00:00Music
00:14If you create a nightmare, anything can happen.
00:18Now you're here, so have no fear
00:21I'm just your friendly guide
00:24It's a new nightmare. It's a brand new nightmare.
00:27Even though I think, in some ways
00:30Alice remembers the first nightmare.
00:33I'm shaking in the ice cold shower
00:36Alice has always gone in a lot of different directions
00:38Over the 25, 26 albums
00:40I don't mind going left or right or up or down
00:44As long as it stays within Alice's character
00:47It goes from some glorious opening
00:51Right into some song that could only be Alice Cooper
00:54Right into a train wreck
00:57Into a Tom Waits type of song
01:00That's what baby wants
01:03I had Bob Ezrin who was classically
01:05He was my George Martin
01:07Classically trained
01:08One of those guys that can take rock
01:11And give it that next level of acceptability
01:16Bob created a masterpiece with us
01:18He said, you know, it's the 35th anniversary of Nightmare
01:21You know, really?
01:24And we started getting to talk
01:25You know, what would Alice's Nightmare be now?
01:28And pretty soon we were writing songs
01:30Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
01:31She pushed me down on a...
01:33Bite You Face Off
01:35Is definitely on my tip of the hat to the Rolling Stones
01:38Nobody's ever heard the song
01:39The audience is singing it by the second chorus
01:42How about your face off?
01:44They can't wait to sing that part
01:46It has every element of Brown Sugar
01:49Or Honky Tonk Woman
01:51It's got that hook
01:52That it just really is the perfect little three minute single
01:56Tommy was co-engineer and part writer of the new album
02:01Welcome to My Nightmare
02:03And he played so good I said, you gotta be in the band
02:06And so I stole them from Bob Ezra
02:07And Bob is pissed
02:08I get an email from him every day
02:11Where's Tommy?
02:12Come on
02:13We opened for the Stones a couple of years ago
02:15And Keith comes up and he goes
02:18Vinny, Vinny, Vinny
02:20How long has it been since you had a train?
02:23I said, no, 20, 30 years
02:25He goes, ah, and makes the question
02:27Why?
02:32I just wanna give you something to remember me by
02:39By the way, this is a coffee stirrer that I use to scratch
02:44Because I don't wanna mess up my makeup
02:47Trick of the trade
02:48I wanna give you something
02:51The world's in a nightmare right now
02:53We've got volcanoes, earthquakes, tidal waves
02:56Every country in the Middle East is in a war
02:59It's a chaotic world right now
03:01So I'm kind of saying, here's Alice's nightmare
03:05It really has nothing to do with any of that
03:08It's my own private little nightmare
03:13I've never had more fun on an album
03:16I really haven't had more fun
03:18Thank you for letting me be myself
03:23Thank you
03:23Thank you
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