Alice Cooper’s long-serving guitarist Nita Strauss has re-joined his touring band.
The 36-year-old axe-slayer was a part of the group – which additionally consists of Ryan Roxie, Tommy Henricksen, Chuck Garric, and Glen Sobel – from 2014 till 2022, however took outing to be a part of pop star Demi Lovato’s touring line-up.
Alice and Nita will reunite on the ‘College’s Out’ rocker’s upcoming ‘Too Shut For Consolation’ North American tour, which kicks off on April 28 in Michigan.
Alice and co may even play quite a few dates on Def Leppard and Motley Crue’s joint ‘Freaks On Parade’ tour.
The 75-year-old rocker stated of Nita’s returns: “She’s Again! Nita requested for a go away of absence to work with another person, one thing I at all times encourage my band members to do. I like them to problem themselves and take a look at new issues. I am grateful to my outdated good friend Kane Roberts for stepping up and filling in for her, however she’ll be again with us for the brand new tour that begins up in late April. It should be nice to have her again.”
Nita added: “From the studio to the stage, it is at all times an immense honour to make music with Alice Cooper!! I am very excited to be re-joining the band on the highway for the 2023 dates, and so I will see you on the highway in April. Let the nightmare return!”
In the meantime, Alice’s Hollywood Vampires are to tour the UK subsequent summer time.
The rock supergroup – which additionally contains Hollywood actor Johnny Depp and Aerosmith rocker Joe Perry – are to play exhibits throughout the UK and Europe in 2023 after being pressured to cancel dates in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The trio – accompanied by guitarist Tommy Henriksen – play songs in tribute to the “nice misplaced heroes of music” and carry out authentic materials from their two album releases.
Discussing the upcoming exhibits, Alice stated: “Properly, it is already been three years for the reason that Vampires have toured due to Covid.
“Additionally, Johnny has his motion pictures, Joe’s in Aerosmith and I am in Alice Cooper, so we’ve to take a look at that entire factor and see after we can all get a month or two off the place we are able to exit and tour. And, we’re going to be doing that, subsequent summer time developing, 2023.
“I am unable to wait to get again with the blokes, I actually love being in that band. My band is nice and great, however enjoying with the Vampires is a wholly completely different scenario.”
The ‘Feed My Frankenstein’ rocker continued: “I do not essentially do any theatrics in any respect, I am simply the lead singer, in a band, and the band simply occurs to be top-of-the-line bands round! It’s going to be nice to see Johnny and Joe and Buck and Chris and all the blokes.
“We’ll be rocking these locations, particularly the UK, I am unable to wait to get to the UK! Lock your doorways, put garlic throughout, as a result of the Vampires are coming.”
