![]() The stadium appears to have around 18-19,000 capacity depedning on what it's being used for.Īlso: Alice appearances on "The Phil Donahue Show" is taped.Īpril 3rd '75 Indianapolis, IN Market Square Arena (w/ Suzi Quatro) - cancelled as Alice was trapped in Chicago during a bad snow stormĪpril 4th '75 Richfield, OH, Richfield Coliseum (w/ Suzi Quatro)Īpril 5th '75 Detroit, MI, Olympia Stadium (w/ Suzi Quatro) (17,000 tickets sold out in an hour) Show sold out and additional show booked for the 8th. ![]() If you look carefully at the second ad below, you'll see that stamped over the advert it says "Thank You Chicago! Sold Out!" One can only assume it was published as a "thank you" to the Chicago fans. Mar 31st '75 Alice holds a press conference at the North Lake Shore Drive Holiday Inn's Great Lakes Room above Lake Michigan to discuss the tour and the fact he'd just been banned from Australia.Īpril 1st '75 Chicago, IL, Chicago Stadium (w/ Suzi Quatro) - Interestingly, and somewhat uniquely, there is an advert for this show published in the Chicago Tribune the day AFTER the show. ![]() Mar 29th '75 'Welcome To My Nightmare' is at #39 in the Billboard charts. Mar 29th '75 Erie, PA County Fieldhouse (w/ Suzi Quatro) - Poster lists ' Heavy Metal Kids' as support? They did the song, sort of, but Alice literally had to pick Micky up and carry him off stage. Well, that was how it was planned, but Micky had a hard time doing anything because he was completely plastered after consuming mass quantities of alcohol backstage. Once they went into the theme song, Micky bolted out on stage and sang the song with the band. But on that night the long guitar note went into another familiar song - the theme to "The Monkees.” The final song of the show was Alice Cooper's "School's Out," and if you remember the song there's a long guitar note/semi-feedback noise at the end. Once Micky and the Alice Cooper crew met backstage, they started to party, and they worked out something to surprise the audience at the IMA. Dolenz was in town to do a live appearance at the South Flint Drive-In where the movie he was appearing in - brace yourself…the R-rated Linda Lovelac for President - was showing. "Just before the show started, none other than Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees showed up. Auditorium (w/ Suzi Quatro) - A couple of eye witnesses remember seeing Mickey Dolenz coming out on stage, possibly dressed in school graduation robes, during 'School's Out'. Mar 27th '75 Evansville IN, Roberts Municipal Stadium (w/ Suzi Quatro) Mar 25th '75 Green Bay, WI, Brown County Arena (w/ Suzi Quatro) Mar 22nd '75 'Welcome To My Nightmare' enters the Billboard charts at #63. "If he does make an application he will not be allowed into this country". ![]() Immigration minster Clyde Ameron had apparently been told Cooper's act included the 'multilation of dolls, birds and animals' and that was enough for him to declare "This sort of performance is sick, and I'm not going to allow a degenerate, who could powerfully influence the young and weaked minded, to stage this sort of exhibition here" and then ban him. Mar 22nd '75 News reports circulate in the US suggesting that Alice has been banned from entering Australia despite the fact he had no plans to do so at the time. Mar 21st '75 Kalamazoo, MI, Wings Stadium (w/ Suzi Quatro) Support: Suzi Quatro or James Gang (US), Heavy Metal Kids (Europe) Mar 4th '75 'Welcome To My Nightmare' album released on Atlantic Records in the US and Canada (Anchor Records outside North America). Mar 1st '75 Alice is one of the presenters at the Grammy awards. Alice is the only obvious non-comedy name on the list.Įarly Feb '75 Alice, Leslie West, Todd Rungren and Lenard Cohen all attended a show by Flo And Eddie at the Bottom Line in New York. The guest list is a who's who on US comedy. Jan 28th '75 Alice is mentioned as a participent at the "First Annual Comedy Awards" on ABC TV to be aired as a 90 minute special the following day. Jan 20th '75 Alice signs new deal with Atlantic to issue 'Welcome To My Nightmare'(MM). Jan 18th '75 Billboard mentions Michael Bruce has been in the Record Plant in Los Angeles working on his solo album with Gene Conish and Dave Palmer. The show was a return to television for the Smothers and generated a huge amount of press, most of it mentioning Alice. Jan 13th '75 Alice performs 'Unfinished Sweet' on 'The Smothers Brothers Show' without the band. Possibly the first time this has been mentioned in print? Jan 11th '75 The Cumberland Evening Times has a small mention that Alice has split with the band. Jan 2nd '75 Alice's first talk show appearance on 'Mike Douglas Show' with Peter Falk and Ryan O'Neal.
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