LONDON — During the coronavirus pandemic, shock rocker Alice Cooper replaced touring with tap dancing.The 73-year-old rock icon went from touring with Queen and playing to crowds of 95,000 to an audience of zero.
He admitted the transition was hard.“It was like coming off of a drug because the adrenaline is your drug onstage. I mean, everybody’s sober.
But you miss that adrenaline, that one-on-one,” he recalled, speaking from Charlotte, North Carolina.Cooper isn’t a fan of Zoom and wasn’t converted to online performances during lockdown: “It’s still flat and there’s no audience.
So don’t try to fake it.”Instead, he spent his downtime with his family in Phoenix developing an unlikely new skill — tap dancing.