“Each time I see him, he is going, ‘Am I nonetheless a Vampire?’”: Alice Cooper on starting up Paul McCartney into Hollywood Vampires

There are few other folks as well-connected in rock as Alice Cooper. The person born Vincent Furnier has stories for days. You identify them, Alice Cooper has frolicked with them, recorded with them, were given inebriated with them, were given sober with them, performed golfing with them. Cooper already had sufficient tales to closing 100 lifetimes when he shaped his rock supergroup the Hollywood Vampires in 2015 and now he’s were given a ton extra. Chatting with this creator for Vintage Rock a couple of years in the past, he stated the brand new band – named after the consuming group he was once a part of within the 70s with Keith Moon, Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, John Lennon and extra – has supplied him a sequence of late-career highs.

“The theory was once to play songs for all of our useless inebriated pals, the Jimi Hendrixs, the Jim Morrisons,” he defined of the crowd he shaped with Johnny Depp, Joe Perry and Tommy Hendriksen. “Folks had no concept that Johnny Depp was once a super guitar participant. They believe he’s a film famous person seeking to be a guitar participant. Neatly, he’s taking part in with Jeff Beck, taking part in with the Stones. You don’t play with the ones guys except you recognize what you’re doing. You get in that room and also you’ve were given Duff McKagan on bass and Joe Perry on guitar and Joe Walsh on guitar.”