While there are endless rock and roll memoirs written by musicians, songwriters, producers and even engineers, sometimes the most entertaining come from the fringe. Not meaning that word as superfluous or crazy, but denoting tomes penned by those who circle around the music like roadies, managers, or ex-wives/groupies. With little...
While there are endless rock and roll memoirs written by musicians, songwriters, producers and even engineers, sometimes the most entertaining come from the fringe. Not meaning that word as superfluous or crazy, but denoting tomes penned by those who circle around the music like roadies, managers, or ex-wives/groupies.
But the crooning combo who were a clear throwback to another era quickly became out of step with the era’s psychedelic and harder rock. So, when Alice Cooper’s booking agent Jonny Podell suggested that Libert become their road manager , Libert excitedly started his second act.albums. Already a theatrical group with an image, each tour became more and more involved with props, costumes dancers, effects, and the still-in-his-show guillotine that beheaded the headliner, each and every night.
Thus, there are great nuggets of tour tales. Like the time Gordon arranged for popular DJ Wolfman Jack to introduce Cooper at one show, and for some reason arriving atop a real camel. As for Alice Cooper, Libert writes he was incredibly down to earth, never wanted star treatment, and eschewed most substances save for his beloved Budweiser beer. He even cared much for the live snake used on tour . The reptile who also needed to be kept wrapped in warm blankets while accompanying the band on airplanes.which found the group—all clad in white—and surrounding by a baby in Cooper makeup, rabbits, and $100,000 in $100 bills .
Houston appears once in the narrative, thanks to a Clinton show at the Summit in the late '70s. The venue was one of the first in the nation to employ large video screens projecting the live show to the audience. Some acts were understandably wary of it being taped and then sold illegally. But then again, nobody forced Arkansas super groupie Connie Hamzy to give blowjobs to everyone and anyone connected the band backstage, finally running out of men to pleasure.
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