THE OTHER , WELL KNOWN , VARIATION OF THAT STORY WAS , ALICE WAS FAMOUS FOR TELLING HIS AUDIENCES "YOU PEOPLE ARE CRAZIER THAN WE ARE !!!".....
SUPPOSEDLY , HE DECIDED TO PROVE IT , OFFERING $10 ,000 (ENOUGH TO BUY TWO PRETTY SWEET CARS , AND A STONES TICKET , IN 1973.) TO ANYONE THAT COULD GROSS HIM OUT. A YOUNG LADY MADE HER WAY TO THE STAGE , PROCEEDED TO TAKE A DUMP , WHICH ALICE , PROCLAIMING "WE HAVE A WINNER!" AS HE PICKED IT UP , SAYING ''And that winner is....me. Gulp ".
OF COURSE , THAT STORY IS AS CREDIBLE AS THE ONE ABOUT HIM SETTING A GIANT BALLOON OUT OVER THE CROWD , WHICH , OF COURSE , HE STILL DOES , BUT THIS ONE WAS LINED WITH WORMS , AND , WHEN IT POPPED OPEN.......
ALL these myths have there roots in the notorious Alice Cooper Group performance at The Toronto Rock'n'Roll Revival. Everyone knows that story. Alice picked a chicken up , and threw it toward the audience , thinking that chickens could fly. Though he swore someone just set the chicken out on the stage , and that it was actually the peace - loving audience members who took the bird apart with their bare hands , the next day , the press said "Alice Cooper Bites off Chicken's Head and Sucks the Blood !". Frank Zappa asked him if it really went down that way. He said , "No !". Zappa replied , "Well , don't tell anyone that. THIS kind of publicity , you can't buy !".
swt said:
You mentioned the great Frank Zappa/Alice Cooper onstage gross-out contest in the late 60s or early 70s. Here's the version I was told back in the 60s/ early 70s
Seems that Zappa had Alice come out on stage at some concert. But instead of playing a song together, they decided to have a gross-out contest. I don't recall the preliminary feats of disgust, but eventually Alice, in what he assumed would be the winning play, took a dump on the stage. But not to be outdone, Zappa got a spoon (most bands usually have silverware onstage during a gig, right?) and took a big steamin' bite. Frank won the contest.
Back in high school, around the time this supposedly happened, I heard that story repeated several times by friends and school mates.
But in the 1980s, when original Mothers drummer Jimmy Carl Black moved to New Mexico, I asked him about it. About halfway through my question, Jim took over and told the rest of the story. "SO it's actually TRUE?" I asked incredulously. "Fuck No!" he said.
Later in his band of fellow Zappa vets called The Grandmothers, Jimmy and Don Preston recorded a song called "The Eternal Question" (originally titled "What Was Zappa Really Like?") -- which contains a refrain, "And did he really shit on the stage?"