Alice Cooper DaDa LP 1983 Canadian pressing Bob Ezrin Dick Wagner NEARMINT VINYL
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Alice Cooper
DaDa
Warner Bros Records 92_39691 LP 1983 (Canada)
DaDa is the fifteenth studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1983. DaDa would be Cooper’s last album until his sober re-emergence in 1986 with the album Constrictor. The album’s theme is ambiguous, however, ongoing themes in the songs’ lyrics suggest that the main character in question, Sonny, suffers from mental illness, resulting in the creation of many different personalities. The album alludes strongly to the dadaist movement: its cover was based on a painting by Salvador Dalí titled “Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire”. Produced by long-time collaborator Bob Ezrin, at the time his first production with Cooper in six years, DaDa was recorded at ESP Studios in Buttonville, Ontario, Canada.
Guitarist and co-songwriter Dick Wagner recently revealed that Cooper had relapsed to drinking heavily during the recording of DaDa, and had suggested that the album was a contract fulfillment requirement for which Warner Bros. Records was not pleased and consequently made no effort to promote, though Warner Bros. has never confirmed or denied this. This and other details, like the real-life cocktail waitresses that inspired “Scarlet and Sheba” are in his autobiography Not Only Women Bleed.
Cooper reportedly has no recollection of recording DaDa, or the preceding albums Special Forces and Zipper Catches Skin, due to substance abuse. Cooper stated “I wrote them, recorded them and toured them and I don’t remember much of any of that”, though he toured only Special Forces. In 1996 Cooper said that DaDa was the scariest album he ever made, and that he never had any idea what it was about. There was no tour to promote DaDa, and none of its songs have ever been played live.
DaDa was Cooper’s final album for his long-time label Warner Bros., and after its release he took a three-year hiatus from the music industry.
Tracklist
A1 Dada Written-By – Bob Ezrin 4:46
A2 Enough's Enough Written-By – Alice Cooper, Bob Ezrin, Dick Wagner, Graham Shaw 4:19
A3 Former Lee Warmer Written-By – Alice Cooper, Bob Ezrin, Dick Wagner 4:07
A4 No Man's Land Written-By – Alice Cooper, Bob Ezrin, Dick Wagner
3:48
A5 Dyslexia Written-By – Alice Cooper , Bob Ezrin, Dick Wagner, Graham Shaw 4:25
B1 Scarlet And Sheba Written-By – Alice Cooper, Bob Ezrin, Dick Wagner 5:19
B2 I Love America Written-By – Alice Cooper, Graham Shaw 3:47
B3 Fresh Blood Written-By – Alice Cooper, Bob Ezrin, Dick Wagner 6:53
B4 Pass The Gun Around Written-By – Alice Cooper, Dick Wagner 5:43
Manufactured By – WEA Music Of Canada, Ltd.
Distributed By – WEA Music Of Canada, Ltd.
Recorded At – Phase One Studios
Arranged By – Alice Cooper, Bob Ezrin, Dick Wagner
Bass Guitar – Dick Wagner, Prakash John (tracks: B3)
Drums – Bob Ezrin, John Anderson (25) (tracks: B3), Richard Kolinka (tracks: A3, B1, B4)
Engineer – Bob Ezrin, Lenny DeRose, Robert Hrycyna
Executive-Producer – Shep Gordon
Guitar – Dick Wagner
Keyboards – Bob Ezrin
Percussion – Bob Ezrin
Producer – Bob Ezrin
Synthesizer [Fairlight Cmi] – Bob Ezrin
Synthesizer [Obx-8] – Graham Shaw
Synthesizer [Roland Jupiter] – Graham Shaw
Vocals – Alice Cooper, Bob Ezrin, Dick Wagner, Graham Shaw
Vocals [Additional] – Karen Hendricks, Lisa Dal Bello
Black maple leaf and lyrics on back cover
Vinyl is NEAR MINT, in a plastic inner sleeve in a picture sleeve in GOOD condition (edge wear, delete hole punch
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