Super Duper: Alice Cooper Next For Metal Documentarians
Your best chance to enjoy music by Alice Cooper music is to avoid the words of Alice Cooper. His every comment — regardless of topic — is a Dresden of name-dropping, self-congratulations, and analysis of a concept that bears little. For the genius of Alice Cooper (the concept) is impressive mostly in as it pertains to Vincent Fournier, the freak who invented a persona to express his egomania with no limits and no responsibility. (Alice did it, he’d explain.) I love that!
But taking a back seat to all that is Alice Cooper’s show and music; the latter represents your 90th-favorite band in classic hard rock, and the former is kinda queasy. But the makers of Iron Maiden Flight 666 and the Metal Evolution series found a movie in there, and on Thursday they debuted Super Duper Alice Cooper at a New York film fest. The rest of us get a new clip (below), and yep, even its 106 seconds ring out with the voice of Alice Cooper (the golfer) fawning over his own creation. Still, it’s promised that this subject netted enough archival footage to make for a film that’s more than pictures of people talking about stuff. Here’s that clip:
And the trailer:
