I like Bob’s writing style, but I think he focused on our troubles and overlooked the fun we were having. I’ve read “Billion Dollar Baby” by Bob Greene. There are several books about Alice Cooper/Cooper Group out there. My co-writer Chris Hodenfield and the team of experts at Thomas Dunne Books/Saint Martin’s Press helped with that. It was tough to condense it into an affordable book of 304 pages. Meanwhile, it took 10 years to land the right publishing deal. I started over 3 times to get the right style. Alice and I wrote stories for the school paper at Cortez High School in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1964-65, and I knew how to write lyrics, but I had to learn how to write a book.
I’m very good at remembering things, but all of those other things were harder than I ever imagined.
What has been the most challenging part: the writing itself, remembering the things, and decide how or what to say about certain things (how to put your words) or get a book published? Making a book is an extensive process on many levels. And so, on Easter of 1997, when I was in the hospital for serious surgery for Crohn’s Disease, I received snail mail from fans all over the world, and I decided to start writing. My daughters Renee and Chelsea encouraged me to write a book so they wouldn’t have to listen to me correct stories about the Alice Cooper group. When did you first get an idea to start writing your own book, and what was the main reason to start doing it? I met the good-humored Dennis in New York, and we talked about the book Blue Coupe and the good old days.ĭennis, you’re releasing the book SNAKES! GUILLOTINES! ELECTRIC CHAIRS! MY ADVENTURES IN THE ALICE COOPER GROUP on June 9th. Currently, Dunaway plays with the band Blue Coupe, and he’s releasing a book titled SNAKES! GUILLOTINES ELECTRIC CHAIRS! on June 9th. Later on that same year, the Alice Cooper Group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2011 he served and co-wrote 3 songs on Alice Cooper’s WELCOME 2 MY NIGHTMARE with his former Alice Cooper Groupmates Neal Smith and Michael Bruce.
The original band released 7 classic albums, and Dunaway co-wrote some of the band’s most notable songs, including “I’m Eighteen” and “School’s Out.” Over the years, Dunaway has performed and recorded with various bands, including Billion Dollar Babies, Deadringer and Bouchard, Dunaway, and Smith. Dennis Dunaway is an American musician, best known as the original bass guitarist for the Alice Cooper Group from 1969–1974.
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