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I’m so blessed from a teenage kid being able to tour with Joan Jett, Dio, Motorhead and get to know these people and watch how they do what they do, and also blessed with knowing how to take it off. “I was listening to the tracks,” Cooper says, “and I’m going, ‘That’s it, we hit it.' I needed that character to click into the music. They recently recorded their third studio release, 'We Are,' which Garric says should be out by the first week in April. It's just always growing, ever-changing.' You’ll hear a lot more of her range on the new record.

She can have the sultry smoky voice for 'Feed My Frankenstein' (their brooding reinvention of an Alice Cooper song) or this over-the-top CBGB punk-rock approach. And it turned out to be just about anything. 'It was just finding out what she was comfortable doing. And as it went on, it got more and more twisted and strange.' 'I learned how to put that out there and Chuck gave me a platform to do it. 'I feel like it’s something you can’t teach but I got it from my dad,' she says. Part of what those people are responding to is the real sense of danger on stage. And people were responding to it better.' It started to show in pictures and videos. 'And then something started to shift and I became this creature. ”My first couple years of Beasto, I was Calico doing Beasto Blanco,' she says. Sometimes I joke and say Thelma & Louise but he gets mad.'Īs her Beasto character developed, she began to understand a little more of how the Alice Cooper she calls 'Dad' became the Alice Cooper that struck fear in the hearts of the '70s PTA. We really have become this dangerous dynamic duo, like Mickey and Mallory. 'And then the next record, I was having my own songs. 'So as the record kept going, he had me sing more and more and more until I was all over it,' she says. Six years into Beasto Blanco, they're about to make their first appearance on a bill with Alice Cooper, at his annual Christmas Pudding concert, which benefits his Solid Rock Foundation.

And adding Calico was exactly what we needed to make that happen.' But it had to be something a little bit different than what those bands were doing. You could name 1,000 bands that have influenced Beasto Blanco.

I wanted it to have a real edge and curves and sometimes destinations that we didn’t even know where it was gonna go and neither did the audience.'īy the time they started touring, Cooper says, 'I saw people reacting and I thought, 'Ahh, this is why people do it.'”Īnd as Garric says, 'We're in this for the show. 'I didn’t want it to be real thought-out and perfect. 'There was something about Beasto Blanco that I wanted it to have this wild unpredictability about it,' Garric says. She’s one of those people, as soon as you give her an idea, she just runs with it and makes into her own, you know?'īy the end of 2012, they had an album out, 'Live Fast Die Loud.' She just needed to have the material and the concept put in front of her and she could just take it from there. 'Listen, Calico to me is the definition of rock and roll,' says Garric.