Alice… Alice…
Saturday, October 10th, 2009“Everybody knows I’m Christian, or they know I wasn’t and now I am. If you listen to my radio show or read anything about Alice, they would know I don’t drink, smoke or do drugs. I’ve been married to the same woman for 33 years, I’ve never cheated and I teach Bible study on Wednesday mornings. But there’s nothing wrong with Alice being a rock villain. The point of Alice is bringing up the absurdity of American life. Alice is America’s Frankenstein. He’s totally warped and insane, but there’s no bad language, nudity or anything that any normal person couldn’t take their 10-year-old to. The cutting off of the heads, the hanging — it’s all the same stuff that David Copperfield does. But because it’s rock ‘n’ roll, it’s seen as ‘Oh, that’s the Devil.’
… All my lyrics are talking about great stuff. Don’t invite this Satan guy into your life! That’s the one thing I have going through the whole show, this anti-satanic thing. If anybody should protest me, it’s the Satanists, not the Christians. Does anybody get this?
…But what they don’t realize is that these kids come home and they say, ‘Dad, Alice is totally anti-Satan. He’s against drugs and alcohol!’ And if that doesn’t work, ‘Dad, he can beat you in 18 holes. ”
An excert from an interview with Alice Cooper for the Sun Herald http://www.sunherald.com/living/story/1661729.html
Alice… Alice… don’t you realise that you’re playing the devil’s music, you’re borrowing his clothes, his imagery, his schtick… but not having the honesty to give Satan credit for all the positive things we get from him… like rock and roll.
Shame on you Alice, and if you came to my town I would ‘protest (against) you’.
