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Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare Actor: Alice Cooper Number of Items: 1 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Wea/Rhino Product Group: DVD Release Date: 1999-05-04 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 36 Average rating: 3.5 "A Rock Pinnacle" This DVD is a fantastic sample of an often dissed rocker - Alice Cooper, who Bob Dylan has said is a greatly underappreciated song writer. I saw this tour in Chicago - Suzi Quattro opened - and the DVD's performance night has Alice perhaps a little more the worse for wear. Nevertheless this DVD shows a great performer backed by a fabulous band (who, I believe, also played on "Rock n Roll Animal"). Alice's red jump suit and saber, the monsters, the colors and lights are Alice during his lengthy prime; when he lets out "welcome to my breakdown - I hope I didn't scare you" with his trademark leer shivers run down my spine. Alice's greatness, to me, rests on his sublimely original image, his great hard rocking, his appealing melodies and the sympathy and sensitivity that he projects amid an often nightmare world. This is all amply demonstrated on this DVD. For my generation, raised on the British Invasion followed by California and New York psychedelics, Alice represents the last great, truly original rock. Much fine music has followed, but these were the Founding Fathers. "Great show by Alice Cooper" This is a great cd at a great price. The cd came quickly and I would highly recommend Alice Cooper fans buy this cd. "Cut the blood red ribbon...." .....and usher in a new era for rock 'n' roll. Alice Cooper always ahead of the curve solidifies theatrical rock in this mid-70s flashback. As an artist Alice made this sort of act acceptable for all of rockdom whereas Jim Morrison's poetry, Peter Gabriel's characterizations and a handful of other dramatists made onstage theatrics uniquely defining for themselves in the 1960s. The stagecraft and innovations here are historical. And sometimes hysterical. Romanticists may note that Alice's future wife Sheryl is the lead dancer in the highly choreographed performances. Other groups wouldn't do this sort of rock concert until the 1980s. Props rising out of the stage...live performance blended with music video...large-screen films playing as the background. Amazing set and good camerawork to show it all off. As a band, Alice Cooper practically invented both punk and heavy metal in the late 1960s and early 70s. All that is here. You will never see a better pair of metalists solo out in a 1970s concert film. Here, you have Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter thrashing the life out of their gear in not one, but TWO great solo performances. Devil's Food is sublime and the ending solos in front of this Wembley, London audience ice the cake. The Alice Cooper band unfortunately is often in the background on this DVD, but the sound is fair enough to realize how these insanely and musically gifted these guys were. Whitey Glan's drumwork stands out as well. His solo at the end is best viewed with the commentary soundtrack where Alice places his performance into an interesting context. Amazing talent on this disc, recorded for posterity. In later years, Alice Cooper would have wonderful artistic musicians like Davey Johnstone working with him. This ain't that. This is the garage band Alice, not the refined studio Alice. This remastered DVD on Rhino has a great commentary track, and the full frame presentation looks nice on a 16:9 widescreen TV. No sense in criticizing the mix, it is after all from the mid-1970s. If you love pure and progressive rock 'n' roll, and you appreciate what Alice Cooper did for them, buy this beast. "Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare" Its a combination or a ballet and an opera with a freak show twist. I recomend it to any Cooper fans. NO other artist has done anything like this show. "Alice Cooper" This is among the best projects that Alice undertook, He invested his life savings in making this television special. And it paid off.