Glen Sobel’s 2015 Green Snakeskin Mapex Kit Virtually any musician can tell you about the early influences they idolized, imitated, and obsessed about. The names change, but the story is usually pretty much the same: You listened to their recordings until you wore them out, your bedroom walls were covered with their posters and photos, you’d wait in line for hours to see them in person, and you’d daydream about someday doing the same thing yourself. One of my earliest rock idols is Alice Cooper. As a young teenager, songs like “I’m Eighteen” and “School’s Out” were like anthems for my generation. Alice Cooper LPs spun on my record player for months at a time. When the band came to my town, I was one of several thousand kids to stand all day in the rain to experience the massive spectacle of the Billion Dollar Babies tour. That show made […]