My Nights with Alice Cooper

There was a period of time when I worked day and night for a company, both as Media Relations Manager and also making “Nights with Alice Cooper” what it is today, a solid,successful and much listened-to internationally syndicated 25-hour-per-week radio program. Maybe one small reason I love Philadelphia so much is that when I go there, I can hear the show live and still existing in real-time long after my departure. Aside from developing and writing the show, I was also a character on the show alongside Alice, reading the news each night. The “celebrity dominatrix” who wanted to be “taken seriously as a broadcast journalist” by the name of Mistress Kitty was a real success: the show grew to be #1 in droves of markets in which it aired, and Kitty would receive hundreds if not thousands of fan letters each week.

In addition to delivering the “OffBEAT News”, I would also write special segments and songs when guests would come into the studio for interviews. Often times co-writer and producer Dave Bianchi and I would take big chances with the content by FCC standards but every time, every artist agreed to collaborate with us and create a small bit of “radio theater”, a concept that Alice remembered from the early Detroit radio stations he grew up listening to and I also believed in quite a bit.

Here are a few of those moments, preserved in history thanks to the Internet.

Tommy Shaw and Jay Weir of STYX

Handwashing Tips for Alice from The Mistress on Halloween

Peter Frampton’s Ironing Obsession

Christmas (All Year Long) With Alice Cooper and Mistress Kitty

Kyle MacDonald of the One Red Paperclip project, Me, Alice Cooper

And talk about foreshadowing, here I am with Don Dahler of….ABC News, in Fargo, ND with Alice.

Alice had been offered to receive the key to Alice, North Dakokta. Population 58.