Easy Action 1970 Album

Alice Cooper

It's hard to have anything but mixed emotions listening to Easy Action, also known as that album sandwiched between the ACB band's debut, and Love It To The Death which everyone considers to be their real debut. Which is natural, but Easy Action has its merits, of the off-beat variety. Nine fairly crazy songs that were simply in need of some direction and belief, but without it, the band was in danger of feeling like rebels without a cause. Not even their own producer (David Briggs) cared at this point, referring to the music as "Psychedelic Shit" (according to drummer Neal Smith), but amongst the confusion there are flashes of geniune horror, like the rampaging "Kingdom of the Spiders".