Humanary Stew: A Tribute To Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper (Tribute), Various Artists - Rock - Metal

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 11, 1999)
• Original Release Date: February 23, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cleopatra
• ASIN: B00000GWZ1
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #204,175 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Alice Cooper terrorized parents across America long before Marilyn Manson was out of his dirty diapers. On this album, compiled by former Meat Loaf sideman and one-time Cooper touring guitarist Bob Kulick, members of metal's biggest bands pay tribute to the artist formerly known as Vincent Furnier. New life is breathed into Cooper's classic tunes as hardheads such as Alice in Chains ' Mike Inez, the Who's Roger Daltry, Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson, and Slash rework (and add their own distinctive licks to) "No More Mr. Nice Guy," "Billion Dollar Babies," and the anthem for graduating seniors everywhere, "Schools Out." The most unexpected contribution, however, comes from former Deep Purple bassist Glen Hughes, who after spending most of the '90s off the radar screen, wrings out a wickedly dramatic version of "Only Women Bleed," Cooper's dark paean to feminism. --Jaan Uhulzski

Product Description
1999 tribute to the original shock-rocker. Includes appearances by Roger Daltrey (The Who), Slash (Guns 'N' Roses), Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden), John Norum (Europe), Don Dokken, Vince Neil (Motley Crue), Dee Snider (Twisted Sister), Steve Jones (Sex Pistols), Joe Elliot (Def Leppard)and many more. 11 tracks, including 'School's Out', 'Only Women Bleed', 'No More Mr. Nice Guy', 'Eighteen' and 'Elected'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you want covers of Alices stuff, Buy It, June 8, 1999

By A Customer

Here's a more complete list of who is on the album and where they come from. All the songs are good versions and stick so close to Alices originals that uniformed listeners may ealily mistake them for Alice (except for Elected, but hey, it's Steve Jones).

Joe Elliott - Def Leopard / Phil Collen - Def Leopard / Bob Kulick - Meat Loaf, Queen / Pat Torpey - David Lee Roth Band / Clarence Clemons - E Street Band

Dave Mustaine - Megadeth / Marty Friedman - Megadeth / Bob Daisley - Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Uriah Heep / Eric Singer - Kiss

Roger Daltrey - The Who / Slash - GnR / Mike Inez - Alice In Chains / Carmine Appice - Vanilla Fudge

Ronnie James Dio - Dio, Black Sabbath / Steve Lukather - Toto / Phil Soussan - Ozzy Osbourne, Vince Neil, Billy Idol / Randy Castillo - Ozzy Osbourne

Vince Neil - Motley Crue / Mick Mars - Motley Crue / Billy Sheehan - David Lee Roth Band / Simon Phillips - Toto, Mick Jagger

Bruce Dickinson - Iron Maiden / Adrian Smith - Iron Maiden / Tony Franklin - The Firm / Tommy Aldridge - Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake

Dee Snider - Twisted Sister / Zakk Wylde - Ozzy Osbourne / Rudy Sarzo - Quiet Riot / Frankie Banali - Quiet Riot

Phil Lewis - La Guns / George Lynch - Dokken / Stu Hamm - Steve Vai, Joe Satriani / Vinnie Colaiuta - Frank Zappa / Derek Sherinian - Alice Cooper

Glenn Hughs - Deep Purple / Don Dokken - Dokken / John Norum - Dokken / Tim Bogert - Vanilla Fudge, Beck

Steve Jones - Sex Pistols / Duff McKagen - GnR / Matt Sorum - GnR

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Alice Cooper Rules and so does this tribute, November 26, 1999

By	"metalbeast" (Nottingham, Nottinghamshire England) - See all my reviews

This is a very good album. The songs are all very good musically and there are some amazing musicians on this album. All on one CD you've got guitarists like Slash, Mick Mars and Marty Friedman, you've got Ronnie James Dio and Bruce Dickinson on vocals and the list goes on. In my view the highlights are Schools out (With Dave Mustaine and Marty Friedman from Megadeth), Cold Ethyl(With Vince Niel and Mick Mars from Motley Crue) and Go to Hell (With shock rock deity Dee Snider and Ex-Ozzy guitar whizz/beer monster Zakk Wylde). All the songs on this album are very well performed, this is the sort of album you can listen to all the way through without being tempted to hit that skip track button.

I bought this album as a birthday present for my dad (a big Alice Cooper fan) and he liked it a lot too. I have listened to it a few times and might just have to buy my own copy.

The only dissappointment for me is that many of the great musicians that collaborated with Alice on 'Trash' and 'Hey Stoopid' did not appear on this album. For example: Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Ozzy, Joe Perry, Steve Tyler, Zodiac Mindwarp (They wrote 'feed my frankenstein'), Richie Sambora and Jon Bon Jovi. Had these superstars contributed as well then this great album could have been even greater. I am not too dissappointed that songs off hey stoopid and trash were not covered because those songs already have lots of guest stars on them, and are just about as good as tock music gets . However I do feel that if someone did decide to do a tribute to Alice's eighties albums then it would be pretty awesome, just so long as the quality of musicians remained constant and the artists who appeared on the original tracks only played on tracks that they did not originally perform.

This is a great tribute to early Alice, Buy it!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 'Humanary Stew:A Tribute To Alice Cooper'-Variuos Artists', June 12, 2005

By	Mike Reed (USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Another decent tribute CD put out on the Cleopatra label.Not great,but okay.Worth pulling out for a listen now and then.Many well established artists lend their time and effort for the making of this disc.A complete different line-up on each of the eleven tracks.Cuts I enjoyed the most were "No More Mr.Nice Guy" by Roger Daltrey,"Welcome To My Nightmare" by Ronnie James Dio,"Billion Dollar Babies" by L.A.Gun's Phil Lewis and "Elected" by Sex Pistol's guitarist Steve Jones.Believe there are a couple of other Cooper tribute CD's out there.