There are few folks as well-connected in rock as Alice Cooper. The person born Vincent Furnier has tales for days. You identify them, Alice Cooper has frolicked with them, recorded with them, bought drunk with them, bought sober with them, performed golf with them. Cooper already had sufficient tales to final 100 lifetimes when he fashioned his rock supergroup the Hollywood Vampires in 2015 and now he’s bought a ton extra. Chatting with this author for Basic Rock a couple of years in the past, he stated the brand new band – named after the ingesting crew he was 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 thought was to play songs for all of our lifeless drunk pals, the Jimi Hendrixs, the Jim Morrisons,” he defined of the group he fashioned with Johnny Depp, Joe Perry and Tommy Hendriksen. “Individuals had no concept that Johnny Depp was a terrific guitar participant. They suppose he’s a film star making an attempt to be a guitar participant. Properly, he’s enjoying with Jeff Beck, enjoying with the Stones. You don’t play with these guys except you recognize what you’re doing. You get in that room and also you’ve bought Duff McKagan on bass and Joe Perry on guitar and Joe Walsh on guitar.”
A powerful line-up, for positive, however for Cooper the icing on the cake was when the Vampires have been joined by Paul McCartney within the studio. “He walks in and sits down on the piano,” Cooper marvelled, referring to McCartney enjoying on their rendition of Come And Get It, the tune the Beatle wrote for Badfinger again in 1969. “I by no means thought I’d ever get to sing with Paul McCartney. Everyone in that room was simply dumbstruck as a result of they have been on a observe with Paul McCartney. And never solely that, however now Paul McCartney is a Vampire. Each time I see him, he goes, ‘am I nonetheless a Vampire?’ And I say, ‘you’re a Vampire for all times.'”
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