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Guitar World
Guitar World
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Jonathan Horsley

“Maybe that was part of the reason I had overlooked it before. It was so perfect and almost doesn’t stand out”: Alice Cooper’s new guitarist on why Glen Buxton is a seriously underrated guitar hero

New Alice Cooper guitarist Gyasi with Alice Cooper in a white top hat and matching suit, and a black and white portrait of the late Cooper guitarist Glen Buxton.

It seems preposterous to say that the guitarist who wrote Alice Cooper classics School’s Out, I’m Eighteen and Elected is underrated – that the player who lit up the unimpeachable Billion Dollar Babies does not get his dues – but consider this: when was the last time you heard Glen Buxton’s name when talking about hard-rock’s GOAT?

This discursive oversight has not gone unnoticed, and one player who has been paying attention all this time is new Alice Cooper hire, Gyasi Heus, the über-glam Les Paul-wielding hot-shot who has just made his debut on The Revenge of Alice Cooper – remarkably the first album from the Alice Cooper Band since 1973’s carnal shock-fest Muscle of Love.

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