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Alice Cooper: Theatre Of Death - Live At Hammersmith 2009 (One-Disc Blu-ray + Bonus CD)

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Thanks to my Dad and his huge record collection, I've been an Alice Cooper fan since birth. I saw him live once back in 2001 and one of my father's friends even managed to dive over a seat and snag a whip Alice threw into the crowd from some poor little kid. Other than KISS (who even claim to have stolen the over-the-top stage theatrics idea from Alice), nobody puts on a live show like him. There are 26 songs on both the Blu-ray and CD that were recorded in December 2009. The DVD runs for a little over 90 minutes and the CD is about 80 minutes long, but no songs are cut. The 10 missing minutes from the CD is the time he spends on stage doing his typical crazy stuff that we all love.

The picture and sound quality are top notch. Alice Cooper still sounds very good live and the band hits all the right notes. I also liked the all over the place song selection. You still get most of the classics, but we get a song here and there from the more recent albums too. This stage show blows away the one I saw some 9 Halloweens ago. Alice dies multiple times and we get all kinds of creatures and masked men running around on the stage.

If you're a fan this is a must buy of course. I've seen his other live DVD releases and this is my favorite by far. I can't wait to watch it again. Maybe I'll blast it Halloween night and scare all the kids away. More candy for me. Thanks Alice.

This DVD is a MUST BUY for any Alice Cooper fan or any Rock and Roll fan for that matter. Alice puts on a fantastic show, filled with all his greatest hits. The stage show is a lot of fun. He pulls out all the stops here. Highly Recommended viewing!

If you are an AC fan, this DVD is for you. The camara work is great. The sound is awsome and thats hard to find in a live concert DVD. I have seen Alice at least a dozen times and this show makes me green with envy. All I can say is Buy.....Buy...Buy. Loved it.

I did really enjoy this concert, I'm not sure that the blue-ray format was necessary, I have the "Live at Montreoux" regular DVD, that was shot in HD and that seemed just as clear. there seemed to be an audio feedback or something at the start of "no more mr. nice guy"...noticeable volume and pitch change /feedback? I was listening in Dolby Digital 5.1.
I have been a big Alice Cooper fan for 40yrs. and to be honest, I could not follow the "story" of the serial killer spider who falls in love with his last victim..... just a great fast moving show with even better theatrics, the guillotine scene looked more realistic than ever before! and the contraption the put Alice in , with all the pointed shafts.. looked cool, I'm still trying to figure out, how they did that!
One more note, I saw this same show on 9-28-09 in CT. except for one thing, It was raining and the theater roof started leaking after a few songs in, the show was stopped for a few minutes ...and Alice came out looking at the ceiling, and kind of pissed,said something like what the f...k luckily the water was dried up and the show continued!

At his age, Alice can still rocks and his voice is simply superb in this concert. My brothers and I are fans of his way back in the 70's and till now. In this dvd concert, Alice is seemed to be telling a story through the song list. The music really rocks and his band mates are in top form. Highly recommended.

Been a fan of Alice Cooper since 1973 and I have to say this is the best concert performance I've seen on video. Furthermore, the music is awesome! No disrespect to the original band (my favorite) but these guys are cooking! Even if you're a casual fan I think you will be impressed with this package. Alice has improved with age!!!

There's smoke. There's brutality. There's stuff flying all around the stage. People with knives. Drums pounding and guitars screaming and, well, there's Alice, right in the middle of it all.

Some 40 years after Alice first showed us the way to blend visual entertainment with music, the entire show still works and still holds a few surprises, even for the long time fans like myself. The Blu-Ray disc brings the show to life in ways that will make you appreciate your HDTV and the bonus audio disc allows you to take this wonderful concert on the road with you.

You know the songs, you've lived the anthems, you love the characters and you're just a few clicks of the mouse away from having the nice man at the post office deliver a copy of this wonderfully filmed and brilliantly performed show to your doorstep.

What on earth could you possibly be waiting for?

I was rather hesitant to buy this Blu-Ray performance of Alice Cooper live, because I just recently watched his previously released Blu-Ray release of "Alice Cooper Live at Montreux", and I just wasn't too impressed. I even rented it twice to confirm to myself that I just wasn't all too impressed with that performance. But, after seeing all these five star reviews of this performance, I figure that I can't go wrong picking this one up. And I sure am glad that I did.

Don't think for a minute that just because Alice Cooper is in his early sixties, doesn't mean the he's too old to behave like a convincing mischievous child on stage, because he's just as wonderfully immature as ever! And he still has his wonderful raw voice that we are all so familiar with. And don't think that just because he's in his early sixties that he's going to look like some old man (a convalescent home, nurse-fed, bed-ridden, death candidate), because Alice has always looked like the Frankenstein clone we've all imagined him to continue to be. He may have put on a few extra pounds (but, haven't we all?), and it may take less applied make-up to make him look scary, but that's what we expect from the legendary Alice Cooper.

And all his warped theatrics are here. The guillotine trick, the sloppy, skanky, psychotic nurse, and, of course, Alice as the baby killer himself strikes again! It's all here, gruesome and tasteless as ever.

Now, if they would just release Alice Cooper's "Brutally Live" from 2000 onto High Definition Blu-Ray, I'd be a total satisfied, happy degenerate myself.

Exelent blu ray image quality awsome, audio exelent, and show is fantastic buy now this blu ray is awsome, plus audio cd whit All show

Alice at his best. Strong vocals, wry sense of humor and a true sense of showmanship on stage. Backed by a band that is tight and powerful. A must have for all fans of Mr Cooper. What took the members of the R&R HOF so long to reconize his genius?