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Alice Cooper, Judas Priest set to rock Broadmoor World Arena

Alice Cooper, Judas Priest set to rock Broadmoor World Arena

Alice Cooper has more than earned his reputation as the “Godfather of Shock Rock.”

His half century of macabre onstage spectacles have inspired a dark parade of outrageous acts that include Kiss, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, Slipknot and Gwar.

For his co-headlining tour with Judas Priest, Cooper’s personal arsenal of props includes a choice of guillotine, electric chair or gallows for his nightly “execution,” as well as live boa constrictors, fake blood and dismembered baby dolls.

Expect to see all of that and more Friday at The Broadmoor World Arena.

Fans can also expect to hear a handful of new additions to his set list, courtesy of “The Revenge of Alice Cooper,” subtitled “The Return Album The World Was Afraid Of.” Released in July, it’s Cooper’s first album in 50 years to feature his original band.

In addition to the three surviving members of the original band — Dennis Dunaway (bass), Neal Smith (drums), and Michael Bruce (guitar) — the album also reunites the band with the legendary Bob Ezrin, who produced pop-savvy Cooper anthems such as “I’m Eighteen,” “School’s Out,” “Elected,” “No More Mister Nice Guy,” and “Billion Dollar Babies.”

“It was exactly like it was; it had not changed one bit,” Cooper said in a late August interview. “We got in the studio, we wrote the same way, we played the same way and we accidentally made a 1975 album.”

The one band member who wasn’t present in the studio was guitarist Glen Buxton, who died in 1997.

“We knew we couldn’t do it without him,” said Cooper, “so we found an old tape with him on it and isolated the guitar part. Then we wrote a song around that guitar riff, so he could be on the album.”

Over the years, Cooper has deployed a host of backing bands and has managed to survive and thrive in an industry that has chewed up and spit out a lot of his peers. Part of that is a product of his work ethic and high standards.

“I try to make every single show the best show I’ve ever done,” he said. “And the same thing with the albums. Never phone it in. I tell young bands this all the time. People will come back if you give them a great show, and you perform great, and you sing great, and your band is great, and the album is great. If you can keep doing that over and over and over — like the Stones, like Paul McCartney, like Rod Stewart, like Aerosmith — people will let you go on forever.”

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