Sunday, February 15, 2015

Hollywood Vampires Rock in Rio

from Blabbermouth


Legendary rocker Alice Cooper will play the Rock In Rio festival in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil this September under the HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES banner with a band that includes AEROSMITH's Joe Perry and actor Johnny Depp.
Although the exact date for HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES' performance hasn't yet been announced, the band will make its debut on the same night as QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE and SYSTEM OF A DOWN are scheduled to appear.
The sixth Brazilian edition of Rock In Rio will take place September 18-20 and September 24-27.
Cooper's covers album featuring songs that were originally written and recorded by THE DOORSJimi HendrixJohn Lennon and The Who members of the so-called "Hollywood Vampires" of the early and mid-'70s — is tentatively due this fall. The CD will include "four or five new songs," which the legendary rocker wrote specifically for the new effort. He told VH1 Radio Network's Dave Basner: "We decided that in order to set up the 'Hollywood Vampires' thing, you had to kind of tell the story, and you had to write songs that were going to set up the story, and then get into the covers. So we had fun sitting there writing these new songs around it. So it's going to be quite a package, this thing is."

Also Rolling Stone has an article on the Hollywood Vampires
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/johnny-depp-alice-cooper-joe-perry-form-hollywood-vampires-supergroup-20150214