1975, and was the first solo album released by Alice Cooper (all previous works were band efforts). Like many of Cooper’s solo works, ‘Nightmare’ is a concept album. The album is the first time we are introduced to one of Alice’s notorious…
This week we look at “Escape” from the “Welcome To My Nightmare” LP. Released in 1975, Alice’s 1st solo album brings excitement and flare back to the stage. A record and stage show with a stated goal and concept, the “Welcome To My Nightmare” experience is one that many fans, critics, and music historians remember fondly. An intense mixture of songs…
Welcome To My Nightmare, released in 1975, was Coop’s first solo LP. It’s an ambitious album that catapulted his career into the next phase. With Bob Ezrin as a fixed partner in the mix but no “band,” so to speak, Alice found himself in new territory. Ezrin speaks fondly about this time and has disclosed a lot of the process used to create the record. With so many…
This week we take another look at the “Welcome To My Nightmare” album. Released in 1975, Alice’s 1st solo album brings excitement and flare back to the stage. A record and stage show with a stated goal and concept, the “Welcome To My Nightmare” experience is one that many fans, critics, and music historians remember fondly. An intense mixture of songs…
This week’s focus is “Only Women Bleed” from the ‘Welcome to My Nightmare‘ album which was released in 1975, and was the first solo album released by Alice Cooper (all previous works were band efforts). Like many of Cooper’s solo works, ‘Nightmare’ is a concept album. The album is the first time we are introduced to one of Alice’s notorious…