Chords for Hollywood Vampires talk about "Rise" - Album OUT NOW - Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper & Joe Perry

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I've known Joe _ _ _ _ and _ I've known each other forever.
And there was a time when I always thought, yeah, I gotta meet Johnny Depp.
[E] I said, I really like his movies and everything like that, and I know he plays guitar.
So when I got the call to do Dark Shadows, I went, oh, this is going to be cool.
You know, for _ [C] a guy who grew up, [D] _ you know, sort of [A#]
listening [C#] to these guys, you [E] know,
every single day, you could [D] never sort [Em] of expect that [A#] kind of thing to happen [E] when you're,
you know, a [Bm] kid.
The idea [A#] of the [E] Vampires in the beginning was to honor our dead, drunk [E] friends.
The Jimi Hendrixes, the Jim Morrisons, the John Lennons, all those guys, you know, pretty
much put a bar band together.
That's really what it was going to be.
And we wrote three songs on that album to explain the album.
My dead, drunk friend songs, you know, raise the dead, that explained what we were doing.
That was an indication right there that the next album was going to be all originals.
One thing we did not want to do _ [Em]
was make it sound like an Alice Cooper album or make it
sound like an Aerosmith album.
There were definitely things that I know that I wouldn't do in Aerosmith.
At the beginning, there was a conscious, _ _ [A] consciousness about [A#] doing that, _ [C#] shifting over.
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It was just a song [C#] I felt that we should do, you know, it's always meant a lot to me, but
it meant a lot to me [F#] over the last few years.
You know, I knew Bowie pretty well, but I didn't have an emotional connection to him
like that as [F#] much as Johnny did.
And Johnny says, well, you sing it.
And I said, no, you sing it.
[C#] And he says, I don't sing.
I said, you did Sweeney Todd, _ [F#] _ reminding him that he sang _ and he sings it better than I
could ever sing.
I'd forgotten.
[B] I'd forgotten that I'd done Sweeney Todd.
Yes, it's very [C#] hard to forget a project that took two years.
But if you don't see it, [G#m] it's almost like it doesn't exist.
It [D#m] was good.
Thank you.
_ _ Recording in Honza, _ the home of Honza [B] Studios, where Bowie recorded [F#] Heroes in that huge,
[C#] beautiful room, _ ornate room, just incredible. _
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to do like a cover, especially that cover, do it [G#] there.
And we just happened to be there.
So, I [C#] mean, it was a brilliant idea to do it in that studio.
I remember sitting in the kitchen and he was [F#] reading the lines to Heroes.
[C#] And it was like every one of them was going like, yeah, yeah.
I mean, you could see him get possessed when he'd [E] get up to the microphone and yell in the song.
Well, it's like anything.
You don't know you can do it until you try.
You know, I had no idea I could hit any of those notes.
I'll tell you one thing, though.
When he's on the stage banging on his guitar, that's him through and through.
The real deal.
You're seeing the real Johnny when you see Johnny on stage.
A lot of the original songs [D] are from [E] Johnny's [D] diaries, which [E] is cool for me.
I thought that was really cool.
I wanted to call the album Rise because that's what _ vampires do.
We rise to the occasion every night.
I don't know what Johnny [A] does during the day.
I don't know what Joe does.
But I have this picture of it about [A] 10 minutes before it's time.
Just, [E] you know, _ _ _ _ he has risen.
_ _ _ Initially, it was Tommy and Joe and myself writing [D] songs, riffs, bits, that.
[A] And it was really kind of [F#] here and there and effectively recorded the [Em] entire record in
like six [E] weeks.
It was cool to come in as sort of the third party on it because I'm hearing it for the first time.
It was like I was there at the bottom of [A] building these songs up.
[E] I might say, you know, if we [C] change that word to [D] this word or [E] just move that around [Bm] to here,
[E] it would make more sense or it would make less sense, which would be good, too.
And the funny thing is some of the final vocals were done in hotel rooms.
When I was on the road, you know, Mr.
Spider.
I mean, I [F#] was somewhere in Nebraska on a day off in a hotel room doing the vocal on that.
Because now [D] with the technology, [Bm] you can do that.
We did my [D]
vocal part in [E] Get From Around Me _ in [Bm] _
Japan.
I think [A] we were in Tokyo _ in a hotel room.
So we've all written so much music that we realize it's a piece of clay.
It can be moved here.
It can be moved there.
As long as in the end [A] it's what it's supposed to be.
I don't think there's ever been an argument in this band.
Because you get three [D] alpha males together and somebody [A] wants to [F#]
steer the boat.
All three of us are going, _ [E]
as long as [Em] the boat gets there.
But that's what made it fun, too, because it was like just throwing in ideas. _
Let the right ones fall in the right place.
It was really a lot of fun doing it like that.
It's a lot of fun to take a step further [A] than what we all do in our [G] other day [C] jobs, I suppose.
_ [D] Everybody wants to take [Am] that step further [B] and experiment.
So the process became, _ [B] well, it became from the first incident, [A] it was very organic.
It wouldn't [A] come out if we didn't all [Am] agree that it's what we want.
This is a [B] homegrown record.
I mean, slowly the stuff started to come out of the speakers.
And it was, we really felt like we were onto something.
[A] What we all [Bm] added to the [G] thing [Am] was cathartic on every level.
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Yeah, [B] I'm very proud of it.
We're not chasing the charts.
If we get a hit record off this, it's because the charts came to us.
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I'm kind of proud of the fact that this album didn't sound like anybody but the Hollywood Vampires.
I can't think of any band this sounds like.
This sounds totally like what would happen if we three wrote songs. _ _
_ [G] _ _ I love playing all the songs.
Every night they're [D] developing, because they are new.
But _ Rise [G] is the one that I love watching the audience, [G] because they don't know what to make of it.
Right now, if we wanted to finish the show, we could do Sweet Emotion, and that would be the final song.
We could do [C] School's Love.
I think in a while, Rise couldn't possibly do a song after that.
[D] When everybody knows it, [G] it's going to be like, _ do Rise!
If you walk off the stage without doing it, they're going to go crazy.
They're going [A] to tear the place [D] down.
I don't think you can talk about the American situation or any [B] political situation, _ [G] rockers, without _ satirizing it.
We're not politicians.
It's humor. _
You have to attack it with [D] humor.
I think Rise is so _ infectious [G] that that audience, next year when we go [G] out, _ that's the marching song.
We're not preferring one candidate over the other, because we kind of see them all as the same guy.
[C] _ _ They're all the same guy.
_ Who's a better actor?
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_ _ _ [G] He has never seen one of his movies.
[D] There's really _ none [G] like Alice Cooper.
I [D] think that he is probably [G] the most versatile actor out there.
_ I'm embarrassed and shy.
_ I might have [C] urinated on myself.
I might have wet myself.
But nobody urinates on themselves [G] better than you.
You do [D] that better than anybody else.
I have had some practice.
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