Double bills of Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper, Train and REO Speedwagon coming this summer

Ross Raihala, Pioneer Press
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Double bills featuring Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper and Train and REO Speedwagon will play St. Paul and Somerset, Wis., this summer.

Zombie and Cooper — with openers Ministry and Filter — hit Xcel Energy Center on Aug. 25, while Train and REO Speedwagon pull into Somerset Amphitheater on July 8. Tickets for both shows go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. Neither the venue nor the promoter announced ticket prices and Citi cardholders have access to presales.

Rob Zombie led the shock rock band White Zombie in the ’90s and scored hits with “More Human than Human,” “Thunder Kiss ’65” and “Black Sunshine.” He went solo with 1998’s triple-platinum album “Hellbilly Deluxe” and went on to hit rock radio with a series of singles including “Dragula,” “Living Dead Girl,” “Feel So Numb” and “We’re an American Band.”

Zombie has also established himself as a horror filmmaker with a resume that includes “House of 1000 Corpses,” “The Devil’s Rejects” and “The Lords of Salem” along with two installments of his take on “Halloween.”

Zombie has long claimed Alice Cooper as a crucial inspiration and he first worked with the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer on the Grammy-nominated 1996 song “Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn).” Born Vincent Damon Furnier in Detroit, Cooper pioneered the shock rock genre with concerts filled with pyrotechnics, guillotines, electric chairs and fake blood.

Cooper led the band that shared his name in the early ’70s and found success with the singles “I’m Eighteen,” “School’s Out,” “No More Mr. Nice Guy” and “Elected.” He went solo with 1975’s “Welcome to My Nightmare” and has continued to tour and record in the decades that followed. Last summer, he released his 22nd solo album, 29th overall, “Road.”

Train and REO Speedwagon

Led by Pat Monahan, light rockers Train emerged in 1998 with “Meet Virginia” and scored a worldwide hit three years later with “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me).” They repeated that success with 2009’s “Hey, Soul Sister” and 2012’s “Drive By.”

REO Speedwagon made their debut with their self-titled debut in 1971, but didn’t break through until nearly a decade later with the power ballad “Keep on Loving You.” They went on to chart more than a dozen Top 40 hits, including “Take It on the Run,” “Keep the Fire Burnin’” and “Can’t Fight This Feeling.”

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