Seriously? OMG! WTF?

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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?

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