information about Johnny's music

• the band P
• music tracks
• music videos

the band P

P: the band consists of Johnny Depp, Sal Jenco, Bill Carter and Gibby Haynes. Origins: While filming What's Eating Gilbert Grape on the outskirts of Austin, Texas in early 1993, Johnny and his friend Sal Jenco met two local musicians, songwriter/roots-rocker Bill Carter and the Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes. Johnny spent off-camera time with Jenco and Haynes, and they watched Carter play at places like the Continental Club. Finally they formed an impromptu band called P and had their first gig at the 1993 Austin Music Awards. This photo of Johnny was taken at that performance. The P album was released in November 1995. It's no longer produced but you might be able to get hold of it at a second-hand music stockist or at ebay.com.You can read the full publicity release for the album in the The Deppartment's galleries at the Zone.

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music tracks
Johnny's contributed to several music albums on the invitation of his friends, as well as co-writing several songs.

	artist	album	year	track
	Emir Kusturica & Goran Bregovic	Arizona Dream movie soundtrack - special edition	1993	the additional track American Dreamers on the special edition cd is performed by Johnny
	Oasis	Be Here Now	1997	Fade In-Out
	Chuck E Weiss	Extremely Cool	1999	Devil with Blue Suede Shoes was executive-produced by Johnny
	Iggy Pop	Corruption 4-track cd	1999	Hollywood Affair This track featured in Johnny's directorial debut The Brave. It's also available on the 'Hollywood Goes Wild' celebrity artists' benefit cd released in 2001 for The Wildlife Waystation
	Vanessa Paradis	Bliss	2000	Johnny co-wrote the songs St Germain and Bliss with Vanessa
	Rachel Portman and various artists	Chocolat movie soundtrack	2000	Johnny plays acoustic guitar in the movie and is listed along with Malcolm Ross on the movie's credits for the guitar work on Minor Swing, They're Red Hot and Caravan. The tracks Minor Swing and Caravan are included on the cd album soundtrack although Johnny's not specifically credited there.

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music videos: Johnny's appeared in some of his friends' music videos during the 1990s.

	artist	year	music video
	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	1991	Into the Great Wide Open Johnny and Faye Dunaway filmed this video while they were waiting for Arizona Dream filming to restart. This track is available on the Tom Petty dvd Playback.
	Lemonheads	1992	It's A Shame About Ray This track is available on the Lemonheads' video Two Weeks in Australia.
	Shane MacGowan	1994	That Woman's Got Me Drinking. Johnny directed this video as well as starring in it alongside Shane. He also appeared on stage with Shane MacGowan and the Popes when they played this track on the UK's music programme Top of the Pops in 1994.

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