While the world of rock n' roll has suffered a great deal of losses recently, we are getting something pretty awesome to help make this difficult time a little easier: a brand new album from all of the members of the original Alice Cooper band.
Cooper's previous effort was an all covers album with a variety of rock n' roll royalty to pay tribute to his dead friends. This time around, he is doing another nostalgic project, but with new material based on the sound of his 1971 album Killer. Cooper recently did an interview in The Weekender where he explained the project.
Cooper says:
“We’ve always been a hard rock band, guitar rock, and I’ll never give that up. But every once in a while, though, there’s just a flavor of what album do we want to go to here to give it that flavor. And it seems to be going toward the Killer album. And I kind of go, that album, let’s revisit the sound of that album and what we were kind of thinking. You can never go back and totally recapture it, but you can certainly look at the elements that made that album work the way it did.
We worked together in Phoenix for about two weeks just writing songs and demoing songs. And you never know which ones are going to make the album, but I said let’s do that. It’s fun to go back and work with guys you haven’t worked with in awhile. It’s not trying to recapture your youth. It’s trying to recapture a sound. And it’s a very elusive sound.”
Personally I'm STOKED for this album. This is kind of what I was hoping for when I heard the band was reuniting on Cooper's 2011 release Welcome 2 My Nightmare instead of it just being three tracks. While some of Cooper's newer stuff has kicked some serious ass, there is nothing quite like the magic the old band had when they were originally making music. Hell, you can even hear it on the aforementioned tracks as well.
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