With his handicap four, Alice Cooper plays a creditable round of golf and knocks fellow fans like Iggy Pop and Pat Boone off the course with ease. In his own words, golf helped him get rid of his drinking addiction and that in turn ensured that the singer could give his career a successful restart around 1990. Since then he has released an album every three years and the music press has always
… wondered: how relevant is this Alice Cooper still? The former fear of Christian America opts for a combination of glam rock pounders and solid hard rock on Along Came The Spider. In other words, the music with which he became famous in the 1970s and the late 1980s. Not very innovative, but songs like I'm Hungry, (In Touch With) Your Feminine Side and Catch Me If You Can are still well composed. 'They tried so hard to bury me but I survived it every time,' Alice sings in Vengeance Is Mine and that's just the way it is. (PdK)more
