Watch: ROB HALFORD, ALICE COOPER And SCOTT STAPP Perform At ‘CoopStock 2’ In Mesa

Alice Cooper, Rob Halford (JUDAS PRIEST) and Scott Stapp (CREED) are among the many artists who carried out final evening (Saturday, April 30) at CoopStock 2 on at Las Sendas Golf Membership in Mesa, Arizona. The night’s festivities comprised a silent public sale, meals vehicles, and dwell movie star leisure, together with appearances by Larry The Cable Man, Ed Roland of COLLECTIVE SOUL, Mike Mills of R.E.M., Danny Seraphine of CHICAGO, the comedy and music of Gary Mule Deer, SIXWIRE and Adrian Younger of NO DOUBT. Proceeds from the live performance will profit Alice Cooper’s Strong Rock Teen Facilities in Mesa and Phoenix.

The Phoenix location of Alice Cooper’s The Rock Teen Heart was inbuilt partnership with Genesis Church and Cooper‘s Strong Rock Basis. The 22,000-square-foot teen heart, which opened in 2012, was meant to supply teenagers an outlet for his or her creativity and get them off the streets.

A yr in the past, the Mesa location of Alice Cooper’s The Rock Teen Heart opened, showcasing greater than 11,000 sq. ft of house in partnership with Mesa Public Colleges.

“Each child out right here,” Alice mentioned, “has bought expertise. Someplace in you, there’s a expertise that you just need to get out. We invite you to come back in and discover your expertise. It may not be music. It may be artwork. It may be dance. No matter it’s, you’ll be able to uncover it at Alice Cooper’s Strong Rock Teen Facilities.”

Requested in a brand new interview with Enterprise Jet Traveler what prompted him to begin his nonprofit, the Strong Rock Basis, in 1995, Alice mentioned: “I noticed a really awkward drug deal go down between two 16-year-old children, and it got here to me: How does that child not know he could possibly be one of the best guitar participant on the town? As a result of he by no means picked up a guitar. The opposite child could possibly be one of the best drummer. Strong Rock supplies these children a spot to alter their life. Certainly one of our first success tales was Jordin Sparks, who gained ‘American Idol’. She began with us when she was 14. It simply reveals the opposite children you can begin from nothing and change into one thing actually essential.”