Alice Cooper

[Guest idolsmasher]

I think he's still trying to please the audience without appearing too religious to turn em off. I don't think I'll be buying his music, but I'm very glad he's saved.

[Guest yod]

That "Welcome to my Nightmare" tour was one of the all-time greatest shows in rock and roll history

Vincent Furnier (his real name) married a christian girl long, long ago and she has been the one who stuck with him. I saw an interview with his dad who said that Vince was a christian all his life...he just mixed drama with music and his character overcame his person. He was never a druggie..but was a Bud-aholic for many years. Yuck. That stuff gives me bitter beer face.

Brutal Planet was some cool stuff. I loved it. He used to have a cool little flash video up at Spitfire Records.That one is gone but there is one for the latest album.

check this out

Spitfire Records

I can't remember where I saw it or heard it....but he has a ministry (he doesn't call it that) to rock stars. Think about it...who would Ozzie respect enough to listen to?

He mostly helps them get off of drugs and alchohol....or at least that is the pretense.

[Guest idolsmasher]

I don't know Yod, he still seems kinda strange to me. It's a good thing he's saved, ha ha ha! :oww:

[WayneB]

I don't know Yod, he still seems kinda strange to me. It's a good thing he's saved, ha ha ha! :oww:

I agree with Smash.

Now if y'all want a beautiful song, listen to Somebody's Praying written and sung by Ricky Skaggs. Man...tears will flow!

[traveller]

From another site:

Rock star Alice Cooper shocked the world in the 1970s with an alcohol-fueled stage show that explored taboos ranging from murder to necrophilia. Years later he shocked the rock world by quietly embracing Christianity.

Cooper has rarely talked about his faith, but in an exclusive October, 2000 interview with Lonn Friend, editor of the on-line rock magazine KNAC.COM, Cooper spoke at length about his drinking days, faith in God, and views on the shock-rockers who are following in his footsteps.

Cooper said he was introduced to alcohol when he began his music career, and drank heavily for the next 15 years. "I was a totally functional alcoholic, probably the most functional alcoholic ever. I never missed a show. I never stumbled. I never slurred a word. I mean I was the Dean Martin of rock n' roll," he told KNAC.COM.

Cooper said divine intervention is what broke his drinking habit in the mid-1980s. "I honestly think I was simply and completely healed," he said. "I guess you can call it a miracle. It's the only way I can explain it. It was absolutely eliminated from my life."

Cooper has often been called the model for today's shock-rockers, including Marilyn Manson. While he doesn't criticize Manson for his on-stage theatrics, Cooper takes issue with Manson's anti-Christian stance.

"He's very vocal about it," Cooper told KNAC.COM. "I believe [the Manson album] AntiChrist Superstar was pointed right directly at me. I didn't volley the first shots in this whole thing. His whole anti-Christian thing, and I'm like 'Hey, I'm Christian, and I'm not going to denounce what I believe.' I can be a rock 'n' roll star, a Christian and Alice Cooper."

Cooper continued, "I think Marilyn had a really bad Christian experience when he was younger. My guess is he got involved with some less-than-Christian-Christians and that really, forgive the expression, nailed him. You know, he's one of the greatest button pushers I've ever met. And I know that game because I invented that game...Manson clicked because he found a whole new set of buttons to push, he even pushed my buttons, which is pretty impressive since I was pushing buttons before he was born."

Cooper's embrace of Christianity was more a return to faith than a coming to faith. "I was pretty much convinced all my life that there was just one God and there was Jesus Christ and there was the Devil," he said.

"You couldn't believe in God without believing in the Devil. I always tell bands that the most dangerous thing you can do is to believe in the concept of the Devil or the concept of God, because you're not giving them full credit. When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart. If you believe that this is just mythology, you're a prime target because you know that's exactly what Satan wants: To be a myth. But he's not a myth, of this I'm totally convinced. More than anything in the world, I'm convinced of that."

Cooper continued, "We have to make a choice. And everybody, at some point in their lives, has to make that choice. When people say, 'How do you believe this? Why do you believe this?' I just say nothing else speaks to my heart. This doesn't speak to my intellect, it doesn't speak to my logic - it speaks right to my heart and right to my soul, deeper than anything I've ever thought of. And I totally believe it. That being said, I'm not a very good Christian. I mean, none of us are ever 'good' Christians. That's not the point. When you're a Christian, it doesn't mean you're gonna be good, it means you've got a harder road to pull."

Though some have questioned combining his faith in God with his rock-and-roll background, Cooper doesn't see a conflict. "I'm the first one to rock as loud as I can, but when it comes to what I believe, I'm the first one to defend it too," he said. "It has also gotten me in trouble with the staunch Christians who believe that in order to be a Christian you have to be on your knees 24 hours a day in a closet somewhere. Hey, maybe some people can live like that, but I don't think that's the way God expected us to live. When Christ came back, He hung out with the whores, the drunks and miscreants because they were people that needed Him. Christ never spent His time with the Pharisees."

But while Cooper may still speak to some of his old themes, he has a new message today.

"I used to celebrate moral decay, the decadence of it," he admitted. "I can look back on what I did then and what I'm doing now and they're two different things. But at the time I was the poster boy for moral decay, you know. So yeah, I've got a lot to be forgiven for...out of ignorance, I thought I was doing the right thing. I was totally in agreement that every guy should sleep with every girl and drink as much as they can. I don't believe that now. I don't believe in it, because I see how destructive it is."

Spiritual awakening is happening around the world, Cooper believes. "It's obvious humanity is craving for answers directly born of awareness," he said. "That's the healthiest thing I've seen in a long time because there is something better and everybody's gotta find it in their own way. People aren't feeling fulfilled by how many cars they own or the size of their stock portfolio.

Even the addicts are saying, 'It doesn't matter how many drugs I take, I'm not fulfilled. This isn't satisfying.' There's a spiritual hunger going on. Everybody feels it. If you don't feel it now, you will. Trust me. You will."

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[Guest yod]

I don't know Yod, he still seems kinda strange to me. It's a good thing he's saved, ha ha ha! :oww:

I agree with Smash.

Now if y'all want a beautiful song, listen to Somebody's Praying written and sung by Ricky Skaggs. Man...tears will flow!

Ricky Skaggs would make me cry for a completely different set of reasons...

nope...Gimme the rock n roller who has been redeemed over the sweet and perfect country singer anyday. Down and dirty is where I come from.

It takes a LOT more guts to stand up in Alice's world than in country/bluegrass

[papasangel]

Alice Cooper. Hmm talk about a blast from the past. He got saved? Praise God that is one person who really did a complete turnaround if he did. I checked out the song, not sure about it to tell you the truth I am not used to that type of music but has potential.

The most I remember from Alice Cooper is that he was pretty way out there and into some very questionable practices. There were rumors he was into satanic things etc so my dad didn't let us girls listen to his music.

[artsylady]

nope...Gimme the rock n roller who has been redeemed over the sweet and perfect country singer anyday. Down and dirty is where I come from.

That's right, and the rockers aint never gonna listen to Ricky Skaggs!

It takes a LOT more guts to stand up in Alice's world than in country/bluegrass

That's for sure.

[Ovedya]

Please forgive me if I sound a little by cynical. I think it's great that Alice Cooper has surrendered his life to the Lord.

However, many of us know what kind of performer and person Alice Cooper was. And where I believe that if Cooper has genuinly made a turn to the Lord, then the Lord has washed all of those things away. But also, Alice Cooper has a greater responsibility to take a solid stand for Christ, and to publically renounce his former lifestyle.

Alice Cooper paved the way for an entire generation of Gothic "death rock" performers. Persons such as Marylin Manson - who is absolutely Satanic - patterned themselves after Alice Cooper. I believe that it is not enough for Cooper to simply state "I am a Christian" and to change the focus of his musical career. I believe that since Cooper basically for the past 30 years has been a pattern for performers and for young people who grew up with his music, he now has a greater responsibility to speak out publically that what he was in the past was wrong, that he was deceived by Satan, and that he has given his entire life over to Christ Jesus. Such an act would completely sever his ties with his past and serve Christ's testimony to those who were misled by him.

[artsylady]

Here's one interview. I think he is trying. Honestly, what would you like to see from him? Would you like to see him as a Christian artist on a Christian label? I don't think his fans would buy his music if that were the case. On the tv interview, he did admit that he is sorry for his past influence. Unfortunately, I can't post a tv interview.

Alice Cooper goes with God

'Shock-rock' pioneer now 'dedicated to follow Christ'

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Posted: March 1, 2002

1:00 a.m. Eastern