ALICE COOPER__1973__Original CONCERT TICKET STUB__Houston__EX+

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Here's a nice
ALICE COOPER
stub
from April 29th, 1973 at the Houston Coliseum, Houston TX.
This was the tour supporting the Billion Dollar Babies album and about the peak period for this band.  They were hot.  At the time, on the airwaves, they rivaled Led Zeppelin, The Stones and The Who.  Alice was the original whom brought make up and rock shock theatrics to the scene before anyone else.  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.
This is a really nice Globe stub, with minimal handling wear.
Purchase with confidence, I only deal in vintage original items, guaranteed authentic.
1973 Typical 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
For a medley of photos from late 60's to early 70's (with Muscle of Love playing in background)
.  Go to You Tube and paste in:
Alice Cooper - Muscle Of Love - 1973
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. But not entirely. 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? The chrome looking set was glitzy and excessive, screaming money. 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.
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