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Hollywood Vampires Detail 18-Date North American Summer Tour

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Hollywood Vampires , the supergroup whose core members are Alice Cooper , Johnny Depp and Joe Perry , will set out on their first comprehensive North American tour this summer. Beginning with a gig in Verona, New York in late May, the band will visit the northern part of the U.S. and into Canada before wrapping in Paso Robles, California in late July. Other than an appearance at the Grammys in February, the band’s only North American gigs have been club shows in Hollywood.

The musicians supporting the core for the trek include drummer Matt Sorum (the Cult, Guns N’ Roses), guitarist Tommy Henriksen ( Alice Cooper ‘s band) and pianist, percussionist and guitarist Bruce Witkin ( Johnny Depp ‘s group the Kids). Since Duff McKagan, who had played bass at all of the band’s previous gigs, has reunited with Guns N’ Roses and will be touring with them this summer, the Vampires are welcoming Stone Temple Pilots’ Robert DeLeo to the fold to handle four-string duties.

“Here is a gang of friends who came together really by chance and over the last year we were finally able to wrangle our schedules and the energy just fell into place,” Joe Perry said in a statement. “Playing with this lineup is like a dream come true. After seeing the reaction at Rock in Rio [in Brazil] in front of 100,000 fans, I know this band is going to tear the house down. Hell, I would want to be in the audience to see us rip it up.”

The band will play a handful of Europen dates between their tour kickoff and return to the U.S. in July for a gig in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

In February, the group put out a deluxe edition of their self-titled debut , a collection of cover songs by what Cooper has called his “dead drunk friends,” as well as original songs. The new edition added versions of the Who’s “I’m a Boy,” Love’s “7 and 7 Is” and the Depp-penned original “As Bad as I Am,” the last of which the band played on the Grammys along with a cover of Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades” in tribute to that trio’s late bassist Lemmy Kilmister. The album is available to hear now via Spotify . 

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Johnny Depp Announces Summer 2023 UK Tour with Hollywood Vampires Band amid Shows with Jeff Beck

Also featuring Alice Cooper, Joe Perry and Tommy Henriksen, Depp's band added six UK dates to their 2023 summer tour — more than four months since his defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard

Johnny Depp 's Hollywood Vampires band has added a string of UK concert dates to its upcoming 2023 tour.

In a video posted to social media on Monday, the 59-year-old actor announced the rock group — which also features Alice Cooper, Joe Perry and Tommy Henriksen — will be performing at six arena venues across England in July 2023 with special guests Seether and The Tubes.

Tickets go on presale for the supergroup's fan club on Tuesday at 10 a.m. BST, then venue presales launch Wednesday at 10 a.m. BST for Glasgow, Manchester and London and the following day at 10 a.m. BST for all other venues. General on-sale tickets become available Friday at 10 a.m. BST. Information regarding tickets can be found at Hollywood Vampires' website .

The new tour dates, along with previously announced European concerts set to take place in June 2023, were originally planned for 2021 before Hollywood Vampires canceled all their shows due to pandemic travel restrictions. "We kept trying to make it happen, but unfortunately due to the uncertainty of COVID-19 travel restrictions, it is just not possible," wrote the band in a March 2021 statement.

Hollywood Vampires formed in 2012 and has since released two albums, 2015's Hollywood Vampires and 2019's Rise .

Earlier this month, Depp and Jeff Beck, who released an album together over the summer, began their U.S. tour (which goes through November and has stops in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Nashville and more) at The Anthem in Washington, D.C. — just over four months since a verdict was reached in his Virginia defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard . His attorneys from the Fairfax, Virginia, trial, Camille Vasquez and Benjamin Chew, attended the show and posed for photos backstage wearing VIP passes.

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On June 1, the jury sided mostly with Depp and awarded him more than $10 million in damages. They found that Heard, 36, defamed him in her 2018 op-ed about domestic abuse, though she didn't mention him by name in the article. Additionally, Heard won one of her defamation counterclaims, awarded $2 million in damages. They are both appealing the verdicts.

Earlier this month, Depp spoke to SiriusXM about how it's felt to play concerts again for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic. "Jeff very simply and kindly — and his wife, Sandra — just took me into their house, and I lived with them for months and months and months. Then, we went on the first tour together," he said. "For me, having had to deal with other things at the same time, once those things are down the road and you drop into the tour, it's like you're home."

See the full list of Hollywood Vampires' upcoming tour dates below.

June 10, 2023 - Istanbul, Turkey - Life Park

June 20, 2023 - Oberhausen, Germany - Rudolf Weber-ARENA

June 21 - Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Rockhal

June 23 - Grenchen, Switzerland - Summerside Festival

June 24 - Paris, France - Zenith La Villette

June 27 - Hamburg, Germany - Stadtpark

June 28 - Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin - Citadel Music Festival

June 30 - Zitadelle Mainz - Summer in the City

July 1 - Sperken, Austria - Castle Clam

July 5 - Scarborough, UK - Open Air Theatre

July 7 - Swansea, UK - Swansea Arena

July 8 - Manchester, UK - AO Arena

July 9 - London, UK - The O2

July 11 - Birmingham, UK - Utilita Arena

July 12 - Glasgow, UK - OVO Arena

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The supergroup Hollywood Vampires formed by Alice Cooper , Joe Perry (Aerosmith) and Johnny Depp announced 2023 tour dates for Germany and Luxembourg, will be their first shows since 2019. The band will be accompanied by Tommy Henriksen (Guitar – Alice Cooper), Glen Sobel (Drums – Alice Cooper), Chris Wyse (Bass) and Buck Johnson (Backing vocals, keyboardist).

The Hollywood Vampires first 2023 tour dates:

• 20 – Rudolf Weber- Arena – Oberhausen, Germany
• 21 – Rockhal – Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
• 24  – Olympiahalle – Munich, Germany
• 27 – Stadtpark – Hamburg, Germany
• 28 – Citadel Music Festival – Zitadelle Spandau – Berlin, Germany
• 30 – Summer in the City – Zitadelle Mainz – Mainz, Germany

More dates will be announced soon.

The band was formed back in 2012 by Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and Joe Perry. The name was inspired by the celebrity drinking club formed by Cooper in the 70s at the Rainbow Bar & Grill in Los Angeles, that also had names like John Lennon, Harry Nilson, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon and Mickey Dolenz.

Other touring members that had been with the band over the years were Duff McKagan (Guns N’ Roses), “Robert DeLeo (Stone Temple Pilots) and Matt Sorum (Guns N’ Roses, The Cult, Velvet Revolver). They released two studio albums, the self-titled debut in 2015 and their second “Rise” in 2019. Besides celebrating classic Rock and Roll bands covering them on the setlist, the band also plays some original tracks released on the two albums.

The setlist of their last concert in 2019 had:

• I Want My Now
• Raise the Dead
• As Bad as I Am
• Five to One / Break On Through (to the Other Side) (The Doors cover)
• The Jack (AC/DC cover)
• Who’s Laughing Now
• The Boogieman Surprise
• You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory (Johnny Thunders cover)
• My Dead Drunk Friends
• Baba O’Riley (The Who cover)
• Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith cover)
• “Heroes” (David Bowie cover)
• Git From Round Me
• I’m Eighteen (Alice Cooper cover)
• People Who Died (The Jim Carroll Band cover)
• The Train Kept A-Rollin’ (Tiny Bradshaw cover)
• We Gotta Rise
• School’s Out (Alice Cooper cover)

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Johnny Joins Forces with Texas Soul Band Prophets and Outlaws

October 16 ,2019.

Johnny has always been a creative person and likes taking on new challenges! From his own solo work to his side project "SideCar" it now brings him to his newest collaboration with Texas Soul Band "Prophets and Outlaws". In 2018 Johnny played an acoustic show with lead singer Matt Boggs and guitarist Stevn Guckenheimer in Ardmore Ok. "Boggs" mentioned to Johnny that in 2019 there current bass player was leaving the group to persue other endeavors, which struck up a conversation about how johnny played bass in his "SideCar" project. Fast forward a few weeks, PAO had johnny come auditon for the spot as their bassist. The fit was great for Johnny and PAO as both have very similar tastes in music! Johnny will still be performing shows on his own with his band as well as performing with PAO! In 2019 PAO debuted their first full length album titled "Dreamer" check out Prophetsandoutlaws.com to find tour dates and all music.

Johnny also has plans to start working on a new album of his own in 2020. find all updates on the new project through socials or right here at Johnnycooper.com

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Alice Cooper’s Advice to Rock Stars: Don’t Talk Politics

Of course Alice Cooper ’s Zoom profile picture is of a guillotine. The 75-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer helped craft the modern-rock-star persona by using everything from fake blood to snakes during his live performances, shaping the sound and attitude of heavy metal, punk, and emo for years to come. Today, Cooper is still committed to the bit, but in conversation he conveys a midwestern sense of kindness, discussing everything from his new album Road (which features Tom Morello, Wayne Kramer, and Buckcherry’s Keith Nelson) to the ideals of rock and roll to his history of running for president. As always, he makes a point to distinguish between the performer Alice Cooper and the Alice Cooper who does press. (The Detroit native legally changed his name from Vincent Damon Furnier to Alice Cooper in 1975.) “I wanted him to be vampiric, I wanted him to be in black,” he says while on tour with his celebrity-filled other band, the Hollywood Vampires. “I created Alice to be my favorite rock star.”

Bob Ezrin, who produced your new album Road , also produced your 1970s run of platinum releases. When do you feel like it’s the right time to call him up for an Alice Cooper record? We’ve done the last five records together, and there’s one in the can that’s already done. Bob is the other half of Alice Cooper. He was our George Martin. When he came to the band, we had just done two albums with Zappa. Zappa didn’t really care if we had a hit. He viewed us more as a freak act, whereas we wanted to be taken seriously. Bob Ezrin came along and said, “Why is it that when you hear the Doors, you know it’s the Doors? They have a signature sound. That’s what you don’t have. We’re going to develop the Alice sound.” That’s when Love It to Death came out. Then you listen to that record and go, “Ah, that’s Alice Cooper.”

Bob is the only one other than me that understands Alice’s personality, the character that I play. We would sit there and do a vocal and look back and go, “Alice would never say that.”

You’ve joked that your live shows get reviewed before your actual music does. What about your music is still underrated? From the very beginning, we understood that we were naturally theatrical. Even when we didn’t have props, I’d find a mop backstage and it would become part of the show. If there was an eight-hour rehearsal, seven hours were on the music. We really wanted to be America’s Yardbirds. We wanted to be that band that could play with Led Zeppelin. If you don’t have those songs, you’re a puppet show up there — and we would have been gone a long time ago.

I’ve been listening to the Killer and School’s Out reissues, which were released earlier this year. What do you remember about the writing, recording, and touring of those records? We were 22 years old and bulletproof. “I’m Eighteen” was a hit because it was like nothing on the radio. And then people went, Oh, come on, Alice Cooper can’t have hit records. We were the first band that was theatrical and sold records that people actually listened to. It’s when you hear McCartney and Dylan talking about your music, not your theatrics, that makes you go, “Oh my gosh. I’m embarrassed that they even know we’re alive.” It’s a humbling thing.

You opened the doors for a lot of genres: hard rock, heavy metal, punk, pretty much anything with a guitar and a sense of dramatics. Even in emo, like My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade . “Teenagers” is a great song. I listened to that and said, “How did I not write that?” That and “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” When I heard that on the radio, I went, “Dammit, I should have written that song.”

Would you have changed anything about “Smells Like Teen Spirit”? No. That was perfect because he was speaking for his generation, which I didn’t quite understand, the attitude and the language of it. But I heard it and went, “I get it.” Very hard to find bands that write good songs. It’s easy to write good parts. But it’s hard to find good songs . The last band I heard that I really flipped out over was the Strypes. Snapshot , that album. There’s not one clunker on it.

You once said you weren’t a Vampire Weekend fan and wondered why new American bands were so wimpy. I think the “American” part of that question is interesting. Here’s the problem, and in some ways it’s a good thing. When you think of Guns N’ Roses, when you think of Mötley Crüe, when you think of Aerosmith, there’s a certain edge and danger. When you think of Vampire Weekend or Tame Impala, I say, “Who wants to call themselves Tame Impala? You’re a rock band!” I have the same problem with baseball. Why would you call your baseball team the Orioles?

Vampire Weekend is very good at what they do. Vampire Weekend were on Saturday Night Live , and I’m expecting vampires. But they had enough nerve to have two keyboards, and they’re wearing Polo golf shirts. Now that works if the golf shirts are stained in blood. If they’re totally bloodied out and they’re singing these nice songs, then I get it. That appeals to my sense of humor. But when I saw what they did, I went, “What a horrible waste of a great name.” They should have been Guys That Cut the Lawn. I think they missed the joke.

It’s probably too late for them to backtrack now. It’s so funny because I have to explain myself all the time. I’ll be talking on my radio show about corporate rock, and I go, “There is absolutely nothing wrong with corporate rock.” Journey. Styx, even, though they’re a little more prog. Foreigner. They have perfect records, but they have no danger. Gene Simmons goes, “Rock is dead.” And I’m going, “No, rock is where it should be.” We used to be at the top of the mountain. Now young bands are on the outside looking in. We weren’t invited to the party. Hip-hop was, and so were all these girl acts that are now Vegas shows. But don’t call them rock. Young bands are now outlaws. They’re not the favorite son anymore. That’s a good place to be for young bands. You want to be the kid that got thrown out of class.

Vampire Weekend and Tame Impala do something that I can’t do, so I’m not knocking them. I’m just saying don’t put them in the same category as the Who or the Yardbirds. Because I protect rock. Rock should have an attitude. Rock should have a standard, and some of these bands don’t.

What standard? There’s a certain amount of sex involved with it. There’s a certain amount of tribal feel in hard rock that when you hear it, you go, “Yeah!” When I hear these other songs, I go, “… Yeah. Oh, how lovely.” Again, I’m not knocking it. There are people that love that music.

How’s the Hollywood Vampires tour going so far? Man, I’ll tell you what, the Vampires thing is so much different than my own tour. My tour is very choreographed. It’s a show . But when I play with the Vampires, I don’t have to be Alice Cooper. I could just be the lead singer. It’s fun to be in a bar band again.

What’s the difference between people who show up at an Alice Cooper show versus a Hollywood Vampires show? For once, I’m not the focal point, which is great. Every female’s looking at Johnny Depp [laughs] , which is totally understandable. I mean, Johnny’s a great guitar player. Joe Perry, same thing. But then they start listening and hear that this is a killer band, and they start watching the whole show. Alice the character never talks to the audience. Because that would make him human. You’re never going to hear, “Hey, how are you doing tonight? Is everybody having a good time?” That’s not Alice. In this show, though, I talk about Keith Moon. I talk about the Doors. Because what we’re really doing is we’re honoring our dead drunk friends. We do a lot of tributes. We do a full tribute to Jeff Beck.

Was there any hesitancy on your end to bring Depp on tour, given the domestic-abuse allegations against him? Not at all. If you talk to Johnny about it, it was something that happened. He was just like, “Yeah, yeah, what’s the next song?” For Johnny, it was one of those things where … you can’t say it got blown out of proportion, but I don’t know why they would televise the proceedings, right? It’s because of the fame of both people.

The best thing I said about the whole thing was, “They should do a remake of War of the Roses with Johnny and Amber.” Who’s not gonna go see that? I’m going to see that! To make it even better, make their lawyers Angie and Brad. All you need is a really funny director, and that’s gonna be a monster hit.

Does the trial ever come up on tour? I don’t think it was ever mentioned on the tour because nobody cared. I never watched a moment of the trials. It was so blown out of proportion. It was such a Hollywood thing. I knew Johnny was gonna win because how many people have other exes literally on their side testifying for him? That never happens. I turned it right off and said, “Well, you know, Johnny will weather this storm and when he’s onstage, he’s our guitar player.”

I want to touch on your tradition of running for president every year. It was unfortunately because we had a hit called “Elected.” The most absurd person that you could ever want for president would be me. Now that I see who the candidates are, it’s not so absurd.

You were an early pioneer of being a celebrity running for president. How do you feel when you see other celebrities getting into politics? I hate politics. I don’t think it belongs in rock and roll at all, only because rock and roll should be an escape from politics. Let’s say I’ve got a million fans in America and all of a sudden, I go, “Well, I’m voting for Fred, and if you’re my fan, you better vote for him.” Well, that’s not fair. People like their rock stars more than their politicians. So they’re gonna vote for whoever the rock star tells them to. I don’t mind standing up against issues and standing up for things, but when it comes to actual candidates, why would anybody listen to a rock star? I mean, that’s the last person I would go to if I wanted any information about politics.

The problem is that people decide that their rock stars are everything , just because they wrote a couple of good songs. Rock stars should be worried about their next song, their next album, and the next show. What Bono does, what Sting does, I don’t look at that as being political. I look at that as being humanitarian. That’s a whole different thing. I’m all for that.

You come from a religious family, and you’ve talked about your faith in interviews. The idea of Catholic guilt feels familiar in the works of artists like Bruce Springsteen or Martin Scorsese. Is there any sense of an equivalent Protestant guilt that comes out through your own music? I grew up in the church. All my friends were from there. When the band got together, I went as far away as I could possibly go and I became the poster boy for everything that was wrong. The right-wing Christian world thought I was satanic. They heard about the hangings and the guillotine and the snakes and all that, and they didn’t count in the comedy of it. It was based in dark comedy. There was never anything anti-Christian in my show. There were never any upside-down crosses. There was nothing satanic.

When I became Christian, my pastor said, “Look at where God put you.” And I said, “What do you mean?” He says, “Well, you were the Fonz. You were the leader of the pack. And now you’re Christian. Don’t you think it’s a great place for you to be in rock and roll?” I went, “Yeah, I do.” He says, “Okay, I don’t think Jesus is looking at you and saying, ‘I gave you all this talent, don’t use it.’” I take time out to read and pray every single morning. I pray right before I go onstage. I’m in church every Sunday with my wife. We have a Christian teen outreach. But it’s not going to affect the show because there was never anything in the show that was anti-Christian.

Back to the “Catholic guilt” idea: A Springsteen show has an almost masslike quality to it, like you’re gathering people for a religious experience. I didn’t know if that came through intentionally in your shows. Or is this again Alice Cooper, the character, versus Alice Cooper, the person? There is no Alice Cooper. I play the character Alice Cooper. I sometimes forget that I’m Alice Cooper. I play this character the same way I would play Macbeth. In the same way I would play Jack the Ripper. It’s not me. I am totally the opposite of that character. That’s why he’s so much fun to play. He’s an arrogant, condescending villain, and I’m anything but [ laughs ].

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

• vulture section lede
• alice cooper
• johnny depp
• hollywood vampires

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