Alice Cooper talked about working with his guitarist Nita Strauss, telling Ultimate Classic Rock:
“It’s funny, we have a girl in our band, Nita Strauss, who is 30 years old.
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“She looks like a model and plays guitar like Eddie Van Halen. I mean, she just kills it every night onstage.
“But we’re rehearsing, and I say, ‘In this tribute part, let’s do ‘Pinball Wizard’ for John Entwistle and Keith Moon.’
“And she says, ‘What?’ She was like a deer in the headlights. I said, ‘You know, ‘Pinball Wizard?” She says, ‘I don’t know it.’ I said, ‘You know from The Who’s ‘Tommy?” and she said, ‘I have no idea what you’re talking about.’
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“But then she heard it one time and could play it instantly, but her reference points are more Queens of the Stone Age.
“That’s why I like working with Bob Ezrin. I can say, ‘You know that part in ‘West Side Story’ with the Sharks and Jets song?’ and he knows exactly what I’m talking about.”