“I didn’t break it, but it was pretty close”: Suzi Quatro recalls the time she nearly broke Alice Cooper’s nose on tour
Tour antics can sometimes get out of hand, and that was nearly the case for Suzi Quatro, when she very nearly broke Alice Cooper’s nose.
Quatro supported Cooper on his 1975 Welcome To My Nightmare tour, which was a colossal run that saw the shock rocker kick things off in March that year and wrap in December. The tour was turned into a concert film, and took place in a multitude of venues across the USA, as well as Canada and parts of Europe.
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Speaking to Classic Rock for the new edition of its print magazine, Quatro recalls, “I was friends with so many acts from Michigan – MC5, Amboy Dukes, Grand Funk Railroad – and I’ve known Alice for years and we always had a connection. I supported him on the Welcome To My Nightmare tour in 1975, 85 dates. We called him Vinnie The Boss.
“We were on a turboprop and making at least one flight a day, if not two. Back then I was a terrible flyer, so it was white-knuckle time. But it was wonderful because there was a lot of Detroit people around, musicians who I’d known forever. A lot of blackjack was played. On a big tour like this you get a little crazy. In one hotel we decided to have a rubber dart-gun fight before a show,” she says.
“We hid behind mattresses in the hallway, and it got serious, dark… Who was going to win? Alice hid in a room. Then I saw his rather large nose poking out from behind a television set, and I went [mimes shooting a pistol] ‘boink!’ I didn’t break it, but it was pretty close. His first words were: ‘Ouch!’ and then ‘Good shot!’ That night, on stage he wore my tour T-shirt out of respect.”
Last year when Cooper was on tour, guitarist Nita Strauss also became the centre of one of Cooper’s stunts, as she shared a close encounter with a boa constrictor during a live show. In a video shared to her Instagram, the snake could be seen licking her face as she continued to play through Cooper’s 1991 hit, Snakebite.
Alice Cooper is playing shows across the globe this year. Suzi Quatro will play across the UK in April. Find out more via her official website.
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