What Alex was up to in April . . .

[blueschica]

More from RushIsABand website about Alex's appearance at Alice Cooper's golf benefit earlier this week- (thanks RIAB-more details on their site!)

 

"There was a Rock and Roll Vampire Bash in connection with the golf tournament Sunday evening from 4:30-10PM which included Live Entertainment on the PCS Stage with Alice Cooper and friends, including Alex Lifeson, Danny Seraphine (Chicago), Tommy Thayer (KISS), Frank Sidoris (Slash), and Neal Smith (Alice Cooper). The Arizona Republic posted a review along with some photos to their website this past Monday and gave some details regarding what songs were performed and who performed them:

 

... [Cooper] and Frank Sidoris took the stage, Cooper announcing "Tonight, we're a cover band" before leading the band in a spirited version of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," after which he did a brilliant parody of Mick Jagger's stage movie.

Then, they brought out Seraphine and Thayer to "go back even further than 'Satisfaction,'" as Cooper put it, on a ragged but raucous rendition of Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" that definitely played to Thayer's strengths on that Gibson Les Paul as Alice and Dash shared vocal duty.

Thayer was even better suited to the next song, Kiss' "Rock and Roll All Nite," on which also sang. As someone who grew up on Cooper and Kiss, I can't tell you how surreal it was to see Cooper singing "Rock and Roll All Nite." Maybe all those arguments my brother and I used to have over which of those artists was better back in grade school (I was Team Alice) could have been resolved with, "You don't have to choose." Who knew?

Of course, the fact that Lifeson was also on stage playing "Rock and Roll All Nite" would probably strike more people as surreal. But Lifeson looked like he was loving every minute of it.

Zelisko joined the fun for "Wild Thing," which rocked and included a jaw-dropping solo from Lifeson and Seraphine rocking more like a garage-rock fan than a veteran of Chicago.

When the song was over, Cooper proudly noted, "That's what bar bands do." ..."

 

Entire newspaper article and lots of photos at http://www.azcentral...feson/83503540/

 

There's also a (pretty fuzzy) Youtube video of the "band" and Alex doing "Wild Thing" below the photos! :P

http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/pp338/plantfan40/635971801567723688-alice-cooper-concert-1026.jpg http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/pp338/plantfan40/635971801566631681-alice-cooper-concert-931.jpg http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/pp338/plantfan40/635971801568659694-alice-cooper-concert-366.jpg

 

Edited April 30, 2016 by blueschica

[x1yyz]

Cool! I'm glad to see he's out playing live and having fun.

[JohnnyBlaze]

Thanks for the post blueschica!

 

I'm not a big Cooper fan but I have a lot of respect for him. And he seems like a genuinely nice, fun loving guy. "That's what bar bands sound like."

[Digital Dad]

Thanks for the post blueschica!

 

I'm not a big Cooper fan but I have a lot of respect for him. And he seems like a genuinely nice, fun loving guy. "That's what bar bands sound like."

 

Agreed. I think I like Vincent Furnier more as a person that I like Alice Cooper the Rock God.

[Lorraine]

I love Alice.

[Lorraine]

Thanks for the post blueschica!

 

I'm not a big Cooper fan but I have a lot of respect for him. And he seems like a genuinely nice, fun loving guy. "That's what bar bands sound like."

 

Agreed. I think I like Vincent Furnier more as a person that I like Alice Cooper the Rock God.

 

Me too. He's very down to earth.

[toymaker]

Cooper was one of the most fun concerts I've ever been to. Cool clip - thanks for posting!

[patjnev]

Good for Alex .

[ytserush]

Either I forgot about the Robby Kreiger benefit show in 2014 or I wiped it from my memory. Some of it was was good and some of it not so much.

[Principled Man]

I love Alice.

 

ALL the girls love Alice.

 

What do you expect from a 68-year old yo-yo?? ;) ;)