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4.0 out of 5 stars
The real Alice Cooper-sound! Guitar-wise anyway, 3 Jul 2003
If only Alice Cooper and Michael Bruce would get back together...This live album, recorded in Iceland, features the original Alice Cooper group's lead guitarist and main songwriter Michael Bruce performing the group's classic 70s material. The sound is okay, without being magnificent. Bruce doesn't have the vocal power of Vincent Furnier (Alice Cooper), and his voice is sometimes too low in the mix, but he does a fairly good job, and it's really nice to hear these 30-year-old songs played the way they sounded back then. And he does put down some good vocal performances - on "Desperado" he sounds uncannily like Cooper during the partly spoken intro. Michael Bruce's less-is-more approach and arsenal of simple yet memorable riffs is still intact. He seemingly plays without sustain and overdrive, just a slight bit of fuzz-tone, and his playing is restrained and to the point. No flashy stunts, just a classic, rock-solid performance. Among the highlights are the aforementioned "Desperado", "Be My Lover" (which was written solely by Michael Bruce, as the lyrics clearly reflect), and a hard-rocking, truly epic rendition of the grand, nine-minute "Halo Of Flies" with some great drumming from local talent Egill Rafnsson. All in all, "Halo Of Ice" offers a very pleasant listening experience for fans of the original Alice Cooper lineup.
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~ Michael Bruce
~ Quatermass
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