WHEN:  May 20, 2016
WHERE:  Stage AE Outdoor – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
DOORS:  7:00PM
COST:  $35.00 Advance/Day of Show
ON-SALE:  January 22; Presale runs 1/21 from 10am – 10 pm using password “north”
BIO:

Alice Cooper pioneered a grandly theatrical brand of hard rock that was designed to shock. Drawing equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock, the group created a stage show that featured electric chairs, guillotines, fake blood and boa constrictors. He continues to tour regularly, performing shows worldwide with the dark and horror-themed theatrics that he’s best known for.  Alice Cooper brings his own brand of rock psycho-drama to fans both old and new, enjoying it as much as the audience does.  Cooper was born in Detroit, Michigan, and moved to Phoenix with his family. The Alice Cooper band formed while they were all in high school in Phoenix, and was discovered in 1969 by Frank Zappa in Los Angeles, where he signed them to his record label. Their collaboration led to the break-through third album Love It to Death which hit the charts in 1971, followed by Killer, School’s Out,Billion Dollar Babies, and Muscle of Love. Each new album release was accompanied by a bigger and more elaborate touring stage show. 1974 saw the release of a Greatest Hits album, and then Cooper, in 1975, released his first solo album, Welcome to My Nightmare in 1975, accompanied by the legendary groundbreaking theatrical Welcome to My Nightmare concert tour.

Alice’s solo career skyrocketed in the late 1970’s, with a succession of classic albums, including Lace And Whiskey and From The Inside.  In the ‘80’s Cooper explored different sounds, highlighted by albumFlush The Fashion, the heavy metal Constrictor and Raise Your Fist And Yell, and then 1989’s melodic hard rock album Trash.  The 90’s also saw the release of the albums Hey Stoopid, The Last Temptation, and Fistful of Alice, a live album.  In the new millenium, Cooper has been very productive and busy, writing, recording and releasing the albums Brutal Planet, Dragon Town, The Eyes of Alice Cooper, Dirty Diamonds, Along Came a Spider, and 2011’s Welcome 2 My Nightmare, plus Old School 1964-1974, a box set celebrating the original band.

Alice’s 2011 album Welcome 2 My Nightmare featured a return to his partnership with bandmates Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith and Michael Brucem and a return to the themes of the iconic 1975Welcome To My Nightmare album.  With his influence on rock & roll long since acknowledged, there is little that Alice Cooper hasn’t achieved in his remarkable career, including platinum albums, sold-out tours and any number of honors and career achievement awards.  As he heads back out on the concert trail each year, Cooper insists he’s still motivated to continue touring and recording albums, as well as making time for such side projects as Cooper’stown (his Phoenix-based restaurant/sports bar) and his “Nights With Alice Cooper” nightly radio show, syndicated domestically and worldwide on over 100 stations.