Rob Zombie toured with Alice Cooper in the Gruesome Twosome tour. I'm not all that familiar with Zombie's body of work, but I loved his set decor, props and projections of classic b-movie clips. And I can't get one of his songs out of my head:
"Mars needs women
Angry Red women"
Zombie's show uses a robot costume based on a 1939 movie serial called The Phantom Creeps, which starred Bela Lugosi.
Alice Cooper has been on this blog a few times before but I hadn't published this shot of his vaudevillian hanging. The French used to have a sort of shock theatre called the Grand Gugnall. Alice's shows are about as close to it as one could get these days.
On the current tour, Alice becomes a giant spider,
And here for the first time is a video of Alice painting Ace's face makeup with a sharpie at Dallas Frightmare Weekend in 2009. As he does so, he says "This is only gonna hurt for a second, then you'll be immortal:
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