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Released in 1997, this is a live album, Alice's first since 1977, recorded at Sammy Hagar's club Cabo Wabo in Cabo, San Lucas, Mexico on Sunday June 2, 1996. The first Alice Cooper Cooper recording to feature Ryan Roxie, the album also features guest appearances by Slash, Rob Zombie, and Hagar himself. When released, Alice explained the decision to release a live recording after so many years was an attempt to update the fans on how he now sounded live. The album also featured one new studio recording, 'Is Anyone Home'.

June(Europe)/July(US) 1997

School's Out (Cooper, Bruce, Buxton, Dunaway, Smith) [4:24] I'm Eighteen (Cooper, Bruce, Buxton, Dunaway, Smith) [3:47] Desperado ( Cooper Bruce) [4:10] Lost In America (Cooper, Wexler, Saylor) [4:15] Teenage Lament '74 (Cooper, Smith) [3:28] I Never Cry (Cooper,Wagner, Ezrin) [3:53] Poison ( Cooper, Child, McCurry) [4:50] Welcome To My Nightmare ( Cooper, Wagner) [4:54] Only Women Bleed ( Cooper, Wagner) [6:54] Feed My Frankenstein (Cooper, Mindwarp, Coler, Richardson) [4:28] Elected (Cooper, Bruce, Buxton, Dunaway, Smith) [5:13] Is Anyone Home? - (Cooper, Wexler, Saylor) [4:12] Also: Under My Wheels (Europe Only) (Bruce, Dunaway, Ezrin) [3:28] No More Mr Nice Guy (Europe Only) (Cooper, Bruce) [3:00] Billion Dollar Babies (US Only) (Cooper, Bruce, Reggie) [3:21] Japanese Version includes all the above plus: Bed Of Nails (Cooper, Warren, Child) [3:49] Clones (We're All) (Carron) [3:00] LYRICS

Musicians

Sleeve Notes

Produced and Engineered by Thom Panunzio

Recorded at the Cabo Wabo Cantina, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico on Sunday June 2, 1996

'Is Anyone Home?' recorded at A&M studios and Phase Four recording in Tempe, AZ.

'Is Anyone Home?' Produced by Alice Cooper.

Album Cover by Hugh Syme and Dimo Safari

Live shots by Alex Solca and Matt Sherlock

The Album

'A Fistful Of Alice' was released on Guardian Records on the 16th June 1997 in the UK. However Alice was never actually signed directly to Guardian (a division of EMI), they simply licensed the album from Hollywood Records when Hollywood decided not to release it. There are promo copies of the CD around on the Guardian label though.

This live album was recorded on 2nd June 1996 at the Cabo Wabo Club in Mexico which is owed by Sammy Hagar (who`s a friend of Shep Gordon). Alice came up with the title. The working title which was announced in some places was 'Viva Alice'.

'How You Gonna see Me Now' was rehearsed for the Cabo show but didn`t make the final setlist.

Joey Ramone, Joe Satriani and Steve Vai originally agreed to appear in addition to the three guests actually on the CD, but in the end didn't make it to the show.

For those to whom Spanish forms an impenetrable barrier, the 'radio announcer' intro to 'Is Anyone Home' goes like this:

"Buenas noches, amigos! Este es Loco Zorro en Radio Cabo Guabo* y ahora, aqui esta algo de Alice Cooper ~se nuevo cancion: Is Anyone Home?"

Which translates to:

"...Good evening, friends! This is Crazy Fox at Radio Cabo Wabo and now, here's something from Alice Cooper, his new song: "Is Anyone Home?"

(*note: there's no W in Spanish).

Known Releases

The Tour - 'A Fistful Of Alice' aka 'School's Out For Summer 1997' Tour

In Europe, the tour was billed as the 'School's Out For Summer '97' tour. The European leg was basically the same as the previous summers' US tour with 'Halo Of Flies' added to the set. The US tour became the 'Rock and Roll Carnival' Tour and was a different show which included some different songs and totally different staging which included clowns and illusions.

European Setlist:

The order of the songs changed around during the tour. Full setlists can be found here.

The Show

The 'Schools Out' tour featured a set made up to look like an ally with trash cans and a backdrop painting of a fence with graffitti on it. The show was light on theatrics generally although there were a couple of set pieces in the second half. 'Cleansed By Fire' and 'Nothings Free' featured Alice as the showman from 'The Last Tempation' , 'Gutter Cats' had the streetfight with the band playing Alice's gang and stage hands playing the bad guys. Alice has a knife fight with one of the bad guys, evenually pulling off a wig to reveal a girl who stabs him. He`s then strapped into the straight jacket for 'Ballad Of Dwight Fry' and a rough version of the classic makeup is applied by doctors (he hasn`t used the make-up before this point).
Obviously Alice escapes from the jacket and into School's out in the normal fashion (balloons etc). 'Elected' featured guys in US president masks arriving onstage with lots of fake dollar bills. They start arguing and fighting amongst themselves before letting off confetti bombs at the close of the show.