Alice Cooper biography

Long before the glory days of onstage hangings, blood, and beheadings, the original Alice Cooper band were merely five young rockers making singles in their home state of Arizona. Led by singer Vincent Furnier, the group was known at various times as The Earwigs, The Spiders, and The Nazz, and featured Glen Buxton and Mike Bruce on guitars, Dennis Dunaway on bass, and Neal Smith on drums. By the late Sixties, LA-based singer/songwriter Todd Rundgren had appropriated the name The Nazz, Furnier and the boys had turned to psychedelia, and a date with a ouija board was about to change rock history forever.

According to legend, frustrated in his attempts to coin an appropriately shocking band name, Furnier turned to a ouija board. He later claimed the board told him he was the reincarnation of a 17th-Century witch named Alice Cooper. Whether there was any truth to this or not...

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