Alice Cooper To Reunite Original Band

Monster-Mania.com, the official website for Monster-Mania Con 12, an annual gathering of horror film and memorabilia aficionados, is advertising an "Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies Reunion," which apparently is set to take place on – appropriately enough – Friday, March 13, 2009.

Although there has been no official announcement from Alice Cooper or his representatives, the original surviving members of the Alice Cooper band – Michael Bruce (guitar), Dennis Dunaway (bass) and Neal Smith (drums) – will all be in attendance during Monster-Mania Con 12, which is scheduled for March 13-15 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cherry Hill, N.J.

The band's last public performance was a set at Cooper’s 2006 Christmas Pudding show in Phoenix, Ariz., which is Cooper’s annual fundraiser for the Solid Rock Center, an organization that helps troubled teens. This year’s gathering – held just last month – featured Bob Welch of Fleetwood Mac and the Doors’ Robby Krieger.

The band's other original guitar player, Glen Buxton, died in 1997 of complications from pneumonia, just shy of his 50th birthday. He was the co-writer of such Cooper classics as "School's Out" and "I'm Eighteen."

Thanks for the report to Gibson.com.

Comments

[MegaRon]

I am even more envious of my friend who will be attending this now. At least I'll be able to get an album signed by all of them, though. I think.

[Aero|]

OMFG! Awesome!

[Les Paul Ell]

F*cking yes. Shame Buxton won't be there though.

[jmetalf]

THERE IS A GOD!!!

[ozzynator]

hehehe this is good news to hear !!

[Tapping_Ninja]

He is an aweosme singer... I liked him on Avantasia's new album. Very Creepy

[Serjem]

really? that's great

[M.B.MetalTabber]

It's a shame they don't do just one song together (or maybe even an album) For a reunion. Not that I don't like the current line-up though.

[MXFNCK]

cool

[theotherguy7145]

They should record the live show, and sell that as an album... I'd buy it!

[Rusty2008]

sweet :]

[GuitarUltimate?]

man, i don't know. i saw him on this last tour, and the guitarists he had were friggen rockstars.

[bendystraw]

I've been listening to his show since it started. Glad to hear this, big Cooper fan here.

[Scorge]

YES!!!! SCORE ONE FOR JERSEY MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!

[Silas S Thompso]

That's the day after my birthday. To bad I live in Ct and have no money

[de-fexxx666]

Holy ****, that's awesome news. I wish they'd do just one reunion tour and then go their seperate ways. That would be the probably one of the best selling reunions ever. Don't get me wrong, I think his current band is the best he's had since the ACG broke up, but an ACG reunion tour would be my dream Cooper show.

[MTVget0FFtheAIR]

awesome.

[Ironpriest]

GuitarUltimate? :
man, i don't know. i saw him on this last tour, and the guitarists he had were friggen rockstars.

Dude watch the live in montreux DVD, one of them was so 80's he rocked! looked like Nikki Sixx!
I really enjoyed 'along came a spider' (My review is up, you should read and leave comments hint hint) and hopefully he can come down to Australia and tour. I'm new to the coops, only have live in montreux, along came a spider, and the definitive alic cooper.

"BILLION! DOLLAR BABIES!, TRILLION DOLLAR BABIES!"

[wheelz]

It's about freakin' time!!! Finally!!!!

[Tag43]

Alright! Alice Cooper is awesome!

[pyroseed13]

Wow this is the best news I've gotten all day. I live only 40 minutes from Cherry Hill.

[crazy8rgood]

This news...

'Tis a glorious day lads...

[RocksAwakening5]

[hardcorefreak10]

i hate this line-up.

it would be awesome if there was a reunion with the 1986 line-up with kane roberts on lead guitar'

[RUSTDOGG666]

wish other bands would do this.

[lurch_276]

that is so awesome *tear*

[original=punk]

hardcorefreak10 wrote:

i hate this line-up.

it would be awesome if there was a reunion with the 1986 line-up with kane roberts on lead guitar'

Do you not have ears?
ACB is the only AC lineup that even exists in my mind.

checked.

[Supersonic64]

YES this is AWESOME!!!

[BrianApocalypse]

Alice Cooper are my favourite band, after the church.

[Big Tommy P]

Wonderful, simply fabulous. I think they should get Dick Wagner for lead guitar. Seriously, who else? Listen to Alice Cooper Goes To Hell, and Lace and Whiskey and I beg you to disagree.

[Dr Funkenstein]

Ironpriest wrote:

GuitarUltimate? :
man, i don't know. i saw him on this last tour, and the guitarists he had were friggen rockstars.

Funnily enough I met him at sydney casino in 2000. He was playin the pokies.

Dude watch the live in montreux DVD, one of them was so 80's he rocked! looked like Nikki Sixx!
I really enjoyed 'along came a spider' (My review is up, you should read and leave comments hint hint) and hopefully he can come down to Australia and tour. I'm new to the coops, only have live in montreux, along came a spider, and the definitive alic cooper.

"BILLION! DOLLAR BABIES!, TRILLION DOLLAR BABIES!"

[PiemanSimon]

The original was and always will be the best.
The ACB had a sound scarier than anyone or anything before or since, perhaps they weren't as virtuoso as their replacements - but they wrote the greatest songs (particularly Mike Bruce) and looked darn' cool too.

PiemanSimon

[3 days grace14]

YYYYYEEEEESSSSS
I LUV IT this is great i gotta go get plastered!!!!!

[DoteStudios]

The band was supposed to write a song before Glen died for the Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper box set but the idea was thrown out. It pisses me off so much!