While the new film on iconic singer Alice Cooper (neé Vincent Furnier in the cultural breeding ground of Phoenix, Arizona) entitled Super Duper Alice Cooper is pretty much your standard documentary by the numbers, it's supremely entertaining Sunday afternoon viewing. Heaps of fun stuff, especially the early days as the flamboyantly dressed Alice Cooper (once the name of the band, not the singer) toured around to intense disinterest until finally playing Detroit with Iggy and the Stooges and the MC5, in my estimation much better bands, but similarly crazed performers. The resultant standing ovation appeared to be one of the formative steps in their unsteady ascent towards heavy metal-pop-kitsch infamy. Second only to Kiss in my pre-pubescent pantheon of rock and roll heroes, a most enjoyable trip down memory lane. You can read the fine critic Simon Reynolds' recent interview/profile of Cooper in the Guardian here. Trailer posted below:
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