'Super Duper Alice Cooper' DVD review

I've seen/read a bazillion interviews where he said, "I drank but I never did drugs." Out of the blue he's admitting to having a cocaine addiction in the early '80s?! I had to pick up my jaw from the floor! That completely explains his gaunt look, why the music was so unlike everything else he's ever done, why the French TV special was so thoroughly bizarre, why his live performances were intensely high-energy but uncharacteristically awful, why he doesn't have many clear recollections of that era, and how he wound up at death's door. A tiny reveal and suddenly it's all glaringly obvious.

Bob, I wouldn't feel bad about asking him to sign your "Special Forces" album. Regardless of what was going on in his personal life at the time, he knows full good and well that those albums are the favorites of a lot of his fans, and he's admitted to having fondness for many of the songs despite the fact that he doesn't remember writing/recording/performing them.

BobGunn, what I found astonishing about the disclosures in the documentary is how they are frankly made, but without judgement. He is saying, This is what I did, This is how far I took it, I had to stop. Of course, me may infer from his example that excess of this sort should be avoided. But Alice does not presume to lecture or proselytize. He has always seemed a very smart man to me, as well as a visionary artist. Now, after the documentary, I get the feeling he really is a nice man, too.

I see what you mean about those albums. But think of it this way: he might be pleased that you appreciated the music of that period, and perhaps even consider it a sign that, despite the personal pain and horror, our fondness for those albums means something good came out of that time, after all.