Roberts was so impresed that he decided to add the machine-gun guitar to his rig for The Nightmare Returns, Cooper's 1986–'87 tour and one of the most successful road shows of the late 1980s.

The original Alice Cooper band have reunited for their first album in more than 50 years. This is how it happened ...

We all have been talking back and forth, and it’s been very good." You can read the full interview with VWMusic here, and you can catch Kane Roberts out of the road with Alice Cooper this fall.

Alice Cooper and Roberts perform onstage the Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul, Minnesota, February 7, 1987. | Credit: Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images ...

Cooper, aided and abetted by guitarist Kane Roberts and bassist Kip Winger, created the kind of music you'd hear blaring away on the high school bully's boombox in a schlocky '80s movie.

Cooper, aided and abetted by guitarist Kane Roberts and bassist Kip Winger, created the kind of music you'd hear blaring away on the high school bully's boombox in a schlocky '80s movie.

Kane gets Wayne and Garth all-access passes to Alice Cooper’s show in Milwaukee. The duo ventures backstage after the concert to meet the man himself as he hangs with his bandmates and fans in ...