Johnny Depp and "Kids"

He played in several garage bands in Florida; Flame, Zaphyre, Bitch, Bad Boys were some of the early ones. Some of these he played with in small local clubs despite being very underage and having to "sneak" into the clubs through back doors. Most notably of these bands was the formation of The Kids. The new, peppy, up beat, U2ish, Sex Pistolish, pop 80's sounding band opened for some big names of the time such as Iggy Pop, B-52ГЇВїВЅs, Billy Idol and the Talking Heads The Kids did manage to produce a 4 song demo tape prior to their disbandment and departure from Florida. Produced in Miami in 1983, and boasting very peppy tracks, this demo has to it'scredit Time to Explain, Backstage Girl, Tell Me What You Want Maybe Someday Die hard collectors can find pricey copies on Ebay occasionally and its worth it to get a good musical grasp of where he began. The Kids also was a start for Bruce Witkin of the James Inveld Band , who has had singer song~writers successes in the music business with his band the Lonely Bulls. Bruce has toured with the Romantics and Adam Ant. Bruce's name also appears as as one of the producers for the soundtrack on Once Upon a Time in Mexico and has worked with Johnny as recently as the soundtrack for Sweeney Todd After the renaming of the band "the Kids" to Six Gun Method, Johnny moved to Hollywood to try to make a musical career. Johnny packed up his wife and guitar and trekked out west.