Rock Star Alice Cooper Recalls Stint in Greenwich

Rock Star Alice Cooper recalls his days in Greenwich in an entertaining interview today with Marc Myers on Wall Street Journal.com.

"When our band began to catch on in 1971," Cooper said, "we needed a place to live near New York where we could crank up the volume while rehearsing without bothering the neighbors."

"Shep Gordon, our manager, found a creepy mansion in Greenwich, CT.  It looked like the house in The Haunting," Cooper recalls.

"Even weirder was Greenwich -- a blue-blooded town.  Everybody there was old money and so uptight when we moved in.  When we'd go into town, we were treated like the Munsters.

"Then Forbes did an article on us -- A New Breed of Tycoon -- and we wound up on the cover.  The town's attitude changed.  We were considered new money and treated like the Beverly Hillbillies.

"Despite the mansion's quirkiness, I loved it," Cooper said.  We had a neat place of our own -- a bat cave that was short drive to New York.  We felt so cool living in Greenwich, which was considered the way the Hamptons are today."

For more, including recollections of his neighbor, movie star Bette Davis:  http://www.trulia.com/blog/ken_allen/2013/08/the_allen_report_rock_star_alice_cooper_recalls_his_sti...