I'M RAISING MY GLASS
AND TOSSING IT BACK
BUT I, CAN'T
REMEMBER WHY
SO LET'S HAVE ANOTHER
FOR ALL MY BROTHERS,
WHO DRANK
UNTIL THEY DIED
is the self-titled
debut
studio album
by American
rock supergroup
formed in 2015
by
and
to honor the
music of the rock stars
who died from excess
in the 1970s.
Released on
September 11, 2015
for Republic Records,
the album features
guest appearances by
Paul McCartney,
Robby Krieger,
Orianthi,
Dave Grohl,
Christopher Lee,
Slash,
Brian Johnson,
Joe Walsh,
Perry Farrell,
and
Zak Starkey
amongst others.
At his shows,
Alice Cooper
often performs
cover songs
as a tribute
to his drinking buddies
The Hollywood Vampires.
For an album
of covers based
on the latter,
Cooper wanted songs
specific to their
early 70s era.
"Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix
of course were
before the Vampires,
" he conceded.
"But they were, like,
early,
early-breed
Vampires.
They would have been
there every single night."
The songs duly hail
from acts who fit
the original group's
"lore",
with the exception
of two new tracks by
Cooper and Depp titled
"My Dead Drunk Friends"
and
"Raise the Dead".
"My Dead Drunk Friends"
is named after
Cooper's recent favorite
turn of phrase.
Of that,
Cooper says
"'My dead drunk friends',
they would have
laughed at that.
It was their sense of humor."
Of McCartney's appearance,
Depp recalled:
"We're recording live…
Alice looks at me with this
befuddled little look
and he's mouthing the words,
'Oh my god,
that's
Paul McCartney!' to me…
Then I look over
at Joe Perry
one of my guitar heroes
from when I was a kid
and he looks at me
and he says,
mouthing it,
'Jesus – look, man,
it's Paul McCartney!'
It was great to
see those two
huge stars
being starstruck."
The lead track
is a spoken word
piece titled
"The Last Vampire"
voiced by
Christopher Lee,
in which he recites
a passage from
Bram Stoker's Dracula.
This was Lee's
final recording
for a musical album
before his death
in June 2015.
A deluxe digital edition
was released on
February 12, 2016,
and features
"I'm a Boy",
"Seven and Seven Is"
and
"As Bad as I Am".
TRACKLIST
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The Last Vampire
Raise the Dead
My Generation
Whole Lotta Love
I Got a Line on You
Five to One / Break On Through (to the Other Side)
One / Jump Into the Fire
Come and Get It
Jeepster
Cold Turkey
Manic Depression
Itchycoo Park
School’s Out / Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2
My Dead Drunk Friends
I'm A Boy
Seven And Seven Is
As Bad As I Am
BONUS
Wanted Dead or Alive
(Johnny Depp) [*]
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