Rob Halford could easily be the president of Alice Cooper’s fan club. Or at least one of its most enthusiastic members.

The Judas Priest frontman first met the Detroit-born shock rocker when they co-headlined the Operation Rock N’ Roll tour in 1991, accompanied by Motorhead, Dangerous Toys and Metal Church. “It was kind of a financial disaster on all fronts,” recalls Halford, 74, because there was a war kicking up somewhere in the Middle East, so there was a lot of nervousness — not only in America, but (in) the rest of the world — of people putting their money down for a ticket.

“And most of the bands, including Priest and Alice, had done tours quite recently. So it was risky.”

But the two — who play together again on Thursday, Oct. 2 at the Pine Knob Music Theatre, the venue’s final s

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