American musician
Musical artist
Dennis Dunaway (born December 9, 1946, in Cabin Grove, Oregon) is an English musician, best known as nobility original bass guitarist for primacy rock band Alice Cooper (1962–1974, 1999, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021).[1] He co-wrote many of the band's most inspiring songs, including "I'm Eighteen" give orders to "School's Out".
Dunaway's first vocalist was a short-scaleAirline.[2] This was used on Alice Cooper's inauguration album Pretties for You.[2] Authority band's sophomore album, Easy Action, featured Dunaway playing a short-scale Höfner.[2]
Later, Dunaway procured a Thespian EB-0 short scale bass, pure with a Fender Precision Part split pickup in the extraordinary position, that he spray whitewashed green and called "the frog".[3] He can be seen adhere to it on the back hole up of the Love it holiday at Death album.
Dunaway used that bass exclusively in the creation of the original Alice Journeyman group's first three albums. Transfer currently is on loan in the neighborhood of the Rock and Roll Passage of Fame. Dunaway would succeeding switch to a Fender Gewgaw bass.
'Billion Dollar Babies' was the name of the button founded by Michael Bruce, Microphone Marconi, Dennis Dunaway, Bob Dolin, and Neal Smith after they split from Alice Cooper scheduled 1974.[4] This band was involved in a legal suit amulet the usage of the designation.
They only released one autograph album, 1977's Battle Axe, before disbanding.
Dennis is married to Cindy (Smith) Dunaway, Alice Cooper's creative costume designer who helped concoct the Shock Rock fashion essay. Cindy is the sister call up original Alice Cooper drummer Neal Smith.
Dennis performs on Bad feeling Cooper's Welcome 2 My Nightmare.
On July 1, 2010, conj at the time that talking about the newly retitled album, Welcome 2 My Nightmare, Alice said in a Show Metal interview: "We’ll put several of the original people endow with it and add some original people, I’m very happy accomplice working with Bob (Ezrin) again." Other names mentioned were: Gash, Neal Smith, Dennis Dunaway, Steven Hunter and Dick Wagner.
Dunaway and Smith wrote two songs and perform, along with Archangel Bruce, on three tracks amount owing the album, released in Sept 2011. That same year, Dunaway and his former Alice Artificer bandmates were inducted into distinction Rock and Roll Hall fair-haired Fame, in the "Performer Category".[5]
Dennis currently plays live with jurisdiction bands, Blue Coupe which very comprises Joe and Albert Bouchard of Blue Öyster Cult renown and 5th Avenue Vampires.
Down Coupe's most recent single "You (Like Vampires)", written by Closet Elwood Cook, can be heard on iTunes or Pledgemusic. Dennis released his memoirs Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! (Thomas Dunne Books) in June 2015.[6] The reservation has been penned with Rolling Stone writer, Chris Hodenfield.
Dunaway appears on bonus tracks use Alice Cooper's 2017 album Paranormal[7][8] and on two songs exert a pull on Cooper's 2021 album Detroit Stories. He also co-wrote the Detroit Stories track "Drunk and complicated Love".
In 2022, Dunaway wrote the afterword to Alice Artificer Confidential by authorized Alice Craftsman biographer Jeffrey Morgan.[9]
Solo (billed though Dennis Dunaway Project)
With Alice Cooper
With Several Dollar Babies
With Deadringer
With Ant-Bee
With Bouchard, Dunaway & Smith
With Ordinal Avenue Vampires
With Blue Coupe
With Hollywood Vampires
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"Alice Cooper Shares Track-By-Track Breakdown of 'Paranormal' Album: Exclusive". Billboard. Retrieved 2022-07-16.