Detroit Muscle: Live Tour 2022
Special Guest: Michael Monroe
For the first time Alice Cooper plays songs from his latest CD "Detroit Stories" (earMUSIC) live in Germany! About the musical tribute to his hometown, which even reached number 1 in the charts here, the critics were full of praise: the "nostalgia-fest full of exuberant joy of playing and a lot of variety" (laut.de), where "Alice Cooper has once again outdone himself" (darkmusicworld.de), is "an unexpectedly great coup. Must have!" (musikreviews.de). In concert, Cooper & Co. further offer many hits and classics, which are usually mandatory for the cult star: "School's Out", "I'm Eighteen", "Elected", "Only Women Bleed", "No More Mr. Nice Guy", "Poison" or "Under My Wheels". And also the 'special guest' has it all: singer Michael Monroe (Ex-Hanoi Rocks) plus band. Interesting: About the life of the "first icon of hair-metal" ('arte'), who by the way celebrates her 60th birthday at the tour start on June 17th, an official film-documentary will be released in 2022! Tickets to the strong concert package are available in advance.
Live "AC" once again relies on his well-rehearsed troupe, which last thrilled with him in Germany in 2019: Nita Strauss (lead guitar, vocals), Chuck Garric (bass), Ryan Roxie and Tommy Hendriksen (both guitar/vocals) and Glen Sobel (drums). They are in their element especially on stage. The performances, embedded in a theatrical setting, rightly deserve to be called 'unique'. Alice Cooper is, after all, the inventor of shock rock. The priest's son from Detroit was the first to incorporate horror elements such as chopped-off doll heads, a guillotine, a strangler snake, the gallows, the electric chair including lots of fake blood into a rock concert and thus had a lasting influence on the live genre.
For over 50 years Cooper has been in the rock biz. The married family man, who is also a film actor ("Wayne's World," "Freddie's Dead," "Bigfoot"), host of the radio show "Nights with Alice Cooper" and avid golfer (handicap 2), said in March 2021 during an interview with the weekly newspaper "Die Zeit": "Quality keeps you in the game. You have to play every show like it's your last; record every record like it's your legacy. If you follow that guiding principle, your audience will follow you."