Alice Cooper: Lace And Whiskey (Coloured Vinyl)

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After many years of portraying a dark and sinister persona Alice Cooper decided to try something new and donned the persona of a heavy drinking comic PI named “Maurice Escargot” – a fictional character in the same vein as Inspector Clouseau. Cooper is pictured as Escargot on the back cover of Lace and Whiskey, which was still a rock-based album but was stylistically influenced by Cooper’s love for 1940s’ and 1950s’ movies and music. The album only peaked at #42 in the US and #33 in the UK.

The album’s lead single, “You and Me”, was an easy listening ballad which provided Cooper with his last US top-ten single for twelve years. “(No More) Love at Your Convenience”, a disco-inspired pop song, was released as the second single – it did not chart in most countries. Music videos were created for both songs, at a time well before the advent of MTV. The song “King of the Silver Screen” features a sampling of the main motif of The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Cooper’s “King of the Silver Screen” tour, in support of this album, featured a stage set designed as a giant TV, with its slitted screen allowing Cooper and his dancers to jump into and out of it along to filmed choreographed sequences during songs, and had comedic mock commercials screened in between some songs. The tour only ran in the US and Canada, throughout the summers of 1977 and 1978 (renamed the ”School’s Out for Summer” tour in 1978). Filmed highlights from the opening night of the 1977 tour, capturing a very inebriated Cooper, were featured in the Alice Cooper and Friends TV special. The tour’s Las Vegas concerts were recorded, resulting in The Alice Cooper Show live album. With the exception of “It’s Hot Tonight”, which was a regular part of setlists on the 2001 ‘Brutal Planet’ and the 2008-2009 ‘Psychodrama’ tours, nothing from Lace and Whiskey has been performed live since the end of the tour supporting the following From the Inside album.

It was after the completion of the 1977 tour that Cooper checked into a New York-based sanitarium for his first treatment for alcoholism.

During the initial stage of this album’s era, when it was clear that Alice was not going to return from his new success, original Alice Cooper group members Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith, and Michael Bruce formed a new band with Mike Marconi and Bob Dolin called “The Billion Dollar Babies”. Michael Bruce sang their lead vocals.

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Tracklisting

Side A
1. “It’s Hot Tonight”
2. “Lace and Whiskey”
3. “Road Rats”
4. “Damned If You Do”
5. “You and Me”

Side B
1. “King of the Silver Screen”
2. “Ubangi Stomp”
3. “(No More) Love at Your Convenience”
4. “I Never Wrote Those Songs”
5. “My God”

Companies
Marketed By – Rhino Entertainment Company
Produced For – My Own Production Company Ltd.
Manufactured For – Rhino Entertainment Company
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Copyright (c) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Published By – Ezra Music
Published By – All By Myself
Published By – Early Frost Music
Published By – Hi-Lo Music
Recorded At – Record Plant, N.Y.C.
Recorded At – RCA’s Music Center Of The World
Recorded At – Cherokee Studios
Recorded At – Soundstage, Toronto
Recorded At – Producers Workshop
Mixed At – Producers Workshop

Credits
Arranged By – Al MacMillan*
Bass – Babbitt*
Choir – The California Boys’ Choir
Chorus Master – Douglas Neslund
Design [Cover] – Rod Dyer, Inc.
Design [Cover], Photography By [Cover] – Richard Seireeni
Drums – Allan Schwartzberg
Engineer [Machines/Producers Workshop] – John Stephens (6)
Engineer [Recording] – Brian Christian, Colonel Tubby, Galen Senegles*, Jim Frank, John Jansen, Rick Hart, Robert Hrycyna, Robert Stasiak, Tony D’amico*
Guitar – Steve Hunter
Guitar, Vocals – Dick Wagner
Keyboards – Jozef Chirowski
Keyboards, Producer, Arranged By, Vocals – Bob Ezrin
Management – Alive Enterprises, Inc., Shep Gordon
Management [Production Assistance] – Donna Dobbs, Fundador Roman, Kris Bennett, Scott Anderson (7)
Mastered By [Runout Etch ❀] – Brian Gardner (tracks: Side A)
Mastered By [Runout Etch ︵︵ ︵︵] – Brian Gardner (tracks: Side B)
Percussion, Vocals – Jim Maelen*
Photography By [Alice’s Portraits] – Terry O’Neill (2)
Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet – Ernie Watts

Additional information

Weight 1 kg
Dimensions 32 × 32 cm