{"id":8655,"date":"2015-10-15T05:13:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T09:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=8655"},"modified":"2015-10-18T22:25:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T22:25:07","slug":"album-mini-review-hollywood-vampires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/15\/album-mini-review-hollywood-vampires\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Hollywood Vampires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/hollywood_vampires.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>File Next to: Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, the infamous <em>A Toot and a Snore in &#8217;74<\/em> bootleg<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B012GKH0FE&#038;asins=B012GKH0FE&#038;linkId=ESZCYO4HLMLDRO4W&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The original Hollywood Vampires was an informal early &#8217;70s all-star collective of L.A. scenesters who engaged in drink, drugs and general rabble-rousing (and \u2013 only rarely \u2013 music). Most of its alumni have either died (<strong>Harry Nilsson<\/strong>, <strong>John Lennon<\/strong>, <strong>Keith Moon<\/strong>) or cleaned up (<strong>Alice Cooper<\/strong>, <strong>Ringo Starr<\/strong>, <strong>Micky Dolenz<\/strong>). Today&#8217;s aggregation of the same name is led by Cooper, <strong>Aerosmith<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Joe Perry<\/strong>, and&#8230;<strong>Johnny Depp<\/strong>. That should tell you most of what you need to know about this project. The tunes \u2013 covers and two originals \u2013 rock hard, with enough humor to keep things afloat. The Coop is nobody&#8217;s idea of a great singer, but the songs and arrangements make the most of his particular talents. Perry handles the big guitar parts, and it&#8217;s hard to know what exactly Depp is doing here. The whole affair is supremely inconsequential; it&#8217;s also a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p><em>An edited version of this review appeared in the <\/em>Colorado Springs Independent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File Next to: Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, the infamous A Toot and a Snore in &#8217;74 bootleg The original Hollywood Vampires was an informal early &#8217;70s all-star collective of L.A. scenesters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[161,1004],"class_list":["post-8655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-alice-cooper","tag-hollywood-vampires","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8899,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655\/revisions\/8899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}