Joe Perry told WENN that because of Steven Tyler’s health issues, Aerosmith is left no other option but to look for a temporary replacement until he is well enough to rejoin the band.
“We’re already getting the word out there. The word’s been out there for a while. We’ll start having some auditions, making some phone calls. Hopefully, we’ll have found a new singer by the summer, and Aerosmith will be able to go back out on the road.
“From what I’ve heard, (Tyler) hasn’t left the band. As far as I’m concerned, he hasn’t left the band. He’s never said he was going to leave the band. It’s just that he wanted to go off and do some of his own things. He just never told anybody in the band about it. But his manager has told our manager that he wants to take some time off. And then lately he’s been saying he wants to come back.
“But he has to have leg surgery and foot surgery and it’s basically going to take him out of the picture for about a year, year and a half. So, in the meantime, the rest of the band wants to play. We’re gonna find somebody to get in there and fill that spot. Just like when (bassist) Tom (Hamilton) was sick - we got David Hull to come in and play bass. When (guitarist) Brad (Whitford) was sick, we got somebody else to come in and play for him. That’s basically how I look at it; we need another singer to fill in.”
While I get what Perry is saying about the band having had to use replacements in the past when one of them was out of due to health reasons, there is a huge difference replacing them and replacing the front man that is the sound of the band. Without Steven Tyler belting out their hits, it is almost like seeing a cover band instead of the real thing. I saw Van Halen when Sammy Hagar was their front man and let me tell you with him doing their classic hits it wasn’t the same as when David Lee Roth did them even though the band was backing him. Would you pay good money to see Aerosmith without Tyler?
via NME
Joe Perry was performing a solo show in NYC when Steven Tyler joined him on stage to let him know he isn’t leaving Aerosmith! Tyler said, “I just want New York, New York I want you to know, I am not leaving Aerosmith. And Joe Perry, you are a man of many colors but I, motherf*cker, am the rainbow!” And then the two performed Walk This Way for the crowd!
Now that we have heard that he is not leaving from his mouth, I feel much better about the future of Aerosmith! But I have to admit Joe Perry’s people did a good job to promote his solo project, but it was at cost of Aerosmith fans.
After a nearly a week of wondering if Steven Tyler quit Aerosmith, OK Magazine asked him at The 2009 Women of the Year hosted by Glamour Magazine, of all places, if he was still singing with the band. He told them, “Does it look like I’m leaving Aerosmith?” Steven questioned reporters on the red carpet. “You know what it is, it’s those people who are putting out Joe’s [Perry] album,” he added of how the reports may have originated. Joe’s doing a solo album,” he said. “So people are paying attention to that.”
OK! Now we can all breathe a sigh of relief as long as he doesn’t fall of stage again…
BTW he also confirmed he is working on solo album which is probably what lead to all of the confusion in the first place.
Steven Tyler did an interview with Classic Rock Magazine and he told them, “I don’t know what I’m doing yet, but it’s definitely going to be something Steven Tyler: working on the brand of myself – Brand Tyler.” CRM wrote that quote meant that he was leaving Aerosmith. But I am not sure if that means he is really leaning the band and I am not the only one who is confused by his statement.
When Joe Perry read that he called Steven Tyler, but he has not picked up his phone or returned his calls. So he when Las Vegas Sun called him, he gave them an interview and told them that he also thinks that means that Tyler quit after being the singer of the band for almost 40 years.
“Steven quit as far as I can tell,” Perry said from his Boston home. “I don’t know anymore than you do about it. I got off the plane two nights ago. I saw online that Steven said that he was going to leave the band. I don’t know for how long, indefinitely or whatever. Other than that, I don’t know.”
Part of the problem, he says, is that Tyler doesn’t return his phone calls.
“He’s notorious for that,” Perry said. “That’s one thing I’ve learned to live with. I try to overlook it. I like to pick my battles. Frankly, the last few months I’ve been wanting not to rock the boat. I don’t want him canceling any more gigs. We really wanted to do these last four. We just kind of didn’t want to call him out or anything and get him anymore pissed off, for whatever reason. So we just let things lie. So we did the gigs and, like I said, I got off the plane and saw this online. That’s how I know about it.”
So what will Aerosmith do without the voice?
“Right now I’m adjusting to how we’re going to go on,” Perry says. “Aerosmith is such a powerful band, I mean it’s like a steam locomotive. You just can’t disregard 40 years of four guys who play together as well as they do. We’re just trying to – at least I am – trying to figure out what direction the band should take.
“As far as replacing Steve, it’s not just about that, it’s also four guys that play extremely well together, and I’m not going to see that go to waste. I really don’t know what path it’s going to take at this point, but we’ll probably find somebody else that will sing in those spots where we need a singer and then we’ll be able to move the Aerosmith up a notch, move the vibe up a notch.”
It is like Steven Tyler falls off the stage once and he goes to complete crap. I mean why quit Aerosmith after 40 years and go solo. You are too old for that.
Would you buy his solo album or go see Aerosmith without him? I wouldn’t do either because the 4 them belong together or not at all.
Last night while performing in South Dakota, Steven Tyler fell off the stage and sustained minor injuries according to TMZ. The 61 year old rocker was performing Love in an Elevator when they had some audio problems and the Aerosmith singer was dancing to entertain the crowd when he fell off the stage backwards. He was airlifted to a local hospital where they said he suffered minor injuries to head, neck and shoulder. Hopefully he will be better soon and he be lovin it up till I hit the ground anytime soon again.
Before Josh Hollyway was a con artist on Lost, he was stealing Alicia Silverstone’s purse in Aerosmith’s music video for Cryin’! OMG how beautiful was the 24 year old actor back in 1993? I love him with short hair and a clean shaven face, not that I think he looks bad now! Believe me, I like him anyway I can see him!!!
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler will never forget his first meeting with Sir Paul McCartney because the former Beatle gave him his famous thumbs-up greeting in a men’s toilet. Tyler and McCartney first met in the late 1970s when Aerosmith covered The Beatles’ Come Together for the movie Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Tyler remembers, "I was in a backstage urinal at the Hammersmith Odeon (in London). McCartney walked in, started doing what people do in urinals. "For the record, I did not check his size out! But I’m taking this p**s that seems to be taking forever, and Paul says, ‘Hey! Steven Tyler, I f**king love your music.’ And he gives me the famous thumbs-up with his one free hand. Well, that snapped my stream, right there. "It turned out to be quite a night, that one. I recall fat ones being smoked and a lot of wrestling on the floor."
I am so excited to see what Aerosmith’s lead singer does tonight on CBS’s Two and a Half Men at 9p! This is one of the few shows that actually knows how to use A-List talent as guest stars unlike Will & Grace, et al! Also don’t forget to stay tuned until 9:30:25 and watch what Chuck Lorre writes for his weekly Vanity Card. Check out Chuck Lorre’s site for past examples of his vanity cards!
Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler has been secretly battling hepatitis C — a serious viral infection of the blood, often associated with dirty needles, that can lead to chronic liver disease. But the 58-year-old recovering drug addict tells "Access Hollywood’s" Nancy O’Dell that after a year of interferon treatments, "It is nonexistent in my bloodstream … where it’s like a complete cure." In an interview airing tomorrow night, Tyler says he was diagnosed three years ago but "I’ve had hepatitis C for a long time, asymptomatic. "I’ve been pretty quiet about this," he says. "The band took a break about three years ago. … [My doctor] said now is the time, and it’s 11 months of chemotherapy" — actually, interferon, which strengthens the immune system — "so I went on that, and it about killed me." Tyler — who’s on tour with Mötley Crüe and will be featured tonight as a hard-partying neighbor on the CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men" — continues: "You know, it really hurt. It was a bad, bad period. I’m in AA, and I tried to go three, four, five months with nothing, and it about killed me." Tyler’s marriage to clothing designer Teresa Barrick was falling apart at the time of his treatments, and they were divorced earlier this year. "I had a little problem at home, to say the least," he says, "and I would run upstairs at night, you know, to put the kids asleep and wake up at 3 in the morning with a nosebleed — you know, just passed out from the interferon, the treatment. It’s a shot and pills and all of that. But the good news is I stood the test of time." About 4.5 million Americans suffer from hepatitis C, which is hard to detect but can cause scarring of the liver and lead to cirrhosis. In 2002, Pamela Anderson announced that she, too, has the disease. "Hepatitis C is the one that, of all the people in this room, at least three have it and don’t know it," Tyler says. "It’s the silent killer. I may go on ‘Oprah’ and talk about this. I hope you don’t mind me mentioning that."
Charlie finally tells Alan the truth about why he broke up with Mia, and a famous neighbor causes problems, on TWO AND A HALF MEN, Monday, Sept. 25 (9:00-9:30 PM, ET/PT), on the CBS Television Network. Alan feels guilty when he learns that Charlie and Mia didn’t tie the knot because she had wanted him and Jake to move out. Meanwhile, Charlie and his rock star neighbor don’t get along. Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler makes a cameo appearance as Charlie’s next-door neighbor.
I hear this episode is funny as all hell! On a side note to people who have never seen this show; watch this episode and see how they use the title (Who is this Vod Kanockers?) in the show. Also make sure to read Chuck Lorre’s Vanity Card at the end of episode, it is some of the funniest stuff you will read on TV!
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler will never forget his first meeting with Sir Paul McCartney because the former Beatle gave him his famous thumbs-up greeting in a men’s toilet. Tyler and McCartney first met in the late 1970s when Aerosmith covered The Beatles’ Come Together for the movie Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Tyler remembers, "I was in a backstage urinal at the Hammersmith Odeon (in London). McCartney walked in, started doing what people do in urinals. "For the record, I did not check his size out! But I’m taking this p**s that seems to be taking forever, and Paul says, ‘Hey! Steven Tyler, I f**king love your music.’ And he gives me the famous thumbs-up with his one free hand. Well, that snapped my stream, right there. "It turned out to be quite a night, that one. I recall fat ones being smoked and a lot of wrestling on the floor." 
