"I've always been a thrift store type."
Alice Cooper has just cut the ribbon on the top floor of Alice, a thrift store that recently opened in the same building that houses the Phoenix Rock Teen Center at the southeast corner of Thunderbird Road and 32nd Street.
"I'm a kind of flea market", he says. "I love going to flea markets and thrift stores."
So what to look for savings-shopping?
Cooper smiles.
"You never know," he says. "I hope that something jumps out at me. And usually, it's something from your childhood. You go through and all of a sudden, 'Oh, I had this toy gun! Have to buy that.' Or you see a Fonzie shirt and go 'Oh, I've got have to.' I think there are certain things that make the corner and become cool again. Like, if you found a Spice Girls T-shirt, that would be great to take. But not only that. They are things that you pick up and think about your friend and think 'Oh, that would be perfect. "as a joke or something."
Many items in the attic are Alice Cooper's personal collection.
"I'm a shopaholic," says Cooper. "When I'm on tour, I come home with 10 suitcases full of clothes. So I just go through and say, 'OK, shop, shop, shop, shop.' Lots of good labels. "
So there are elements in the attic of Alicia have actually been used by Alice Cooper?
"All that is mine was used," he says.
A portion of the proceeds from the store directly benefit the Teen Center Rock, a long-term goal of providing vocational training through employment in the store.
"Eventually what I would do is, since we teach music and art and all, we must also teach retail," says Cooper. "We teach them to operate a cash register because a lot of kids who are not inclined musically, is another way to train them.'s Kind of like all you can do to keep them away from the street life. Because life on the street, there are only two endings for that. in jail or. Each death you can give a call to a child, which is what you do. "
He has seen many children come through the Teen Center Rock that can really play, he says. "And children who are learning, they call me the glorious racket. Because you come in, and a guy playing a song, a boy to play another song. But it's great. 'Cause you're here. There are off doing something else. Me too I want to open a recording studio. Some children are more inclined technically. they are learners recording. enlightenment. sounds. When I go on tour, there are only five guys on stage. has 20 everything working otherwise. and roadies really well. cleaned $ 50,000 to $ 100,000 per year. well that is not a bad thing to be a roadie. you work consistently and very hard work. But if you become a roadie for a great tour, we're doing very well. "
After cutting the ribbon at Alicia's Attic Friday Cooper played a concert opening for its annual proof is in the Pudding in which local teens compete for a place in Christmas Pudding Alice Cooper competition.
"Whoever wins the proof is in the pudding - a guy and a band - gets to perform on stage with artists such as Joe Perry or Twisted Sister or Rob Zombie or whoever is there that night," says Cooper. "For a child, that's a great thing. If you get to be on stage with stars, is his first real moment of being in the spotlight."
As for how they collected the other artists in the bill Pudding, that's easy.
"I just went through my schedule," says Cooper. "I go, 'OK, let's see. Johnny Depp. I'll call him up." And especially to everyone who comes. Last year, I kiss. You realize that it is a Christmas party. And what is it for? It is a music school for children is free. And they were out of gangs and drug them out. "
Cooper has not started to go through the Rolodex still seriously this year.
"I'm going with Motley Crue at this time and it is your last tour, so it's a little hard to ask," says Cooper. "But you could ask Nikki Sixx out. Vince Neil was here last year so I'd like to get Nikki Sixx out. O Tommy Lee or somebody. But everyone wants to come. That's the big thing.'s As if he were Christmas party and someone said, 'Hey, let's get up and do something.' That's what I try to keep it. Might have Pat Boone with Dee Snider. Or you may have Glen Campbell with Ted Nugent. Try to put people who do not belong together on stage. "
And it's always good, he says, to see children thrown into the mix.
"I love the young bands," says Cooper. "I love garage bands. 'Cause this is how it all started. All started learning songs by the Beatles and Rolling Stones songs. If a young band coming towards me and said,' What should we do? 'I would say' Learn Chuck Berry. Learn British rock. return to the Beatles. return to the Rolling Stones and listen to how they play the boys. then take that and injected what you do with it. But do not forget the melody line. need . to write the first song "Our producer said." we're not taping this unless you can sit at the piano and sing '".
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