Constrictor

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Constrictor is the ninth solo and overall sixteenth studio album by American rock singer Alice Cooper, released on September 22, 1986 After a hiatus from the music industry following DaDa (1983), Cooper remained in seclusion for three years. He starred in Monster Dog (1986), a horror film for which he wrote two songs. He also guest starred on the Twisted Sister track "Be Chrool to Your Scuel". Constrictor was Cooper's first studio album to feature Kane Roberts on guitar, Kip Winger (who would gain fame with his own band, Winger) on bass, and the only one to feature David Rosenberg on drums. Winger has since pointed out that his name was erroneously spelled in the album credits as Wringer. The album was partly recorded in Los Angeles, a city Cooper had left in the wake of his Hollywood-abetted alcoholism. "It's fun to plug into LA now rather than being there," he remarked. "Everybody says, 'Oh, you look really healthy.' That's not necessarily a compliment when you're trying to be Alice Cooper." The album returned Cooper to the charts at number 59 after the preceding Zipper Catches Skin (1982) and DaDa (1983) failed to crack the Top 200. The horror series Friday the 13th teamed up with Cooper during this time to produce the theme song for its latest installment. "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)" was written for Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) and became a #4 hit in Sweden in 1987. Also featured in the film were Constrictor's "Teenage Frankenstein" and "Hard Rock Summer", the latter of which did not end up on the album. The track "The Great American Success Story" was apparently intended as the theme song to the Rodney Dangerfield film Back to School (1986), but was not used. The demo of...