He’s an Alice Cooper fan, and you can put that in ink

Jeremy Caughey is a huge Alice Cooper fan.

His Boardman home has two full rooms filled with nothing but memorabilia of the rock star.

There are vinyl albums (including a Japanese version of “Muscle of Love”], posters, buttons, sheet music, action figures, lunch boxes, trading cards, autographs, magazine clippings, mannequins, teddy bears and just about anything that can be imprinted, from shot glasses to golf balls to poker chips.

Autographs adorn album sleeves and other items. He even has the original handwritten lyric sheet for the song “Freedom,” torn from a notebook. It’s prominently displayed inside a glass-covered wall mounting.

Caughey is more than just a fan. As his business card notes, he’s a collector of all things Cooper — who, incidentally, was nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last week. Caughey said he’ll offer a loan of his collection to the museum if it decides to put together an exhibition.

When I visited Caughey last week, he answered the door wearing a “Love It to Death” T-shirt, commemorating Cooper’s 1971 album. As he showed off his collection, he opened a closet to reveal a rack of at least a hundred concert T-shirts. “I will buy two of the same shirt,” he said. “One to wear and one to save.”

The 37-year-old tattoo artist — he works at Artistic Dermagraphics in Boardman — has met Cooper about 30 or 40 times over the years and has seen him in concert more than a hundred times throughout the country.

Caughey’s first Cooper concert was a 1986 show in Pittsburgh. The first time he met his idol came in 2000. “I had met [Cooper’s] assistant at a concert once, and he kept seeing me at the shows,” said Caughey. “At one concert, in Toledo, the assistant tapped me on the shoulder and gave me a backstage pass.”

Of course, he’ll be at Saturday’s concert at Covelli Centre in Youngstown — and he also has a backstage pass.

(Trivia question: Has Alice Cooper ever played Youngstown before? Yes, on July 16, 2003, at the old B & B Backstage amphitheater in Boardman).

Caughey has tattoos all over his body, but one of his favorites is a baby’s head logo from the “Billion Dollar Babies” album. He showed it to Cooper once after a concert years ago and got a typically funny Cooper response: “He said, ‘Now I feel bad because I don’t have a tattoo of you,’” said Caughey.

The memorabilia collection keeps growing — and the Internet makes it all the easier. His customers at Artistic Dermagraphics have even taken to buying items for him if they spot a good piece.

A native of Bessemer, Pa., Caughey got hooked on Cooper in 1986 when he was 12. He loved Halloween and rock ’n’ roll. Alice Cooper, of course, embodied both. The rocker was the first to merge horror and theatricalism into his stage show — guillotines and lots of blood — and for the young Caughey, it proved an irresistible draw.

Caughey said he still loves Halloween and rock ’n’ roll. And his appreciation of Alice Cooper has only grown over the years.