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Just 20 feet from stardom, an elite group of "First Call, A-List" musicians share their behind-the scene stories of touring, what it takes to play next to the worlds most iconic musicians, and create some of the worlds most popular songs. Hear incredible stories from Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, Steve Vai, David Foster, Ray Parker Jr. (Ghostbusters) , Liberty DeVitto (Billy Joel) , Jason Hook (FFDP) , Phil X (Bon Jovi) , Kenny Aronoff (Mellencamp) , Rudy Sarzo (Osbourne) , Justin Derrico, Mark Schulman (P!NK) , Jason Newsted (Metallica) , Eric Singer (KISS) , John 5 (Rob Zombie) , Glen Sobel, Nita Strauss (Alice Cooper) , Steve Lukather (M. Jackson, Toto) , Paul Bushnell (Katy Perry) , Jay Graydon (Steely Dan) , Derek St. Holmes (Ted Nugent) , Chris Johnson (Rihanna) , and more!
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Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon) is an American rock singer, songwriter and broadcaster whose career spans more than five decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors and baby dolls, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal that was designed to shock. Alice Cooper was originally a band consisting of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and drummer Neal Smith. The original Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen" from the album , which was followed by the even bigger single "School's Out" in 1972. The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper, adopting the band's name as his own name, began with the 1975 concept album In 2008 he released his 18th solo album. Expanding from his original Detroit rock roots, over the years Cooper has experimented with many different musical styles, including conceptual rock, art rock, glam metal, hard rock, new wave, pop rock, soft rock, experimental rock, heavy metal, and industrial rock. In recent times he has returned more to his garage rock roots. Alice Cooper is known for his social and witty persona offstage, going so far as to refer to him as the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer". He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and has been credited as being the person who "first introduced horror imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre". Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur and, since 2004, a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show On VH1's "100 Greatest artists of Hard Rock", Cooper was ranked #20.
