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he's always on thank you so much for
being here tonight it is such an honor
for me personally lifelong fan I can't
believe that I get to dress up like
David Letterman an interview Alice
Cooper I am the only person that doesn't
have to dress up like somebody else I
gotta be honest I was Jay and I just
remembered this tonight
one of the first nightmares that I
remember as a child I've never told you
this we've met before
I've never told this but I had this
nightmare when I was like 6 years old I
saw footage of your concert and I had
this dream that I was there and they
were like cyclopses and guillotines and
then this this conveyor belt of
unmentionable something like covering
you and so before I even bought one of
your records you were already freaking
me out
yes and that was the night that I became
a man yeah well you know rock and roll
horror comedy vaudeville they all go
they're all in bed together yeah you
know as long as the songs are great yeah
then you can be anything you want to be
I mean you know that being a songwriter
if the song is great then you can put it
on stage and then you can decorate it
any way you want to decorate it but the
song comes first the cake comes before
the icing we just use that much icing
you got what I said oh yeah yeah and you
tore up like crazy just finished just
got back to New Zealand two days ago and
with Australia New Zealand South America
Mexico Europe our third time in Europe
but you know we're on the same schedule
you guys are on yeah but you're Alice
Cooper well I do leave a trail of blood
behind me that's right Anna do you do
you have like any sort of pre-show
rituals sort of things that you do it's
every lead singer I know has got some
sort of weird idiosyncrasy you know
Roger Daltrey fly fishes in his bed and
it's just in his room he practices Peter
Frampton irons
the irons we used to throw all of our
clothes into his pressure on anybody I
throw knives
he's Renard I pick out people and I put
them on my board
and I throw knives one in particular
though I'm a ninja you actually know
what you're doing oh yeah I guess I can
put 30 knives right like in a grapefruit
no thank you yes that's a little no I so
your new album paranormal have you have
you ever had any sort of paranormal
experiences you know I had a weird thing
happen with Joe Perry Joe Perry and I
were in a house that my manager owned up
in Copake New York and we were gonna
write a song for and we just got out of
rehab
I know weird isn't it and we and we both
just got out we went to this house if
you are gonna look for a location for a
horror movie it would be this house so
all day we got in I opened up my
suitcase go in the bathroom come back
out the suitcase is closed yeah okay
well I just got a rehab yeah and you
know and then I go in the bathroom and
the water's on I know that's weird I
don't not return that water all day this
happened you know so that night at
dinner we're sitting there and
everybody's going I'm with my guitar
pick down over here and it ended up over
there and all did and while we're
talking the basement is under us and it
it's not just a little it sounds like
somebody's moving furniture in the
basement you know and we're both sitting
there finally somebody says um yeah it's
not like the movies where you go let's
get a flashlight and go down and see
what it is yeah no we were out the door
and I asked Shep I said Shep I said your
house and come pick because oh yeah he
says a guy wrote The Amityville Horror
there oh no and you were gonna tell me
when
and the guy actually he said my mom was
having a dinner party and the dining
room table moved a foot to the right
during dinner I've had a few although
he's not a few yes well that's
terrifying but I don't know if it's as
terrifying as this yeah could you please
explain one the one on the right was
accused of killing a chicken on stage
okay never happened all right the one on
the left is a mass murderer and the
chicken we're doing the show I somebody
throws a chicken on stage and I'm going
oh well I didn't bring it
you know so I pick it up and I'm from
Detroit so it has feathers it has wings
it should fly they don't fly as much as
they plummet yeah the audience tore to
pieces mmm threw it back up on stage and
the next thing next day in the paper
Ellis Cooper kills chicken eats blood
and Frank Zappa calls me up nice did you
kill the chicken last night on stage I
said no and he says oh don't tell me but
they loved it
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