Five years ago, Cooper assembled a group of musicians to pay homage to victims of alcoholism, that included Aerosmith's Joe Perry and actor Johnny Depp, who has been a long time guitar player himself.
Former Alice Cooper bassist Dennis Dunaway surprised a crowd with a reunion of the band's surviving members, complete with an eight-song set of Cooper classics.
It wasn't that long ago that Alice Cooper singled out Mumford & Sons as purveyors of "wimpy rock" that's "boring as hell," but the band's latest album has changed his mind in a big way.