Alice Cooper on How He Became Alice Cooper | The Big Interview

Alice Cooper disturbed me a little as a kid. Turns out he's a true gentleman, and pretty dang smart too. And he loves his parents to boot. A great American.

Alice fan for a very long time. His onstage persona is totally stage. This man is so different than people expect. Avid golfer/athlete, family man married now 48 years, private but charitable. Behind that freak rock n roll stage show is a true gentleman.

Alice is a very good human being, a very intelligent, incredibly talented guy, who sounds exactly the same as he did 50 years ago.

Just a quick, funny story in case Alice Cooper reads these comments! My mom was 15 in 1972, and my grandfather purchased a new car with this new 8 track player! She wanted to practice driving so he would let her drive it up and down the driveway by herself, but she wanted to listen to music too! Well my grandfather took her to the mall to the record store to buy an 8 track tape for the new car but he would not let her buy any of that "rock and roll crap" so she said I just want this Alice Cooper 8 track and he said "that name sounds like a nice young lady, you can get that one!" I miss you mom! Love you!

Alice Cooper is probably one of the biggest almost-forgotten rockers of all-time! People forget how big he was in the early 70s! "Welcome to my Nightmare" was incredible!

I met Vincent Furnier little over 20 years ago at a Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale Arizona. He was putting up his 1970 Shelby Mustang up for auction at the time. I happened to have suffered a torn calf muscle playing tennis just a few days earlier at the hotel I was staying at. One of the goals of my trip was to attend my first Barrett-Jackson auction. But being on crutches, going to a show of that nature was very daunting. Because I had so looked forward to attending my first Barrett-Jackson, a local friend of mine offered to drive me to the sight and of course I accepted without even realizing this would be at best quite a physical challenge. When we got there, I hobbled out on to the field where the cars were stored prior to being auctioned, I saw the Shelby and wanted to get a closer look at it. As I was gingerly poking my head into the open drive's side window I heard a voice from behind me that asked "you like that car?" I replied yes I do and as soon as I finished saying that I slowly pivoted around on the crutches and there he was. I asked "hi what do I call you?" He replied "call me Vince." He immediately took pity on me and asked what happened and I explained it and he went on to say something to the affect that at our age we should be playing golf instead and I totally agreed with him. From that point on we talked mostly about antique cars and golf for a few minutes (never even spoke about music) then he asked if I need assistance in getting back to the pavilion where the auction was taking place. I replied thanks but I needed to practice on using the crutches. He said ok but if I need assistance he showed me what I needed to do to get some. I echo the words of the comment immediately before me in this thread in that he is a true gentleman and a smart man all around. If you are reading this Vince, thank you so much for taking the time to make me feel good when I needed it most and above all keep on rocking!

This made me miss Frank Zappa even more. I'm SO Glad Alice Cooper is still with us.

Two gentlemen having a cultivated conversation. What a delight!

Say what you want about Alice, but he is unique, smart, a class act, and his head is in the right place. A true, American success story!👍🇺🇸❤️

Alice is a class act all the way, a true original.

One morning a couple of years back, I walked into the pro shop at our golf club and the Pro hangs up the phone, looks at me and says “that was Calloway Golf setting up a tee time, do you want to play golf with Alice Cooper on Tuesday morning”! Couldn’t say yes fast enough. We had a really nice time, great guy, easy and interesting to talk with. My lucky day.

I have his lps and listen to them to this day. I'm 74. The music today sucks.

My mum's name was Alice Cooper before she married 😂🙌

Been an Alice Cooper fan since I was 14. And I am now 66 and I still love him!!❤❤ God bless you, Alice!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

I saw him last night along with Motley Crue and Def Leppard. I have to say I’ve never seen a musician on stage pull off an act like he did. Blew my mind. Not to mention my favorite act out of the three of them. No offense to the other bands, because they were awesome too.

Alice Cooper is one of my favorite people, really nice, smart and great sense of humor too! Forgot to mention he rocks too!!👍🥰

I could listen to him talk all day.

I was never a real big fan of Alice Cooper until I started listening to his Nights with Alice Cooper radio show. He turned me on to music that I had never heard before. He also really answers the questions you leave on the website. He has answered several of my questions and It's cool to hear your name and his take or answer to my questions.

Alice is always a pleasure to listen to.Use to listen to his radio show and found his recall fascinating, he was hanging out with all the big guy's in the business but never comes across as boastful I could listen to him for hours, obviously highly intellectual. Great songwriter and singer, he's one of the " one offs" that come along every now and then and are sadly fading from the music business.... enjoy him while he's around he's a class act !!!!!!

His band was the house band at the EastTown in Detroit. This was before the makeup and stage show. Their lighting was Christmas tree lights. They were the first or second to go onstage with usually a three group lineup every weekend. When they hit it big with Schools Out, I was at an auditorium early on the day of the night show. The roadies were setting the stage and I'm like the only one sitting in the auditorium seats. Alice comes over and sits next to me and introduces himself as Vince and after asking how I was doing, asked if there were any good golf courses in the area. I actually played at the time and relayed all I knew about local courses. I thought that was a weird request but one day I was laying on the couch and a ProAm golf tournament was on TV. There he was in red pants and shirt and was obviously a scratch golfer. The announcers had no clue and were flabbergasted. His team won.