Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper


Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper is a 1974 feature film starring Alice Cooper. The movie primarily features live concert footage of the Alice Cooper band on their record-breaking Billion Dollar Babies tour, filmed in Texas in April 1973, with some footage from other tour stops, including the Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon, intercut with 'comedy' scenes of a German film director chasing the "Cooper gang" for revenge after they abandoned his would-be masterpiece movie.
Two versions of the film exist. The alternate version was issued for its original theatrical release across the US in 1974. Poorly edited and virtually unscripted, the 'storyline' segments of the original version were replaced with black & white excerpts of scenes from old Hollywood movies. Despite this the film still failed at the box office. This version of the film remains commercially unreleased, although bootleg copies have been circulating amongst fans and at Record Fairs readily since the early-1980s.
The original version of the film was eventually restored and released in 2005 on DVD, which includes Cooper providing insightful audio commentary.
On September 14, 2010 Shout! Factory released the film on Blu-ray for the first time.
The film was shown only in Broome County, New York on its opening day, the one place in the USA that banned Alice Cooper from playing at their arena the year before.
The film provides a glimpse of a far less family-friendly Alice Cooper than that portrayed in the Welcome to My Nightmare concert film. The concert segments were performed by the original five-piece band at their artistic and commercial peak, and there is ample evidence of the behavior and implications which made the early Alice Cooper character such a controversial figure. The heavy sarcasm, pointed social satire, confrontational improvisation, and the infamous boa constrictor were all present.

Track listing

  1. "The Lady Is a Tramp"
  2. "Hello Hooray"
  3. "Billion Dollar Babies"
  4. "Elected"
  5. "I'm Eighteen"
  6. "Raped and Freezin'"
  7. "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
  8. "My Stars"
  9. "Unfinished Sweet"
  10. "Sick Things"
  11. "Dead Babies"
  12. "I Love the Dead"
  13. "School's Out"
  14. "Under My Wheels"

Personnel

DVD Features

The special features of the DVD are: