ALICE COOPER Original 1973 CONCERT TICKET STUB Houston TX EX+

  
Here's a super nice. ALICE COOPER Ticket Stub from. April 29th, 1973 at the Houston Coliseum. This was the tour supporting the Billion Dollar Babies album and the peak period for this band.

At the time on the airwaves, they rivaled and for awhile even exceeding Led Zeppelin, The Stones and The Who among others. Alice was one of the originals whom brought make up and rock shock theatrics to the scene. Unfortunately though, being a collaborative effort, Alice Cooper could never really continue the success of the early 70's after the breakup of the original lineup in 1974.

He really wasn't as good a songwriter as other bandmates. Still, to his credit he has kept the mantle going to this day by continuing to tour and play all their old hits. This is a super nice ticket is in great shape, clean, firm and tight, no real noticeable wear. It will look exactly like the one in the photo, only the # will be just a little different.

Typical 1973 setlist: Hello Hooray Billion Dollar Babies Elected I'm Eighteen Raped and Freezin' No More Mr. Nice Guy My Stars Unfinished Sweet Night On Bald Mountain Sick Things Dead Babies I Love the Dead Night On Bald Mountain School's Out Encore: Under My Wheels God Bless America.

Here's how the Billion Dollar Babies tour happened. Plans for, or the overriding theme for, the Billion Dollar Babies tour really took shape during the latter part of 1972 when Michael Bennett (West Side Story, The Follies) was hired to choreography a production called "Alice At The Palace".

Hot off the heels of an album heavily influenced by Broadway (School's Out), the plan was to do Broadway type production at one venue, New York City's Palace Theate. But when plans fell through due to union contracts, or excessive ticket demand - it really depends on what you are reading - what would have been a first in rock and roll for this type of production died an early death.

Undeterred, the band soldiered on and it was decided to do a full scale traveling tour, taking its inspiration from Broadway and lathering the production in theatrical excess. Joe Gannon designed the large opulent set which featured an Egyptian statue overlooking the set, strategically placed behind Neal Smith's drum set. There was a raised area on the stage, with steps on either side leading up to the second level, then on into a hollow metal framed entrance littered with statues and manikins - like a gateway to heaven, or would that be hell? But then Alice would grace the stage dressed in a white leotard which looked like it had never been washed - it was torn and stained - stomping around the stage with thigh high leopard skin boots. The Billion Dollar Babies tour was the mother of all tours. The stage was excessive, the violence perpetrated by Alice was excessive, and the show was sexually excessive. It was all about excess, and there hasn't been a tour like it since.

Baby dolls were put to death at the sword wielding hands of Alice. Alice simulated oral sex with manikins, even captured his own spittle which had travelled down between the breasts of a silver manikin body.

Cleaned the dancing teeth in particularly erotic fashion after being drilled by a mad dentist (The Amazing Randy). And finally, beheaded on a guillotine only to return to the stage so he and the band could beat the crap out of a Nixon impersonator.

What more could you want, seriously? What is often forgotten and overlooked about the Alice Cooper group is just how popular they were. Billion Dollar Babies saw the group at the height of their success, the tour was on the back of a No. 1 album and a top ten single. The band didn't take this lightly, instead of taking a break from constant touring for the past 5 years they hit the road - hard. In a little over three months the band had played about 60 dates across the US, traveling from city to city in a private jet. The Billion Dollar Babies tour was the highest grossing tour to hit the stage up to this point. Thank you for shopping at ClaudeUSA. This item is in the category "Entertainment Memorabilia\Music Memorabilia\Rock & Pop\Artists C\Cooper, Alice". The seller is "claudeusa" and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped worldwide., New Zealand, Taiwan, Azerbaijan Republic, Macau, Georgia, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Bhutan, Thailand, Bermuda, South Korea, Pakistan, Singapore, Kyrgyzstan, China, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Tajikistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Canada, Turkmenistan, India, Greenland, Mexico, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Nepal.

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• Artist/Band: Alice Cooper
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• Genre: Rock & Pop
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