ALICE COOPER REUNITES WITH BOB EZRIN THROUGH BIGGER PICTURE
It has just been announced that Alice Cooper has begun working on a new album to be produced by Bob Ezrin as part of a new joint venture with Bigger Picture Group. Ezrin has a rich history of hugely successful collaborations with Alice including such groundbreaking albums as Billion Dollar Babies, Welcome To My Nightmare, School’s Out andLove It To Death and has, in the past, been described by Alice as “our George Martin.”
Ezrin, a partner in Bigger Picture, a Nashville based company, has been instrumental in contributing to the success of numerous artists including country music sensation Zac Brown Band, remarked, “I am delighted to be back in business with Alice Cooper and Shep Gordon’s Alive Enterprises and our whole company is over the moon about this collaboration. This is not a record deal but rather a partnership that involves virtually all aspects of Alice’s ever-expanding universe. And it’s a reunion with the first artist I ever produced and the first great manager I ever worked with. I couldn’t be happier.”
Bigger Picture will contribute to strategy, staging, special products, theatrical projects as well as the production, promotion and distribution of future Alice Cooper releases. The company will utilize its distribution agreement with Warner Music Group when the new Alice Cooper album, projected for release early next year, and other recorded product launches. A tour themed to tie in with the album, the concept of which is being kept under wraps for the moment, is being planned in support of the release.
Ezrin’s career has seen him work with some of the most enduring names in music including Pink Floyd, KISS, Peter Gabriel, Jane’s Addiction, Lou Reed, Deftones and scores of others but traces its earliest successes to his association with Alice Cooper, the band and the man.
Alice Cooper remarked, “It feels great to be working with Bob again and the entire Bigger Picture team have been tremendously supportive. Lightning has struck more than once in the past with Bob’s involvement so we feel great that we’re onto something really electrifying now that we’re together again. The album we’re crafting is, in some ways, a ‘shriekquel’ to what’s gone before and there’s no better guy to oversee things than Bob.”
Shep Gordon, whose Alive Enterprises has managed Alice Cooper since his professional debut called the deal with Bigger Picture “a paradigm for the modern music business.” He commented, “We’re working with Bob not just on a brilliant new Alice Cooper album but in building upon the great strides Alice’s career has taken recently.” He cited Nights With Alice Cooper, the internationally syndicated daily radio show that Alice hosts over a network syndicated through United Stations, the Gruesome Twosome tour that has seen Alice Cooper and acolyte Rob Zombie share bills throughout North America as well as an upcoming Alice Cooper arena tour. He also noted that “The Coop” would be headlining a string of festival dates this summer in France, Germany, Belgium, the UK, and Scandinavia. “Awareness and appreciation for Alice is at an all-time high these days,” he remarked. “Bigger Picture is getting in not on the ground floor but as the elevator is zooming to the top and they’re efforts will, doubtless make this a much faster ride.”
ABOUT BIGGER PICTURE GROUP
Bigger Picture Group, LLC is a Nashville-based next generation music company partnering with new and established artists, providing them with the support, resources and capital needed to build their careers and realize their dreams. In addition, BPG provides customized services to select artists, labels and managers. Under one roof, BPG has production and development, promotion and marketing, sales and distribution, digital services and music publishing.
How can anyone justify alice cooper not being in the hall of fame?
In the 70s alice was as big as Bowie, Rod Stewart or just about anyone for that matter, then in 89 the album Trash was massive, there were other great albums after that also, The Last Temptation and Brutal Planet and others! this is without even mentioning his tours and the fact tha without him rock music would probably still be bands standing and playing for two hours without any show! Alic is the father of theatre in rock music! Without Alice, kiss would have had to come up with something of there own! A lot of the things we now expect when we see rock concerts would not have been if Alice hadnt opened the door! Without including Alice i beleive there can be no real Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.
Alice Cooper belongs in that building… it’s a big modern looking building… in Cleveland, Ohio… it’s supposed to be the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, only it falls short of that name for Alice Cooper is not inducted there.
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