even though his leg bothered him so much gene vincent still preformed....as seen here
http://youtube.com/watch?v=az9P3CIqYaw

looking better than the previous vid gene doing blue jean bop
http://youtube.com/watch_fulls.....20Vincent-RAI%201960

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/lennon/multimedia/vincent.html
it's said that gene got inspiration from little lu lu for be bop a lula

Here's three versions of how "Be Bop A Lula" came to be. The song was supposedly based on a comic strip heroine called Little Lulu and Gene said he co-wrote it with fellow hospital patient Donald Graves. Then Sheriff Tex Davis, a local DJ, saw some potential in Gene and the weird song he sang and decided cut himself into the writing credits by buying Graves' rights to it for a mere $25. But, another story ignores Donald Graves completely and claims Gene and Sheriff Tex wrote the song together one afternoon while listening to a 78-prm recording of "You Can Bring Pearl with the Turn-Up Nose, But Don't Bring Lulu." A third version has Graves writing the song entirely on his own and selling to Gene for $50. The real story still remains in question. It is a fact, though, that Sherriff Tex Davis did sign a bewildered Gene Vincent to a management deal and later did co-write songs with Gene.

Other facts:
Gene's swaggering onstage presence was due to his leg brace
Recorded some sessions with Eddie Cochran in 1957; was in the car during Eddie's fatal crash
The band was arrested in 1958 in connection with a nearby murder, but cleared
Was close friends with the Doors' Jim Morrison; the band was slated to back him up at a revival show in '69 but Alice Cooper's band filled in instead
After hearing "Be-Bop-A-Lula," Elvis' bassist, Bill Black, accused the King of making the record in secret

interesting morrison connection...http://www.electricscotland.com/music/genevincent/

* The Toronto Rock & Roll Revival Festival in September 1969 was the source of all the Alice Cooper chicken rumours. The Alice Cooper Group also backed legend Gene Vincent at this show (Alice himself played harmonica on stage). Gene Vincent talked afterwards about how he liked this new band called Alice Cooper. He invited them to back him up in the recording studio for a couple of demos, and this was the connection that explains the dedication to Gene Vincent on the "Return of the Spiders" on the Easy Action album the following year. However, also at the Festival, Alice and his band did a set themselves. Alice's version of the infamous "chicken" incident was that someone from the audience threw a chicken onstage and Alice, thinking chickens could fly, threw it up over the audience and watched it fall into the crowd at which point the audience tore it apart. The next day, the headlines read: "Alice bites head off chicken and drinks blood". Frank Zappa told Alice not to deny the story because he said you couldn't buy that type of publicity.
did you know zappa signed cooper??....

the j files of alice cooper
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/music_specials/s1402003.htm

Quoted from pc31

the j files of alice cooper
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/music_specials/s1402003.htm

Holy mess, I had no idea he opened for Gene in 69'. Did you ever hear that before reading it?

no i didn't know...i was researching the festival and its' preformers...and came across alice at the festival...

I wonder if Gene, Jim and Vincent were ever all in one room?

they could have been during that festival because jim and gene became buddies....from what the one link contends...i never really pictured gene as that type of rocker myself...did alice play rockabilly????..or when he did stuff with a group called the outlaws...he was more a crooner or rockabilly type player...countryfied like...was the outlaw group the same one that did green grass and high tides forever??????anyone know?
when he was over seas again i guess he used sounds incorporated...still another choice that doesn't make sense for his genre of music....where were his peers?????i know eddie died but why would noone want to play with gene except for brits and rock and rollers????i mean electric funking guitars....not what gene was used too....why did he and carl perkins only record together a single time...i mean besides having four wives he play as well as some of the others...why didn't americans get it tho...maybe you brits can enlighten me.....what appealed to you overlanders about gene vincent??

gene appeared on an early dick clark show.....

cool gene link here...http://www.rockabillyhall.com/GitItFrameSteve01.html
i believe he was too wild as suggested...

after 63 they don't say much there tho...