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Alexxis: Ok! We’re back with Part 2 speaking with Dennis Dun-
away, speaking about his latest book ‘Snakes! Guillotines! Electric
Chairs!: My Adventures in The Alice Cooper Group.’
Where we left off was talking about ‘The Billion Dollar Babies’
album and how you were in Brazil with that big concert with
158,000. So Dennis, at this point, how were you feeling about what
was going on?
Dennis: Well, at that point the band was a little bit disillusioned
because during ‘The Billion Dollar Babies’ tour things had
changed in respect to new people being brought into the organiza-
tion. All of the people that knew the band when it was operating
as a unit knew that and treated us accordingly. But new people
were being brought into the picture like body guards for Alice,
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and things like that, that treated us like we were the backup guys
and we weren’t being included in things. In fact, they would even
screen our calls when we would call Alice’s room and stuff like
that so there were resentments building because of it. It wasn't so
much that we weren't invited to the after party after the gig, it was
more just the fact that we were being treated differently by these
new people that didn’t realize what the real background of the
band was.
Alexxis: Ok so, it’s because the band had garnered so much suc-
cess with the ‘Billion Dollar Babies’ album that the tour was kind
of the pivoting mark of where this came together?
Dennis: Well that’s where it started and half way through the ‘The
Billion Dollar Babies’ tour, it started to sink in that Alice was