12 ч 9 май 2018 г. - THE QUIETAS Stephen Jones [Babybird] Interviewed Johnny Depp

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A long interview with Stephen Jones including interesting comments about how he met and worked with Johnny Depp (and Bruce Witkin).

A Quietus Interview

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It probably doesn't help that Jones did sign another deal, ten years after Bugged, that led to little more than disappointment, though it at least afforded him an improbable adventure. It with a phone call emanating from a source so unlikely that initially neither Jones nor his manager took it seriously. "It was Johnny Depp," Jones remembers. "I was in Pembrokeshire at the time. He said, 'Do you want to come up and meet me in London?' Apparently, he has an in-ear thing that he wears, and he has different music to trigger different emotions, and I think he used a lot of Babybird. So yeah, I walked in and he was fiddling with some speakers on his knees. I saw this arse in a pair of jeans. That was the first time I met Johnny Depp. He came over with some carrot sticks and said, 'Do you want this with some hummus?'"

They soon switched dips for booze, and Depp's hangover after a night spent on Grappa was so bad that Jones was declared responsible for waking him the next morning so he could get to the Finding Neverland set. "He had to do this stuff with Dustin Hoffman. I couldn't even see straight. Grappa's evil. It was the wrong thing to do, especially after lots of red wine. He ordered it, but I got the blame." Nonetheless, the friendship that developed from this implausible encounter led to 2010's Ex-Maniac. Back in 1980, Depp had joined a band called The Kydz, and in 2006 he helped the group's co-founder, Bruce Witkin, launch Unison Music. In a similarly charitable spirit, Depp encouraged Jones and Witkin to meet.

"I obviously signed up, thinking that Depp might have a bit of influence," Jones admits, "but I didn't want to encroach on his help, and he paid for a million-dollar video! I had my own massive Winnebago, and I think the head of photography had just done Pirates Of The Caribbean, so it was a proper five day shoot! When that's happened, you feel a bit funny about asking for more favours, because that's quite a big one. They were a small label, and he couldn't just go to Johnny and ask for money. They were friends since they were 17."

Ex-Maniac barely squeezed into the Top 200, despite Depp directing that video for 'Unloveable' and playing guitar on it. (He also appears on 'Jesus Stag Night Club', from the knowingly titled, 2011 follow-up, The Pleasures Of Self Destruction, which fared even less well.) Jones is philosophical about the experience. "It was nice to go to America and record," he says, "but the two albums we did were quite rock, and I'm quite soft and amiable. If I'm sitting there in LA in their studio, I'm like, 'OK, let's go with that'. Then you come back to grey old England and suddenly think, 'Oh, why did I let that happen?' But if that hadn't come along I wouldn't be doing music. It didn't really work, unfortunately, but I'm kind of here because of his support. Things have come along at the right time. Even Bandcamp came along at the right time."

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