Alice Cooper Drummer Johnny Bee Enters Spotlight on Solo Debut
Veteran rock drummer Johnny Bee Badanjek talked to UCR about his 2021 debut solo album, 'Arc of the Sweeping Sky.'
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Veteran rock drummer Johnny Bee Badanjek talked to UCR about his 2021 debut solo album, 'Arc of the Sweeping Sky.'
Veteran rock drummer Johnny Bee Badanjek talked to UCR about his 2021 debut solo album, 'Arc of the Sweeping Sky.'
LaVoyce, a Booker T. grad, moved to California because she knows it will be easier to lift up local artists once she makes it herself.
While the Alice Cooper band got its start in California, they never fit in with the flower-power hippies who dominated the ’60s scene. Audience members were walking out of shows at gigs in and around Los Angeles so they didn’t have to endure their wild theatrics. Detroit, on the other hand, was a city in love with tough, bombastic music, and the band found a thrilled fanbase. “In Detroit, if you went up there and said, ‘This is a song about love and roses,’ they would just kill you,” Cooper tells UCR in an exclusive interview. “They wanted hard rock with attitude.”
In the late ’60s, Los Angeles produced some weird and wild rock bands, from the Doors to the Mothers of Invention. But even L.A. didn’t know what to do with the Alice Cooper band. “L.A. just didn’t get us at all,” Cooper told the Herald. “Frank Zappa didn’t even get us. He went, ‘I don’t […]