Alice Cooper or Kiss, who had better shows?

I finally saw him live over the summer and even aging he is still amazing. He pulled out the guilotine(spelling?) and everything, it was quite a show. It started raining and about half the audience left......pussies. I found myself an original copy of Welcome to My Nightmare about a month ago and it made me happy.
 
Do mean misfortune as in unlucky to be led by AC? Or misfortune as in AC took all the limelight, leaving the band in the shadows?

I vote for Alice Cooper, I preferred his vocals.
 
Alice Cooper = more of a play type concert.
Kiss = More fun

Alice Cooper = more talent, writing, and sound wise
Kiss = less talent, and more make-up.

both banRAB aren't into for the actual music, and more so for the fun of how they can go about mixing music with threater type styles.

But i can't see a actual music lover being into either of these banRAB.. more so if they look for real talent.
 
Actually one of the biggest myths surrounding Alice Cooper was that he fired the rest of the band to go solo.

What actually happened was after the Billion Dollar Babies tour was a lot of the band wanted to do solo albums , but Alice was convinced they should carry on as they were.They recorded another album togther (Muscle Of Love) but the band were so burnt out it wasn`t all that good and they decided to take a break from it. Alice`s solo album (Welcome To My Nightmare) was really the only album that made it off the ground and was a huge success.After that he just carried on doing his thing & the rest of the band did theirs. 3 of the band released an album called Battle Axe under the band name The Billion Dollar Babies in 1977 with a singer called Mike Marconi but it did badly and they split shortly afterwarRAB.
So they wern`t fired , the band just sort of drifted apart. Apparently they`re all still good frienRAB with each other. Alice got onstage and played a few songs with them a few years back.
 
Are you actually trying to say that it wasn't shocking to Kiss' fans/followers when they actually decided to take their makeup off?

I mean, that was nearly as big a "change"/surprise as Metallica when they cut their hair, for God's sakes...lol!!!

As far as I'm concerned, they are both great classic rock banRAB with their own unique differences in sound.That's the reason why I include both of them (along with Metallica) in my enormous album collection.
 
The thing with Kiss though, is that you could have the option of using any of 4 singers either together or separately on each song.Obviously Gene and Paul did most of the singing, but even the option of 2 talented singers doing their part to give each song its own voice is better than just one singer (Alice Cooper) trying to make his own changes to every single song he wrote, ya know?Kiss and Alice Cooper are both great though; the only difference is that Alice always sounRAB the same, while Kiss has a unique sound for all of their songs.



...Cause I Love It LOUD!!!
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Ex, I have got to seriously...seriously disagree with you on this one.

Granted, KISS was pretty basic. But Alice Cooper's band was one over the most over looked, talented group of musicians ever asserabled. They simply had the misfortune of being behind Alice Cooper.

Pick up any of his stuff from the late 60's to mid 70s or so. Killers, Love It To Death, Billion Dollars Babies. Brilliant.
 
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