Alice Cooper has just rolled out a 20-city North American fall tour. Cooper — who plays on Thursday (April 14th) in Calgary with special guests Buckcherry — kicks off the autumn run on September 7th in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and carries on through October 8th when he wraps the year up in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Alice Cooper told us that the days of blowing an audience's mind with stage theatrics have really changed over the decades: “I don't think you can shock an audience anymore, really. I mean, CNN's more shocking than anything Marilyn Manson or I can do, because (laughs), they used to hang me onstage, now you see people really getting hung on TV. So, the idea is just to bombard the audience with vaudeville-type of burlesque comedy — but make sure the music is the basis of everything. I mean, you can't put icing on the cake without the cake. So a 10-hour rehearsal is nine hours on the music, and one hour on the theatrics.”
UPDATED: Alice Cooper’s North American tour dates (subject to change):