Welcome To My Nightmare Tour & Book: 1975

Alice’s solo nightmare rolls out – guillotines, giant spiders, and a whole new band!

Alice Cooper Group’s Welcome To My Nightmare Tour started on March 21, 1975 and ended April 4, 1977 – a major 60-city nationwide tour. After a year's absence, Alice reappears on stage with a whole new exciting concept, the underlying theme being his "Nightmare", backed by an enormous stage production brilliantly arranged by some of the most talented people in this field.

The WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE tour marks ALICE'S debut solo effort with a back-up band who have all individually made their mark as fine musicians: Dick Wagner (guitar), Steve Hunter (guitar), Prakash John (bass), Pentti Glan (drums), and Jozef Chirowski (keyboards).

Co-Producer, Director & Choreographer: David Winter's achievements for television, motion pictures and stage productions are too numerous to list in full; he has worked with Paul Newman, Raquel Welch, Bob Hope, Rudolph Nureyev, Tom Jones, Ann-Margret; directed The Monkees TV series; choreographed the "Nancy Sinatra Special", "Hullabaloo", "Shindig" etc. etc...

Co-Producer & Lighting Director: Joe Gannon staged, designed and produced the massive and highly innovative Billion Dollar Babies set which toured back in '73. Also, he has worked closely with numerous artists including the Kingston Trio, Bill Cosby, Tiny Tim, Neil Diamond, Gregg Allman and Liza Minelli.

Stage Show: A magnificent collection of props and costumes has been designed for the show, which highlights songs from the new album ("Welcome to My Nightmare" Atlantic Records) interspersed with rejuvenated versions of golden oldies.

The ominous characters that appear larger than life on the stage of Alice's "Nightmare" include a 6-foot Black Widow spider dancers who will weave their way across a giant 12' x 20' web suspended across stage by a pair of aluminum pyramids; a giant cyclops (10 feet tall with an illuminated eye and detachable horned head), ghostly skeleton dancers and a cast of deathly and morbid effects — but have no fear — ALICE, as always, reigns triumphant for the finale...

Main Songs / Setlist

Welcome To My Nightmare / Years Ago / No More Mr. Nice Guy / Years Ago / Billion Dollar Babies / Years Ago / I'm Eighteen / Years Ago / Some Folks / Cold Ethyl / Only Women Bleed / Devil's Food / The Black Widow / Steven / Welcome To My Nightmare (Reprise) / Escape / School's Out / Department of Youth

(approx 75 mins)

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Sources

Information is drawn from my personal knowledge and supplemented by web sources, including AliceCooperEchive, Discogs, 45cat, AllMusic, Rate Your Music, Wikipedia, BBC Official Charts Company, Billboard Chart History and YouTube