In a new conversation with 96.1 KLPX radio station, rocker Alice Cooper said that nowadays, nobody is trying to shock the public anymore.
During the interview, Alice Cooper said:
“It’s so funny because it used to be easy to shock an audience in the ’70s. Now nobody’s really trying, we’re not really trying to shock an audience.
“I don’t think anybody is ”shock rock” anymore, but those elements still remain in the show because they’re fun to watch. It’s still fun to watch the guillotine and the fact that you really buy into it because of what happens before that. You’re really concerned about this character Alice up there, what happens. And that’s what I like about it.
“I want the audience to get involved in the show. We don’t do a lot of lasers. We don’t do things like that, because I want the emphasis to be on the character Alice, what happens to him, and what he what exactly he’s doing.
“But all that happens during all these songs that everybody knows, ”Feed My Frankenstein” and ”Poison” and ”No More Mr. Nice Guy” and, of course, ”School’s Out” at the end.”