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- Founded in Phoenix, Arizona as the "The Earwigs" in 1964, becoming Spiders in 1965, moving to LA and becoming The Nazz in 1967 and Alice Cooper in 1968.
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They soon renamed themselves The Nazz and released the single “Wonder Who’s Lovin’ Her Now”, backed with future Alice Cooper track “Lay Down and Die, Goodbye”. At around this time, drummer John Speer was replaced by Neal Smith. By the end of the year, the band had relocated to Los Angeles. 1968 - The Nazz become Alice Cooper
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In Phoenix, Arizona, another band called Nazz was formed at about the same time that Nazz was formed in Philadelphia. This group released only one single before moving to Los Angeles and renaming themselves Alice Cooper .
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In addition to packing their records with anthems of youthful rebellion as enduring as "I'm Eighteen," "School's Out" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy," the Alice Cooper group's macabre theatrics pushed the boundaries of the rock-and-roll experience to shocking new extremes. Cooper staged his own beheading every night on their groundbreaking tour in suppo...
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a long way from the Cortez High School cafetorium, where Dunaway, Buxton and Furnier first shared a stage as the Earwigs. Dunaway says he'd been itching to start a band since 1963 when he saw Duane Eddy and the Rebel play between two movies at the Fox downtown theater. "I didn't have enough money to go buy more pop...
It wasn't long before they started gigging at the VIP, a popular teen club that Dunaway says could hold about 800 people. The only catch was the VIP owner, Jack Curtis, said they'd have to come up with a better name. So they became the Spiders. "We got very popular and had by then learned how to play our instruments," Dunaway says. "We were doing t...
It was shortly after "Bye Bye Birdie" – "just out of the blue," as Dunaway recalls – that guitarist John Tatum left to join a band with Bill Spooner, who in turn went on to be a founding member of the Tubes. That's when the fourth piece of the Alice Cooper puzzle, Michael Bruce, fell into place. As Dunaway recalls, "We'd done this Battle of the Ban...
They were living a house in Santa Monica and had changed their name to the Nazz when future drummer Neal Smith showed up on their doorstep. Smith had moved to San Francisco with another Phoenix band, the Holy Grail. When that ended badly, he asked the Nazz if he could crash at their place while he tried to find a new one. Smith was a Camelback High...
In 1968, they changed their name to Alice Cooper, having found out that Todd Rundgren had a band called Nazz. Cooper and Dunaway have both disputed the story that the name came from a session with a Ouija board but Smith says he was there. They'd come back to the Valley from LA. — as they often did when funds were running low because as Smith says,...
It wasn't long before the newly christened Alice Cooper came to the attention of Shep Gordon. He became their manager and arranged an audition with Frank Zappa, who responded well to their experimental urges, releasing their first album, "Pretties for You," on Straight Records. "I was the crusader for that avant-garde thing," Dunaway recalls. "When...
To that end, they reached out to Jack Richardson, a Canadian producer enjoying a hot streak with a run of big hit singles for the Guess Who. "And he hated us," Smith says, with a laugh. "It was just nothing that made sense to normal people. And Jack Richardson, if you think about the Guess Who, he wanted to stay as far away from us as he possibly c...
Dunaway says he knew that Ezrin was exactly what they needed by the time he finished turning "I'm Eighteen" into a proper hit. "It was this sprawling song that started with a slower, moody keyboard thing," he recalls. "And Bob Ezrin came in and the first thing he said was ‘Get rid of that intro. If it’s gonna be a single, nobody's gonna wait that l...
The four surviving members have reunited several times, onstage and in the studio, since Buxton's death in 1997. The first time was in 1999 for Glen Buxton Memorial Weekend at Cooper'sTown in Phoenix. In 2010, they cut some tracks for Cooper's "Welcome 2 My Nightmare" album and played Christmas Pudding with another fixture of the Cooper universe, S...
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They soon renamed themselves Nazz and released the single "Wonder Who's Lovin' Her Now", backed with future Alice Cooper track "Lay Down and Die, Goodbye". Around this time, drummer John Speer was replaced by Neal Smith .
The bands first gig as Alice Cooper was advertised as The Nazz, between the time the poster had been printed and the show was due to start, the band had changed its name. Their last gig as the Alice Cooper group was on 8th April 1974, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
They soon renamed themselves Nazz and released the single "Wonder Who's Lovin' Her Now", backed with future Alice Cooper track "Lay Down and Die, Goodbye". Around this time, drummer John Speer was replaced by Neal Smith .
Oct 13, 2024 · “I created Alice to be my favourite rock star,” says the man who was born Vincent Damon Furnier in Detroit on February 4, 1948, and who legally changed his name to Alice Cooper in 1974. “Back in the 60s, there was no rock star that made me go, ‘Wow, I gotta see what happens next!’. So I created one. Alice was born out of necessity.
