Alice Cooper – lead vocals
Dick Wagner – electric and acoustic guitar, vocals
Steve "Deacon" Hunter – electric and acoustic guitar
Prakash John – bass
Pentti "Whitey" Glan – drums
Bob Ezrin – synthesizer, keyboards, vocals, producer
Jozef Chirowski – keyboards, clavinet, vocals, Fender Rhodes
Tony Levin – bass on "Welcome to My Nightmare" and "Escape"
Johnny "Bee" Badanjek – drums on "Welcome to My Nightmare" and "Escape"
Vincent Price – The Curator
Trish McKinnon – "Mom"
David Ezrin, Gerry Lyons, Michael Sherman, the Summerhill Children's Choir – vocals
Arranged by Allan Macmillan, Bob Ezrin
Written by Alice Cooper, Dick Wagner, Bob Ezrin, Kelly Jay, Alan Gordon, Kim Fowley, Mark Anthony
Recorded 1974–1975 at Soundstage (Toronto); Record Plant East, Electric Lady and A&R Studios (New York City)
Recorded by The Incredible Phil Ramone (A&R Studios), Corky Stasiak, Dave Palmer, Ed Sprigg, Rod O'Brien (Record Plant, Electric Lady)
Produced by Bob Ezrin
Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering
Tracks :
1 Welcome to My Nightmare
2 Devil's Food
3 The Black Widow
4 Some Folks
5 Only Women Bleed
6 Department of Youth
7 Cold Ethyl
8 Years Ago
9 Steven
10 The Awakening
11 Escape
“With the 1974 disintegration of the original Alice Cooper group, Alice was free to launch a solo career. He wisely decided to re-enlist the services of Bob Ezrin for his solo debut, Welcome to My Nightmare, which was a concept album tied into the story line of the highly theatrical concert tour he launched soon after the album's release. While the music lost most of the gritty edge of the original AC lineup, Welcome to My Nightmare remains Alice's best solo effort -- while some tracks stray from his expected hard rock direction, there's plenty of fist-pumping rock to go around. The disco-flavored, album-opening title track would be reworked on the stage as more of a hard rock tune, while "Some Folks" dips into cabaret territory, and "Only Women Bleed" is a sensitive ballad that became a Top Ten hit. But the rockers serve as the album's foundation -- "Devil's Food," "The Black Widow," "Department of Youth," and "Cold Ethyl" are all standouts, as is the more tranquil yet eerie epic "Steven." Despite this promising start to Cooper's solo career, the majority of his subsequent releases were often not as focused and were of varying quality.” AllMusic Review by Greg Prato |
