Toronto Rock N' Roll Revival 1969, Volume IV
This album has so many lives ever since 1982 when it first came out as “The Toronto Rock n’ Roll Revival 1969, Volume IV.”

Some other titles you may see this under such as “Freak Out,” “Science Fiction,” “Snorting Anthrax,” “Slack Alice Live in Toronto 1969,” “Painting A Picture,” and many more. I’m sure we’ll see new titles with each passing year. This is due to it not being an official Alice Cooper release.

Recorded at an outdoor festival in Toronto, Canada, this show included such acts as Lennon and Yoko Ono, The Doors, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Bo Diddley and Gene Vincent (which the Alice Cooper Band backed) to name a few.

Depending on which CD you buy the tracks may switch around and the songs have the incorrect titles. On the "Group Instrumental" track which is listed different on these albums is actually part of “Lie Down & Die, Goodbye” that appears on their Easy Action album.
Same goes for “I’ve Written Home To Mother” which is also part of “Lie Down & Die, Goodbye.”
“Painting A Picture” is “No Longer Umpire” from Pretties For You album.
“Freak Out Song” is “Don’t Blow Your Mind” from their Spiders years.
“Science Fiction” is “Fields of Regret” from Pretties For You album.
“Nobody Likes Me” is the only correct title which is the first of this release track until another live recording later appears on Whiskey A Go Go 1969 album released in 1992. A demo of this song appears on "The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper" Boxed set released in 1999.

The 2 non-Alice Cooper tracks that come in debate among Alice fans are “Ain’t That Just Like A Woman” and ‘Going To The River” appear on these recordings. It all depends on who you listen too or what story you heard first. Some say it was The Alice Cooper Group being the backing band for Gene Vincent, which is true they back Gene Vincent but not sure these are Gene Vincent songs. Another is the 2 tracks are by Ronnie Hawkins that just happen to fill up the space of the album. Members from Ronnie Hawkin’s fan club believe it to be Hawkins himself. As it was stated in Dale Sherman’s book “The Illustrated Collector’s Guide To Alice Cooper”.

So as for the actual live Alice recordings they are very interesting to hear. It’s listening to the original band perform which I never had the pleasure to see live. I like the version of “Science Fiction” aka “Fields of Regret” which comes across very Pink Floyd.

“Nobody Likes Me” was supposedly written after being booed off the stage in Chandler, Az.

Nobody likes me it’s all my fault
nobody likes me, nobody likes me

It’s worth getting this album since you can find it for just a few bucks. Just to hear them live.

Artwork: varies depending on which CD you purchase.
If you have a choice I suggest to find “Slack Alice, Live in Toronto 1969” which has some cool pics of the band. Also it includes some liner notes by a Michael Heatley (whoever he is) gives some insight to the Toronto Revival concert. This is put together very well compared to the others that are just a picture of Alice from later dates like in 1980 or 1990’s
with no other info on the recording.