He explained that his most acute flare-up with the disease generated the creation of the book. While details of songwriting and recording sessions are shared in the book, Dunaway emphasized that “it is really a story about my friendship with my high school friend Alice and a love story about my wife, Cindy, who was our original costume designer and my bandmate Neal’s sister.”ĭunaway had just returned home from a doctor’s appointment before our interview, having had blood taken in preparation of further treatment of Crohn’s Disease. “I wrote the book with the intention of putting people in the band’s station wagon as we were driving around America, thinking about how we were going to make a big splash,” he said, adding “it’s very important to give people the feeling of the time – the Vietnam War and all the cultural and social changes, so people understand how controversial the Alice Cooper group was.” The cover of Dennis Dunaway’s book, “Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group.”ĭunaway will discuss the groundbreaking nature of the group at the event and share stories of Cooper and bandmates Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce and Neal Smith. He’ll also perform five classic Alice Cooper songs backed by his band, the Snake Charmers (featuring Guitar Bar owner and Bongos member James Mastro along with Russ Wilson, Nick Didkovsky, and Tish and Snooky Bellomo). He says of Cooper’s new introduction, “it is so flattering that when I read it, I thought I am not worthy of myself.”ĭunaway hopes to “have a very organic conversation and answer questions” at the event, co-sponsored by Hoboken’s Guitar Bar on the eve of Halloween (which seems fitting).
He’ll talk about his memoir, “Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group” (co-written by Rolling Stone journalist Chris Hodenfield and originally released in 2015, but now reissued in paperback), Oct. He is not just a musician who thinks outside the box he is the bassist and co-songwriter for Alice Cooper (the band fronted by the singer of the same name) who thinks without a box, and is credited with pushing the group to come up with sounds no one ever heard before, and merging art and music with theatrical productions equally inspired by Salvador Dali and teenage rebellion.Īs Dunaway said of the group’s use of guillotines, executions and creepy makeup onstage as a form of shock rock, “We didn’t care if you hated us or loved us, but we didn’t want anybody who was indifferent.”
If you are an Alice Cooper fan, then you know Dennis Dunaway.
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