[Description by Uncle Ricky, contributed by Mike Miles]
Bruce Kelly & Company and Alice Cooper are featured on KZZP, Mesa/Phoenix, on a hot summer morning in Arizona. You can tell this is 1986 FM CHR, because underwear is discussed within the first minute and they managed to work in “vomit” in just under 1:17.
They are remote, “on location”, in the home of a listener who won a “Home Entertainment System”. (Sounds like “Wierer” or “Werez” .. ?) The theatrics by Cooper and Mama, involving rattlesnake heads and weeds, were undoubtedly for the MTV coverage. I hope.
And what is that awesome TV-Themed sampled synthetic dance record (starts at 13:27) that’s followed with Kelly’s reference to Wallace and Ladmo? And what about this Iceman dude? Did Kelly & Company have a resident crooner with a keyboard? And certainly, The Hooded Hangman must have gone on to greater accomplishments.
There’s about 10 minutes missing between 7AM and 7:12AM, but that’s the only edit in this otherwise unscoped (music intact) recording which begins around 6:50 AM and concludes around 7:45AM. I know nothing of what happened to any of the players (other than Alice Cooper), and your informed COMMENTS are welcome. But I must add that it’s always impressive when a local radio station takes the show on the road. This is what local media does best, and only local media can do it. That’s what makes this aircheck fascinating and one-of-a-kind.