Hey Stoopid

Following up the worldwide success of 'Trash' was never going to be easy and while 'Hey Stoopid' didn't manage to to hit those heights it's by far the better album. While the Desmond Child influence is still on show songs like 'Dangerous Tonight', 'Little By Little' and 'Die For You' are better then almost anything on 'Trash' and 'Might As Well Be On Mars' or 'Wind Up Toy' are up there as classics in their own right. Sometimes overlooked maybe because the precceding album was so huge, 'Hey Stoopid' could be said to be the one that SHOULD have been the big hit.

July 1991

Hey Stoopid (Cooper, Ponti, Pepe, Pfeifer) [4:34]
Love's a Loaded Gun (Cooper, Ponti, Pepe) [4:11]
Snakebite (Cooper, Ponti, Pepe, Pfeifer, Bulen, Keeling) [4:33]
Burning Our Bed (Cooper, Pitrelli, Pfeifer, West) [4:34]
Dangerous Tonight (Cooper, Child) [4:41]
Might As Well Be on Mars (Cooper, Wagner, Child) [7:09]
Feed My Frankenstein (Zodiac Mindwarp, Cooper, Coler, Richardson) [4:44]
Hurricane Years (Cooper, Ponti, Pepe, Pfeifer) [3:58]
Little by Little (Cooper, Ponti, Pepe, Pfeifer) [4:35]
Die for You (Cooper, Six, Mars, Vallance) [4:16]
Dirty Dreams (Cooper, Vallance, Pfeifer) [3:29]
Wind-Up Toy (Cooper, Ponti, Pepe, Pfeifer) [5:27]

LYRICS

Musicians

Slash - Guitars (1)
Joe Satriani - Guitars (1,4,7,9,12), Backing Vocals (1)
Stef Burns - Guitars (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12)
Steve Vai - Guitars (7)
Vinnie Moore - Guitar (8,11)
Mick Mars - Guitar (10)
Hugh McDonald - Bass (1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,11,12)
Nikki Sixx - Bass (7)
Mickey Curry - Drums (all)
John Webster - Keyboards (1,2,3,4,7,9,10,12), B3 Organ (5)
Steve Croes - Synclavier (1,10)
Robert Bailey - Keyboards (2,5,6,7,8,10,12)
Jai Winding - Keyboards (6)
Chris Boardman - String Arrangements (6)
Backing Vocals - Ozzy Osbourne (1), Zachary Nevel (1)

Sleeve Notes

Produced by Peter Collins

Recorded at Bearville Studios New York, The Complex Los Angeles

Mixed at A&M Studios Hollywood

Cover: Lethal Art by Mike McNeilly

Photography by Randee St. Nicholas

Executive Producer: Bob Pfeifer

The Album

Brian Nelson (Jan `96): [There was a] scrapped cover was very similar to the actual cover. It was just more graphic and hardcore with hypo needles, pills, etc.

Brian Nelson (Dec `95): Alice used real rattlesnakes for the rattle sound on "Snakebite".

'Burning Our Beds' was only ever performed on the UK show 'Aspel and Co' with a live vocal by Alice.

'Fire', a cover of the Jimi Hendrix song, was recorded during the 'Hey Stoopid' session as a B-side and eventually turned up on the 'Love's A Loaded Gun' single and later on the Box Set and Classicks compilation..

The line 'He`s such a psycho' during 'Feed My Frankenstein' is said by Horror Queen Elvira.

Stoopid News

There was a promo only CD released (Epic ESK 4161) around this time called `Stoopid News` which featured Alice telling stories.

Track listing:

Rock N Roll Bat Belts Hits
Voodoo Snake Cures Headaches
She-Male Werewolf Captured Alive
Buying Goats To Watch em Faint
Poop Lady Raking It In
Bar Serves Human Blood Cocktails
Russian Men Won't Act In Porn
Wild Man Raised By Cows
Outer Space Blobs Eating Our Planes
Man Paid $3000 For Being Stinky
Father Shoot At Son Over Monoply
Single Man Collects Dirty Diapers
Woman Beats Self Senseless With Own Hand
Man Tries To Sell Senseless With Own Hand
"Hubbies Ghost Made Me Pregnant"

Known Releases

Country	Format	Number	Date	Chart	Label	Notes
USA	LP	E46786	7/91	47	Epic	Insert
USA	Tape	E46786-?	7/91	47	Epic
USA	CD	E45786-1	7/91	47	Epic
USA	CD	ESK 4085	7/91		Epic	Promo
UK	LP	46816-1	7/91	4	Epic	Insert
UK	CD	468416-2	7/91	4	Epic
UK	Tape	468416-4	7/91	4	Epic
Argentina	LP	EPIC 50012	91		Epic	Titled "Hey Estupido" Promo
Argentina	LP	EPIC 50012	91		Epic	Titled "Hey Estupido" Promo
Australia	Tape	468416-4	7/91	18	Epic
Australia	CD	468416-2	7/91	18	Epic	Some with Stickers
Australia	CD	468416-2	7/91	18	Epic	Promo
Austria	CD	468416-2	7/91		Epic
Canada	CD	EK 46786	10/91		Epic
Columbia	LP	14468416	91		?
Germany	CD	468416-2	7/91		Epic
Greek	LP	?	7/91		Epic
Korea	LP	CPL-1183	7/91		Epic	With Lyric sheet
Japan	CD	ESCA-5370	7/91		Epic	With Obi Additional track 'It Rained All Night'
Japan	CD	ESCA-5370	7/91		Epic	With Obi Additional track 'It Rained All Night' Promo
Japan	Tape	ESCA-5370	7/91		Epic	With Obi Additional track 'It Rained All Night'

The Show - 1991 - Operation Rock And Roll

Full setlists available here

Musicians:

Stef Burns - guitar

Vinnie Moore - guitar

Pete Friesen - guitar (replaces Moore after Operation Rock and Roll part of tour))

Greg Smith - bass

Eric Singer - drums

Derek Sherinian - keyboards

Setlist

Under My Wheels
Trash
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Billion Dollar Babies
Love's a Loaded Gun
Bed Of Nails
I'm Eighteen
I Love the Dead /Devil's Food / Steven / Black Widow (Instrumental)
Sick Things
Feed My Frankenstein
Cold Ethyl
Only Women Bleed
Wind Up Toy - Ballad Of Dwight Fry (Europe Only)
Poison
Snakebite (Europe Only)
Go To Hell
School's Out
Hey Stoopid
Elected

'Dirty Dreams' was also done at least once or twice on this tour (including one night at Wembley). 'He's Back' was played in Sweden only.

The 'Operation Rock And Roll' Tour was a joint headline event with metal band Judas Priest. Despite that the stage set was still pretty elaborate. The main feature was a huge skull at the back of the stage in the center. The drum and keyboard risers were seperated left and right stage with giant skeletal hands holding them as if they were the hands of the skull at the back.

The show opened with a long, chugging one chord intro to 'Under my Wheels' before Alice breaks out of the skull mouth in a cloud of smoke for the first line of the song. After that the first part of the set is played with only handheld props.

'Feed My Frankenstein' featured a large "Mad Scientist" like table on which a women was placed. The table was then covered and rose into the lighting rig before returning to earth with the women replaced by the 'Cold Ethyl' plastic doll.

Theatrically the centerpiece was 'Go To Hell'. The magic screen, last seen on the 1979 'From The Inside' tour, drops down at the back of the stage (hiding the giant skull) and Alice proceeds to jump in and out of the screen while footage of a mad scientist lab shows and he is chased by robe wearing skeletons. Eventually he tries to jump out of the screen one last time and discovers he`s trapped. The camera slowly pulls back and the audience discovers first that he`s trapped behind bars, and then that the bars are in fact the teeth on the skull. Smoke swirls and lightning flashes. Then suddenly Alice bursts out of the real on stage skull that has been revealed as the screen, showing a exact scale skull image, had slowly risen under cover of the effects. It was a stunning effect.

In Europe 'Wind Up Toy' was added to the show (now called the "'Hey Stoopid' Tour) and featured Alice in a childs play crib (covered in barbed wire) which was on wheels so he could move it around te stage. .