Things came together quickly for second Hollywood Vampires album 'Rise' (due June 21 on earMUSIC) when it came to writing. Alice Cooper is 71, Joe Perry is 68 and Johnny Depp is 56, but this isn’t a Viagra-dads garage band from a pharmaceutical commercial. This is a raw, aggressive and beautiful hook-filled riff fest by a bunch of guys who are playing with a level of enthusiasm that smokes bands half their age.
-- comes together, if egos aren’t kept in check, having three major celebrities in a band can become a major power struggle. But according to Cooper, the opposite has been true.
Cooper says, “We had all these ideas for songs -- [first single] ‘Who’s Laughing Now,’ ‘We Gotta Rise’ -- which is like a cheering song, and if there’s any politics in that, it’s totally satirical…. There’s ‘Mr. Spider,’ which is very Alice Cooperish; anything that’s hard rock is in my arena. Getting my teeth into a song like ‘I Want My Now’ or ‘The Boogeyman Surprise,’ those are the kind of songs that Alice can eat right up.
Meanwhile, Perry revamped Johnny Thunders’ “You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory.” “We kind of came up together, those guys from New York and us from Boston; we did a number of shows together,” recalls Perry. “So we got to know them pretty well, especially David and Johnny. But he was one of those guys that…” Perry pauses for a moment. “You just really couldn’t see him making it, let’s just put it that way.
Perry agrees. “It was one of those songs that is right under the skin of the Vampires with a sense of humor. You couldn’t say it in a better way than in that song. We had been hanging around with Jeff Beck over in Europe, and then when he came to the States, he dropped by Johnny’s house. Johnny gave him a guitar to put on, and we had this kind of honky-tonk rockabilly song and thought it would be great if Jeff played on it.
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