{"id":1497129,"date":"2022-05-30T12:45:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T16:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497129"},"modified":"2022-05-30T12:45:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T16:45:58","slug":"johnny-depp-performs-with-guitar-legend-in-u-k-gig-as-he-awaits-defamation-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnny-depp-performs-with-guitar-legend-in-u-k-gig-as-he-awaits-defamation-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Depp Performs With Guitar Legend In U.K. Gig As He Awaits Defamation Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohnny-depp-performs-with-guitar-legend-in-u-k-gig-as-he-awaits-defamation-verdict%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497129&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/johnny-depp\">Johnny Depp<\/a> jammed with guitar legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/rock-music\">Jeff Beck<\/a> in a U.K. gig over the weekend while he continued to await a verdict in his defamation suit against ex-wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/amber-heard\">Amber Heard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d actor took the stage\u00a0at Sheffield City Hall Sunday night with Beck to perform several songs, including Marvin Gaye\u2019s \u201cWhat\u2019s Goin\u2019 On\u201d and John Lennon\u2019s \u201cIsolation,\u201d and Jimi Hendrix\u2019s \u201cLittle Wing.\u201d\u00a0The pair recently released a single of their version of the former Beatle\u2019s song. Playing a white Fender Telecaster, Depp, who previously fronted his own band, sang the classic covers.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Beck and Depp recently released their version of \u201cIsolation\u201d as a single.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe musical soulmates have been working behind-the-scenes for the past few several years on new music,\u201d Beck\u2019s website states.<\/p>\n<p>Depp sued Heard in 2019 for $50 million in defamation damages after she published a 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post, claiming she had been the victim of domestic violence. Although she did not name Depp in the op-ed, Depp\u2019s lawyers say it was clear that she was referring to him. Last year, Heard countersued the \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d star for $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Judge Penney Azcarate gave the jury instructions and it began deliberations.<\/p>\n<p>While Americans following the trial on TV and online have picked sides, the jury must focus not only on whether Depp abused Heard, but also on whether Heard\u2019s op-ed can be considered legally defamatory.<\/p>\n<p>The article, which court testimony revealed was written at least in part by the ACLU, focuses mostly on policy questions of domestic violence, but Depp\u2019s lawyer claims it was clearly aimed at his client.<\/p>\n<p>Depp for years played with the all-star band, \u201cThe Hollywood Vampires.\u201d The lead guitarist in that group is Aerosmith\u2019s Joe Perry, and rock legend Alice Cooper sings. Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum of Guns N\u2019 Roses fame have also toured as part of the band.<\/p>\n<p>According to Blue Oyster Cult frontman Eric Bloom, who recalled performing in gig with the Vampires in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/metalheadzone.com\/is-johnny-depp-really-good-at-guitar-iconic-rock-legend-of-blue-oyster-cult-explains\/\">Metalhead Zone<\/a>, Depp is a pretty fair ax man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I did that gig with them last year \u2013 actually, late 2018, on Christmas \u2013 with Alice, and yeah, it\u2019s surprising, I had no idea that he\u2019s a pretty good guitar player,\u201d Bloom said.<\/p>\n<p>Depp has said he based his Jack Sparrow character in \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d on Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards.<\/p>\n<p>Depp\u2019s guitar playing came was briefly a focus of the trial when he testified that a 2015 finger injury he blamed on Heard could not have been self-inflicted. Depp claimed he lost the tip of his right middle a finger when his then-wife threw a broken vodka bottle at him, and her attorneys claimed he did it to himself when he slammed a phone against a wall.<\/p>\n<p>Depp said cutting off his own finger was unthinkable, because guitar playing was \u201cthe only thing that was really good in my life, aside from my children.\u201d He said it happened right as he was set to begin playing live with The Hollywood Vampires.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no way I would cut my own finger off to ruin this beautiful opportunity to start playing guitar,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Johnny Depp jammed with guitar legend Jeff Beck in a U.K. gig over the weekend while he continued to await a verdict in his defamation suit against ex-wife Amber Heard. The \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d actor took the stage\u00a0at Sheffield City Hall Sunday night with Beck to perform several songs, including Marvin Gaye\u2019s \u201cWhat\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1497142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1497142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}