Alice Cooper has confessed he hid away at a secret location whenever The Who drummer and rowdy rocker Keith Moon Keith was in the same city, because the singer couldn't handle how hard the drummer partied."There was only one rule at our club. Out-drink the other members and be the last man standing - which wasn't easy with Keith Moon around. (...) When you party with Keith your body really knows about it - one time he stayed with me for a week, and I literally wasn't allowed to sleep for seven days. Keith was like a battery that never ran out. It got to the stage with Keith where I'd hear he was in town and hide somewhere because I couldn't face another bender."
Alice Cooper feels lucky that he saw the damage all his partying was doing to his body and eventually quit, tackling his alcoholism in 1979 by stopping drinking and taking up golf:
"I was trying to keep up with people like Jim Morrison, who was like a professional drinker, along with Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, and I suddenly realised that each one of them collapsed and went down at 27. Your body just cannot keep up with that lifestyle. Those of us who survived were the slightly younger generation, who were lucky enough to work out what was going on. People like me and Steven Tyler from Aerosmith who are still working now, because we stopped just in time."
