Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group - Signed Edition

By Dennis Dunaway & Chris Hodenfield

This edition features a signed bookplate. 
A standard edition is available here. 

"Before the world heard of KISS, the New York Dolls, Marilyn Manson, or Ozzy Osbourne, there was Alice Cooper, the original shock-rock band." Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

As teenagers in Phoenix, Dennis Dunaway, bassist and co-songwriter for the Alice Cooper group, and lead singer Vince Furnier (who would later change his name to Alice Cooper) formed a hard-knuckles band that played prisons, cowboy bars, and teens clubs. Their wild, impossible journey took them from Hollywood to the ferocious Detroit music scene, and along the way they discovered the utterly original performance style and look that would make them the stuff of legend.

Speaking out for the first time about his adventures in the Alice Cooper group, Dunaway reveals a band that was obsessed with topping themselves, with their increasingly outlandish shows and ever-blackening reputation. Dunaway takes readers into back rooms, behind brainstorming sessions, and into the most exclusive parties of the 1970s, revealing the talent, drama, and characters that drove two teenagers to create what would become America's highest-grossing act.

From struggling for recognition to topping the charts with a string of hits including "I'm Eighteen," "School's Out," and "No More Mr. Nice Guy," the Alice Cooper group was entertaining, outrageous, and one of a kind.

Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! is a riveting account of the band's creation in the '60s, their strange glory in the '70s, and the legendary characters they met along the way.

'The must read rock autobiography of 2015' The Strange Brew

'Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! is a rarity in the world of rock and roll, as it is a true telling of what really happened by someone who was really there.' Classic Rock Revisited

'What Dunaway does brilliantly is show us the true essence of himself, Cooper, Smith, and guitar players Michael Bruce and Glen Buxton as real people.' Glide Magazine

Publication Date: 15.06.15
ISBN: 9781783059935
Extent: 304 pages
Format: Paperback

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