Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! by Dennis Dunaway

Dennis Dunaway, the bassist and co-songwriter for the band, tells a story just as over-the-top crazy as their (in)famous shows. Their utterly original performance style and look, known as Shock Rock, was swiftly copied by countless bands. charts with Billion Dollar Babies in 1973. Riding on a string of hits like 'I'm 18' and 'School's Out,' they became America's highest-grossing act, producing four platinum albums and hitting number one on the U.S. Hodenfield and his family of fi.'As the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame says: 'Before the world heard of KISS, the New York Dolls, Marilyn Manson or Ozzy Osbourne, there was Alice Cooper, the original shock-rock band.' When Alice Cooper became the stuff of legend in the early '70s, their shows were monuments of fun and invention.

He currently writes about automobiles for a number of publications.

Chris Hodenfield was a staff writer at Rolling Stone magazine for 12 years.

Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! is the riveting account of the band's creation in the '60s, strange glory in the '70s, and the legendary characters they met along the way.ĭennis Dunaway was the bass player, lead songwriter, and theatrical conceptionalist of Alice Cooper and was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. From struggling for recognition to topping the charts, the Alice Cooper group was entertaining, outrageous, and one-of-a-kind. Their journey took them from Hollywood to the ferocious Detroit music scene, along the way adding new dimensions of rock theater. Dennis Dunaway, the bassist and co-songwriter for the band, tells a story just as over-the-top crazy as their (in)famous shows.Īs teenagers in Phoenix, Dennis Dunaway and lead singer Vince Furnier, who would later change his name to Alice Cooper, formed a hard-knuckles band that played prisons, cowboy bars and teen clubs. When Alice Cooper became the stuff of legend in the early '70s, their shows were monuments of fun and invention. Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! : My Adventures in the Alice Cooper GroupĪs the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame says: 'Before the world heard of KISS, the New York Dolls, Marilyn Manson or Ozzy Osbourne, there was Alice Cooper, the original shock-rock band.'

Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! by Dennis Dunaway