On May 19, legendary rocker Alice Cooper was interviewed by Canadian rock icon Kim Mitchell at the studios of the Toronto classic rock radio station Q107 (CILQ-FM). You can now watch video footage of their chat in four parts below.
Due next year, Cooper‘s long-awaited new album, “Welcome 2 My Nightmare”, features the original “Nightmare” tandem of Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner, with Vince Gill guesting on a track called “Runaway Train”. In addition, surviving Cooper band members Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway and Neal Smith appear on the song “When Hell Comes Home”.
In an interview with Billboard.com, Cooper said about the forthcoming CD, “I had an idea to do a part two to (2008’s) ‘Along Came a Spider’,” Cooper says. “I came to [producer] Bob [Ezrin; PINK FLOYD, KISS] with it, and he listened and goes, ‘Eh. I would be more excited if ‘Along Came a Spider’ was a No. 1 record.’ He wasn’t really into it. Then we started talking about ‘Welcome to My Nightmare’‘s 35th anniversary or something like that, and he said, ‘What if Alice had another nightmare?’ All I was trying to do was get Bob to say, ‘Yeah, I want to produce the album,’ so we found a place where both of us really felt comfortable, and that was doing ‘Nightmare 2’.”
“There are certain songs where we let some of the themes from (the original) ‘Nightmare’ slip in,” Cooper told Billboard.com. “All of a sudden you’ll hear the little piano part from ‘Steven’ or from ‘The Awakening’. I wanted (the albums) to be married together. I think we even make reference to a couple of characters from the original (album).”
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