since i only recently started doing this blog again, i didn't write about the time i saw alice open for iron maiden last summer. and how i saw alice again a few days later play at sands casino in bethlehem. but those things happened, and i was happy to see that he was coming around again because he was fantastic when i saw him those other times.
last night was no exception. unfortunately, due to my show buddy not being the best at judging time and whatnot, and also with the addition of his friend and the friend's girlfriend, we ended up getting there a bit late and missed a bit of the show. i just found this set list so i can see that we missed "hello hooray," which i thought i heard last night...i guess i was right. we walked in during the second one, "house of fire." at least we got there just in time for "my" song; i call it mine but i'm sure it's like a million people's favorite alice cooper song. "no more mr. nice guy." just something about that guitar riff and the way he sings it..."i got no friends 'cause they read the paper, they can't be seen...with me." i love that pause in there. and when he goes "no more, mr. clea-he-he-hean!" it's just the best. right? i'm always right. so he did 2 songs off the new album (welcome 2 my nightmare...i didn't read any reviews of the album but i fucking love it. even the weird "disco bloodbath" song and the song that ke$ha sings on. yes i really put the dollar sign there. what. i don't know. i feel weird that i like it but i do...it's alice fucking cooper, ok), "i'll bite your face off" and "caffeine." he did both of those the last time i saw him, and he didn't do it last night but he would put on a jacket that had "new song" painted on the back, and just turn around so we could read it. brilliant, and so alice. what else...my friend was so psyched when they did "department of youth." hehe. oh and "dirty diamonds"! you guys! dirty fucking diamonds! that song is so awesome! that whole album was so good! and all the band members soloed and it was good. and, uh, "feed my frankenstein." you know he has the monster that comes out and hurls itself around the stage? it makes me feel like a child. like, that excited feeling that you get when you see a giant monster walking around in front of you. what, you guys don't like monsters? whatever. actually the night i saw alice and iron maiden, i got to see the frankenstein monster AND eddie. you have no idea what that did to me. or maybe you do?
then alice gets his head chopped off, "i love the dead," then he comes back out and they did all these covers, the doors, the beatles, jimi hendrix, the who...pretty fucking cool. followed by "i'm eighteen." no, alice, you haven't been eighteen for a long time...but it's ok because that song rules. and "poison." fuck yeah.
and then of course he does "school's out."
and i was so sad that it was over. it felt like he was playing for 20 minutes, not the hour and a half that it actually was. i was having such a good time. seriously, i hope he lives forever and never stops touring so i can keep going to see him. forever. it would never get old.
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