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| Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival 1969, Volume IV | ||||
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| Released | Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival 1969, Volume IV: 1982 Nobody Likes Us: 2012 | |||
| Recorded | 1969 | |||
| Genre | Psychedelic rock, hard rock | |||
| Length | Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival 1969, Volume IV: 25:20 Nobody Likes Us: 75:48 | |||
| Label | Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival 1969, Volume IV: Accord Nobody Likes Us: Applebush | |||
| Producer | ??? | |||
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| AllMusic |    [1] |
Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival 1969, Volume IV is a live album of the Alice Cooper Band. Due to the fact that the recording is owned by a private party, it is unauthorized but not a bootleg.[2] It features Alice Cooper's infamous chicken-throwing performance at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival at Varsity Stadium in Toronto on September 13, 1969, and showcases the early psychedelic music style of Cooper and his band in support of their first album release, Pretties for You.
Although the album was originally released on vinyl in 1982, it has been re-released many times over the years on vinyl, cassette, CD, and digital download by various record labels under different titles, using alternative track titles and track orders. Many of these re-releases additionally include two 1964 studio tracks by Ronnie Hawkins, falsely credited on the album to Alice Cooper.
In 1996, Brian Nelson, Alice Cooper's personal assistant, said concerning this releases:[3] "The rights to the recording were sold by Alice's management at the time of the recording to a third party. That party has licensed out the rights to the recording many times to various companies. Alice Cooper do not make a penny from it. My theory is that the two non-Alice songs somehow wound up on the original master tape. The distributors not knowing and not particularly caring, put the album out of the tape as is. When the album was pressed again later by other companies, they didn't bother to check if all the songs were Alice or not. They would have no particular reason to."[2]
In 2014, the label Applebush released another version of this concert with the title Nobody Likes Us under the moniker of The Alice Cooper Group. This is the first known CD release to feature the whole concert speed corrected, correct song titles, and chronological track listing.[4] Guitarist Michael Bruce advised how to name and to arrange the titles correctly.[5] The sound quality is also better than on all of the other releases.[2] As a bonus it also contains recordings of a concert at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco on March 30, 1969, but the sound quality of that show is poor.[citation needed]
- ^ Campbell, Al "Alice Cooper Science Fiction Review", AllMusic, retrieved 28 September 2009
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-08-30. Retrieved 2022-07-24.
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