{"id":8054,"date":"2011-08-14T18:47:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T01:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=8054"},"modified":"2012-02-16T17:05:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T00:05:45","slug":"alice-cooper-grf-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/alice-cooper-grf-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Cooper @ GRF (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8042\" style=\"width: 607px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_7793trim.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8042\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_7793trim-597x800.jpg\" alt=\"alice cooper 2011\" title=\"alice cooper\" width=\"597\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_7793trim-597x800.jpg 597w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_7793trim-186x250.jpg 186w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_7793trim.jpg 806w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Cooper<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I first saw <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/alice-cooper\/>Alice Cooper<\/a> live, back in 1987, I wasn&#8217;t very familiar with his music. Sure I had heard &#8220;I&#8217;m Eighteen&#8221; and &#8220;School&#8217;s Out&#8221; on the radio growing up, but I didn&#8217;t own any of his albums. It was beginning in 1987 that I really got into his early material. I even ended up enjoying his early 80s material (which most people don&#8217;t) like &#8220;Special Forces,&#8221; &#8220;Dada,&#8221; and &#8220;Zipper Catches Skin&#8221; (although I haven&#8217;t heard them in ages now as they only recently came out on CD). However, nothing he has recorded after 1983 has been the least bit interesting to me. <\/p>\n<p>I barely stomached &#8220;Brutal Planet,&#8221; &#8220;Hey Stoopid,&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;ll Bite Your Face Off&#8221; at GRF, but after &#8220;Cold Ethyl&#8221; I sensed a run on annoying songs would be coming so I went to a different stage to watch Marduk instead. I, therefore, missed a bunch of (stupid IMO) songs before coming back out (as the building Marduk was playing in was far too hot to stay for their whole set) for &#8220;I Love the Dead,&#8221; &#8220;School&#8217;s Out,&#8221; and &#8220;Elected.&#8221; Maybe I&#8217;m the only one who would prefer &#8220;Steven,&#8221; &#8220;Ballad Of Dwight Fry,&#8221; and &#8220;Black Juju&#8221; over &#8220;Feed My Frankenstein,&#8221; &#8220;Poison,&#8221; and &#8220;Hey Stoopid,&#8221; but that&#8217;s just my taste.   <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8040\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_7767trim.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8040\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_7767trim-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Damon Johnson\" title=\"Damon Johnson guitarist for Alice Cooper\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_7767trim-800x529.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_7767trim-250x165.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_7767trim.jpg 1631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damon Johnson plays guitar for Alice Cooper<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8044\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_7866trim.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8044\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_7866trim-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"alice cooper live concert\" title=\"alice cooper at getaway rock festival 2011\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_7866trim-800x529.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_7866trim-250x165.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_7866trim.jpg 1631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Cooper - Getaway Rock Festival 2011<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first saw Alice Cooper live, back in 1987, I wasn&#8217;t very familiar with his music. Sure I had heard &#8220;I&#8217;m Eighteen&#8221; and &#8220;School&#8217;s Out&#8221; on the radio growing up, but I didn&#8217;t own any of his albums. It was beginning in 1987 that I really got into his early material. I even ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[352,336,386,382],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8054"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9094,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054\/revisions\/9094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}