'Welcome To The Show' -- New Alice Cooper Song

Alice Cooper has shared another new single from his upcoming album Road due later this month.

The new song is called "Welcome To The Show" and hitmaker and longtime collaborator Bob Ezrin shares some of the writing credit on this one. It's a fun, rocking song and good for driving and also has a 70s feel. Definitely fits the theme of the album!

Comments

[Metalboy!]

Now, THIS is more like it!

Though I appreciate his last couple of efforts, they failed to ROCK on this level.

Don’t count Alice out quite yet … He just delivered the goods!

[Him]

Metalboy!, with all due respect (and you are due respect), AC is coasting on a stellar legacy while still delivering a great live show. Those two things aren't exactly the same. But I am sure you get my point.

Perhaps, coasting is too harsh for this legend. He is more talk-singing than he ever has in recent years, adding in the grimace-y vocals (that sound more grimace-y and computerized) at certain points just to show he hasn't lost the plot. And, again, the guy is 75 years old! So, good for him. Take it a bit easier in your older age. The fact that he reached an older age is amazing.

I would never count AC out. Never. He still brings it live. He still does good by people who others don't. But his catalog is one that, for me, gets better the farther back you go (if you skip lightly over the early 80s . . . as his brain clearly did!), even as I can't deny the draw of his mid-80s/early-90s rebirth. Thing is, he is a performer. So live is where he lives and live is where he reminds people of why he remains a consummate performer.

And I respect his recent digs back in time, and his occasional references to his past (as well as performances with some of those who helped him climb the mountain). From what I can gather, he is happy to be where he is. He has mentored talented artists and given them a break into the business. He has even stood with people that others might have thrown to the side.

All in all, AC is a class act. Again, I am happy he is still here. But I am never, ever, waiting for a new single, even if Ezrin (a year younger) is part of the equation. And that isn't a dig. It is just an opinion . . . that does nothing to destroy his legacy or my love of the guy.