Johnny Depp vows to do some damage at Grammys
With rock stars Joe Perry and Alice Cooper, plan on some head- banging
Even Johnny Depp, who has created many odd visions over the years, believes that people tuning into the Grammy Awards on Monday night will be struck by a highly unusual sight.
Depp himself with an electric guitar, taking the stage with rock legends Alice Cooper and Joe Perry.
Do not adjust the television, folks. This is the rock supergroup, The Hollywood Vampires.
“If I saw these guys coming out with myself, I too would think this is kind of a weird spectacle, initially,” Depp, 52, says with a grin, sitting with his bandmates before jamming at a rehearsal. “There will be some people saying, ‘ Let’s see this Hollywoodguy, actor- guy play guitar.’ ”
“But hopefully what will happen is that the song will kick in and people are going to feel their wigs starting to split,” he adds.
The band’s journey began in 2011, when Cooper and Depp performed an impromptu gig of cover songs while shooting the vampire comedy- drama Dark Shadows. The now- sober Cooper filled Depp in about his Hollywood Vampires club, a group of rockers including Keith Moon and John Lennon who partied at Los Angeles’ Rainbow Room starting in the 1970s.
Depp, Cooper and Perry formed the group after a jam session at Depp’s house and put out their first album, Hollywood Vampires, on Sept. 11, featuring cover songs honoring rockers who had passed on. The Grammy appearance will feature a new song, As Bad As I Am, with lyrics inspired by Depp’s stepfather’s drinking toast.
“This is breaking the rules of the Grammys,” Perry says. “You have to have something on the radio, you have to be a known band. That they will let us be on the show and play one of our songs no one has never heard. I’m still shaking my head going, is this really going to happen?”
Do not adjust the television, folks. This is a rock supergroup, The Hollywood Vampires.