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Local History

Alice Cooper (11/2/1986)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page

Artist(s): Alice Cooper w/ The Vinnie Vincent Invasion
Date: 2 November 1986
Tickets: $15.00 (reserved seating and general admission)
Attendance: 5,000
Notes: Cooper’s fifth appearance at Wings Stadium. Originally scheduled for October 30.

Setlist (Alice Cooper): Intro, Welcome to My Nightmare, Billion Dollar Babies, No More Mr. Nice Guy, Be My Lover, I’m Eighteen, The World Needs Guts, Give It Up, Cold Ethyl, Only Women Bleed, Go to Hell, Ballad of Dwight Fry, Teenage Frankenstein, Sick Things, I Love the Dead, School’s Out. Encore: Elected, Under My Wheels.

Setlist (Vinnie Vincent Invasion*): Boyz Are Gonna Rock, Shoot U Full of Love, Do You Wanna Make Love, Animal, Guitar Solo, Twisted, Drum Solo.

*unconfirmed, but likely similar based on other performances around the same time (e.g., Fort Wayne, IN)

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 14 September 1986. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 21 September 1986, (right) 2 October 1986. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 31 October 1986. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 31 October 1986, (right) 3 November 1986. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 2 November 1986. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 3 November 1986. Kalamazoo Public Library

Sources

Articles

“Rush of fall bookings bodes well for local concert future”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 14 September 1986, page 52 (E-6)

“Rescheduled”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 21 September 1986, page 92

“Alice Cooper returns next month”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 2 October 1986, page 34

“Well, come to my nightmare, says rock’s bad little ghoul”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 31 October 1986, page 23, 24 (E-1, E-2)

“Apprenticeship pays off for Vinnie Vincent”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 2 November 1986, page 93 (G-4)

“The nightmare returns”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 3 November 1986, page 1

“Alice shock ’n’ rolls Wings Stadium crowd”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 3 November 1986, page 28 (D-9)

Websites

Setlist.fm setlist wiki: Alice Cooper setlist, 2 November 1986, Wings Stadium, Kalamazoo, MI