Alice Cooper – HuffPost 4.30.14

Mike Ragogna: Alice, what advice do you have for new artists?

Alice Cooper: Wow. First of all, if you have an accordion in your band or a banjo you’re not a rock band. Okay? There’s a band called The Stripes coming out of England right now that may be the next hope for rock ‘n’ roll. They’re a real Small Faces type of rock band. They’re young guys that really caught on to that seventies style of snotty rock ‘n’ roll and I hope that’s what’s going on, because right now rock is so anemic. It’s just amazing how anemic it is. The bands that are going up this summer that are going to really burn up the summer are bands like Aerosmith and Slash and Mötley Crüe and Alice Cooper and KISS and Def Leppard. Those are going to be the shows that bring it every night, whereas if I were going to go see a couple of young bands I’d be so bored out of my mind, because these young bands are just afraid to be rockers. They want to be all acoustic, and they want to sing about how oil is bad and “I’m going to be a vegan now, don’t let any burnt flesh come near me,” and I’m going, “Come on! What is this? Have a cheeseburger and shut up!”