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and then play and Alice said, “No we should play first.” And he
was right. But we’re standing with our backs to the audience with
the darkened stage and above us is this screen where they were
showing this screen of this video that they put together to show
why the Alice Cooper Group was inducted.
Alexxis: Nice...
Dennis: It’s like the best of
the Alice Cooper Group
video footage I guess all
spliced together. But man,
I looked up and here’s Glen
Buxton playing and oh man
it was so moving. And I
looked over at Alice, he was
standing right next time and
we were facing Neal and I
said, “Can you believe it?”
and he said “Nope, not at
all.” And then we started,
Neal counts down the first
song we start playing, we
turn around walk out to
the audience and who’s
there, Springsteen, Michael
Douglas, Michael J. Fox
everybody in the world
you know all the honchos
from the music industry.
Oh man, talk about it, and
then it’s in the Grand Ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria so
everybody’s played there!
Alexxis: Oh yeah, It must have been a very surreal moment. I’m
sure it was emotional and touching when you saw Glen on the
screen. He was with the band in spirit, looking down in approval.
Dennis: You know, you name it! All of these amazing musicians
that have been on that stage and so that was it and we ended up
in the bar in the wee hours and they were trying to kick us out.
Let’s see it was me, Glen Buxton’s sister Janice, and some friends
of ours and I can't remember if Neal was there or not. We were
having Manhattans and Glen’s sister was saying did you know
this, oh, Alice’s guy Toby Mannis brought Glen’s statue and my
statue and our awards and gave one to Janice, gave Glen’s award
to Janice and she’s complaining that this really sucks you know,
we should have been allowed to come out on stage. Glen’s brother
Ken and Janice wanted to come out on stage and accept.
Alexxis: Right, yeah that would have been nice. They should have
allowed them to accept it for him.
Dennis: Well, you know The Hall of Fame decided differently but
she's going “This really sucks; I get his award in the bar.” And I
said “Are you kidding? This is perfect! Glen would love this! He
got his Award in the bar!”
Alexxis: Yea really!
Dennis: Glen was always close to all of us whenever we’d play
any of those songs. He’s always in our hearts and forever will be.
He was one of the most one of a kind, funniest person I’ve ever
known.
Alexxis: Yes, he
was funny and a
great guy!
Dennis: Yeah, you
know. It didn’t take
long to find that
out, did it?
Alexxis: No, he was
always very person-
able and had a great
sense of humor!
Dennis: Yeah, it
didn’t take long and
you would quick-
ly learn what you
might avoid saying
because if you said
it, you were setting
yourself up to be in
storm. [ Laughter ]
Glen’s sarcastic fire
Alexxis: Oh yes! [ Laughter ]
Dennis: He was so funny but if you didn't know him like we did
all the way from high school, and somebody would walk in a
room that didn’t know the whole group and the whole group was
in one room, we would be whittling each other to bits. It would
sound brutal and sound like we hated each other, but it was really
just humor, long years of this kind of humor, where you put the
other guy down and if somebody walked out of the room oh
man, they were the target until they got back.
Alexxis: Oh yes for sure!
Dennis: But it was all in fun, it was all equal, and nobody was
made more fun of than the next guy. Everybody was brutally
criticized the whole time they were out of the room. When they
would come back Glen would go, “SH! He’s back.” [ Laughter ]
Alexxis: So since then you started working with Joe and Albert
Bouchard from ‘Blue Oyster Cult’ and you have a trio called ‘Blue
Coupe’. You were also working with the ‘Fifth Avenue Vampires’
so are you still doing that?
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