Man who signed Mötley Crüe and Guns N’ Roses calls Johnny Depp “the worst guitarist I’d ever seen”
nme.comMötley Crüe and Guns N’ Roses has said that he thought Johnny Depp was “the worst guitarist I’d ever seen”.Tom Zutaut is a celebrated A&R executive, and in a recent interview on the X5 Podcast he disclosed that after seeing an early audition of a band that Depp was playing in before rising to Hollywood fame, he dismissed his musical talents offhand.“I thought that Johnny Depp wasn’t going to be a rock star,” he said. “You know, Johnny Depp auditioned for me twice.
This is a funny story. I go to a rehearsal, the manager’s a friend of mine, and he goes, ‘I got this band from Jacksonville, they’re great.’ I go see ’em, and they were terrible.
Johnny Depp was the worst guitarist I’d ever seen — but his charisma was insane, you know?”“Afterwards, I look at his manager, and I said, ‘Listen, buddy, he can’t make it, but you should get this kid an agent and put him in TV or on a movie; this kid’s a star.
But the songs suck, and musicianship is terrible.'”Only a few months later, Zutaut recalled, Depp managed to secure an acting agent and landed a role in the television series 21 Jump Street.Now, Depp is a member of the supergroup Hollywood Vampires alongside Alice Cooper and Aerosmith’s Joe Perry.
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