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Alice Cooper Answers: What Makes Johnny Depp Unique as Guitarist?

"What surprised us was how good a guitarist he was," the singer says.

by jomatami

During a conversation with Kerrang, Alice Cooper talked about Hollywood Vampires, the band he launched with Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry and actor Johnny Depp in 2015.

The group released its sophomore album "Rise" this June via EarMusic. When asked: "Johnny is, of course, better known as an actor. What do you think makes him unique as a guitarist?", Cooper replied:

"Johnny started out as a guitarist. He was in a band in Kentucky that he’d started with his friends. He ended up in Florida, then came to LA and accidentally became an actor. He wasn't really looking to be an actor.

"And so what surprised us was how good a guitarist he was. He got up there and he could play on anything. He just did some shows with Jeff Beck. If you're a guitar player and you’re playing with Jeff Beck, there must be something good going on there.

"Johnny gets up and does solos with Joe Perry - who is considered one of the great guitar players in rock - and just kills it."

Back in September, Alice told Q105.7 about Depp (transcribed by UG):

"Johnny's as good a guitar player as anybody. People always kind of question Johnny's guitar playing. I tell them: Do you know who he's out with right now and playing in the band?

"They ask, 'Who?' I said, 'Jeff Beck.' If you're playing with Jeff Beck, the greatest guitar player of all time, that does say something about your guitar playing."

Last year, Cooper told Billboard:

"The great thing about Johnny Depp and Joe Perry is, Joe Perry actually takes guitar lessons from Johnny Depp sometimes.

"Johnny was a guitar player way before he was an actor. We all kinda knew that. I didn't know how good he was until he came up and played with us two or three times. When we put the Hollywood Vampires together, one night Joe got sick and couldn't play, and Johnny played all the leads.

"Everybody in the audience was in shock - because Johnny's a great guitar player. He's not an actor trying to be a rock star; he's a rock star that accidentally became an actor.

"There was a movie that he did, called 'Chocolat,' where he played a gypsy jazz guitar player, and he plays all the Django Reinhardt stuff, and that's the stuff Joe was sitting there listening to going, 'What is that?' [Johnny] goes, 'Let me show you how to play this stuff.'

"I'm watching Joe trying to pick up the chording on the stuff and I'm going, 'That's great! These two guitar players are teaching each other stuff!'"

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