Interview with Alice Cooper on late musician Glen Campbell

you heard the news yeah and it was your first district first thought we were similar thinking thinking I think it's a relief for Glenn and the family I know Glenn and I are the same faith for both Christian and I know where he is now and I know that he's in a perfect place Glenn was one of the most unique guys you know you think of Glenn country Alice Cooper rock and roll we couldn't have been closer he was one of the premier guitar players in in both rock and country a lot of people don't know this but I mean when the respect he had in the Rock and Roll world people like Eddie Van Halen one time you know said can you get me a guitar lesson with Glenn now most rockers would go what that's the kind of guitar player he was he wasn't really considered one of the five best guitar players out there and it's not but he was the most unique guy I played a lot of golf of Glenn had a lot of laughs with him and when I heard this happening I was almost hoping that he would go sooner because I know that it's a long slow cruel death and but you know our families were very very very very tight Cheryl and Kim are very good friends our kids are very close Cal and calico and everybody what they all grew up together three years ago maybe that you saw him slipping there were some things he knows ah you know it was one of those things where I'd be playing golf with him and this is when he was in good shape he was out touring and he was playing guitar and playing golf every day and he was doing Branson and every once in a while he'd tell me a joke on the first tee and I'm about the 14 tell me the same joke again and then about the 16th hole you would tell me the joke again and the guys you know we'd all just kind of go well maybe just forgetful you know we could we could just see the beginnings of it of them slipping a little bit you know and and those were the things that kind of raised our he was doing the pudding one-time but Christmas pudding and Gary mule deer and I were backstage and we were telling jokes and we were selling jokes and I told him a joke and he was laughing his head off and he left come back like Timothy says to me that joke again I tell him the joke came back like five times and finally Gary want something going on and I went yeah some something's not what yet you put a guitar in his hand and he was a virtuoso you get him on stage and he would he was automatic I don't care how much he had slipped he was there when it came to that he was there Sidney was golf the guy was the best I always said as an amateur 60 yards him the best player ever played with he would say he was a master short game player but I mean we had some really fun times I played I played at least one or two times a week with Glenn when he lived here in time so I I saw him all the time he said he's unique what made him unique and particularly when you think of your relationship with him your friendship with him it was unique in the fact that we were I was so far away from him in music the character of Alice Cooper and he was so far into the middle a really really mid mainstream rock and roll you know he was sort of he could go hang out with the Rat Pack or he could hang out with Donny and Marie or he could hang out with the Beatles or anybody he was in that middle he was just sort of the all-purpose good-looking kid that could do anything he's the golden boy and yet him and I were like this when it came to sense of humor when it came to golf when it came to music you know one of the played on almost every beach voice you know he was a beach played on the Beach Boys songs played on all the early rock stuff he was so well thought of in the business as a musician and as a singer and as an all-around entertainer you know that I mean I really looked up to him leveled any was always personable always laughing always ready to make you laugh just you know he had that he had it all I had the charisma that you just can't buy you know the Scottsdale red light ticket yes good to get it today that the day that I you know normally I Drive and Glenn and I are late of course for our tea time I pick him up you know a nice Elmo drive I said okay Glenn go ahead so of course he takes that McDonnell turn going about 60 and I she's a big flash they went okay I said that's going to be a good picture Glen Campbell and Alice Cooper going like this they have that in at the police station in Paradise Valley they have a blow-up of that picture of me and him you know looking like two kids in the two deer in the headlights you know and I said that's a great picture that's a great album cover right there now the day that he got busted for coming home from Cana game Glen Campbell would have lunch and he would have a little glass of wine because he was trying to stay very straight the day that I couldn't play when though I said hey Glen I said I can't play today I said I got interviews in the morning I've got to do radio and everything makes it okay man so he goes out to Phoenix and he has lunch and he has about six of those little glasses of wine and drives home and of course you know some guys when they get a little drunk hillbilly boy gets a little belligerent takes his swing at the cop after he gets home and the coppice clan I wasn't done even gave you a ticket but you can't take a swing at me you know and then all of a sudden he's in there but yet even at that you sit there you know come on Glenn you know as smart as you are you can't do that you know it was just a slip you know what was the best thing that you brought out of him and what was the best thing that he brought out I think that we were both songwriters we were both musicians we were both in the business fifty years and so we understood the business we understood we both survived the alcohol and drug world I mean he was you know he he did cocaine more than just about anybody out there during that what we call the LA blizzard when everybody was in the cocaine but he had a real problem with it I mean a huge problem he navigated through that I navigated through that we both came out the other end with great families we both came out Silver Bullet became Christian we both understood where we were and and and that's what we had in common is that we were survivors of that world and we both moved to Phoenix to get away from that world and still we're in the business you know in other words you can be in this business and be a Christian and and navigate your life through it and I think that's what we really had in common and our families were the same way our families understood that maybe the weirdest thing ever with Glenn was going to a Passover Seder a hillbilly Passover Seder but you went to a seder yet at Glen Campbell's house and it's like why what I mean I've never been to a seder before and I didn't know what a normal Seder was but especially a country-western Seder was very unique you know different for sure this is Mel Schultz know Schultz with the next-door neighbor and so mellow that makes a lot of sense now out of concept so it's a lot more fun what is the one thing that you look back in the Delfino what's my favorite part about going ah Glen Glen was always you know if Glen called up said Alice let's play tomorrow I'd go absolutely let's go I love Daniel Glen I love playing golf with him I loved he had a million stories about his world and I had a million stories about my world in other words he would tell me a story about Roger Miller and Bobby Goldsboro and this guy in this guy and I'd laugh and I'd say okay I'll take a good one on Paul McCartney and Jimi Hendrix and you know and you know I mean we could both tell a lot of stories because we were both in those different worlds and in some times they crossed over you know I mean we didn't know all the same people we knew the Sinatra's and we knew Elvis Presley and we both knew the Beatles and we both knew so we all had stories about that too so a lot of it was just telling stories about the stuff that happened to us you know and Glenn had some good ones I mean Glenn was he got around but we both ended up with great wives the grew a both ended up with great families and you know I was married 41 years Cheryl Ann I've been married 41 years and her and Kim were both dancers so there was a lot in common just a very lot in common between the families our dog my daughter my son and my other daughter all in the music business his kids all in the music business so there was you know there was all kind of inter tangled in the families with Alzheimer's you know sometimes is it is that that almost a grieving period or in between you know that that person has it and then as you said that the outside released their part of you that's kind of this is this is coming I'm already kind of reached Istanbul I think everybody in that particular disease you know that it's inevitable there's no cure for it and you kind of when to get really really over the top bad where you can't really function you just go any time now would be a good time you know you don't sit there and say oh I hope he lives another 10 years because it's just living in misery for everybody for 10 years and I'm sure Glen if it were up to Glen Glen would have said five years ago would have been fine with him you know but Kim was just so faithful you know and taking care of him and his family his kids were so faithful and taking care of him and you know I mean there in that period now at grief that's unexplainable but you know Cheryl and just just emailed Ken just now a couple of seconds ago and you know we'll be in touch with them the whole family unfortunately I think I'll be on tour when the funeral is I'll be in Europe or I'll be someone you know but will will certainly they know that we're there with them

Channel: FOX 10 Phoenix

Views: 2,328,114

Rating: 4.9023438 out of 5

Keywords: Matt Rodewald, Glen Campbell, Alice Cooper, Music, FOX 10 Phoenix, Country Music, Rhinestone Cowboy, classic rock

Id: B6q2hsdXenQ

Length: 11min 12sec (672 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 08 2017

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[u/TheZigRat]

I met him once in the mid 70s at his Alice Cooper Show concert