Welcome to My Nightmare [Video]

Alice Cooper

Overview

This is a remastered version of macabre rock star Alice Cooper's 1975 performance of his Welcome to My Nightmare rock & roll show before a live audience in London. Without the pioneering Cooper, there would be no Marilyn Manson or any of a number of modern derivative acts. His elaborate theatrics, encompassing lots of makeup, smoke machines, skeletons, giant spiders, a cyclops, and the disembodied voice of horror movie star Vincent Price, established benchmarks for years of subsequent hard rock band tours. By 1989, Cooper's appeal had dwindled to the point where his concerts were often small affairs that mainly attracted disaffected boys scarcely in their teens too drunk to comprehend the tongue-in-cheek aspects of Cooper's performance. By that time, some of the speakers on-stage were just hollow props. In this performance, however, Alice Cooper rocks on at the height of his fame. Songs performed include "The Awakening," "Welcome to My Nightmare," "Eighteen," "School's Out," "Only Women Bleed," and "Billion Dollar Babies."

Product Details

Release Date:	09/08/2017
UPC:	5034504128378
Original Release:	1993
Source:	Eagle Rock Ent
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	2:25:00
Sales rank:	26,806

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Alice Cooper	Primary Artist
Alice Cooper	Performer

Technical Credits

Bob Ezrin	Composer
Kelly Jay	Composer
John Fowley	Composer
Neal Smith	Composer
William Silberkleit	Executive Producer
Alan Gordon	Composer
Glen Buxton	Composer
David Winters	Producer,Director
Marc Anthony	Composer
Dennis Dunaway	Composer
Dick Wagner	Composer
Michael Bruce	Composer
Alice Cooper	Composer
R. Reggie	Composer

Editorial Reviews

Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare album was a classic, and his supporting tour was amazing, yet the video documenting that tour is downright awful. As interesting as the tour might have been, the video and audio quality on the tape are so horrible that viewers will have a hard time deciding which song is playing and figuring out if the colorful blob running around onstage is Alice Cooper, a dancer or a band member. As provocative as the video may be, considering it was one of his most entertaining tours ever, fans should be advised that Welcome to My Nightmare is a complete waste of money and is not even worth attempting to watch. If only the concert had been filmed with higher quality equipment, it just might have been his best video release yet. ~ Barry Weber