This season: Black and studs are in. School’s out. (Photos by Erik Kabik | Retna. Additional photo by George Lyons.)
We suppose once you play opposite a bunch of Muppets, rocking a designer boutique isn’t too weird. Alice Cooper hit the stage at John Varvatos inside the Hard Rock Hotel, the Joint-adjacent clothing shop, to do a few songs for a select audience. Rock photographer Robert Knight was there for Cooper to do “School’s Out” with Varvatos to close the show, while former Aerosmith guitarist in the Joe Perry-less years, Jimmy Crespo, joined Cooper.
But really, once you’ve almost talked Kermit into a deal with the Devil, it’s all downhill, really.
The hell with it. Once you’ve hit the point where you’re known just as much for the celebrity golf circuit as you are for ’70s shock rock staples, you might as well play a boutique clothing shop. Following on the heels of Cheap Trick, Alice Cooper is playing John Varvatos at the Hard Rock Hotel tonight in a private show.
He’s timing things a little closer to Halloween with his Orleans show, though, which runs Friday through Sunday. Last year, he was there during September, which had people less in the mood for Halloween and more in the mood for cider donuts. Mmm. Alice Cooper beheading warm cider donuts in his stage guillotine. It just sounds so homey, doesn’t it?
Hide your guillotine and stash away your boa constrictor, everyone’s favorite Freddy’s Dead actor, Alice Cooper, is doing three days at The Orleans Showroom starting tonight at 8 p.m. This is the perfect chance for those of you who can’t wait two more months for Halloween to load up on eyeliner and shiny pants. To be fair, there really isn’t a bad time for shiny pants, but still.
You know what we love best about Alice Cooper? He can worship at the twin altars of horror and metal, but still find enough room in his life for golf and zombie ballet.
Through it all, through the sneering “Billion Dollar Baby” and the bombast of “No More Mr. Nice Guy”, this is still a guy who found a way to channel his inner Kip Winger and deliver the ne plus ultra of ’80s metal videos. “Poison” has it all. Emoting frontman? Check. Gratuitous wind machine? Check. Strobe lights? Fog? Check and check. Confusing setpiece? Oh, we’ve got chains hanging in what we’re pretty sure is Don Dokken’s basement. Close-ups of a rock bimbo? Tawny Kitaen didn’t look this good humping a car. Twist ending? A double-swerve of comeuppance that Hitchcock couldn’t have come up with if he had boned Rod Serling.
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10.23.09 
