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Alice Cooper was an American rock band made up of Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar and keyboards, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, Neal Smith on drums, and vocals by Vince Furnier, who legally changed his name to Alice Cooper and has had a solo career under that name since the band became inactive in 1975. The band was famous for their elaborate, theatrical shock rock stage shows. After several years of little success the Alice Cooper band rose to fame in 1971 with the success of the single "I'm Eighteen" and the album ''Love It to Death'', and peaked in popularity in 1973 with the album "Billion Dollar Babies" and its tour, which broke box-office records previously held by the Rolling Stones. ==History== The band consisted of members, all from the previous 60s garage rock band, the Spiders. They created everything as a group and wrote virtually the lion's share of what was to become the classic Alice Cooper canon. Neal Smith's sister Cindy Smith Dunaway (Dennis Dunaway's wife) designed the bands costumes and also performed in the stage show (she was the "dancing tooth" during the band's ''Billion Dollar Babies'' tour).〔Walker, Michael. (What You Want Is in the Limo: On the Road With Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, and the Who in 1973, the Year the Sixties Died and the Modern Rock Star Was Born ). Random House LLC, 2013.〕 The Alice Cooper band was the subject of media criticism after Furnier (Alice Cooper) threw a live chicken into the audience during the 1969 Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival Festival. The audience ripped the chicken to shreds.〔Howell, Peter. "Toronto 'chicken incident' sparked rage". ''Toronto Star'', 24 April 2014.〕 The band was featured on a Warner Bros sampler album ''Zapped'' of bands produced by Frank Zappa for the label, and then went on to release several chart-topping albums and headlining major tours before breaking up in 1975. Vincent Furnier took "Alice Cooper" as his own name and carried on with a new group of musicians.,〔〔Edmonson, Jacqueline. ("Cooper, Alice (1948 - )" ).''Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories That Shaped Our Culture''. ABC-CLIO, 2013.〕 the original band becoming officially defunct. Bruce, Dunaway and Smith would go on to form the short-lived band Billion Dollar Babies, producing one album - ''Battle Axe'' - in 1977. While occasionally performing with one another and Glen Buxton, they would not reunite with Alice until October 23, 1999, at the second Glen Buxton Memorial Weekend for a show at CoopersTown in Phoenix (Buxton having died in 1997). They reunited for another show, with Steve Hunter on guitar, on December 16, 2010, at the Dodge Theatre in Phoenix. This lineup would perform together again (televised) on March 14, 2011, at the induction of the original Alice Cooper group into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as on May 11, 2011, at London's Battersea Power Station at the Jagermiester Ice Cold 4D event (webcast). Bruce, Dunaway and Smith appeared on three tracks they co-wrote on Alice's 2011 album ''Welcome 2 My Nightmare''. A documentary about the Alice Cooper band entitled ''Super Duper Alice Cooper'' premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 17, 2014, and was scheduled to be screened at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival a week later.〔 On October 6, 2015, a surprise reunion show took place in Dallas at Dunaway's book signing session where he was joined by Bruce, Smith, Cooper and Ryan Roxie, who replaced the late Glen Buxton. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alice Cooper (band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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