The Location of Alice Cooper’s Old Band Barn, Auburn Hills

One of my favorite performers has always been Alice Cooper. I remember getting my hands on his very first album, Pretties For You, back in 1969, and staring at that poorly-drawn album cover. That was back when the name ‘Alice Cooper’ referred to the band, not the person.

It wasn’t long afterward that Alice and the band took up residence in Auburn Hills at 1250 Brown Road as a place to write and rehearse.

Born in Detroit, Alice always had an affinity for Michigan, especially the rock sounds that permeated southern Michigan: The Stooges, MC5, Bob Seger, Ted Nugent, SRC, and basically all the others – and there were many.

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It was at this barn that Alice and the guys began working on their third album, Love It to Death, which ended up featuring the hit Eighteen.

When their producer Bob Ezrin paid the barn a visit, he was taken aback by the scene that greeted him: sexual activity, free-flowing alcohol, a poop-flinging raccoon, and even a monkey. Despite the atmosphere Ezrin walked into, he really liked the music that was being made. He took the band to Chicago to record the album and became an instant hit iupon release.

Remaining band members have acknowledged the madness that went on inside that barn. Scroll down a little way to see how the location looks today (sadly, the barn has been demolished). And you can get an idea how it looked on the inside all those years ago by clicking this link: