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Everflow a écrit :^ Et ça tombe bien, car ce nouvel album sera justement la suite de Welcome to My Nightmare!

Avec la participation de Ezrin donc, mais aussi Desmond Child.

That Hair Metal Blog recently conducted an interview with former WARRANT singer Jani Lane. A few excerpts from the chat follow below.

That Hair Metal Blog: What have you been up to lately?

Jani: Work-wise, all kinds of stuff. I'm actually trying to gear up to do some shows at the end of the summer which, of course, with me, it's always a matter of who's going to play in the band. Unfortunately, a lot of my friends who play in the band are touring this summer, so I've spent my summer pretty much writing. I've pretty much finished all the material for my next record, which I want to do this fall. Also, I'm working on songs for Alice Cooper's next record, "Welcome To My Nightmare 2". I have a song that I'm working on with his (and former WARRANT) guitarist, Keri Kelli. We had a couple of tracks on his last record, and this is a very big deal for Alice, as he's got Bob Ezrin producing. I'm also working on a couple of songs for RHINO BUCKET, working on songs for a young couple of guys — when I say guys, I mean they're kids, to me — out of Missouri, very talented RYAN TYLER BAND. I've written a couple of songs for those guys, they're on the verge of a record deal. Mostly writing stuff. That's what I'm concentrating on is the writing right now. Just working in various studios around town. I've done some work with Fred Coury from CINDERELLA. Unfortunately, he's out on tour right now, so I can't continue with that until he gets back. Just put a call into him yesterday. Just got married. My wife's name is Kimberly.

That Hair Metal Blog: You said you're writing songs for "Welcome To My Nightmare 2"…

Jani: Well, I have a song in particular that I'm waiting for… Keri Kelli just texted me from Russia. They're in Russia right now and they get back in a few days and hopefully, we will get to knock this song out quickly.

That Hair Metal Blog: You were an Alice Cooper fan growing up. What's it like to write songs for the man?

Jani: Huge Alice fan. I actually… Alice came from Detroit and I grew up in Cleveland. I was a drummer for 20-some years before I had to sell my drums to move to Los Angeles. Once I got here, people said, "Oh, you can sing and you have blonde hair. You're going to be a lead singer." So, I never bought a kit of drums, although I play on all the demos, and I played on some WARRANT stuff. I play drums every chance I get. That's the love of my life. I call myself "player of some, master of none."

The Belleville Intelligencer recently conducted an interview with legendary rocker Alice Cooper. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

The Belleville Intelligencer: One of my favorite quotes about you is the famous Bob Dylan quote about you being an "overlooked songwriter"....

Alice Cooper: That was such a surprise to me. What a compliment that Bob Dylan even knows I'm alive. He must have listened to "Only Women Bleed" or one of those songs that felt like a touching ballad. I had four ballads in a row that were hits and maybe that was what that had to do with.

The Belleville Intelligencer: Going with that quote, what do you think is the key to writing songs that are still being played three or four decades after you released them?

Alice Cooper: Honestly, it's a knack. It's one of those things where if you asked me to write a song for you about a giraffe and an elephant falling in love on the Empire State Building I would say, "How long do you want it to be? Do you want it to be up tempo?" In other words, I could write that song, I'd just need to know if you want it to be touching, do you want it funny, do you want it to be horrific? I would probably be able to write for Broadway if they just told me what the story is. For some reason, I've always been able to do that but, when I was a kid, I listened to the two best lyricists: Chuck Berry and Ray Davies from THE KINKS. They could tell a story in three minutes and I sat there thinking it's an art to be able to tell a story in three minutes. I kind of figured out how that was done. You write the punchline first and then you write backwards and set up the whole thing. That's kind of the trick to a "Lola" or a "School's Out" or "I'm Eighteen".

The Belleville Intelligencer: "Pretties for You" came out in 1969 and we're now in 2010. How has your music changed in those 40 years and how has the music industry changed?

Alice Cooper: The music industry has changed more, I think, on a technical level. If you look at the bands that are still working from 1968 it's all hard rock bands. It's all guitar-driven hard rock bands like THE ROLLING STONES. Ozzy's still here. We're still here. Iggy's still here. All those bands are still out there playing and probably better than we were in 1968. I know I'm a better singer now and I'm in bands that are much better now. It's just funny that that's the one music that will not die.

The Belleville Intelligencer: Why is that?

Alice Cooper: Fifty years from now there's going to be kids in garages listening to THE WHO saying, "How do we get that?" It's that four-four beat that I would call tribal. When you play rock and roll you don't necessarily play it from your brain, good rock and roll is played from below your belt. That's the one problem I have with a lot of the bands who are out now. There's too many bands, young rock bands, that are just so sensitive. I am so sick of sensitive bands. What happened to the bands that got out there and are just snotty rock and roll bands? That's what I miss.

The Belleville Intelligencer: Do you have any regrets with any of the songs or albums you've released?

Alice Cooper: I can't really think of anything I'm ashamed of but, at the same time, there's songs I look back at now and think, "I wish I would have produced that better or I wish I would have spent more time on that."

The Belleville Intelligencer: Can you give me an example?

Alice Cooper: Well, there's four albums that I don't remember writing or recording or touring with during my blackout period. "Zipper Catches Skin", "Special Forces", "DaDa".... When I think of those albums and I listen to them there's so much good stuff on there and I just wish I would have spent more time on those albums.

In the meantime, Smith told scribe Mitch Lafon that Alice Cooper and original band members Michael Bruce (guitar/keyboards), Dennis Dunaway (bass) and he have been in the studio and have already recorded "more than one track" for Alice's upcoming Bob Ezrin (PINK FLOYD, KISS) produced album.

(shout) a écrit :A la retraite Vincent Furnier, tu me les brises.

Alice Cooper recently spoke to Billboard.com about his collaboration with producer Bob Ezrin ("Billion Dollar Babies", "Welcome To My Nightmare", "School's Out" and "Love It to Death") on the legendary rocker's new album.

"We thought the story was good, but we started talking about 'Welcome to My Nightmare', which I think is our biggest triumph," Cooper told Billboard.com. "He mentioned, 'What if Alice had another nightmare?' And we wrote three songs right there. He got really involved in it. Bob is even darker than I am."

Cooper told Billboard.com that he and Ezrin have come up with 13 songs so far, including the ballads "I Am Made of You" and "Something to Remember Me By". In addition, Cooper recently recorded three new songs with original bandmates Dennis Dunaway (bass), Neal Smith (drums) and Michael Bruce (guitar).

"When I listen to the first 'Nightmare', I've got all kinds of things going on," Cooper said. "There's a lot of hard rock on it, but it'll go way off in a weird direction in one song and then way off in other direction for another song. So where 'Welcome To My Nightmare' left off, this one starts right up. When it comes out it'll have an entire new production around it, probably as big as the original 'Nightmare' show. It'll be a big moment in my career."

Clochette a écrit :Mouais .... dans le communiqué ils précisent qu'il a produit presque tous ses classiques jusqu'à Dada ...

Mais ils ne disent pas qu'il était déjà revenu pour Brutal Planet et Dragontown.

Washingtonpost.com: What do you think of the rock hall as a concept? Music isn't a sport with statistics or championships.

Cooper: "That's the hardest thing to explain to people. When they say, 'How come you're not in? You've sold all these records . . . ' If it were stats, I think I'd be way okay. But it's your heroes that are voting for you. You've got your McCartneys and your Jaggers and your Townshends, the Jeff Becks of this world who get a ballot and your name is on there. And you realize, those are the guys you learned from. . . . It is an exclamation point on your career."

Washingtonpost.com: Do you ever think about your legacy?

Cooper: "I'm not going to be considered a great singer, but I want to be considered a great songwriter. And a great performer. But I don't take the fame seriously. I think that's why I'm still here."

Washingtonpost.com: As a rock star, is it strange to see your influence on pop?

Cooper: "I was a big fan of pop music. THE BEATLES made the best pop records ever. . . . But I think that our influence, maybe even more than the theatrics, was the attitude. We came out as the underdog and gave out more attitude than the audience did."

QMI Agency: That's my cue to ask what "Welcome 2 My Nightmare" is all about.

Cooper: Basically, we wondered, what would happen if Alice had another nightmare 30 years after the last one. I had contacted Bob (Ezrin) about producing a different album — I wanted to finish "Along Came A Spider" — but we got to talking about "Nightmare", and we just immediately started writing songs. Pretty soon Bob said, "We have to do Part 2."I've tried to get as many people from that album back. I got Steve Hunter, who played all the solos. Dick Wagner and I wrote some songs. Dennis, Neal and Mike are on it. Then I added a bunch of people you would never expect, like Vince Gill, who plays lead on two songs. He's the Jeff Beck of country. He made my head spin.

QMI Agency: Are we heading for a full-blown reunion tour of the original band?

Cooper: I don't think so. We are doing shows together, but in a limited way. It's really hard to do 100 cities - doing five shows a week and going around the world is physically draining for me, and I'm in really good shape. So we're just doing a few things. I would like to do some clubs. I would like to go back and play the Whisky [A Go Go in Hollywood] with the original band. I think they're up for that. You know, it was a very unique situation with the original band: When we broke up in '74, there was no animosity or lawsuits or "I hate that guy." We just drifted. We called it a hiatus, and that became a breakup. But we were never out of touch. We knew there would be a reunion someday; we just didn't know when. The [Rock And Roll] Hall Of Fame thing became a great opportunity.

According to The Independent, legendary rocker Alice Cooper will release his new album, "Welcome 2 My Nightmare", in the U.K. in September as a magazine with high production values and assorted merchandise (a format that is being dubbed "The Fan Pack") and as an iPad app with exclusive video interviews. The content of both products will be edited by Cooper himself. The album's official physical release will follow in mid-October, when Alice will perform a major show in London.

Legendary rockers Alice Cooper will release his hugely anticipated new album, "Welcome 2 My Nightmare", later this year via Universal Music Group.

Recorded with longtime collaborator Bob Ezrin, who produced the original multi-platinum "Welcome To My Nightmare" album in 1975, the record picks up right where they left off, with Alice trapped in his own warped mind.

That original album is an all-time rock classic that spawned a worldwide theatrical tour and pioneering U.S. TV special and cemented Alice Cooper as a visionary trailblazer whose influence persists today in rock, metal, pop, punk, theater, television, film and much more.

More than 35 years later, Alice and Ezrin have resurrected the horror and humor for a new generation.

"This is Alice's nightmare 35 years later," explains Alice, "Bob and I created this character and we know how to write for him. I play the part but we're not writing for me, we're writing for Alice. We kept the first 'Nightmare' album very personal to us, on this one we found more humor and we were more open. This was our world and we want to present it to the fans. The original album was my first solo album after all those huge hit records with the original band and now that nightmare is exposed, this one can be a little bit more open. The music crosses all sorts of boundaries; we went where the lyrics took us."

There is an array of collaborators on the new album, including original Alice Cooper members Denis Dunaway, Michael Bruce and Neal Smith reunited on three tracks; global pop superstar que$ha, who affectionately calls Alice "dad"; and legendary Alice and Lou Reed guitarist Steve Hunter, who is part of Alice's current touring band and featured prominently on the first "Nightmare" album.

Musically, the album ranges far and wide, from trashing disco to garage punk, pop balladry to a rocking number very much in the spirit of THE ROLLING STONES. And then there's the ballad "Something To Remember Me By", described by Alice as "the prettiest song we have ever released."

Glimpses of themes from the original album are intertwined throughout, each track representing a different aspect of Alice's nightmare.

From the opener, "I Am Made Of You", through the already established live favorite and first single "I'll Bite Your Face Off", to the surprising duet with que$ha, "What Baby Wants", this album is a reminder that albums just aren't made this way anymore.

And musicians do not play together like Dennis Dunaway, Michael Bruce and Neal Smith anymore.

"I wanted a '70s feel for 'When Hell Comes Home'," says Alice, "and I didn't even have to ask for it, it's just how they play and they did it live in the studio. When they got done playing the basic track, Bob and I just looked at each other, that sound is built into their DNA. We didn't need to go and fix anything. The way they finished was a little bit ragged and that's the way we used to finish songs, that's what I like about it."

Co-writers on various songs include the aforementioned Bob Ezrin, que$ha, Neal, Dennis, Michael, plus BUCKCHERRY's Keith Nelson, Desmond Child (who famously co-wrote and produced "Poison" with Alice), longtime collaborator Dick Wagner, current touring band member Chuck Garric and film composer Jeremy Rubolino.

"That's my rebellion," says Alice of the more surprising guests, "I like people that don't belong and yet what they're doing works perfectly. I don't care where it comes from, as long as it's right. If you tell me something doesn't work, I'll work my head of until it does then shove it down your throat.

"I think a lot of my audience is going to go 'que$HA!?', but she probably wrote the most disgusting lyrics in the song — we had to rein her in. I like people to know that just because artists are put in a pigeon hole, that doesn't mean that's what they are. Give people a little room."

With Steve Hunter, one of rock's great guitarists, added to the band's line-up of guitarists Damon Johnson and Tommy Henriksen, bassist Chuck Garric, and drummer Glen Sobel, Alice has been tearing up venues worldwide on his 2011 "No More Mr. Nice Guy" tour.

Alice gave fans a treat in June with a surprise performance at London's tiny 100 Club, when actor Johnny Depp joined in on guitar. Alice showcased the powerful band that had blown away the Download festival crowd the previous weekend.

This year, the original Alice Cooper group was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, and Alice was honored with both the Kerrang! Icon Award in the U.K. and the Revolver Golden God Award in the USA.

* U.K. fan pack album release / global album release: September 16
* U.K. general album release: October 17

Single: "I'll Bite Your Face Off"

* Limited-edition seven-inch picture vinyl: September 12 with exclusive live version as the B-side
* Digital: August 22 with "Caffeine" as B-side

"Welcome 2 My Nightmare" will be released first as a "fan pack" in conjunction with Future Publishing in September, with a conventional release following in October. The fan pack includes the album, a giant poster, a facepaint set, a metal badge, an Alice face mask and a 132-page magazine dedicated to all things Alice.

"Fan Pack" track listing:

01. I Am Made Of You
02. Caffeine
03. The Nightmare Returns
04. A Runaway Train
05. Last Man On Earth
06. The Congregation
07. I'll Bite Your Face Off
08. Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever
09. Ghouls Gone Wild
10. Something To Remember Me By
11. When Hell Comes Home
12. What Baby Wants
13. I Gotta Get Outta Here
14. The Underture

Exclusive fan pack bonus tracks:

15. Under The Bed
16. Poison (Live at Download Festival)

Standard U.K. and international track listing:

01. I Am Made Of You
02. Caffeine
03. The Nightmare Returns
04. A Runaway Train
05. Last Man On Earth
06. The Congregation
07. I'll Bite Your Face Off
08. Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever
09. Ghouls Gone Wild
10. Something To Remember Me By
11. When Hell Comes Home
12. What Baby Wants
13. I Gotta Get Outta Here
14. The Underture

Standard bonus track:

15. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

Deluxe U.K. and international track listing:

01. I Am Made Of You
02. Caffeine
03. The Nightmare Returns
04. A Runaway Train
05. Last Man On Earth
06. The Congregation
07. I'll Bite Your Face Off
08. Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever
09. Ghouls Gone Wild
10. Something To Remember Me By
11. When Hell Comes Home
12. What Baby Wants
13. I Gotta Get Outta Here
14. The Underture

Deluxe bonus tracks:

15. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
16. No More Mr. Nice Guy (Live at Download Festival)
17. The Black Widow (Live at Download Festival)

General album formats — released via Universal Music Group:

1. 2xLP blood-red vinyl with poster and exclusive track "Flatline"
2. Deluxe digipak CD with exclusive "ticket to hell" not available anywhere else, plus poster and bonus tracks "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", "No More Mr. Nice Guy (live at Download Festival)", "Black Widow (Live at Download Festival)"
3. Standard CD/Digital Album with bonus track "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place"
4. iTunes-exclusive album with bonus track "A Bad Situation" and track-by-track commentary

Chris Ingham, group publisher at niche publishing house Future, which is pioneering "The Fan Pack" format, tells The Independent, that the fanpack format has the potential to transform the relationship between the magazine industry and the music business. "Record companies have acknowledged that music magazines are amplifiers but they have also thought they were parasites," he says. "Moving forward, magazines will be seen much more as partners and something to rely on."

Other albums that have been released in the U.K. as "fanpacks" include Slash's self-titled solo CD, MOTÖRHEAD's "The Wörld Is Yours" and WHITESNAKE's "Forevermore".