A Word

***Wacken 2018 - view from the Jägermeister Deer

Live gigs are essential. Remembering them is sometimes even more fun (but writing tedious ;-). Short stories about great gigs - and the others as well. This is strictly non-commercial and just my humble taste/opinion.

28 April 1988

Guest Review by Flyingsheep: Alice Cooper

Location: Kurhalle Oberlaa, Kurbadstraße 14, 1100 Wien, Österreich
By: Flyingsheep (many thanks, mate)


Alice ´88, what an event. Of course, his biggest times (regarding his influences in the rock scene, at least) were in the early and mid-seventies, but this is the tour after "Raise Your Fist And Yell", which was (and is) a great record. Songs like "Gail", "Prince Of Darkness" and "Freedom" are very fine ones. 


Alice´s band is a tight rock band, almost "heavy metal"; of course, the lead guitarist is a particular eye-catcher, being a kind of metal-version of Arnold Schwarzenegger (his name is Kane Roberts, if my memory´s correct). The show is awesome, especially I you´ve never seen Alice before. I´m not quite sure about the way he died on stage, but I think he got hanged, as shown on the very pretty ticket. 

The funniest part is, of course, getting some of the fake blood that came in big balloons which are thrown above the audience at the end of the concert. One of these balloons explode right above me, and blood is on my hands and on my shoes! I won´t clean my shoes for a long time - but can't save the blood on my hands, though, for obvious reasons...