Was it Marc Bolan or Alice Cooper who killed that chicken anyway?
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Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Fri 2 Jun 2017, 0:05,
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Allegorically Alice Cooper. Only even in his story, not really.
'I threw it into the crowd. I'm from Detroit man, it's a bird, it has wings, it can fly, right? What did I know? But you know what? The section of the crowd it went into were all cripples. Yeah man, that chicken got ripped apart by people in wheelchairs!'
Problem is that while at some early Alice concerts they did have chickens onstage, at the one he thinks the incident happened, they didn't. Most likely he threw a watermelon into the crowd.
Sorry to mythbust this as it IS a fucking great story of Rock Hedonism, up there with Keith Moon driving a car into a hotel swimming pool and most of the Ozzy stories (The wierdest of those tend to be true ones though)
Sources: Most of the other members of the Alice Cooper band, Shep Gordon and various other eyewitnesses as on record over the years in various biographies / autobiographies / interviews in paper and on film.
That being said his plane really WAS delayed on the runway on Alice Cooper's first UK tour because the old lady sitting next to him died on the flight. 'What were the chances? I have to admit... I was soooooo tempted to get a red marker pen and draw two little dots on her neck! I mean, she was dead, she wasn't going to care.'
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stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 2 Jun 2017, 0:51,
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