Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs!: My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Band - Softcover

Denis Dunaway; Chris Hodenfield

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783059931 ISBN 13: 9781783059935

Publisher: Omnibus Press, 2015

Synopsis

When Alice Cooper became the stuff of legend in the early '70s, their shows were monuments of fun and invention. 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. and U.K. charts with Billion Dollar Babies in 1973. As 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. Their journey took them from Hollywood to the ferocious Detroit music scene. From struggling for recognition to topping the charts, the Alice Cooper group was entertaining, outrageous, and one-of-a-kind. Dennis Dunaway, the bassist and co-songwriter for the band, tells a story just as over-the-top crazy as their (in)famous shows. 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.

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Review:

The must read rock autobiography of 2015 --The Strange Brew

Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! is a rarity in the world of rock and roll, as it is a true telling of what really happened by someone who was really there. --Classic Rock Revisited

What Dunaway does brilliantly is show us the true essence of himself, Cooper, Smith, and guitar players Michael Bruce and Glen Buxton as real people --Glide Magazine

About the Author:

Dennis Dunaway was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. Dennis continues writing songs, recording and playing live concerts with Blue Coupe. He lives in the USA. Chris Hodenfield was a staff writer at Rolling Stone magazine for 12 years. A longtime enthusiast for motor sports, he currently writes about automobiles for a number of publications. He lives in the USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Omnibus Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1783059931
• ISBN 13: 9781783059935
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304