Alice Cooper, Golf Monster by Alice Cooper
Author:Alice Cooper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780307394255
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Published: 2007-05-01T00:00:00+00:00
Outside the Troubadour in Los Angeles in 1974.
Left to right: John Lennon, Anne Murray, Harry Nilsson, Alice Cooper, and Micky Dolenzâright around the âLair of the Vampiresâ era.
Chapter 16
The Lair of the Vampires
I WAS LIVING IN A MANSION IN MALIBU in 1975. Beer and success went hand in hand, while whiskey waited in the wings. The phenomenal acceptance of Nightmare was coming at me fast, like a speeding meteorite. There were musicians and celebrities in our dressing room at the end of every showâJohn Lennon, David Cassidy, Lou Reed, Todd Rundgren, the Doors, Aerosmith, Andy Warhol. I was on constant tour. The original band was history. Now I was surrounded by topflight session musicians, an able road crew, a private jet, and Shepâs management organization that saw to our every need, 24/7.
As soon as I opened my eyes in the morning, my first reflex was to reach over and grab a cold beer from a cooler stash I had an armâs length from my bed. Then there was more beer on the jet. More and more beer all day. The world was at my feet. I wasnât shooting heroin and I wasnât snorting cocaineânone of that evil stuff. It was just beer. Except nobody noticed that I was drinking more than a couple six-packs a day.
Even when I was drinking at my heaviest, I was Mr. Nice Guy. I wasnât an angry, difficult, mean, or fighting drunk. I was a nice guy drunkâa rich, successful, respectable drunkâand I subconsciously credited the alcohol for giving me the fame and gold records, and the drive and courage to succeed. But I was also a pitiful guy. I couldnât say no to anybody about anything, because I hated conflict. I wish I could have said no to alcohol, but instead, I became the most functional alcoholic you could ever meetâa virtual touring and recording machine. Push me on stage or in a studio, and Iâd never miss a word to a song. Put me in a movie and I never flubbed a line. I could do The Tonight Show (and I did twice) and be as lucid as any of Johnnyâs sober guests. Youâd never imagine I was a drunk. Those closest to me didnât realize how much I was drinking.
Pretty soon I was drinking up to a case of beer a day.
It got to the point where I perfected (and rationalized) my alcoholism so well, I played by a set of ground rules. Iâd get up in the morning and, after a cold brew, Iâd promise myself, âOkay, I wonât drink hard liquor until after ten oâclock at night.â Then pretty soon the ground rules shifted. I wouldnât start drinking whiskey until nine oâclock. Then eight oâclock. It went on like that. Soon I promised myself I would not drink the hard stuff until noon.
Eventually, though, the beer had no effect on me. In order to get high, I now needed to get up in the morning and have a few beers, then pour myself a glass of Coca-Cola and add in about three or four shots of Seagramâs VO.
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