OCTOBER 13, 2001
Alice Cooper at The Tabernacle
What a night! This was one of the first post 9-11 shows I worked that actually had a decent turn out and a decent walk-up.
It also actually happened to be the home opener for The Thrashers as well that same night. The Thrashers were doing some kind of cross promotion with the Alice show…. I think Alice went and dropped the first puck at Philips, and season ticket holders got free Alice tix, or something like that.
I worked over at Philips that day, left about 4:30 and walked over to the Tab to start my shift…. In typical Tabernacle fashion for the time, the guy who was the manager (Bob), kept EVERYBODY in the dark, and no one knew a thing about anything going on. So much to my surprise, about 5:30, there is a knock on the Box Office door… I leave the window and answer it to find 2 of my 3 ticketing mentors standing there in the doorway: Wendell & Sam!
That was the last 2 people I expected to see over at The Tabernacle! Thank goodness they showed up! They began to brief me on all the Thrashers cross promotion stuff that was going on that night, how some Thrashers folks had their Alice tix, some did not… Wendell had a partial list, but I knew to just “hook some folks up” if they came over and said the right things…… Wendell, too, was at the mercy of a sales Dept who didn’t bother telling him much of anything. He also told me that some of The Thrashers may come over too. Thank goodness Sam & Wendell came by!
Well, I ended up keeping the Box office open a lot later to accommodate some of the Hockey folks and a bunch of the players that came over too
That was a fun night! We walked up about 300 tix, we had about 1600 people in the door, which may not sound like a lot, but in the month or 2 after 9-11, that was A LOT! My buddy Rick came to the show, as did Duane….Rod walked over, I believe… it was a fun night!
I went out to watch some of the beginning... I missed the first song or 2, but Alice would always do these things where he would open a door, or a locker, reach into it and grab some prop he would use for a song or two… .such as, he’d come out onstage in the top hat, swing open this locker or door, reach inside and grab his walking stick…. Or a few songs later, he’d reach in and get his samurai sword…. Or the boa constrictor snake. Well this night, he done a couple of songs, and it was time for the first prop of the night…. He reached in and pulled out an American Flag.
To say the place went banana would be a huge understatement! I thought they were going to blow the roof off the Tabernacle! I must admit, I got a bit of a lump in my throat too.
He brought it back out toward the end of the show, see the enclosed picture from that night.
Here is the setlist…. It was an awesome show! His daughter did this Britney Spears thing toward the end of the show, and Alice snuck up behind her and cut her throat… it was too cool!
Hard to believe, that was 7 years ago tonight!!!
October 13th 2001
Atlanta, GA
The Tabernacle
Setlist:
(Godzilla Intro Tape)
(Hey Stoopid intro tape)
Sex Death And Money
Brutal Planet
Dragontown Medley
Sanctuary
Eighteen
Welcome To My Nightmare
Go To Hell
Billion Dollar Babies
Teenage Frankenstein
Triggerman
Nurse Rozetta
Dead Babies
Ballad Of Dwight Fry
Killer Segment
I Love The Dead
Black Widow Instrumental Jam
No More Mr Nice Guy
Is It My Body
Fantasy Man
Be My Lover
Lost In America
Every Woman Has A Name
Only Women Bleed
Poison
Under My Wheels
School's Out
ENCORE:
Elected "God bless America " finale
Fire
Department Of Youth
(Britney Tape)
Sex Death And Money reprise
