PEOPLE ARE STILL OFFENDED BY ALICE COOPER? SERIOUSLY?
Monday, August 17th, 2009 at 2:00pm by Axl RosenbergIn case you didn’t know, Alice Cooper is a lame old man. How lame and old? He plays golf…
…and wrote a book about playing golf…
…and is friends with Pat Boone. Yes, that Pat Boone.
So how is it possible that a church group could still find this 61 year-old boring fart threatening?
I don’t know, but one of them does. From Metal Underground:
Veteran American singer ALICE COOPER’s concert scheduled for Tampere in December has been shifted to Espoo because of concerns over his shock-rock image.
Tampere Arena, which was to have hosted the December 11 show, cancelled it because a perceived conflict with the venue’s “Christian-based policies”.
“The [Lutheran-based charismatic revivalist] group Nokia Mission and others use Tampere Arena for their events, so the venue’s management did not want Alice Cooper appearing in the same hall. The contract which we received from Tampere Arena specifies that no artists may perform there who ‘incite evil and the power of darkness’,” promoter Kalle Keskinen told YLE.
Now, to be fair, this all happened in Finland. I’ve never been to Finland, but I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they’re one of those European countries you sometimes encounter where they’re really, really far behind the rest of the civilized world (Citizen of Prague to Axl Rosenberg in 2003: “Have you heard this awesome new album, Bonded by Blood? We just got it last week!!!”).
(I’m also guessing that none of them are aware that Cooper is, himself, a Christian – see again: his friendship with Pat Boone.)
But if my geo-centric stereotype isn’t true, I’d just like to say: holy shit, guys, if you find Alice Cooper scary, what do you do when Marilyn Manson comes to town? Sacrifice a virgin and bring in the national guard? Institute a curfew and unleash the dogs? Sheesh.
In other news, the same people just had the movie Short Circuit banned for being too sexy (Guttenberg and Sheedy are unmarried, but deign to kiss), and for insinuating that anyone other than God can create life.
-AR
I always thought Johnny Five was an abomination against God.
I always thought Short Circuit was an abomination against God.
Alice Coopers live show still kicks ass. Saw him with Heaven and Hell and Queensryche and he fucking owned.
religion is stupid.
religious people are even more stupid
good one…….
“Citizen of Prague to Axl Rosenberg in 2003: “Have you heard this awesome new album, Bonded by Blood? We just got it last week!!!”
If that’s true, it means Finland has a good 15 years until the nu metal wave hits them…lucky bastards.
Finland sent Lordi to the Eurovision thing in 2006, they’re Kiss/Cooper inspired. It really is just the venue is a Christian place and the management is being all OMG ROCK N ROLL RUN about it. Finland is far from some big Christian run place, America has done worse.
I wondered why I hated Finland…oh yeah, because they sent us Lordi.
and HIM
and the 69 Eyes
and new Amorphis
and…
Let us not forget the irony of Alice being a Christian himself, and getting banned on “religious” reasons.
Religion isn’t inherently stupid; it’s how people misinterpret and misuse it.
Alice Cooper is the fucking man
Actually, religon is inherently stupid
And so are you for spelling “religion” wrong…congratulations!
Maybe a religon is a shape that he invented. It has 666 sides.
I was never good at geometry…
“what do you do when Marilyn Manson comes to town?”
If that arena banned Marylin Manson, I’d give them credit for having good taste.
best comment you’ve made
Alice Cooper > Skunk Anansie. You’re welcome.
That kid from the photo caption contests > Skunk Anansie
I allways thought Alice Cooper was a jew.
I actually have that Pat Boone record. It’s terrible
Fuck religion in all shapes and forms. Burn the fundamentalists!!
in religious world, fundamentalists burn YOU!
Wow…now there is a comedian I was hoping to forget about.
Alice Cooper > every other band mentioned (or not mentioned) on this website
Funny, I was just watching the Dethtroll episode of Metalocalypse last night, where the band goes to Espoo, Finland and uses an incantation from the town’s necronomicon to summon a giant lake troll that destroys everything.
Maybe this is why they fear Alice Cooper.
I am live in Finland and i most say: This is bullshit.
To think that band like, lets say Dimmu Borgir have been in Finland many times and Alice Cooper is forced to cancel his show?
Reading up on Alice Coopers’ wikipedia article, he calls Sarah Palins vice-presidential candidacy “a breath of fresh-air.”
Fuck Alice Cooper.
seriously? hes banned from any arena ill ever own now. fuuuuuuuck that.
Fuck Alice Coope? Maybe.
But he has mede some great music.
Try Alice Cooper´s album “Love It to Death”!
That Pat Boone album is LEGENDARY, I say.
LEGENDARY!
As a finn I must say that I am as shocked as the rest of you! Your geo-centric stereotype is definitely not true! Bands like Gorgoroth and Mayhem have toured here, so why the fuck can’t Cooper? I’m also pretty sure that Finland has a higher percentage of atheists and agnostics than the USA. I don’t even know anybody who goes to church.
Alice Cooper is not a good singer, songwriter or musician. He is a musical artist gets by with substandard music because he does good business. His success, like many artists in Pop Music, has very little to do with the quality of the music. Everybody knows this, stop kissing his fundie ass.
Lies. “Roses on White Lace” is sick as fuck. Arsis cover it…and damn well.
Finland…isn’t that a crazy place full of saunas and people drunk on vodka who sit on park benches saying PERKELE!!! That’s what I’ve been told, and I’m going to go and put that on wikipedia so that it becomes the truth and your new reality.
Alice Cooper still tours? I thought he spent his free time (non golf time) on talk shows telling stories about that one time he met Elvis, Dali, Groucho Marx, etc.?
HAHHAAAH :D yeah that’s exactly what Finland is like.
I don’t golf, but I’m not sure why playing it is lame. Cooper is a fucking scratch golfer! Plus it is the addiction that has for years helped him fend off the other addictions.
Awesome live.
With this talk of religion, I was betting on a post on Gaahl retiring from metal. Where were you guys on that one?
What is this “black metal” you speak of? Is it totally heavy metal with black people like Killswitch Engage or Oceano? Here on metalsucks, the only things we’re allowed to talk about are Chimaira, Pig Destroyer, God Forbid, and shitty metalcore.
living color.
yeah well, he may be old… but he has achieved more in his life than any of us here, sitting on our asses and judging… its easy to judge when you’ve accomplished nothing! ‘old fart’? lets see you sing for 2 hours every night at 61.. Show some respect…
You would think christians would be to busy raping little boys to take the time to get Alice Coopers wheezy, mummified ass bumped.
Finland is like all the other Scandinavia countries in that they have the most Atheist in their population of the world. That venue in Tampere just happened to be owned by Christians who disapproved of Alice Coopers images. Same way LOG and Slipknot were not allowed to play in LA at a specific venue because that place were owned by Christian. This can happen anywhere in the world really.
a religious organization turning down money? now there’s a first!
Alice Cooper Banned in Finland? Not really!
Finland is known for it’s rock and metal scene, and we have made a TV documentary feature film about the hard rocking Finns called “Promised Land of Heavy Metal” (already aired and co-produced by Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE).
The Finnish main Lutheran church has heavy metal masses! The film has an interview from the heavy metal priest, a psychiatrist, a doctor of theology… and finally with Madam president of Finland, Tarja Halonen, who is proud of the great Finnish metal.
Alice has been visiting Finland since 1974! Must have performed over there, every year, since. By the way, the Finnish main church has nothing against Alice Cooper. The people behind this ban are evangelical fringe church members. Do they ever learn?
Our film includes the first -74 interview from Alice Cooper visiting Finland, Eurovision song contest winner Lordi, all the major Finnish metal stars (HIM, Nightwish, Sonata Arctica…) and many international metal celebrities (such as Dimmu Borgir Killswitch Engage, Entombed…)
Finland really is the only country in the world where metal is mainstream.
The documentary is in English, and aimed at the international mainstream audience.
Please, check out the film’s trailer and website at:
http://www.promisedlandofmetal.com
Greetings from the filmmakers&metal musicians Kimmo&Tanja from UK