Lot’s cooking with rocker Alice Cooper, too...

When Alice Cooper and wife Cheryl asked Stevie Van Zandt to dinner (Springsteen E Street band member and Soprano’s star) they decided on Tarbells.

“I thought since Steve played an Italian on the Sopranos he just had to try the Italian meatballs at Tarbells. He loved it. And if the Sopranos don’t now good meatballs – who does?”

By the way… Peter Marshall former host of Hollywood Squares dug up this old photo for me of Alice on Hollywood Squares taken sometime in the 70’s.

And I interrupted Live Nation king Danny Zelisko’s vacation in Hawaii yesterday-(what a sport) and asked him if he could find the pic on his cell phone he recently took of Alice with Santana when they played together in Wailea with band members from Iron Maiden, Nickelback, Mick Fleetwood Blues Band and Michael Bolton was also there singing. ”Carlos just announced he is going to do extended residency performances in Vegas,” Danny reminded me. Check out the pic.

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