EPISODE 217: WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE!

We’re crawling back into Alice Cooper’s Welcome to My Nightmare to finish our Halloween episode! The wheel has questionable taste, Savino may need therapy, and we’re pretty sure something’s living in the basement.

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