We act as a mirror. People see themselves through us, and many times they react violently because they don't like what they see,' said vocalist Vince Furnier to The New York Times back in 1970, explaining what Alice Cooper were about. He later added, 'We're really the end-product of an affluent society. We enjoy getting on stage and showing the public what their world has come to. Only usually they're shocked.' At the height of their notoriety from the end of the '60s and into the '70s, Alice Cooper dressed flash to separate themselves from the hippies, and played brash variations on garage rock. The group worked out their fantasies onstage, in a kinc of theatrical distillation of cheap horror flicks and B-movies.
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