Hey everybody, Greg Lorry here. You're listening to the Greg Lorry podcast and my objective is to deliver,

hopefully compelling, practical insights and faith, culture, and current events from a biblical

perspective. To find out more about our ministry, just go to our website, harvests.org. So thanks for

joining me for this podcast. Well, Alice, thanks for having me at your

place here. It's called The Rock, right? This is the Rock. Yeah, we started about 20 years ago

and trying to find a place for kids to go where they could, you know, an alternative to what's

on the street, basically. And I watched a couple of 16-year-old kids do a drug deal on the corner

and I went how does that kid not know he might be a great guitar player or that that other kid

might be a drummer and it just struck me right then why don't we open that given that old

alternative to go there you know and it ended up here that's incredible and you're and I know you're impacting a lot of young people here. And they come in and they wonder what's the catch, but you're just doing something for your community. And it's not like that, but it's all Christian. You know, we're all Christian guys. And Lord told us to do it. So we just obeyed. That's all. So speaking of that, when I've told people, yeah, I met Alice Cooper. Alice Cooper, what's he like?

I said, he's the nicest guy down to earth, so easy to talk to. And, you know, and they have kind of the stereotypical image of you, because, you know, you have a persona, right? You're the guy that, well, first of all, I mentioned to a young person the other day, I'm going to talk with Alice Cooper, and they said, didn't he bite a head off a bat? I said, I think that's

Ozzy Osborne. I said, I do know there's a story with Alice in a chicken, though, but that's

sort of maybe a little mythological, right? You know, back then there was no internet. So everything

was word of mouth, everything was urban legend. And they wanted Alice

to be that. More than anything, I think they were looking for a villain. And I was more than happy

to be Captain Hook to everybody's Peter Pan. And so the villain always gets all the good lines.

And so I was built not to be the hero, but the villain.

But the villain also has to have a sense of humor behind it, or it doesn't work.

And everything is based on how good is the music.

You cannot put the icing on the cake without the cake.

A six hour rehearsal is five hours on the music, one hour on the theater.

So I mean, the band, we were up against Led Zeppelin, we're up against, like you said, the Who, the Yardbirds, those guys.

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