Dennis Dunaway Is 62 Today

Dennis Dunaway live on stage.
Photo from DennisDunawayProject.com

Happy Birthday to Dennis Dunaway, who turned 62 years old today. Dunaway was the original bassist for the theatrical rock group Alice Cooper, as well as earlier versions of the band before they started calling it by that name in 1969.

After leaving Alice Cooper in 1974, he co-founded Billion Dollar Babies along with former Alice members guitarist / singer Michael Bruce, drummer Neal Smith and others. As you can imagine, since 'Billion Dollar Babies' was also the name of one of Alice Cooper's most successful albums, that idea didn't go over so well and ended up causing a legal battle.

Dennis' (who married Neal Smith's sister and Alice Cooper seamstress Cindy) most recent effort to have been released (was only available at shows and the web site) on CD is called 'Bones From The Yard' with the collection of artists being called The Dennis Dunaway Project (September 2006). In vintage style dark side music, check out the song "Kandahar". I still love watching a good live Alice Cooper performance of the song "Billion Dollar Babies".