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Summary: ALICE IS THE MAN!!!
Review: Alice Cooper Brutally Live is the best concert DVD out there!No other artist can get a crowd into a show like he can.I recently saw his Dragontown tour and was totally blown away.It was the most entertaining and exhilarating time of my life!The fact that he is 53 and still performing in front of SOLD OUT crowds for over 2 hours is mind boggling!Brutally Live has all of Alice's classic hits plus more new great material of his CD Brutal Planet.If you are not hooked on Alice by the time you have finished watching this, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?????The first time i saw Alice Cooper i was 5 years old watching the Muppet Show.His onstage antics and great music make him perhaps the greatest performer to ever grace the stage.Do yourself a favor and buy this DVD!!!!
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Summary: Great performance, disappointing VHS
Review: Alice Cooper has always been the original and best theatrical showman of rock, and this live performance proves he's still number one. Filmed in London in July 2000 Alice and his band put on a brilliant show, plays all his classics plus newer songs from his 'Brutal Planet' album as well as some rarities, complete with Alice's infamous execution. However this VHS version looses a star as 2 songs played at this show, 'My Generation' and 'The Black Widow' plus drum solo, are omitted from the program. Both of these songs do appear on the DVD version so buy that if you want the full show un-edited, otherwise this VHS is still a great watch.
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Summary: Worth buying at this price.
Review: Alice's voice is in good rock n' roll form. The first two songs are genius and well within the capacities of the band that is backing Alice on this tour. For those who have never seen the darker side of AC from the 70's, he brings that back with a theatrical portion in the middle that shows why AC was so shocking in the 70's. It's nostalgia now but it still has some force and is fun. The recording is technically perfect in both audio and video. The band is technically perfect. They don't miss any notes. They're technicians. That's the problem. To me Alice Cooper was a BAND in the 70's. Alice has had a 27 year solo career since the original group disbanded yet this video has almost half, 11 of 23 songs from the original band and he finishes with what else...5 songs from the original band. The songs people like the best are from the original band. Why not just regroup with the old band instead of hiring a bunch of kids to play the old hits. That's what people want to hear, not a bunch of hired technicians backing a solo Alice. The original AC band was a powerful live band. They played with a reckless abandon. They were not always technically perfect but the music was exciting and over the edge like good rock should be. This new band's renditions of the old classics are synthetic copies that follow the letter of the law but not the spirit. Recordings were made of the original 70's concerts but none were ever officially released. Also, very little good video was ever made of the original band live, unfortunately. So only those lucky enough to have seen them or got a hold of a bootleg, know how good they were. I recommend checking out the AC Prime Cuts video also available from Amazon. There are clips of the original shows that give a glimpse of the glory years. Once again, in the Prime Cuts video, the original band is conspicuous by they're absence. As one reviewer commented, "Alice speaks about them as if they're dead". This is typical of the way AC and the manager treated the old band, shunting them aside and concentrating on a solo Alice. The band had one dysfunctional member but Mike Bruce-guitar, Neal Smith-drums and Dennis Dunaway-bass were always unique and capable musicians. Music is not always about cold hard perfection. Music is spiritual. You cannot technically replicate spirit. Yea, get this video. The first 2 songs are great and well worth the price alone! But also check out Prime Cuts and you'll get a fleeting glimpse of what the real Alice Cooper was about in the 1970's.
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Summary: Brutally Brilliant
Review: Before Ozzy, Before Kiss, Before Rob Zombie, Before Marlyin Manson, There was only one true KING of Shock Rock and that was Alice Cooper. Proving that he still can go More Rounds with the best of Them. I saw Alice Cooper in Biloxi Mississippi during the "Dragontown" tour and i must say by picking up this DVD it brought back alot of memories of that concert i went to see. so people everywhere pick up this dvd, and watch a MASTER at work..
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Summary: Good, but not his best
Review: Brutal Planet is one of the best Alice Cooper albums in existense, but thats not reflected all the way through the stage show. Initially, we get the traditional blood thirsty heavy metal Alice, but then the show veers off into 'classic' zone. Not that I've got anythin wrong with Alices older, more commercial tracks. How can anyone not like Schools Out. But Caught In A Dream, It's Hot Tonight and My Generation ? They weren't that impressive the first time round so why include them in this show ? I would much rather have seen more of the brutal opening style songs.The guilotine is back, but the show is not nealry as bloody as his 80's work. Trashes the World and The Nightmare Returns are ironically, more brutal than whats on display here. The reason for this being that a lot of the tracks are butchered. Dwight Fry, Dead Babies and I Love The Dead run about two minutes each when in actual fact the tracks played for about six minutes. Why butcher these classic songs to make way for other older material, but of the 'less than satsfactory' variety ? However, Alice is on fine form. The nazi track Wicked Young Man is great and wonderfully bloodthirsty. Infact most the stuff of Brutal Planet is pretty cool. Other classics like Feed My Frankenstein and Poison are just too good for words. On Poison you even hear the audience singing along to those classic lyrics - 'your cruel device, your blood like ice, one look could kill, my pain your thrill'. Some of the other 70's tunes though are pulled off with less enthusiasm, and rather 'by the numbers'. It starts off brilliantly, and only really sags in the middle. Conceptually it could have been pulled off better. I wish Alice had kept the dark Brutal Planet concept going further, but thats just my taste. I guess Alice was tryin to appeal to his older and new fans alike. Never the less this is a great DVD from rocks ultimate showman. Check out Trashes the World though on VHS first or Welcome To My Nightmare for a true conceptual masterpiece (even though Alice is drunk all the way through it !)
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Summary: ALICE COOPER: Brutally Live!
Review: BRUTALLY LIVE shows a live Alice Cooper rock concert recorded at Labatts' Apollo Hammersmith arena in London, England, on July 19, 2000 while Alice was on tour for his "Brutal Planet" album. Alice performs 25 songs, some old and some new, including "I'm Eighteen," "Billion Dollar Babies," "No More Mr. Nice Guy," "Poison," "Feed My Frankenstein," "School's Out." Alice pulls out all the stops by putting on a theatrical stage show that features severed heads, gushing blood, demonic babies, and even a guillotine. Included on the DVD edition of BRUTALLY LIVE is a bonus music video for the song "Gimme."
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Summary: ALICE COOPER: Brutally Live!
Review: BRUTALLY LIVE shows a live Alice Cooper rock concert recorded at Labatts' Apollo Hammersmith arena in London, England, on July 19, 2000 while Alice was on tour for his "Brutal Planet" album. Alice performs 25 songs, some old and some new, including "I'm Eighteen," "Billion Dollar Babies," "No More Mr. Nice Guy," "Poison," "Feed My Frankenstein," "School's Out." Alice pulls out all the stops by putting on a theatrical stage show that features severed heads, gushing blood, demonic babies, and even a guillotine. Included on the DVD edition of BRUTALLY LIVE is a bonus music video for the song "Gimme."
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Summary: Oh yeah....this is how concert video should be done!!!
Review: Coop takes the tightest band he has had in YEARS and lays out 24 smokin' tracks from past to present. Great production values with an alternate angle for some songs and a bonus video for "Gimme". Recorded July 2000 in London (105 min) The set list... Brutal Planet, Gimme, Go to Hell, Blow Me a Kiss, I'm Eighteen, Pick Up the Bones, Feed My Frankenstein, Wicked Young Man, Dead Babies, Ballad of Dwight Fry, I Love the Dead, The Black Widow, No More Mr. Nice Guy, It's Hot Tonight, Caught Up In a Dream, It's the Little Things, Poison, Take It Like a Woman, Only Women Bleed, You Drive Me Nervous, Under My Wheels, School's Out, Billion Dollar Babies, My Generation, Elected So what ya waitin' for? If you care anything about Alice Cooper, you need this DVD. Thanks Coop, you continue to rule!!!
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Summary: Oh yeah....this is how concert video should be done!!!
Review: Coop takes the tightest band he has had in YEARS and lays out 24 smokin' tracks from past to present. Great production values with an alternate angle for some songs and a bonus video for "Gimme". Recorded July 2000 in London (105 min) The set list... Brutal Planet, Gimme, Go to Hell, Blow Me a Kiss, I'm Eighteen, Pick Up the Bones, Feed My Frankenstein, Wicked Young Man, Dead Babies, Ballad of Dwight Fry, I Love the Dead, The Black Widow, No More Mr. Nice Guy, It's Hot Tonight, Caught Up In a Dream, It's the Little Things, Poison, Take It Like a Woman, Only Women Bleed, You Drive Me Nervous, Under My Wheels, School's Out, Billion Dollar Babies, My Generation, Elected So what ya waitin' for? If you care anything about Alice Cooper, you need this DVD. Thanks Coop, you continue to rule!!!
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Summary: The Showman strikes again
Review: Find out why Alice cooper is the ultimate showman, this totally captures the spirit of the shows sounds and visions. It is totally engrossing. I was there and this just brings it all back. Buy this DVD and you will understand why nearly everyone at the concert was wearing a previous tour shirt. I can't say enough good things about this DVD as the music rocks and the show fully captures the Alice Cooper theme. My personal fave Feed my Frankenstein, but the Gillotine routine was a flawless as ever, even on frame by frame.
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