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The family boasts more than courses under the Dye Design brand in the United States and more than 70 in 24 countries worldwide. Our children were with us. I have one photo of P. Some of the greatest names in golf and golf architecture were once on the Dye Team, or spent time learning from Pete.

Several years back, she was invited to a club in Naples, Florida. The watered fairways had soaked the course. Alice said she walked around with a group of eight, and pointed out where the staff could optimize play by placing a forward tee. Later in the day she met a woman in the locker room, who was ready to vent. The average person would hit straight down. Most of our bunkers are on the right or left of the green. What stands out for her, she said, may surprise you. It is not necessarily the glitter of major championships or ribbon-cutting at new courses.

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Automated Golf Automated Article 1. The Detroit leg of this tour, which took place at the end of October during Halloween, was captured on film as The Nightmare Returns , and is viewed by some as being the definitive Alice Cooper concert film. The Constrictor album was followed by Raise Your Fist and Yell in , which had an even rougher sound than its predecessor, as well as the Cooper classic " Freedom ". The subsequent tour of Raise Your Fist and Yell , which was heavily inspired by the slasher horror movies of the time such as the Friday the 13th series and A Nightmare on Elm Street , served up a shocking spectacle similar to its predecessor, and courted the kind of controversy, especially in Europe, that recalled the public outrage caused by Cooper's public performances in America in the early s.

In Britain, Labour M. David Blunkett called for the show to be banned, saying "I'm horrified by his behaviour — it goes beyond the bounds of entertainment". The controversy spilled over into the German segment of the tour, with the German government actually succeeding in having some of the gorier segments of the performance removed. Constrictor and Raise Your Fist and Yell were recorded with lead guitarist Kane Roberts and bassist Kip Winger , both of whom would leave the band by the end of although Kane Roberts played guitar on "Bed of Nails" on 's album Trash.

In , Cooper made a brief appearance as a vagrant in the horror movie Prince of Darkness , directed by John Carpenter. His role had no lines and consisted of generally menacing the protagonists before eventually impaling one of them with a bicycle frame. Jake considered the involvement of Cooper to be an honor, as he had idolized Cooper in his youth and was still a huge fan. A music video was shot for the song and got minor airplay on MTV.

The song was originally recorded and released in by the band Spirit.

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On April 7, , Cooper nearly died of asphyxiation after a safety rope broke during a rehearsal concert wherein he pretended to hang himself, a stunt he would often perform during live concerts. Then in his career finally experienced a legitimate revival with the Desmond Child produced and Grammy -nominated album Trash , which spawned a hit single " Poison ", which reached No.

In , Cooper released his 19th studio album Hey Stoopid featuring several notable rock musicians guesting on the record. Released as glam metal's popularity was on the wane, and just before the explosion of grunge, it failed to have the same commercial impact as its predecessor. The same year also saw the release of the video Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts which chronicled his entire career using in depth interviews with Cooper himself, Bob Ezrin, and Shep Gordon.

One critic has noted that Prime Cuts demonstrates how Cooper had used in contrast to similar artists who succeeded him themes of satire and moralisation to such good effect throughout his career. He's the axe murderer, he's the spoiled child, he's the abuser, he's the abused; he's the perpetrator, he's the victim, he's the gun slinger, and he's the guy lying dead in the middle of the street".

During the early s, Cooper guested on records by the most successful bands of the time, such as the Guns N' Roses album Use Your Illusion I , on which he shared vocal duties with Axl Rose on the track " The Garden ". The Final Nightmare Cooper made a cameo appearance in the comedy film Wayne's World. Afterwards at a backstage party, the movie's main characters Wayne and Garth discover that when offstage Cooper is a calm, articulate intellectual when he and his band discuss the history of Milwaukee in depth. Wayne and Garth respond to an invitation to hang out with Cooper by kneeling and bowing reverently before him while chanting "We're not worthy!

The album deals with issues of faith, temptation, alienation and the frustrations of modern life, and has been described as "a young man's struggle to see the truth through the distractions of the 'Sideshow' of the modern world". This was to be Cooper's last album with Epic Records, and his last studio release for six years, though during this period the live album A Fistful of Alice [50] was released, and in he lent his voice to the intro track of Insane Clown Posse 's The Great Milenko. During his absence from the recording studio, Cooper toured extensively every year throughout the latter part of the s, including, in , South America, which he had not visited since The first decade of the 21st century saw a sustained period of activity from Alice Cooper.

In the decade in which he turned sixty, he toured extensively and released after a significant break a steady stream of studio albums to favorable critical acclaim.

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During this period Cooper was also recognized and awarded in various ways: The lengthy break between studio albums ended in with Brutal Planet , which was a return to horror-lined heavy metal, with industrial rock, and with subject matter thematically inspired by the brutality of the modern world, set in a dystopian post-apocalyptic future, and also inspired by a number of news stories that had recently appeared on the CNN news channel. Brutal Planet was succeeded by the sonically similar and acclaimed sequel Dragontown , which saw Bob Ezrin back as producer.

The album has been described as leading the listener down "a nightmarish path into the mind of rock's original conceptual storyteller" [60] and by Cooper himself as being "the worst town on Brutal Planet". It is often cited in the music media that Dragontown forms the third chapter in a trilogy begun with The Last Temptation ; [61] however, Cooper has indicated that this in fact is not the case.

Cooper again adopted a leaner, cleaner sound for his critically acclaimed release The Eyes of Alice Cooper. The resulting Bare Bones tour adopted a less-orchestrated performance style that had fewer theatrical flourishes and a greater emphasis on musicality. The program showcases classic rock, Cooper's personal stories about his life as a rock icon and interviews with prominent rock artists. The show is broadcast on nearly stations in the US and Canada, [64] and has also been broadcast all over the world. A continuation of the songwriting approach adopted on The Eyes of Alice Cooper was again adopted by Cooper for his 24th studio album Dirty Diamonds , released in Live at Montreux One critic, in a review of the Montreux release, commented that Cooper was to be applauded for "still mining pretty much the same territory of teenage angst and rebellion" as he had done more than thirty years previously.

In December , the original Alice Cooper band reunited to perform six classic Alice Cooper songs at Cooper's annual charity event in Phoenix, entitled "Christmas Pudding". It was Cooper's highest charting album since 's Hey Stoopid , reaching No. The album, visiting similar territory explored in 's Raise Your Fist and Yell , deals with the nefarious antics of a deranged serial killer named "Spider" who is on a quest to use the limbs of his victims to create a human spider.

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The album generally received positive reviews from music critics, though Rolling Stone magazine opined that the music on the record sorely missed Bob Ezrin's production values. With his daughter, and former band member Dick Wagner , Cooper scored the music for the indie horror flick Silas Gore.

I'm very happy with working with Bob Ezrin again. On December 15, , it was announced Cooper and his former band would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Alice showed up for the event wearing a presumably fake blood-splattered shirt and had a live albino Burmese python wrapped around his neck. On March 10, , Jackson Browne , David Crosby , Graham Nash , Cooper, Jennifer Warnes and others performed at a benefit concert in Tucson, Arizona benefiting The Fund for Civility, Respect and Understanding, a foundation that raises awareness about and provides medical prevention and treatment services to people with mental disorders.

On June 9, , Cooper was awarded the Kerrang! Icon Award at Kerrang! Cooper used the opportunity to hit out at the "anaemic" rock music that dominates the charts, and said he has no intention of retiring from the industry. In the film, Barnabas Collins played by Depp , mistakenly assuming the name to be that of a woman, describes him as the ugliest woman he has ever seen. In , Cooper announced that he had finished recording a covers album, based on songs by his rock star drinking buddies in the s who had since died from excess, and that it was scheduled for a spring release.

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Cooper was featured on the song " Savages " on Theory of a Deadman 's new album. Live from Wacken , which was recorded at Germany's Wacken heavy metal festival the previous year. In , Cooper premiered Hollywood Vampires , a supergroup featuring Johnny Depp and Joe Perry with a new studio album of rock covers, featuring many guest artists including Paul McCartney , and live dates at L. In , Cooper made headlines again as he resumed his running gag of campaigning for the US Presidency.

During the show he talked about various things including the new album, which he said will be called Paranormal. Guitarists Tommy Denander and Tommy Henriksen have contributed most of the guitars. Yes, but also perfect in a campy, dramatic and evil "Billion Dollar Babies" kind of way. Cooper's part was small but indelible. During an interview for the program Entertainment USA in , Cooper told interviewer Jonathan King that the Yardbirds were his favorite band of all time. During an interview with Ozzy Osbourne from radio program Nights with Alice Cooper on May 22, , Cooper again affirmed his debt of gratitude to these bands, and to the Beatles in particular.

During their discussion, Cooper and Osbourne bemoaned the often inferior quality of songwriting coming from contemporary rock artists. Cooper stated that in his opinion the cause of the problem was that certain modern bands "had forgotten to listen to the Beatles". On seeing shock rock pioneer Arthur Brown performing his US number two hit "Fire" in , Cooper states, "Can you imagine the young Alice Cooper watching that with all his make-up and hellish performance?

It was like all my Halloweens came at once!. Often this involved destruction or macabre gimmickry", with Cooper responding, "That's why most people thought we were British at first". Evidence of Cooper's eclectic tastes in classic and contemporary rock music can be seen in the track listings of his radio show; in addition, when he appeared on the BBC Radio 2 program Tracks of My Years in September , he listed his favorite tracks of all time as being: The fact is, if you can call what I have a musical career, it all started with me miming to 'I'm Eighteen' on a jukebox".

They also covered "Sun Arise" for an Alice Cooper tribute album. Cooper's version, which closes the album Love It to Death , was itself a cover of a Rolf Harris song. In , Cleopatra Records released Humanary Stew: According to Cooper, the rumor began when a college newspaper editor asked him what kind of child he was, to which Cooper replied, "I was obnoxious, disgusting, a real Eddie Haskell.

Cooper would later tell the New Times , "It was the biggest rumor that ever came out about me. Cooper discussed various issues during the talk, including the horrors of acute alcoholism and his subsequent cure, being a Christian, and his social and work relationship with his family. I will not let him beat me when it comes to longevity. Miss Christine real name Christine Frka , who had recommended Zappa to the group, died on November 5, of an overdose. They separated in ; Lang sued Cooper for palimony , and they eventually settled out of court in the early s. After his separation from Lang, Cooper was briefly linked with actress Raquel Welch.

They married on March 20, In November , at the height of Cooper's alcoholism, Goddard filed for divorce, but by mid, she and Cooper had reconciled. In a television interview, Cooper stated that he had never cheated on his wife the entire time they had been together. In the same interview, he also said that the secret to a lasting and successful relationship is to continue going out on dates with one's partner.

After noticing the abuse of alcohol and other drugs in the band, Cooper personally approached the band members to try to help them control their abuse, and he has stayed close to front man Dave Mustaine , who considers Cooper to be his "godfather". During an interview with Johnnie Walker on BBC Radio 2 in September , Alice admitted that he was not a Christian when he gave up drinking, but stated that he thanks God for "taking it away", saying, "I mean if He [God] can part the Red Sea and create the universe, He can certainly take alcoholism away from somebody.

Throughout his career, Cooper's philosophy regarding politics is that politics should not be mixed with rock music. Cooper has usually kept his political views to himself, and in said, "I am extremely non-political. I go out of my way to be non-political. I'm probably the biggest moderate you know.

When John Lennon and Harry Nilsson used to argue politics, I was sitting right in the middle of them, and I was the guy who was going 'I don't care. And I still feel that way. On occasion he has spoken out against musicians who promote or opine on politics; for example, in the run-up to the presidential election , he told the Canadian Press that the rock stars campaigning for and touring on behalf of Democratic candidate John Kerry were committing "treason against rock n' roll".

He added, upon seeing a list of musicians who supported Kerry, "If I wasn't already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched. Geez, that's a good reason right there to vote for Bush. He has coached Little League baseball teams since his son played in the early s. Cooper has on several occasions credited golf with playing a major role in helping him overcome his addiction to alcohol, [] and has even gone so far as to say that when he took up golf, it was a case of replacing one addiction with another.

Cooper has also appeared in commercials for Callaway Golf equipment and was a guest of veteran British player and broadcaster Peter Alliss on A Golfer's Travels. Cooper is also the subject of the "we're not worthy" meme, which originates from his cameo in Wayne's World with Mike Myers and Dana Carvey in Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


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