Alice Cooper was joined by his wife, Sheryl, and daughter, Sonora, while performing with Mick Fleetwood at the grand opening of Mala Wailea recently. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo

Tired of hearing rigidly confined playlists on corporate radio stations, rock legend Alice Cooper has been broadcasting a more free-form approach on his nationally syndicated show “Nights With Alice Cooper.” Heard in the islands on Honolulu’s classic rock station KPOI, Alice broadcasts five hours a night, six nights week, playing whatever he likes, peppering his shows with odd facts and anecdotes about the numerous rock stars he’s hung with. Tunes by popular bands from the Who and Pink Floyd to Slade are interspersed with segments highlighting the Best Band You’ve Never Heard, such as obscure ’70s Welsh rockers Man, and the “God of Hellfire” Arthur Brown. “I had just finished seven months on the road and Dick Clark’s company asked if I had a radio show what would it be?” Alice explains his show’s genesis. “I said for one thing, it would probably be a nod to’70s free-form FM radio. That means I would play not just ACDC and Zeppelin, I would play the Yardbirds and Them and the Petty