You can't be much of a rockstar at 76 years old. Alice Cooper used to be a rockstar of epic proportions, a mythical figure in music who tore the stage up at concerts. It would be a strange sight not to at least see him with some sort of brew in hand. The same goes for drug use. To truly play rock 'n' roll, you gotta know what it all feels like. But with age, priorities change and Alice Cooper explains that he's more of a pharmacy's best friend nowadays.
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Recently, Alice sat down with PEOPLE Magazine for an interview. There, he emphasizes that he doesn't do all the crazy things that he used to do with drugs and alcohol. However, he does admit that he's not fully off the good drugs. It's just a little different than your usual good ol' time. "The drugs backstage are still there — except they're Bengay, Advil, Tylenol. All the rockstar drugs are now at Walgreens," Cooper jokes.
Alice Cooper Keeps His Drug Use Solely Prescription and Doesn't Drink Anymore
This lighthearted talk on drugs all comes in promotion of Alice Cooper's non alcoholic beverage. It's essentially a maple forward old-fashioned cocktail that awaken the same feelings but without all the guilt. It allows him to subvert the system and still socially drink with all of his friends. "I like the idea of actually outwitting whiskey, because it had a hold on me for quite a long time," Cooper says.
"I went, 'Guys, It's different with you. You guys can have a drink, two drinks, and then leave it. When I was drinking, I had to have another one and another one and another one and another one.' If you're in my situation, I can't have any alcohol," Alice continues.
After 42 years sober, Cooper admits that he didn't want to end up like all of his artist friends who struggled with addiction just like he did. "Party like a rock star, that was always the phrase," Alice adds. "We all went through that. All of my friends died at 27. You know, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin— I used to sit and drink with them and get high with them."
