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Johnny Depp on stage at Marostica (Photo: Marco Petenuzzo)

Apparently this is not him, but his imitator: curly hair like in Pirates of the Caribbean, mustache and beard, various tattoos.
Then I go to get drinks before the concert at Cafe Central in Crossroads and at a certain point another Johnny Depp enters the club with his girlfriend: practically his double, with a really impressive resemblance, right on his lobe. An earring and a generally mesmerizing gaze.
I’ll see more with bandanas, earrings and so on. The big event hasn’t even started yet and I find myself surrounded by Johnny Depp.
The real one will take the stage at 9:30 pm with his Hollywood Vampires Superband. Most of the crowd of 6500 people were standing, as is well and good for a rock concert that sold out worth the name, many certainly eager to see the movie star live in his role as musician and deliver the historic message. have gathered here in Marostica for The deluge of videos and photos taken from mobile phones are momentous for generations to come.
But the beauty is that the Hollywood legend is only one of the members of Hollywood Vampires and, musically speaking, isn’t even the main cast.

The frontman of the group is actually none other than a rock legend who responds to the name Alice Cooper. 75 years old, age undefined on stage. An iconic presence, as ever black eye outlines, unmistakable husky voice and a stage theatrics that is still and always disruptive.
Another big and famous face of Johnny Depp’s band is the equally stainless and wild Joe Perry, lead guitarist and co-founder of Aerosmith. And if you please.
The fourth big name belongs to guitarist Tommy Henriksen, the least well-known of the Hollywood vampires to the general public, but has a solid career as a musician and songwriter behind him.
The all-star band is completed by acrobatic drummer Glenn Sobel, a member of the hard rock group The Cult and former bassist for Ozzy Osbourne, and multi-instrumentalist and keyboardist Buck Johnson of Aerosmith.
Johnny Depp also plays guitar in the Vampires supergroup. Johnny Guitar.
His rhythmic accompaniment is chords, without solos and without virtuosity, not in the center of the stage but in the right corner of the formation.
In other bands a guitarist like him would be ignored by the public, in this case he’s in the spotlight: the actor who played Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean and many other roles in global blockbuster movies, also Away can be quiet and silent and only playing the tambourine, perhaps not even in rhythm, and the grace of the audience will still be complete for him.
This is the indomitable power of the collective imagination.

The evening of the Marostica Summer Festival begins with a support group for Those Damn Crows. Solid British hard rock, ideal for warming up the atmosphere.
Then, after a half-hour break to re-arrange the stage, it was finally time for Hollywood Vampires.
Superband, which returns to the Italian stage after a four-year absence, takes its name from a “spontaneous group” formed in the 1970s at the Rock Star Club opened by Alice Cooper in Los Angeles and which included names such as John Lennon. Were. Keith Emerson, Keith Moon, Ringo Starr and Company.
The current lineup was founded in 2015 by Cooper, along with Johnny Depp and Joe Perry, in honor of their club, which includes a shared love for their favorite songs and a desire to celebrate their “dead and drugged friends”.
Having already been awarded the “Best Performance of 2018” at London’s Wembley Arena on their last visit to the UK, the supergroup are currently on tour again with a busy schedule of dates in the UK and other European countries, Marostica only Italian is in the form of stop.
His marostica performance confirms the expectations. It’s incredible to see how the concept of the passage of time finds a glorious exception in Alice Cooper’s indomitable sense of music and stage animal instincts.
The same applies to Joe Perry, who, although over seventy, is still able to master the technique of the electric guitar solo with indomitable energy.
The nearly 60-year-old Henriksen and the band’s supporting members are no less.
Each of them is given the opportunity to focus the spotlight on a specific moment in the performance, bringing to life a magical moment of instrumental artistry.

And Johnny Depp? Well, it’s Johnny Depp.
Pirate-like look, painted eyes, bandana on forehead, Jamaican dreadlocks hat, shoe on right foot and high water boot on left.
During the concert, he winks at the audience, gazes, smiles, nods, and kisses on the mouth. In short: he agrees to the position and he can afford it. It is enough to make him and most of all his countless fans jump with joy.
Not only Johnny Guitar: the movie star, 60 springs to the registry office, also sings.
her singing performance with a cover of heroes by David Bowie, featuring him as the vocalist of The Vampires. It is not easy to sing as it goes up an octave at a certain point. But our Super Johnny, in spite of his low voice, goes up very well in the treble.
Compared to the bubbly enthusiasm of the evergreen Alice Cooper, who keeps the audience entertained between pieces, Depp is more restrained. He also speaks into the microphone but in a more “intimate” manner and slurring his words slightly.
Talking Johnny’s top moment is when he shows off a guitar that used to belong to his friend Jeff Beck, one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time, who passed away in January of this year, having played Depp last year. and recorded a cover album with the original track “18”.
This is the launch speech of a tribute piece set to music by the band on stage to the great British performer of six strings.
The most famous Johnny in the world still sings as first or second voice in some other songs, takes over or joins frontman Alice Cooper and is always – it’s fair to say – on the piece.

In all, the concert guarantees an hour and a half of pure adrenaline rush.
The set list is a mix of Hollywood Vampires originals from their studio album he laughed And in addition to the above – covers of famous songs are also included heroes White Duke’s – Baba o’riley

Who’s Jack ac/dc, people who died by the Jim Carroll Band and walk this Way by Aerosmith, written by Joe Perry with Steven Tyler.
And the piece chosen for the triumphant moment of the encore is also a cover, when Grand Master of Ceremonies Alice Cooper also introduces all the other members of the formation on stage, strategically placed to elicit the enthusiasm of the people, with the star being the last. Bar calls. Johnny Depp.
And the encore may just be a cover of the most famous piece from Cooper’s fifty-year career: outside schoolWhich ends with the ringing of the last bell and the liberating screams of a group of children, the most poignant hymn of joy and rebellion for the end of the school year.
It was the song I wanted to hear from the beginning: I really enjoyed it in the grand finale.

The American supergroup’s performance also ends with thunderous applause, as Alice Cooper ends the school.
So everyone and everyone at home is happy, Johnny Depp impersonators and imitators included: The Hollywood Vampires’ rock concert, thanks also to the cast’s ability to join them on stage, is met with resounding success.
And Chess Square crowned its king with the live appearance of John Christopher Depp II, better known as Johnny.