ALICE COOPER, GOLF MONSTER
Thursday, December 6th, 2007 at 12:32pm by Kip Wingerschmidt
(In addition to the highly wily ganja,) I’m pretty partial to ppppillz myself, but if alcohol was my vice (oh wait — it is too!) I would now know how to quit. Umm…golf??? According to spiderweb-cellar master darkman Alice Cooper (né Vincent Furnier), “more guys need to be addicted to golf.” Apparantly when Cooper got out of rehab and needed to figure out a way to get over his bottle-of-whiskey-a-day (and then some) drinking habit, he occupied his time by playing a lot of the world’s most boring sport.
“I used to get up in the morning, drink a beer, then another one, and watch The Price Is Right…but when I would wake up puking blood I knew there was something wrong” he explained to Craig Ferguson the other night on a rerun of The Late Late Show, “…and when I got out of rehab, there was just nothing to do. So I started playing golf, and I would play 18 holes in the morning, take a lunch break, play 18 more holes, and then practice for a few hours. I played 36 holes of golf every day for a year.”
I’m proud of Alice for kicking the habit of booze, really I am, but for the record — golf is much more fun when you drink. Seriously.
-KW
Buy Alice’s book — Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: My Twelve Steps To Becoming A Golf Addict
i checked it out from my library a couple months ago, it was pretty fun read. i skipped all the golf related chapters though, so i might’ve missed some stuff but somehow i just couldn’t get into that shit
Alice is a fucking scratch golfer! Dude is one tiny notch below a pro level.
At the huge comic shop in NYC at which I used to work in 2001, Alice Cooper came in with his son one slow Sunday morning looking for the old oversized STAR WARS comics. Unfortunately we didn’t have any so they left relatively quickly. It’s too bad I didn’t get him to sign any of the Neil Gaiman-penned Michael Zulli-drawn Cooper graphic novels we had, but it’s a good thing I resisted the urge to greet him with “Welcome to our nightmare.”
to correct vjb2, he doesnt have a son. he has a daughter who is/almost 30 years old. im not sure who this boy was (or maybe man?) but maybe he just wanted to spend some time with the kid. hes set up a place for children to go to after school instead of doing drugs, gangs, alcohol, etc. maybe this was one of the kids
[...] between stumping for John McCain and playing golf, Alice Cooper has apparently found time to take a trip downunder to Australia. Apparently even the [...]
LOVE THE MUSIC…U ROCK KINDA SCARY….
“to correct vjb2, he doesnt have a son. he has a daughter who is/almost 30 years old. im not sure who this boy was (or maybe man?) but maybe he just wanted to spend some time with the kid.”
To correct what Steve said, he DOES have a son, as well as two daughters. His son’s name is Dashel and is about 23. The eldest one you speak of is about 27.
Info can be found here: http://www.sickthingsuk.co.uk/musicians/m-alice.php
“Alice has been married to Sheryl Cooper (nee Goddard 20th May) since 20th March 1976 and they have three children, Calico (b. 19th May 1981 – Calico means `Many Colours`), Dashiel (b.June 20th 1985 – named after author Dashiel Hammett), and Sonora Rose (b.14th Dec 1992). All go by the name Cooper.”
That’s great! Golf helped Alice Cooper to get up in his alcoholic life. Golf became the medicine of Cooper. At least, he changed for good. That’s life, one day we’ll wake up for a good and better change in life.
-Macky Bugay
i really love the rock band queen and my favorite song is killer queen
I just golfed with alice and his son and also dave murray his sons name is DASH