Episode 840 - Alice Cooper

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2017

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Marc gets the full story of how Vincent Furnier became Alice Cooper and took rock & roll into dark and unexpected territory. Alice tells Marc about the early formation of his band, how his return to Christianity helped him confront his alcoholism, and how he's remained sober for nearly 40 years. Along the way, he inspired, and was inspired by, the likes of John Lennon, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Frank Sinatra, Groucho Marx, Glen Campbell, and many more.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.9	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucking ears, what the fuck
0:14.8	nicks?
0:15.9	This is WTF, my podcast.
0:18.0	Welcome to it.
0:19.3	I saw the old man, the source.
0:21.6	I went to the source and he's alright.
0:25.6	I did about an hour over there.
0:27.1	That was about all that was necessary.
0:28.7	I'll get into that in a minute today.
0:30.9	On the show I talk to Alice Cooper.
0:34.0	And it's interesting about Alice Cooper, you know I'll tell you about that in a minute
0:37.2	too.
0:38.2	Because I didn't, of course I know who Alice Cooper is.
0:40.8	I know who some of his music, I know his reputation in certain ways.
0:46.5	I know my assumptions about him, but it wasn't until I went back and listened to a bit
0:52.3	of almost every record he did before I really got a full picture in terms of who he is
0:57.6	musically, which I found to be pretty fucking good.
1:01.9	And obviously I'm not the first person to say that, but for unique reasons and I'll get
1:06.7	into that in a minute.
1:08.1	I am up here in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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