Live From The Astroturf, Alice Cooper is the 12th live album by rock group Alice Cooper, released on November 23, 2018. Live From The Astroturf, Alice Cooper features eight tracks performed by the original line-up of the Alice Cooper band recorded October 6, 2015, at Good Records in Dallas, Texas. In addition to the live concert album, a documentary film entitled Live From The Astroturf, Alice Cooper, produced by Christopher Todd Penn and directed by Steven Gaddis, was made that featured the concert, its inception and events leading up to it, and a question-and-answer session with original Alice Cooper group members that took place following the concert. The film premiered at the Phoenix Film Festival April 4 to 14, 2019, in the group's birthplace of Phoenix, Arizona, where it was awarded Best Documentary Short Feature; the four surviving original members of Alice Cooper were in attendance at the World Premiere event on April 5, 2019. The film also was the Official Selection to be shown in the Detroit Freep Film Festival , the Dallas International Film Festival, and the Northeast Mountain Film Festival .
Background
On 6 October 2015, fans attending a book signing at Good Records, Dallas, Texas, in support of bassist Dennis Dunaway's autobiography, Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs!, were treated to a surprise reunion by the four surviving members of the original Alice Cooper group. Alice Cooper, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith and Michael Bruce were joined by Ryan Roxie to perform an intimate set of eight hits in front of 200 people. This marked the first performance by the surviving members since they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in 2011. It was also the longest time that they had spent together on stage since the group broke up in 1974.
Set list
1. Caught In A Dream ; 2. Be My Lover; 3. Eighteen; 4. Is It My Body; 5. No More Mr Nice Guy; 6. Under My Wheels; 7. School's Out; 8. Elected.
The historic performance was initially celebrated through the release of a two track 7" 45 vinyl release called Live From The Astroturf, Alice Cooper. The two tracks included were Eighteen and Body, which featured together on the original single of Eighteen in 1970. The release was limited to 2,700 units worldwide, with the numbers comprised as follows: > Willy Wonka variant: 100 pressings ; > Pink variant: 1,150 pressings ; > Black variant: 100 pressings ; > White variant: 1,150 pressings ; and > Good Records variant: 200 pressings available only in Good Records. All versions came in a shrink-wrapped gatefold foil board jacket with a sticker and six 5" × 7" double-sided art prints. The record came packed in a colour sleeve featuring thumbnail pictures from the night. A further paper inlay featured some press articles from local newspapers plus credits and details of the official Live From The Astroturf website. The art prints in the Willy Wonka and Good Records Editions were hand-signed in silver pen by the surviving Group members and they also came with a bonus glow-in-the-dark Live From The Astroturf record adapter and a paper jukebox strip.
US Record Store Day 12" vinyl release (2018)
By popular demand, a 12" vinyl release featuring the full eight-song set list was released in 2018, 50 years on from the renaming of 'The Nazz' to 'Alice Cooper'. The release was limited to 5,000 units worldwide, with the numbers comprised as follows:
> Fluorescent Pink variant: 150 pressings ; > Transparent Orange variant: 400 pressings ; and > Opaque Violet variant: 450 pressings. All versions featured a double sided 24" × 36" poster, a 11" × 11" 16-page booklet / program, 6 trading cards, and each b-side* of the LP featured a different member of the Alice Cooper Group at random. The Good Records Edition variants also featured a custom sticker sheet, a Dennis Dunaway Live From The Astroturf guitar pick, 6 double-sided 8" × 10" prints of the Alice Cooper Group, and Alice Cooper Group 50th Anniversary logo patch and a double-sided Live From The Astroturf vinyl slipmat. Limited cassette and 8-track releases were also produced.
