|
Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict | 
 enlarge | Author: Alice Cooper
Publisher: Crown
Category: EBooks
List Price: $13.95
Buy New: $9.99
You Save: $3.96 (28%)
Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 18381
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42166092
ASIN: B000QCTMS8
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The man who invented shock rock tells the amazing and, yeah, shocking story of how he slayed his thirsty demons—with a golf club. It started one day when Cooper was watching a Star Trek rerun between concerts, bored and drunk on a quart-of-whiskey-a-day habit; a friend dragged the rocker out of his room and suggested a round of golf. Cooper has been a self-confessed golf addict ever since. Today he and his band still tour the world, playing some one hundred gigs a year . . . and three hundred days out of that year, Cooper is on the course.
Alice Cooper, Golf Monster is Cooper’s tell-all memoir; in it he talks candidly about his entire life and career, as well as his struggles with alcohol, how he fell in love with the game of golf, how he dried out at a sanitarium back in the late ’70s, and how he put the last nails in his addiction’s coffin by getting up daily at 7 a.m. to play 36 holes.
Alice has hilarious, touching, and sometimes surprising stories about so many of his friends: Led Zeppelin and the Doors, George Burns and Groucho Marx, golf legends like John Daly and Tiger Woods . . . everyone is here from Dali to Elvis to Arnold Palmer.
This is the story of Cooper’s life, and also a story about golf. He rose from hacker to scratch golfer to serious Pro Am competitor and on to his status today as one of the best celebrity golfers around—all while rising through the rock ’n’ roll ranks releasing platinum albums and selling out arenas with his legendary act.
From the Hardcover edition.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 41 more reviews...
 Good Golf Tips and Great Reading for any Alice Fan! November 30, 2008
My husband started reading this book as soon as it arrived and he loved it! I am a big Alice Cooper fan and we are both golfers too. A must have for any Alice fan and some really great golf tips and stories!
 Hit it, Alice November 25, 2008
I was a casual fan of Alice's music back in the 1970s, but haven't kept up with him. As a devoted golfer, however, I enjoyed the role the sport has played in his life. Alice has a lot of interesting stories to tell, and has met an amazing range of people. Consider that Groucho Marx gave him a round bed, and that Alice in turn gave it to Paul McCartney. The book, however, isn't well-written. He could have done better with more accomplished writers, but he still manages to get his points across.
 Brag fest September 27, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Being a huge golf fan and a pretty big Alice fan, I was excited to get this book. Overall this book was basically a autobiography and it seemed extremely self-indulgent. The jist? Alice is super rich, gets to golf every day, most likely better than you and if you want to join him on the course you better bring your checkbook. I threw my copy in the trash.
 Alice Cooper - Autobiography and Golf July 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
When first seeing this book pop up on Amazon, i thought it was a book Alice Cooper had written about Golf. Kind of a text version of something like "Leslie Neilson's stupid little golf video"
However I was surprised to discover that this is actually an autobiography written by Alice with focus' on gold chapters in between each chapter.
To be honest, I read the first little golf bit and skipped the ones that followed and just read the biography chapters.
Alice starts from when he was aged 10 and how his family would move from Detroit to L.A back and forth till finally settling in Arizona. And then onto what Alice did in high school and how he got into playing music and writing songs, and the struggle to make it as a successful group.
Alice covers all the events that have happened with him from the mid 60's to mid 2000's. Pretty much all of the stories are there, the drinking, the chicken incident, first hit's, the break up of the original band, how he met his wife, alcohol abuse etc...
I found this to be a pretty good read for the Alice Cooper fan. About the only story I thought was missing was when the python escaped down the hotel room toilet and popped up a week later in someone else's toilet.
Instead of going for the usual tell-all tales, in between each chapter Alice writes a bit about golf, about 12 steps to to chapters how what he has learned from playing golf also adapts to the real world, and also lends a few tip's to anyone who plays golf... I don't, so i skipped most of that as I said.
Overall it's a pretty interesting read, and it's amazing just how many celebrities Alice has met, known and been friends with over his 40 odd years as one of the greatest rock n roll legends of all time.
Alice Cooper - More Than Just Golf. May 15, 2008
This candid book tells the story of Alice Cooper as well as him giving tips on golf. If you thought it was only about golf, it is not. In fact it is so much more! Alice takes us from the very beginning of his life and keeps us hooked to the last page. He has some amusing stories to tell as well as some sad. You will learn the truth about the chicken on the stage incident and relive other highlights throughout his career..Alice is a true rocker and he still rocks hard today. The original shock rocker and still the best! Alice Rules!
|
|
|
Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
