ALICE COOPER Reunites With His Original Bandmates For Performance At 2025 ‘Christmas Pudding’
Written by megarock on November 16, 2025
egendary rocker Alice Cooper reunited with the other surviving members of the original ALICE COOPER band — guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway and drummer Neal Smith — for a short set at last night’s (Saturday, November 15) “Christmas Pudding” event at the Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona. Stepping into the late COOPER guitarist Glen Buxton‘s shoes for the performance was Nashville-based guitarist Gyasi Heus, who also played guitar on the recently released “The Revenge Of Alice Cooper”, the first full album by the original ALICE COOPER band since 1973’s “Muscle Of Love”. They played a mix of their hits along with songs from “The Revenge Of Alice Cooper”.
Each year, “Christmas Pudding” features appearances by musicians who are dedicated to helping Cooper raise money for Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Centers, which offer music, dance, art, and vocational programs for teens aged 12 to 20.
“The Revenge Of Alice Cooper” was made available in July via earMUSIC. The effort, dedicated to Buxton, who died in 1997, is heralded as the successor to ALICE COOPER‘s iconic records “School’s Out”, “Billion Dollar Babies”, “Love It to Death” and “Killer”.
Regarding how the reunion with the other original members of ALICE COOPER came about, Alice told 95.5 KLOS: “When we parted, we didn’t divorce; we just separated. There was no bad blood. There was no lawsuits or anything like that. And we stayed in touch with each other. And finally, at one point — they had worked on some of my albums — I said, ‘Why don’t we just do an album?’ Ah we got [longtime producer] Bob Ezrin involved. And I was absolutely amazed. Everything went so smoothly. We wrote all these songs, and it sounded exactly like 1975.”
