Alice Cooper sits down with Greg Laurie on TBN’s Praise to share his powerful testimony about searching for purpose at the height of fame and finding God’s grace at his lowest point.
Alice Cooper: A Testimony of Finding Purpose Through God’s Grace
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It sounds like the greatest blessing bestowed on him was the steadfast love, loyalty, and resilience of a good woman, his wife.
The parables of the prodigal son and the lost sheep are some of the most poignant and profound stories in the Bible, the celebratory atmosphere in heaven when even just one sinner confesses his sin and repents, and illustrates God’s profound love for his followers.
Talking about Alice, Jim Morrison, Jimmy Hendricks, and Janis Joplin describes my high school years perfectly.
Congratulations to anyone that beats addiction! Jesus is a great start for doing so!
His recovery story is a great one.
That was a powerful interview. How ironic, that Alice Cooper was the first concert I ever went to in 1973, when I was only 15. Went with a buddy, and our parents had to take us to the venue and then pick us up afterwords reeking of pot. Fortunately they were unaware of what they were smelling.
The concert had all the theatrics that Alice referenced in this interview – the guillotine, the boa constrictor, him in a torn leotard and tights with knee-high leopard skin platform boots. After his head was cut off he came back in his white tux and top hat singing Billion Dollar Babies. I can’t believe that I can even remember this many details. I too, have been there done that and got the t-shirt. But unlike Alice, I never was the t-shirt. This interview brought me to tears.
^^ I saw Alice Cooper in 71 or 72, can’t recall exactly. It was the tour with the gallows and Alice hangs at the end.
(As some wag once said, if you can remember the seventies you weren’t really there)
The same thing was true of the 60’s.
(As some wag once said, if you can remember the seventies you weren’t really there)
Patently false. Not only was I there for the whole thing, I did my share of pot, peyote, psilocybin, LSD, and sex. I remember it all. That’s why I know I won’t repeat it and advise the youthful to avoid damaging themselves if they can.
The 70s were great. Wouldn’t change a thing. Without the experience, I wouldn’t know what to advise the newest crop of dumbasses. Hotel California !
Show your scars like Jesus showed his to doubting Thomas. Otherwise you’re just talking with no gravitas. Our mistakes are our credentials for advice. Don’t be ashamed so much you can’t guide the less experienced.
I know a recovering alcoholic that’s been sober since March 17, 1991. She has not attended or spoke at an AA meeting since the mid 90s. Come on, honey, give back to what helped you get past it! What if your sponsor was like you are?
I’ve got almost 25 years sober and would not change a minute of it. Struggled mightily when my husband died 3-1/2 years ago but my program and my God kept me on the path. Love, love, love his story.
Much love, Redgrandma !
You know what’s true.
I too remember the 70’s all too well, when I got out of the Navy in Aug. 1975, I was a basket case from all the drugs and associated stupidity of being young in the 70’s. I moved in with my brother and six other guys (the same day that I got out of the Navy, Monday Aug. 18th, 1975) in a house we called the guy’s house who were all young Christians saved by the Jesus revolution of the early and mid 70’s. Our church was an interdenominational church who accepted all the freaks and rejects of the 70’s just as we were, and it saved my life. Within 2 years I had found my wife who I was married to for 30 + years> She was an ex Catholic girl who was also saved in the early 70’s along with many other of her Catholic friends who a lot of the guys in my church also married. We had a good life and many years later in the early 2000’s when the church became prosperous and too big and religiously smug for its britches the church fell apart because we forgot the grace that had brought us into a relationship with Jesus in the first place back in the 70’s when we were freaks and outcasts and we thought that our shit didn’t stink and thought we were better than all the other churches because of our programs and other things that we were doing for God. And it showed in how we treated newcomers to our church having forgot that we were all sinners saved by grace who were just as freaky or freakier than the newbies when we had first been saved back in the mid 70’s. God took us down a peg and the church split and we went our separate ways, but his grace now is more sufficient now than it was then by remembering that we too needed grace and not religion which was turning people from knowing and serving God and it was all about God and not us, I am still friends with many of my friends who were all part of this 50 years later and we were part of each other’s lives raising our kids together and growing older and wiser in the wisdom of God that it never was about us but what God had done for us when we were younger to save us by his grace and we’re all better for it. I wouldn’t be here if I had never been accepted by all of my friends in the church because we were all a mess back then and God saved all of us as we were so we could lead a good life. And I’m eternally grateful for that.
36 years clean and sober thanks to the grace and mercy of God.
I am glad he answered the “knock at the door”
It’s interesting and wonderful that more people who lost their way while getting famous have come to God and Jesus and are talking boldly about it.
Russell Brand, Tucker, etc.
I was also a big Alice Cooper fan and saw that Billion Dollar Babies tour of 1973 when I was 15. I just read Bob Green’s book about the tour this summer. Loved Alice Cooper then and have admired him as a person more and more over the years. I know people who have met and worked with him and he’s a great guy by all accounts. Love It To Death, School’s Out, Killer, and Billion Dollar Babies are some of the greatest rock and roll albums ever made. Long live Alice!
^^^^…no more pencils, no more books. no more teachers’ dirty looks…^^^^
^^^ Weren’t you supposed to wait until he passed away?
Alice Cooper and Groucho Marx were golf buddies, so there’s that also.
^^^
And Glenn Campbell and him were buddies.
Been on my playlist for a long time.
I heard or read somewhere that the only lasting sobriety from drugs/alcohol is achieved through turning to God. And, as I remember, it was said by a mystified expert in the field of addiction treatment who wasn’t himself a believer. He didn’t point to any studies, but spoke anecdotally from his many years treating addicts.
Fifty plus years..
No alias, it’s anonymous
He has a syndicated radio show that plays rock here in Vegas every evening.
I like him but he was praising that idiot from Green Day the other night so I turned the radio off…