March 28, 1988 - Out To Lynch

with Alice Cooper Cover and Four Page Feature

THIS IS AMERICA...

A subject that keeps cropp-ing up in Alice Cooper songs and shows is his subtle rela-tionship with America, with the dream of a nation that thinks it is God's gift to the earth and mankind. What does America really mean to Alice and Vincent?

"I like America because it's extreme, like Alice - the all-American child. America is in love with itself, in love with the thought that it's the 'mis-sionary saviour of the world'. That's why America is always getting involved with other countries' affairs without ask-ing first. America can't even imagine that some people and some countries would be far happier if they didn't have America's cope with. involvement to

"Everyone in America is manipulative, and is manipulated every day and every hour. Americans know that they are easy to manipulate but they don't care, and if it comes to the crunch they can always say 'No', and they do. That's what happened with Vietnam and 'Watergate'....

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