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Only a city like Detroit could unleash a glam rock force like the Alice Cooper<\/a> band.<\/p>\n Despite their frontman being born in Michigan\u2019s Motor City, jumping between Phoenix, Arizona, as teens behind The Spiders\u2019 fuzzy beat, to a later decamp to sunny Los Angeles to find fame, all proved essential chapters of Alice Cooper\u2019s evolution to the hard rock vaudeville that would cement their shock rock stature.<\/p>\n Once the psychedelic struggle was shaken off from their first two albums, 1971\u2019s Love It to Death would owe all its warlock theatre to the burning garage scene they thrust themselves in the centre of.<\/p>\n They couldn\u2019t have been in better company. Scoring the city\u2019s proto-punk burnish was the likes of The Stooges and MC5 quashing the day\u2019s hippy residue with their turbo-charged ferality, Meat Loaf\u2019s theatrical gusto taking the stage at the Grande Ballroom with near residency regularity, and George Clinton corralling P-Funk\u2019s psychoactive grit with lysergic arrest. It was a heady plume of sounds to be lost in, the potent counter to Woodstock\u2019s peace and love curdling, paving the way for the new wave\u2019s insurgent spirit set to explode at the 1970s\u2019 end.<\/p>\n Stardom would greet Cooper once the hard rock horror vaudeville was honed, overseeing a golden run of glam LPs that gave the UK\u2019s glitter cohort a run for their money, 1973\u2019s Billion Dollar Babies topping the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic. While rubbing shoulders with everybody from Elvis Presley<\/a> to Jim Morrison, one figure from the rock and roll business stood apart from the rest as a kindred spirit to exactly the kind of outlaw gang Cooper was keenly captaining in their glam heyday.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I first met him back in the \u201870s, I liked him immediately,\u201d Cooper reflected to Classic Rock in 2022. \u201cHe was a tough motorcycle type. If he\u2019d been born in America, he would\u2019ve come from Detroit. Back then, Detroit was the murder capital of the United States; there was no such thing as a nice neighbourhood. It was really rough. But it\u2019s where I started to make a name for myself. Lemmy would\u2019ve fit right in there.\u201d<\/p>\n Just like Cooper, Ian \u2018Lemmy\u2019 Kilmister too had travelled a long road before founding the Mot\u00f6rhead juggernaut, playing the small clubs of Northern England with The Rockin\u2019 Vickers before joining Jimi Hendrix\u2019s road crew and a slew of London psychedelic bands and landing an essential bass gig with space rock psychonauts Hawkwind across their classic Space Ritual era.<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n Always harbouring a taste for speed over LSD as well as a veneration for rock and roll at its most elemental, Mot\u00f6rhead would echo Cooper\u2019s outlier place in the rock world, half orbiting the incipient new wave of British heavy metal while in punk\u2019s reaching distance, just as \u2018Coop\u2019 dwelled in the glam world but spiked with a dose of beckoning danger over the era\u2019s escapist glitz. While born in Stoke-on-Trent, Lemmy\u2019s steely and electric rock energy crackled with all the spirit that ignited Detroit\u2019s feral garage rock zenith.<\/p>\n It\u2019d be no surprise that the two got on like a house on fire. Mutual veterans of the hard rock trenches and cut from the same 1960s rock and pop cloth, they were known to drink together at Sunset Blvd\u2019s famous Rainbow Bar & Grill, and Cooper reportedly even suggested the Mot\u00f6rhead frontman would have been invited to his Hollywood Vampires supergroup if still alive. \u201cWe were hard rockers, y\u2019know?\u201d Cooper concluded. \u201cOur lineage was The Yardbirds<\/a> and The Who. That was where we came from.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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