Johnny Depp celebrates his birthday with 1000 Bulgarians.
He was presented with a cake at the concert in Bucharest. Nearly 1,000 BG fans celebrated Johnny Depp's birthday in advance at The Hollywood Vampires concert in Bucharest yesterday. The iconic actor will turn 53 on Thursday, but concert organizers Phoenix Entertainment and Loud Concerts surprised him with a cake. "Sing him Happy Birthday!" exhorted fans at Romexpo, supergroup frontman Alice Cooper, and their voices erupted in congratulations.
The Romanian capital was the only stop on the world tour of The Hollywood Vampires for Eastern Europe. They are not the typical rock and roll band, trembling with ambition to conquer the charts, sell albums or win an army of thousands of devotees. They are together to have fun. And to entertain us - the fans who jumped to Bucharest to give them our "blood" voluntarily. The supergroup started its noisy marathon at precisely 9:30 p.m. in the park area of the Romexpo hall. Alice Cooper - frontman, Matt Sorum on drums, the handsome Robert Deleo (Stone Temple Pilots) is on bass, behind the keyboards, but slung over his guitar, Bruce Witkin is on the stage, opposite him is the other master of thin strings - Tommy Henriksen from Warlock, and to Alice's left is Johnny Depp himself! The crowd goes crazy. Aerosmith's Joe Perry arrives a few minutes later and bursts in with a solo that as if an enraged woman scolds her belated lover again. The concept of "Hollywood Vampires" is to sing mostly covers of songs by their colleagues who have passed away due to their love for certain substances. The first song is logically their own Raise the Dead. Alice playfully flicks her waist, as precise as a metronome, and shows off that she's in great shape. The slender figure of the glam rock idol can be used in court to disprove his age – according to his passport, he is 68! "First we'll take your ears, then your throats," he threatens. Followed by Spirit's Got a Line on You, T. Rex's cult 20th Century Boy.
Alice calls Johnny's name several times during the concert and you can feel how warm and paternal she is towards him. On My Generation, Joe Perry goes berserk and smashes his guitar to pieces. Unlike the other European stops of the tour, the cult actor has hidden his rebellious perchem under a Gavrosh cap, but in terms of styling he is reminiscent of his character Jack Sparrow - the white shirt with wide sleeves, in this case with embroidery at the end, a vest and many colorful scarves around the neck and under the hat. He's obviously good in that role as well – that of a rock star. Of course, he is also reminded of his on-screen father from the pirate epic - Keith Richards, who is his idol in music. “Johnny likes playing rock and roll more than making movies. He calls them his day job," Alice Cooper told fans. They pay homage to Jimi Hendrix with Manic Depression and then Lennon with Cold Turkey and The Beatles' Come Together.
The audience is very happy with this work - there are couples, young chicks, children, but it is clear that most of them came because of the Mad Hatter - the rest of the musicians heard from previous tours with their main groups. Bruce Witkin and Matt Sorum back Alice on vocals on Whole Lotta Love. The rockers also remind us of the magnificent Five to One - Break On Through by the Doors. David Bowie's two strong songs - Rebel Rebel and Suffragette City - get people moving who don't mind wading through puddles in the afternoon rain. Johnny smoked two brown cigarettes for the entire concert and often jumped back to mess like a rambunctious kid with Deleo's bass and with Perry. His solos sent fans into raptures, and it was clear that the boy was getting better and better. me,” says Alice on this occasion. Then the crowd of about 6,000 people rocked out to Motörhead's Ace of Spades. They close the concert with Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith and sneak behind the curtains. Gun claps bring them back for an encore and Train Kept A-Roll is heard
The band's other original track was written by Johnny Depp, announced Alice Cooper - As Bad As I Am. The second father of the actor raised a toast with the chorus of the song. "Come on, tell them Johnny," Alice prompts, and the situation echoes the life woes of Johnny, who is currently divorcing his third wife, Amber Heard. Just ten days ago, she announced that she was the victim of a systematic beating, and before seeking a restraining order against Depp, he hit her in the face with a phone. The lyrics of the piece sounded like an indirect statement on the case: “Good morning baby, how are you, oh excuse me, I must be bleeding. Let's drink to you - as good as you are, and drink to me - as bad as I am," half-singing, half-recitative Johnny utters. It's time for the blues, shouts Joe Perry, who has shaved his shoulder and is only wearing a vest. He's in the front row, singing Fleetwood Mac's Messin' Around and twirling the guitar again like he's making love to her. Next comes another original song by the Vampires - My Dead Drunk Friends. “There was a club in Los Angeles called Hollywood Vampires where we would get together with our colleagues and drink, drink. None of them are alive but.
Written by Boryana Kolchagova for Monitor Daily
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