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EarMUSICAlice Cooper will be heading to the Motor City area next month for an in-store signing event to promote his latest studio album, Detroit Stori...

E Pluribus Funk. What memories stick out for you about the experience of making those two albums? E Pluribus Funk was one of my favorite albums. I always judge an album by how easy it was to record. [Laughs.] That one, we went in and I think the band at that point, the power trio, we were at our peak. We got into the studio and we knew the songs that we wanted to do. They were great. They were kick-ass songs. It really went down well. There were not 25 takes [of the songs]; we just went in the...

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Ides of March to perform Friday, May 28, the Nelson Park outdoor venue.

Courtesy of Mark Farner; earMUSICFormer Grand Funk Railroad frontman Mark Farner was among the well-known musicians who contributed to Alice Cooper's ...

Courtesy of Mark Farner; earMUSICFormer Grand Funk Railroad frontman Mark Farner was among the well-known musicians who contributed to Alice Cooper's ...

Courtesy of Mark Farner; earMUSICFormer Grand Funk Railroad frontman Mark Farner was among the well-known musicians who contributed to Alice Cooper's ...

Courtesy of Mark Farner; earMUSICFormer Grand Funk Railroad frontman Mark Farner was among the well-known musicians who contributed to Alice Cooper's ...

Johnny “Bee” Badanjek and respected local session bassist Paul Randolph. “I really had a good time with these guys, and I like what we did together,” Mark tells ABC Audio. “You know, it’s just good old rock ‘n’ roll.” The songs Farner played on were covers of the early Bob Seger tune “East Side Story” and Suzi Quatro‘s “Your Mama Won’t Like Me,” an updated version of the 2003 Cooper song “Detroit City” and a...

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