Alice Cooper

Psfivgas Oct 04, 2024

Zonny, thanks for the review and picture, it must have been from the first show, maybe why the date changed. Our show was the 2nd show after midnight. First song..BLUE TURK! Listen to it!

Zonny Oct 04, 2024

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Zonny Oct 04, 2024

Loved your colorful review of this show. Found a photo. The date looks like it was actually July 28 based on Tribune articles of the day and the photo.

Psfivgas Jul 01, 2022

There were two shows for School's Out that night at the Chicago Amphitheatre, turdy turd & archer, and both were packed. Captain Beyond was the backing band but we didn't see much of them because of the slow transition of the crowd after the first show, but we heard them, loud. Before gettin into the building with the throng we saw our first Honda Coupe ever, new tiny yellow thing. People were wild & started yelling and said “Let’s pick it up.” So a bunch of us got all around the car with two people scared to death inside, and we actually picked it up, all four off the ground, & turned it to the side, put it down and began laughing and yelling. Moving on. We found our wall seats, left of the stage, and high enough above to see the entire amphitheater, with all general seating on the dirt floor. We never saw anybody sitting on the floor the entire show. Remember this place was for the great livestock shows in history.

Alice came out from the right side of the stage, climbing steps as drunken with a bottle of whiskey in his hand. He had painted black eyes, gnarled black hair, and glitter bottoms. Your playlist is wrong because it doesn't have the best song on there to start the SECOND SHOW...'BLUE TURK' (listen to the music) It looks like most of the playlist is correct after that with maybe the addition of a couple more. It was a long show maybe two hours plus. The guard posted at the front of the stage was bald and Alice did him a number on several acts. He stuck the big boa constrictor that he played with in his ear once. Stabbed him on top of his head with a fencing bail once. He tried to grab him several times, maybe it was part of the act. Alice passed out at one point and we watched them behind the set giving him smelling salts or paregoric under his nose, reviving him. The band was right on cue, superb, better and louder than the albums they played from. They did Dead Babies but I don’t see that on the playlist. They did the street fight scene & one of our friends told us later that it was the first time they ever did it on stage was the Chicago show, I’m not sure. Alice on another set got hung. The band played extremely well & actually were part of the antics in many sets. Glen Buxton, Dennis Dunaway, & Micheal Bruce were dramatically active on stage as well as acoustically exact in their sound production. Towards the end of the show Alice was taking off the little amount of clothing he had. His bottoms were a tight silver glitter pant, that’s all that was left at the end. But when he threw his belt out into the crowd a bunch of people were fighting like cats and dogs in the dirt for it. Late in the show they brought up a box of posters all rolled as tubes with cellophane. By this time the smoke was thick because there was no air circulation. Kinda like an inversion layer hovering 20 or 30 feet above the dirt floor. During the set he used one hand to unroll the first poster of himself and ended up wadding it up on his bare chest and then tossing it out into the crowd. From above it was like watching a bunch of bait fish ripping it apart until it disappeared. Then the box of posters was thrown one at a time in different directions. He threw one in our direction but way short of our height. Women who had been on shoulders on the floor had removed their tops during the show and were now enthusiastically bouncing their tits at him trying to get one of the posters. Alice was blown away by these things and touting them maybe to take off more. And yeah they did encores using School’s Out as the blow out. Top 10 show of all time, hands down. Need you know more? We thought we had gone nuts after the show driving back on the 55 headed to Riverside-Brookfield.