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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Shout! Factory
Salesrank: 22130
Released: November 8, 2005 |
| Our Price: $8.02 |
| Used Price: $6.75 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Closed-captioned Color DVD-Video Live NTSC | |
Editorial Review:
And now, America's own Billion Dollar Babies ... the legendary ALICE COOPER!
The original Rock ’n’ Roll Spectacle. The groundbreaking tour. The five original members of the Alice Cooper group captured live. The 1973 Billion Dollar Babies show was the first of its kind. No other band had ever brought a more expensive, elaborate theatrical production to the rock stage -- and rarely has any since.
Now available for the FIRST TIME since it hit theaters in 1974, Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper -- the film made during the Billion Dollar Babies tour that combines stunning concert footage with an outrageous story and also features the band’s acting debut — has been transferred in high definition and now includes a new 5.1 Surround Sound mix.
The crunching music, the snake, the guillotine, the makeup, the hatchets, mannequins and dolls, the money, the whips -- it all started here. Alice Cooper kicked the door down. All the other artists followed behind.
Featuring 13 Alice Cooper classics recorded live in concert:
Hello, Hooray
Billion Dollar Babies
Elected
I’m Eighteen
Raped And Freezin’
No More Mr. Nice Guy
My Stars
Unfinished Sweet
Sick Things
Dead Babies
I Love The Dead
School’s Out
Under My Wheels
And a studio performance of The Lady Is A Tramp
Plus These Special Features:
*Audio Commentary by Alice Cooper
*Play-Concert-Only Option
*Deleted Scene and Outtakes
*Original Theatrical Trailer and Radio Spots
*Poster Gallery With Original Promotional Material
Band Biographies
*DVD Easter Eggs
*Anamorphic Widescreen & 5.1 Surround Sound
Description of Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper - Live 1973 - Billion Dollar Babies Tour:
They billed it as "the film that outgrosses them all," but if some of the antics on display in Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper - Live 1973 seem fairly mild some thirty years after the fact, that's mainly because people like Marilyn Manson and some of the more lurid punk and metal acts copped many of their moves from Cooper in the first place. This movie, which combines footage from the band's Billion Dollar Babies concert tour with what might charitably be described as a storyline, had a brief theatrical run in the mid-'70s but has been mostly unseen until this DVD release, which features a high definition transfer and a new sound mix. The group (with its namesake singer joined by original members Michael Bruce and Glen Buxton on guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass, and drummer Neal Smith) was in the midst of a nice run of hits at the time; "No More Mr. Nice Guy," "Eighteen," and "School's Out" are all ably performed here, but it's the stage show in all its Grand Guignol glory that's the prime attraction. Clockwork Orange-style violence, necrophilia, decapitation via guillotine, humping mannequins, sticking baby dolls with swords: that and more is on display here, all in the name of what Cooper, whose commentary track is the major bonus feature, describes as "performance art." Well, maybe. Most of it comes off as little more than a hodgepodge of disconnected images--some vile and vulgar, some merely silly--designed to thrill the kids and piss off the parents, which it most certainly did… and ain't that what rock & roll is all about? As for the "story" (something about a crazed film director out for vengeance after Alice ruins his masterpiece) that's intercut with the concert numbers, the best that can be said about it is that viewers have the option of choosing the "play concert only" option. --Sam Graham
Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper - Live 1973 - Billion Dollar Babies Tour Reviews:
Clicking to special features doesn't work half the time 
2008-07-09 - Aside from not realizing this was a movie with horrible interruptions to the concert to ruin the mood of the show, we also found that none of the links would connect - we couldn't get the speciall features to open and play; so we didn't know we could watch a concert version without that horrible bad movie acting sketches in between.
the concert was as good as I remmebered, having been there myself in 73; but the DVD is very difficult to move around in. We never have these problems with any other DVDs - and this was brand new. Even our rentals are in better condition than this was.
Slicing it up with Alice 
2008-06-09 - As I read some of the other reviews of this film, I read a lot of negatives and they didn't scare me away from buying this video.I was rewarded for sticking with it. Alice Cooper are at their best (don't forget at this time they were a band, not just a man) the concert footage is great. The Stage show was something that wasn't as common as it may be today. Then again it may not be pulled off as well either. If you are into Alice Cooper you want/need this video in your collection.
Alice Cooper - Live 1973 
2008-05-21 - Absolutely stunning. I don't know how they made the sound so good. They must have had a master tape or something back then to be able to do this.
Alice may have been weird, but he had some of the best musician's ever to cross a stage. This band is the original lineup, and is beyond compare!
disappointing Cooper in a Stupor is NOT super-duper
2008-02-25 - Here are the BAD POINTS:
very lackluster performance - not hitting the notes, no energy
the audio sounds like the instruments weren't miked - just a couple of mikes pointing at the stage - very muddy, no presence.
the 5.1 audio mix is really poor and "far away" sounding
the skits are amaturish, stupid and endless!
GOOD POINTS:
interesting to see Alice at this stage in his career
his commentary makes parts of it bearable - I still skipped thru a lot of it.
BOTTOM LINE:
Don't expect much. it's okay to watch once. Try to get a buddy to buy it - then watch his copy.
I'm sticking with the studio production CDs. :(
Makes me feel young again
2007-07-29 - Amazingling the quality and sound is awesome for a live concert shot in the early 70's. Ahh yes, modern technology. Great for any old schooler who was in his party days growing up way back when. Brings back some fantastic memories. I received my order really fast.
