"He walks in the door, and says, 'Hang up the bag, throw some water on it.' I sprayed some water on it so you saw droplets on the bag, and he just wrote 'SLIPPERY WHEN WET.' And he walked out! He didn't even stick around for the Polaroid. Just have a black plastic bag there for me," he said. "I got a call from Jon saying, 'I'm coming over to your studio, and we're going to do a new cover. Weiss did a third shoot, this one of a garbage bag. That artwork was ready to go, but Bon Jovi's record company nixed it when retailers told them they might not stock it because of the cover. With the new title Slippery When Wet, Weiss did a new photo shoot at Bradley Beach in New Jersey with Angela Chidnese, a girl they found nearby, as the cover girl. "They needed a stronger image, so another photo was taken of a single lady wearing a cut-up shirt doused in water with the album title on it," Weiss told Songfacts. Photographer Mark Weiss did photo shoot with the band dressed in Old West garb, but it looked ridiculous - their '80s hair belied the look. The album was going to be titled Wanted in homage to this song, and cover was set to have a cowboy theme. That taught me a lesson to go with your instincts and not necessarily the advice you get." Said Morris: "I learnt to my cost as I watched the Bon Jovi video that what they wanted was something a bit more like Jon had originally discussed. Unfortunately, Bon Jovi's label convinced Morris that the band was looking for a more jovial video with the band larking about, and that's the treatment he submitted, which was rejected. "He said, 'We've got a song called 'Wanted' on our album, and that's going to be how we do the video: We're going to do it in slow motion, we're going to show how rock and roll is as exciting as it's exhausting,'" Morris said. That video was directed by Nick Morris, who told us that Jon Bon Jovi asked him to submit a treatment for the "Wanted Dead Or Alive" video. With lots of sweaty, slow motion shots showing the band laying it out there for the fans, the video's forebear was Paul Young's " Everytime You Go Away," which had a similar look and theme. Shot in black-and-white (they didn't have color TV in the Old West), the band is shown not just performing, but going through the process of traveling from city to city. The video was directed by Wayne Isham, who did most of the band's early videos.
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