We'd never seen each other before."ĭeciding they were "kindred spirits," Cooper and his bandmates invited the British rockers to stay at their house for a couple days. And we got there and they had the exact same box. We had a box made with colored lights that would flicker up because that’s all we could afford were flood lights in a box. We saw their show and they had exactly the same lights that we did. "We’d open for the British bands that came in," Cooper says. They'd played a show with Pink Floyd at the Cheetah Club and hit it off. “But we wrote this song." Hitting it off with Pink Floyd “I don’t know if it might’ve had something to do with a brownie,” he says, with a laugh. The song was written, Cooper says, around the time Pink Floyd was staying at the Alice Cooper house in Los Angeles.
And you were controlled by the sound.”Īlice Cooper on recalling his thoughts when he wrote the lyrics to 'The Sound of A' “If they wanted to change your mood, they would change the tone. “We were talking about the idea of doing a sci-fi thing where the sound of A (the musical note) was piped into every house and kept everybody on a kind of even keel,” he says. A gateway to the pastĪlthough he’d forgotten the song, Cooper says hearing it 50 years later triggered memories of what he was thinking when he wrote the lyrics. of U2 on drums, Tommy Henricksen and Tommy Denander on guitars, and Ezrin, who produced the track, on Hammond B3 organ. The version of “The Sound of A” on Paranormal was recorded live to tape in a Nashville studio with Dunaway on bass, Larry Mullen Jr. And it ended up being one of the great tracks on the album, just because it had that eerie, dreamlike quality." Let the guitar players and the keyboard and everything just keep it going and going.’ Because we never do that. At the end, I said, ‘Let’s just let it go.
That is so simple and powerful.’ I said, ‘Well, let’s record it and see what happens.’ It was the only song that we didn’t really arrange.
When Dunaway played his recording of "The Sound of A," Cooper says “Bob Ezrin said, ‘I love that. “Laughing at Me” and “Shoe Salesman” were both included on Alice Cooper's second album, Easy Action, which arrived in 1970 on the Frank Zappa label, Straight Records. I recently dug it out, recorded a modernized version and surprised him with it.” Of course, since the original song was vocal and acoustic guitar only, my demo took it to a new place. In the '80s, I remembered what I could of it and filled in the blanks in the spirit of what I could recall from the original. “And Ezrin and I are sitting there listening to the stuff, all the writers, and Dennis says, ‘I want you to hear this one.’ I said, ‘Oh man, Dennis, I remember when you wrote that song.’ And he goes, ‘Well, yeah, but you wrote it.’ I said, ‘I did?’ He goes, ‘Yeah, it was the first song you ever wrote.’ And I said, ‘Wow, you’re right.’”Īs Dunaway recalls, “In 1967, Alice wrote three songs on guitar – ‘The Sound of A,’ ‘Laughing at Me’ and ‘Shoe Salesman.’ Two were recorded and ‘The Sound of A' was forgotten. “Dennis brought in two or three songs,” Cooper says.
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