EPISODE 216: WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE!

The wheel has spoken, and apparently it wants us to spend Halloween with the Godfather of Shock Rock himself: ALICE COOPER! 🕷️

This Halloween, Rock Roulette is diving headfirst into Alice Cooper’s legendary Welcome to My Nightmare. Expect creepy characters, theatrical madness, and enough musical horror to make Savino check under his bed before going to sleep.

Will this nightmare be a rock ’n’ roll masterpiece or a one-way ticket to musical purgatory? There’s only one way to find out!

Happy Halloween, rock freaks!

Welcome to My Nightmare is the debut solo studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released on February 28, 1975, by Atlantic Records. A concept album, its songs played in sequence form a journey through the nightmares of a child named Steven.

The album inspired the Alice Cooper: The Nightmare TV special, a worldwide concert tour, and his Welcome to My Nightmare concert film (1976). The tour was one of the most over-the-top excursions of that era. Most of Lou Reed’s band joined Cooper for this record. Internationally, Welcome to My Nightmare was released by the ABC subsidiary Anchor Records. It is Cooper’s only album under Atlantic Records and Anchor Records.

Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper – lead vocals
Dick Wagner – electric and acoustic guitar, vocals
Steve “Deacon” Hunter – electric and acoustic guitar
Prakash John – bass
Pentti “Whitey” Glan – drums

Production
Jeffrey Morgan – liner notes (reissue)
Michael Sherman – production assistant
Phil Ramone – engineer on “Only Women Bleed”, recording at A&R Studios
Corky Stasiak, Dave Palmer, Ed Sprigg, Rod O’Brien – recording at Record Plant East and Electric Lady Studios
Dave Palmer, Jim Frank – recording at Soundstage

Additional Musicians
Bob Ezrin – synthesizer, keyboards, vocals, producer
Jozef Chirowski – keyboards, clavinet, vocals, Fender Rhodes
Tony Levin – bass on “Welcome to My Nightmare” and “Escape”
Johnny “Bee” Badanjek – drums on “Welcome to My Nightmare” and “Escape”
Vincent Price – The Curator
Trish McKinnon – “Mom”
David Ezrin, Gerry Lyons, Michael Sherman, the Summerhill Children’s Choir – vocals
Bob Ezrin, Allan Macmillan – arrangements

Art
Drew Struzan – artwork

Intro Music/Wheel Spin Music by LiteSaturation from Pixabay