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Yah, Welcome

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to Induction Vault, a production of I

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Heart Radio and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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M Who

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better to induct the godfather of shock rock,

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Alice Cooper, along with the rest of the Alice Cooper

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Band than horror movie director and fellow

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spooky rocker Rob Zombie. Zombie's

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hilarious speech recounts his lifelong

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idolization of Cooper and the momentous

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inspiration that Alice Cooper's theatrical

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rock and maccabb's stage shows were not

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only for Zombie's career, but for rock music

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in general. Then, Cooper,

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Dennis Dunnaway, Michael Bruce, and Neil

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Smith make brief but poignant remind paying

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tribute to late bandmate Glenn Buxton

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and thanking the fans and others who helped

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them along the way, perfectly illustrating

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why so many devotees remember

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the poop Hello,

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Hello, good evening, um

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rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I was thinking about

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rock and roll heroes and what they mean. I

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mean, we love rock and roll heroes because they're

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cooler than us, they're smarter than us, they're

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richer than us, and we all

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love them right. Wrong?

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Wrong? Uh?

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I mean Let's put it in perspective. I don't want to

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name names, but say James Bond.

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You know what good is James

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Bond without gold Finger or

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dr No or pussy

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galore. He's just a

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swab boring guy in a tucks with

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a nit picky drink order that UH

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like to say his name a lot. You know, Bond, James

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Bond, Hey Bond,

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James Bond, Buddy and um.

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In nineteen sixty nine, that was essentially

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what had happened to Rock. All heroes,

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no villains, and you're thinking,

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what about Jerry Lee Lewis, what about Keith Richards?

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Badass motherfucker's to be sure, but

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not villains. But

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then in nineteen sixty nine, a very special

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event happened. It was in Venice, California,

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at the Cheetah Club where a new band,

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Alice Cooper, appeared on stage.

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You say that now, but not in nineteen sixty

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nine, because that show is

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famous for the fact that within five minutes

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they cleared the room.

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They told me the story themselves. It's true, they

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cleared the room. Everyone hated him except

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one man. Now,

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I see John Densmore brought a up and so

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did I. Uh I figured

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that was a very intense moment in rock history,

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so I wanted to act it out for you, but

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I need my script, told him the

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one man who saw the beauty, and that was Frank's

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appa. Exactly

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who else? So

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Frank went up to that band said

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I'm gonna sign you to my label. I don't

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like you. I don't understand

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your music. You're so freaky.

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I don't get it. Are you on

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drugs? Which

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Alice said no, not

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on drugs. I

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don't know. Maybe he wasn't uh,

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And then Frank asked, hey,

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where are you from?

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Phoenix, Arizona.

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Well, I guess Phoenix Arizona

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was all Frank needed to hear, because right after that

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he signed him to his label. The rest is

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history. I mean, they went on at that point

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to become the most rock

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star destroying band of all time.

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Nobody could understand. They took everything to

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a new level. They even tried to explain

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it in their own songs. This this one

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song be My Lover with the

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lyrics go. She asked me why the singer's

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name was Alice. I said,

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listen, baby, you just wouldn't understand.

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As my mom would say, which one's at which one's

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Alice? Is that she is? Is she the one that's Alice?

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Anyway? They were more than a band. They

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were more like a murderous gang

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of drag queens. Say

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in a good way, that's good. But

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their mission was, as they would say it themselves,

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was to destroy the hippies dreams of

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peace, love and understanding, and

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to quote them, all they wanted were ferraris,

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switchblades and blonds. Well

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maybe Rolls Royces too, I don't know. In

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fact, they knew how, you know, the villains know how

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a party, And even Jim Morrison wrote about

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it. He would sing, I woke up this morning,

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I got myself a beer, which

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is a line he stole from Alice. When Alice

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was just explaining his morning ritual.

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Jim thought, wow, hardcore.

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Anyway. The Alice

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Cooper band was glam rock before

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anyone thought of glam rock. They were punk rock

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before anyone thought of punk rock. In

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fact, Johnny Rotten audition for the Sex

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Pistols by singing at Alice Cooper song so

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what are you gonna doing? I mean everywhere

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I turned someone references them, I mean rocky

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horror picture show. The main reference was Alice

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Cooper everything's Alice Cooper. I

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mean they were just basically em appeal meets

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baby Jane under the guidance of Dr

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Frankenstein. I

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can't think of any other way to describe it, even

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for a fourth grade I remember I was worshiped

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Alice Cooper and brief little story,

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you know, his fourth grade little art fair at the

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local public library. Everybody had a paint a picture

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of somebody they had fired. They figured,

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you know, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, whatever, boring.

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I painted a portrait of Alice Cooper with

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the words love it to death and blood dripping down

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the side.

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It seemed like a good idea at the time. Well,

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I got yanked out of the art show and made the paper

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front page, you know, sick kid loves

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Alice Cooper or something. So Alice,

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thanks for the early press. I appreciate

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that. Um anyway,

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of course, Alice Cooper did one thing that I

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think people forget. He did he invented

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the rock show. Before Alice Cooper,

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it was not a rock show. He invented

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the rock show. I

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could list all the things that he did, but I'd

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be here all night. But dancing skeletons,

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bog and strictors, guillotines, hangings, electric

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chairs, black widows, dead babies, balloon,

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shield of money, blizzards of bubbles,

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confetti, chickens with machine guns, nurses,

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platform boots, tuxedos, blah

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blah blah blah blah,

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and makeup the iconic makeup.

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Oh yeah. He also did a

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thriller of a track with Vincent

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Price, long before Michael

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Jackson ever thought of it, just

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to stick it in there. Um.

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Anyway, I wouldn't be here talking about

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Alice Cooper if it was just the stage show. You

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know, stage shows get old,

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outrage fades, and

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last year's freak show is this year's awards

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show. But

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within that a man would come

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along who was sort of as George Martin was

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to the Beatles. This man would be to Alice.

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That's Bob Ezran Bob.

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Where are you, Bob?

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You've been bugging me all night? Where did you go? Um?

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In a short period of time, they would just crank out

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amazing platinum record after amazing platinum

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record. He'd have to hit that became more

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than hits. They became anthems,

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teenage anthems. Everything was an anthem. Schools

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out eighteen no more Mr nice guy

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under my wheels, on and on and on.

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By that point it was impossible

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to ignore these sick things, and

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their place in rock history was already rock

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solid. But I still remember

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seeing this picture of Alice Cooper leaning at

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the bar or maybe leaning on the counter

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at the holiday and I'm not sure, and

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he had a denim jacket that said remember

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the coupe embroidered on the back. Well,

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forty years later, fifty million records

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later, yeah, we fucking remember

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the coop all right after

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the break quill here from members of Alice

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Cooper Band on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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Induction vault. Thank

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you, Cochuta

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cachun Are Snake here called a little

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left out because

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she normally performs with us, but you know, yes,

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that is Elton John will be there. That's right.

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Such a groupie, it's unbelievable. We

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just want to thank the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for voting

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us in. Um.

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We really have to thank our

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manager of forty two years, Ship Gordon.

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We still don't have a contract. We'll get around to that.

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And Joe Greenberg Bob

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Ezrin who produced all of

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the big records for us, and

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uh we want to recognize

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the late Glenn Buxton, who was the heart

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and soul of

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our band as

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black and dark as it. Maybe it's the heart and

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soul played tonight,

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of course by Steve Hunter on

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lead guitar. You

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know, we were the first generation brought

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up by the Beatles and the Stones, who

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influenced everybody. But

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the bands that really really

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hit home for us were the Yardbirds, the

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Who, the Kinks. They

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gave us our musical education. I

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hope I never outgrow a Pete

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Townsend windmill chord. I

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hope I never outgrow a Jeff Beck lead

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guitar. If

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I do, just shoot me. We've

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always been a hard rock band. We just wanted

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to decorate it just a little bit differently. Uh.

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I wish I could tell you that being in the hall

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now, that we'll

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never embarrass you, but

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I really can't make that promise. I

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mean, after all, we are Alice Cooper. It's

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what we do. I'd

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like to thank the rats there in the snake

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stomach for sacrificing the

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ultimate sacrifice for art. Lots

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of things happen over the years. Number

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One, you trade these in for

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these. Uh.

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Also, one

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thing I did not anticipate to the volume

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that it has been. As as soon as we found

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out that we were inducted, the

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phone rang off the hook. I've been

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so busy and I'm not him.

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The snake probably got more than me too, even

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but but uh,

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I've been so busy. This is what I ended

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up with for a speech.

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I'd like to thank Dwayne Eddy and the Rebels

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for playing at a

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double feature movie and between

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movies they came out and played and I said, that's

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what I want to do. And I

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talked to my my other

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skinny nerd friend at high school. We were

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the two nerds, and uh,

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we decided to start a band. How

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did we get here? I'd

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like to thank John Spear, John Tatum,

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Mike All and Charlie Carneal Dick

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Christian Jack, Curtis Fender

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for the billion dollar base that you saw

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tonight and the equipment

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the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I

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love him. Uh we are

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here. Uh. My

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wife, Cindy, who had

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a lot to do with blinging us out,

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and she was a dancing tooth.

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She was the original nurse and she

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was also a major therapist

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for all of us. My daughter's Renee

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and Chelsea for all of their support,

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my mom and dad, Joe

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Greenberg, Chef Gordon for

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seeing something that a whole room full

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of people didn't. Uh.

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Bob Ethern, it's

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always uh an honor and a joy

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to work with him. Uh he he

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puts up with a lot out of my

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abstract excursions into

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the pioneering realms of outer

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space. Uh.

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And last but not

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least, the great the fire

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of the band, Glenn Buxton, Thank

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you Obi

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still my raging heart. I

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just wanted to say thank you for

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the wonderful uh Alice's

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parents Mr Mr Fern for

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putting up with us as we rehearsed and said

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on their Naga Hyde couch and

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during the summer and it's stuck. And

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uh also the Buxton's

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Uh Glenn of course, uh

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a wonderful man who's not with us tonight.

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And also my folks

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who are not with us tonight, and we

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couldn't have on it without you. And

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also i'd i'd just like to extend

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this uh find it in your heart for brothers

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and sisters in Japan who

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have suffered a tremendous loss and

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they'll need all of our help to get back on

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their feet. And God bless you all

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and rock on. First

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of all, I'd like to thank four

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of my best friends in the world. Glen Bucks in Lake, Glen

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Buckston, Michael Bruce, Vincent

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Fernier, came Alice, and then

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it's Donaway. These four characters

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gave a homeless drummer a place to stay in

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Santa Monica. Two weeks later,

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they asked me to play drums in their band and

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UH I accepted. UM

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thanks to Todd run Gren for calling his band

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the naz and we had to

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change the name bar band. We chose a name Alice

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Cooper. And thanks to Frank's Dappa

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and thanks to Dennis's

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wife, Cindy my sister for

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being at at work in Los

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Angeles when two cool looking

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dudes from New York came into

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her shop to do some shopping. She

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found out their names were Chef Gordon and

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Joe Greenberg and that they

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had come to Los Angeles to manage a

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band. And she said, so

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coincidentally, my brother is in a band called

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Alice Cooper. Frank Zappa

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wants to sign them. Joe

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and Chef, thank you they did sign

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us as our managers. UM

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and and also thanks to Bob ezmun and

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thanks to Jack Richardson. Jack

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Richardson didn't really want to record the band,

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so we threw us at Bob, who

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became the sixth member of the band, even

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though he is Canadian Altgad,

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I love their beer. Uh. And

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Mr Mr Hess, my fifth grade

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music teacher who was ready to wrap

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a troumbone around my throat and told me, why don't I try

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to play something guel like the drums? Thank you and

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Uh. Lastly, and most

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importantly to all

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the Alice Cooper fans around the planet

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that have been supportive over the years and

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hoping that this day, this

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night would eventually come. Well,

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guess what, Alice Cooper and the Rock

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Roll Hall of Fame but now collided, and

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this statue is because of you. It's

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about you, and it's for you. Thank

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you a fucking billion.

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Thank you. By the way, it's my thirty fifth anniversary

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to my wife Cheryl over there, who

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was our skinny little ballerina and nightmare

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and we're still happily married. Thank you,

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Ed, thank you. Thanks

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for joining us on this week's episode of Rock

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