Chords for Alice Cooper and Joe Perry on performing with Johnny Depp
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[C] [D]
[N] You guys are used to living [E] rock star life.
Johnny has his own film [N] star life.
So what's
the audience response to him?
Is it different than you guys have ever expected?
I mean,
you know, are there different, I mean, waiting by the tour bus, waiting by the hotels, what
kind of treatment does Johnny get compared to what you guys are seeing in your life?
It's the curiosity factor.
I think people really want to see, can he really play?
And
once they see the first three songs, they go, oh, he's a guitar player.
You know, he's
Johnny Depp and yeah, he's Jack Sparrow and he's Edward Scissorhands and he's all these
guys.
But right now he's a Hollywood vampire and he's not acting.
He's just playing guitar
like he was a guitar player long before he was an actor.
You know, so these two guys,
I never see them when they're not playing guitar.
You know, I go backstage and they
always have a guitar in their hand playing something.
So, you know, Johnny, when he comes
up, he's not going up there and acting like a rock star.
He's a rock star.
No, when you go into his house, all you see is guitars.
You would think he was a musician.
You don't see anything about his movies in the house.
It's all about music.
Yeah, I've never met an actor through him except for like maybe once or twice being
on a set with him, you know, that kind of thing.
But I've never met all his friends
are musicians, you know, and that's the vibe.
And he's like truly, he is cut from the cloth.
He does have good stories though.
Well, yeah, I mean
Because we always sit around and say, hey, [F] tell us about blah, blah, blah.
And he goes,
oh man, I can't talk about that.
It's [N] another whole world.
He does open up about it.
He loves playing, man.
And that's
part of the fun of watching the audience go like from the first song to see if it's
a novelty or we just have him up there because he is Jack Sparrow.
After the third song,
you can see people accepting him.
After the third song, he's already had four solos.
You know, these guys trade off solos.
He plays one, Joe plays one, he plays one, Joe plays one back.
And, you know, I mean
it just, we don't treat him like a movie star at all.
He's a guitar player.
Nor does he want at all.
I mean, that's why he loves to
But it is funny to watch all the girls looking at this side of the stage.
I understand that.
Every once in a while I go over there just to get a little bit of it, you know, just
to get a little bask in the warmth of it, you know.
It's really a trip.
But he really is a great musician.
When I first
Very humble too.
I've been a fan of his, you know, since I ever saw his movies and all that shit.
And
I saw him play guitar in that Chocolat.
Chocolat.
And I said, man, someday if I ever meet him, I'm going to ask him to show me
how to play that because he's the real deal.
Gypsy Jazz.
Sure enough, 15 years later, I got to meet him.
And, you know, I found out the real deal.
See, with Joe and I, I don't think there's ever been a time when I didn't think that
we would play together at some point because our backgrounds are exactly the same.
We came
up at the same time.
We came up with the exact same backgrounds.
If I said to him the Animals
song Cheating, he'd go, oh yeah.
Or if he said to me Evil Hearted You, yeah, got it.
You know, those reference points are songs that we did in bars when we were 17 years
old, 16 years old.
So the reference points are really important.
And this train kept rolling.
When we said, what version are we going to do?
Joe goes,
The Yardbirds.
And I went, yeah, Yardbirds.
You know.
We all had a go at that song.
So and now the way we play it.
But again, now it sounds like the vampires.
Yeah, it's kind of our own version.
Using the format of the Yardbirds, which again was, you know, we all know the story.
We know
the story.
It goes back to the 30s.
And, you know, we're just passing it on.
But I think
that shows through.
And that's what I think is great about it too, is being in the vampires,
at least from, I don't think we've ever actually talked about it, but you get a chance to be
the rock singer that you first started to be, you know.
And you can do that, you know,
without, you know, I mean, obviously doing Alice Cooper is like, I mean, you're a pioneer
in that stuff.
But, you know, when you take one more step back and you're a garage band,
and this gives you a chance to really be the rock singer that you are.
Fun to do, Joe, Jim Morrison.
It's fun to do, you know, bands like Love.
And who else
does 7 Plus 7 is?
Not too many bands.
No.
Joe, did you ever?
No, I never did.
No, I lived at Alice.
When Alice started, just had the means, I'm not
sure if you hitchhiked out there, but you made your way to LA and got a chance to hang
with so many of those people that were like, you know, by being in Boston, we didn't, I
mean, we were fans.
We saw a lot of the bands come through, but I never got a chance to have that.
We were in that golden age.
We were in that golden age where all those bands were all
in the same place.
They were at the Landmark Hotel, or they were at Frank Zappa's house,
or they were at, you know, the Whiskey, or the thing.
And it was no problem to bump into
those guys every night.
So you got to know them, you know.
And I mean, it was really,
they invited us to open for them, the doors did, you know, which was a really cool thing
to do for us, because we were nobody.
And they said, no, you guys open for us.
And that
was an education right there, you know, watching those guys work.
And that's how we learned.
You always learn from the guys up from you, you know, coming.
But every band, that's how
every band learns.
And we were all learning then, because we were watching, I mean, we were part of this
movement that took this kind of music, which was the marching music to a whole generation.
And not only just finding our way as musicians, but finding our way as part of what was going
on in the culture in the late 60s and early 70s.
It was, everybody was pioneering.
And if you look back at those bands.
And that's why Alice, you started something that was like, no one had ever seen or heard of before.
Well, that was something that was needed.
Theatrics was needed in rock and roll.
But
when you look at what a basis for what we did, it was all based on Yardbirds, Chuck
Berry.
That was our whole foundation, was that.
And everybody listened to the Beatles
trying to write melodies like the Beatles.
It's just that how are you going to now project
it on stage?
How are you going to put it out there as your own?
You didn't want to
sound like the Beatles, but you wanted a taste of that in there.
You didn't want to sound
like [Gm] Jeff Beck, but you wanted that taste of that in there.
[A] [G] [E] [Gm]
[N] You guys are used to living [E] rock star life.
Johnny has his own film [N] star life.
So what's
the audience response to him?
Is it different than you guys have ever expected?
I mean,
you know, are there different, I mean, waiting by the tour bus, waiting by the hotels, what
kind of treatment does Johnny get compared to what you guys are seeing in your life?
It's the curiosity factor.
I think people really want to see, can he really play?
And
once they see the first three songs, they go, oh, he's a guitar player.
You know, he's
Johnny Depp and yeah, he's Jack Sparrow and he's Edward Scissorhands and he's all these
guys.
But right now he's a Hollywood vampire and he's not acting.
He's just playing guitar
like he was a guitar player long before he was an actor.
You know, so these two guys,
I never see them when they're not playing guitar.
You know, I go backstage and they
always have a guitar in their hand playing something.
So, you know, Johnny, when he comes
up, he's not going up there and acting like a rock star.
He's a rock star.
No, when you go into his house, all you see is guitars.
You would think he was a musician.
You don't see anything about his movies in the house.
It's all about music.
Yeah, I've never met an actor through him except for like maybe once or twice being
on a set with him, you know, that kind of thing.
But I've never met all his friends
are musicians, you know, and that's the vibe.
And he's like truly, he is cut from the cloth.
He does have good stories though.
Well, yeah, I mean
Because we always sit around and say, hey, [F] tell us about blah, blah, blah.
And he goes,
oh man, I can't talk about that.
It's [N] another whole world.
He does open up about it.
He loves playing, man.
And that's
part of the fun of watching the audience go like from the first song to see if it's
a novelty or we just have him up there because he is Jack Sparrow.
After the third song,
you can see people accepting him.
After the third song, he's already had four solos.
You know, these guys trade off solos.
He plays one, Joe plays one, he plays one, Joe plays one back.
And, you know, I mean
it just, we don't treat him like a movie star at all.
He's a guitar player.
Nor does he want at all.
I mean, that's why he loves to
But it is funny to watch all the girls looking at this side of the stage.
I understand that.
Every once in a while I go over there just to get a little bit of it, you know, just
to get a little bask in the warmth of it, you know.
It's really a trip.
But he really is a great musician.
When I first
Very humble too.
I've been a fan of his, you know, since I ever saw his movies and all that shit.
And
I saw him play guitar in that Chocolat.
Chocolat.
And I said, man, someday if I ever meet him, I'm going to ask him to show me
how to play that because he's the real deal.
Gypsy Jazz.
Sure enough, 15 years later, I got to meet him.
And, you know, I found out the real deal.
See, with Joe and I, I don't think there's ever been a time when I didn't think that
we would play together at some point because our backgrounds are exactly the same.
We came
up at the same time.
We came up with the exact same backgrounds.
If I said to him the Animals
song Cheating, he'd go, oh yeah.
Or if he said to me Evil Hearted You, yeah, got it.
You know, those reference points are songs that we did in bars when we were 17 years
old, 16 years old.
So the reference points are really important.
And this train kept rolling.
When we said, what version are we going to do?
Joe goes,
The Yardbirds.
And I went, yeah, Yardbirds.
You know.
We all had a go at that song.
So and now the way we play it.
But again, now it sounds like the vampires.
Yeah, it's kind of our own version.
Using the format of the Yardbirds, which again was, you know, we all know the story.
We know
the story.
It goes back to the 30s.
And, you know, we're just passing it on.
But I think
that shows through.
And that's what I think is great about it too, is being in the vampires,
at least from, I don't think we've ever actually talked about it, but you get a chance to be
the rock singer that you first started to be, you know.
And you can do that, you know,
without, you know, I mean, obviously doing Alice Cooper is like, I mean, you're a pioneer
in that stuff.
But, you know, when you take one more step back and you're a garage band,
and this gives you a chance to really be the rock singer that you are.
Fun to do, Joe, Jim Morrison.
It's fun to do, you know, bands like Love.
And who else
does 7 Plus 7 is?
Not too many bands.
No.
Joe, did you ever?
No, I never did.
No, I lived at Alice.
When Alice started, just had the means, I'm not
sure if you hitchhiked out there, but you made your way to LA and got a chance to hang
with so many of those people that were like, you know, by being in Boston, we didn't, I
mean, we were fans.
We saw a lot of the bands come through, but I never got a chance to have that.
We were in that golden age.
We were in that golden age where all those bands were all
in the same place.
They were at the Landmark Hotel, or they were at Frank Zappa's house,
or they were at, you know, the Whiskey, or the thing.
And it was no problem to bump into
those guys every night.
So you got to know them, you know.
And I mean, it was really,
they invited us to open for them, the doors did, you know, which was a really cool thing
to do for us, because we were nobody.
And they said, no, you guys open for us.
And that
was an education right there, you know, watching those guys work.
And that's how we learned.
You always learn from the guys up from you, you know, coming.
But every band, that's how
every band learns.
And we were all learning then, because we were watching, I mean, we were part of this
movement that took this kind of music, which was the marching music to a whole generation.
And not only just finding our way as musicians, but finding our way as part of what was going
on in the culture in the late 60s and early 70s.
It was, everybody was pioneering.
And if you look back at those bands.
And that's why Alice, you started something that was like, no one had ever seen or heard of before.
Well, that was something that was needed.
Theatrics was needed in rock and roll.
But
when you look at what a basis for what we did, it was all based on Yardbirds, Chuck
Berry.
That was our whole foundation, was that.
And everybody listened to the Beatles
trying to write melodies like the Beatles.
It's just that how are you going to now project
it on stage?
How are you going to put it out there as your own?
You didn't want to
sound like the Beatles, but you wanted a taste of that in there.
You didn't want to sound
like [Gm] Jeff Beck, but you wanted that taste of that in there.
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[C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ You guys are used to living [E] rock star life.
Johnny has his own film [N] star life.
So what's
the audience response to him?
Is it different than you guys have ever expected?
I mean,
you know, are there different, I mean, waiting by the tour bus, waiting by the hotels, what
kind of treatment does Johnny get compared to what you guys are seeing in your life?
It's the curiosity factor.
I think people really want to see, can he really play?
And
once they see the first three songs, they go, oh, he's a guitar player.
You know, he's
Johnny Depp and yeah, he's Jack Sparrow and he's Edward Scissorhands and he's all these
guys.
But right now he's a Hollywood vampire and he's not acting.
He's just playing guitar
like he was a guitar player long before he was an actor.
You know, so these two guys,
I never see them when they're not playing guitar.
You know, I go backstage and they
always have a guitar in their hand playing something.
So, you know, Johnny, when he comes
up, he's not going up there and acting like a rock star.
He's a rock star.
No, when you go into his house, all you see is guitars.
You would think he was a musician.
You don't see anything about his movies in the house.
It's all about music.
Yeah, I've never met an actor through him except for like maybe once or twice being
on a set with him, you know, that kind of thing.
But I've never met all his friends
are musicians, you know, and that's the vibe.
And he's like truly, he is cut from the cloth.
He does have good stories though.
Well, yeah, I mean_
Because we always sit around and say, hey, [F] tell us about blah, blah, blah.
And he goes,
oh man, I can't talk about that.
It's [N] another whole world.
He does open up about it.
He loves playing, man.
And that's
part of the fun of watching the audience go like from the first song to see if it's
a novelty or we just have him up there because he is Jack Sparrow.
After the third song,
you can see people accepting him.
After the third song, he's already had four solos.
You know, these guys trade off solos.
He plays one, Joe plays one, he plays one, Joe plays one back.
And, you know, I mean
it just, we don't treat him like a movie star at all.
He's a guitar player.
Nor does he want at all.
I mean, that's why he loves to_
But it is funny to watch all the girls looking at this side of the stage.
I understand that.
Every once in a while I go over there just to get a little bit of it, you know, just
to get a little bask in the warmth of it, you know.
_ It's really a trip.
But he really is a great musician.
When I first_
Very humble too.
I've been a fan of his, you know, since I ever saw his movies and all that shit.
And
I saw him play guitar in _ that_ Chocolat.
Chocolat.
And I said, man, someday if I ever meet him, I'm going to ask him to show me
how to play that because he's the real deal.
Gypsy Jazz.
Sure enough, 15 years later, I got to meet him.
And, you know, I found out the real deal.
See, with Joe and I, I don't think there's ever been a time when I didn't think that
we would play together at some point because our backgrounds are exactly the same.
We came
up at the same time.
We came up with the exact same backgrounds.
If I said to him the Animals
song Cheating, he'd go, oh yeah.
Or if he said to me Evil Hearted You, yeah, got it.
You know, those reference points are songs that we did in bars when we were 17 years
old, 16 years old.
So the reference points are really important.
And this train kept rolling.
When we said, what version are we going to do?
Joe goes,
The Yardbirds.
And I went, yeah, Yardbirds.
You know.
We all had a go at that song.
So and now the way we play it.
But again, now it sounds like the vampires.
Yeah, it's kind of our own version.
Using the format of the Yardbirds, which again was, you know, we all know the story.
We know
the story.
It goes back to the 30s.
And, you know, we're just passing it on.
But I think
that shows through.
And that's what I think is great about it too, is being in the vampires,
at least from, I don't think we've ever actually talked about it, but you get a chance to be
the rock singer that you first started to be, you know.
And you can do that, you know,
without, you know, I mean, obviously doing Alice Cooper is like, I mean, you're a pioneer
in that stuff.
But, you know, when you take one more step back and you're a garage band,
and this gives you a chance to really be the rock singer that you are.
Fun to do, Joe, Jim Morrison.
It's fun to do, you know, _ bands like Love.
And who else
does 7 Plus 7 is?
Not too many bands.
No.
Joe, did you ever?
_ No, I never did.
No, I lived at Alice.
When Alice started, just had the means, I'm not
sure if you hitchhiked out there, but you made your way to LA and got a chance to hang
with so many of those people that were like, you know, by being in Boston, we didn't, I
mean, we were fans.
We saw a lot of the bands come through, but I never got a chance to have that.
We were in that golden age.
We were in that golden age where all those bands were all
in the same place.
They were at the Landmark Hotel, or they were at Frank Zappa's house,
or they were at, you know, the Whiskey, or the thing.
And it was no problem to bump into
those guys every night.
So you got to know them, you know.
And I mean, it was really,
they invited us to open for them, the doors did, you know, which was a really cool thing
to do for us, because we were nobody.
And they said, no, you guys open for us.
And that
was an education right there, you know, watching those guys work.
And that's how we learned.
You always learn from the guys up from you, you know, coming.
But every band, that's how
every band learns.
And we were all learning then, because we were watching, I mean, we were part of this
movement that took this kind of music, which was the marching _ music to a whole generation.
And not only just finding our way as musicians, but finding our way as part of what was going
on in the culture in the late 60s and early 70s.
It was, everybody was pioneering.
And if you look back at those bands.
And that's why Alice, you started something that was like, no one had ever seen or heard of before.
Well, that was something that was needed.
Theatrics was needed in rock and roll.
But
when you look at what a basis for what we did, it was all based on Yardbirds, Chuck
Berry.
That was our whole foundation, was that.
And everybody listened to the Beatles
trying to write melodies like the Beatles.
It's just that how are you going to now project
it on stage?
How are you going to put it out there as your own?
You didn't want to
sound like the Beatles, but you wanted a taste of that in there.
You didn't want to sound
like [Gm] Jeff Beck, but you wanted that taste of that in there. _ _
[A] _ _ [G] _ [E] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ You guys are used to living [E] rock star life.
Johnny has his own film [N] star life.
So what's
the audience response to him?
Is it different than you guys have ever expected?
I mean,
you know, are there different, I mean, waiting by the tour bus, waiting by the hotels, what
kind of treatment does Johnny get compared to what you guys are seeing in your life?
It's the curiosity factor.
I think people really want to see, can he really play?
And
once they see the first three songs, they go, oh, he's a guitar player.
You know, he's
Johnny Depp and yeah, he's Jack Sparrow and he's Edward Scissorhands and he's all these
guys.
But right now he's a Hollywood vampire and he's not acting.
He's just playing guitar
like he was a guitar player long before he was an actor.
You know, so these two guys,
I never see them when they're not playing guitar.
You know, I go backstage and they
always have a guitar in their hand playing something.
So, you know, Johnny, when he comes
up, he's not going up there and acting like a rock star.
He's a rock star.
No, when you go into his house, all you see is guitars.
You would think he was a musician.
You don't see anything about his movies in the house.
It's all about music.
Yeah, I've never met an actor through him except for like maybe once or twice being
on a set with him, you know, that kind of thing.
But I've never met all his friends
are musicians, you know, and that's the vibe.
And he's like truly, he is cut from the cloth.
He does have good stories though.
Well, yeah, I mean_
Because we always sit around and say, hey, [F] tell us about blah, blah, blah.
And he goes,
oh man, I can't talk about that.
It's [N] another whole world.
He does open up about it.
He loves playing, man.
And that's
part of the fun of watching the audience go like from the first song to see if it's
a novelty or we just have him up there because he is Jack Sparrow.
After the third song,
you can see people accepting him.
After the third song, he's already had four solos.
You know, these guys trade off solos.
He plays one, Joe plays one, he plays one, Joe plays one back.
And, you know, I mean
it just, we don't treat him like a movie star at all.
He's a guitar player.
Nor does he want at all.
I mean, that's why he loves to_
But it is funny to watch all the girls looking at this side of the stage.
I understand that.
Every once in a while I go over there just to get a little bit of it, you know, just
to get a little bask in the warmth of it, you know.
_ It's really a trip.
But he really is a great musician.
When I first_
Very humble too.
I've been a fan of his, you know, since I ever saw his movies and all that shit.
And
I saw him play guitar in _ that_ Chocolat.
Chocolat.
And I said, man, someday if I ever meet him, I'm going to ask him to show me
how to play that because he's the real deal.
Gypsy Jazz.
Sure enough, 15 years later, I got to meet him.
And, you know, I found out the real deal.
See, with Joe and I, I don't think there's ever been a time when I didn't think that
we would play together at some point because our backgrounds are exactly the same.
We came
up at the same time.
We came up with the exact same backgrounds.
If I said to him the Animals
song Cheating, he'd go, oh yeah.
Or if he said to me Evil Hearted You, yeah, got it.
You know, those reference points are songs that we did in bars when we were 17 years
old, 16 years old.
So the reference points are really important.
And this train kept rolling.
When we said, what version are we going to do?
Joe goes,
The Yardbirds.
And I went, yeah, Yardbirds.
You know.
We all had a go at that song.
So and now the way we play it.
But again, now it sounds like the vampires.
Yeah, it's kind of our own version.
Using the format of the Yardbirds, which again was, you know, we all know the story.
We know
the story.
It goes back to the 30s.
And, you know, we're just passing it on.
But I think
that shows through.
And that's what I think is great about it too, is being in the vampires,
at least from, I don't think we've ever actually talked about it, but you get a chance to be
the rock singer that you first started to be, you know.
And you can do that, you know,
without, you know, I mean, obviously doing Alice Cooper is like, I mean, you're a pioneer
in that stuff.
But, you know, when you take one more step back and you're a garage band,
and this gives you a chance to really be the rock singer that you are.
Fun to do, Joe, Jim Morrison.
It's fun to do, you know, _ bands like Love.
And who else
does 7 Plus 7 is?
Not too many bands.
No.
Joe, did you ever?
_ No, I never did.
No, I lived at Alice.
When Alice started, just had the means, I'm not
sure if you hitchhiked out there, but you made your way to LA and got a chance to hang
with so many of those people that were like, you know, by being in Boston, we didn't, I
mean, we were fans.
We saw a lot of the bands come through, but I never got a chance to have that.
We were in that golden age.
We were in that golden age where all those bands were all
in the same place.
They were at the Landmark Hotel, or they were at Frank Zappa's house,
or they were at, you know, the Whiskey, or the thing.
And it was no problem to bump into
those guys every night.
So you got to know them, you know.
And I mean, it was really,
they invited us to open for them, the doors did, you know, which was a really cool thing
to do for us, because we were nobody.
And they said, no, you guys open for us.
And that
was an education right there, you know, watching those guys work.
And that's how we learned.
You always learn from the guys up from you, you know, coming.
But every band, that's how
every band learns.
And we were all learning then, because we were watching, I mean, we were part of this
movement that took this kind of music, which was the marching _ music to a whole generation.
And not only just finding our way as musicians, but finding our way as part of what was going
on in the culture in the late 60s and early 70s.
It was, everybody was pioneering.
And if you look back at those bands.
And that's why Alice, you started something that was like, no one had ever seen or heard of before.
Well, that was something that was needed.
Theatrics was needed in rock and roll.
But
when you look at what a basis for what we did, it was all based on Yardbirds, Chuck
Berry.
That was our whole foundation, was that.
And everybody listened to the Beatles
trying to write melodies like the Beatles.
It's just that how are you going to now project
it on stage?
How are you going to put it out there as your own?
You didn't want to
sound like the Beatles, but you wanted a taste of that in there.
You didn't want to sound
like [Gm] Jeff Beck, but you wanted that taste of that in there. _ _
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