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By Johnny Firecloud
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Aerosmith, the band that bats cleanup in the Ultimate Sellout game (after Kiss, of course), is currently imploding across the internugs in what appears to be a spat between their two leading wrinkled peacocks, frontman Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry.
Sunday night, Perry announced via Twitter that he and his bandmates are “positively looking for a new singer to work with.” A recent interview with Britain’s Classic Rock magazine revealed that Tyler had hired his own manager and announced that he would focus on his own projects, calling it “Brand Tyler.”
“Steven quit as far as I can tell,” he told the Las Vegas Sun, adding that the singer “has had no contact with me or the other band members.”
The original title of this piece was Famewhoring Old Rockers In Makeup Air Out Their Dirty Laundry In Desperate Bid To Remain Relevant – but it ran a bit too long. I think Velvet Revolver is still hiring, however…
The catty news comes on the tail end of a year plagued with problems for Aerosmith. In August, Tyler was airlifted to hospital after falling offstage at a gig in South Dakota. As a result, the band were forced to cancel a US tour. Perry told Reuters last month that Tyler has refused to write a song with him for a decade. More recently and just as importantly, Perry said that the last time he phoned his frontman, the singer hung up on him.
Tyler has been playing his cards close to the chest, but it’s worth noting that he completed a stint in rehab last year. Is this a relapse-fueled self-imposed exile from the world, or has Steven just succumbed to the self-loathing that the guy who wrote Dream On has been choking on for decades?
[UPDATE: Predictably, Tyler has announced that it was all a misunderstanding and he's not quitting. But hey, they got us all talking about Aerosmith again! That's gotta count for something, right?]
This is brilliant.
Funny you mention Velvet Revolver. My dad asked “isn’t Scott Weiland looking for a job right now? He could sing for Aerosmith”.
i think weiland with the aerosmith guys and tyler with velvet revolver would be kinda perfect. surreality aside.
For realz. Then they could all do the hop-de-hop into the La Brea Tarpits. And tarpits might be two words, but it looks better when it resembles ‘armpit’.
I agree with whoever Stoo is. Brilliance.
There’s no shame in retirement boys. The Early Bird buffet is calling…
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Batting cleanup i can understand, but in baseball terms who would you put at 1-2-3 in the lineup of sellouts. As there are forms of sellouts, i have various options. The Beatles with Rock Band, Led Zeppelin with their Cadillac ads, even Bob Dylan with that pepsi ad with Black Eye Peas. Anyway i digress from the main topic, Aerosmith has to be considered one of the greatest rock bands from the past 30 years, and i think they can keep rocking without a bump in the road without Steven Tyler. As much as Tyler was a great front man, the rest of the band is good enough to rock on with another dude rockin the mic if they choose.
Surreality aside Scott Weiland needs to get the hell out of the way of the bands that he has recently smashed. VR was a close shot to what Them Crooked Vultures is doing right now (absolte rock hyseria), and STP is a just waiting for another de-rail (we all saw the youtube clips of that drunken fool nearly wrecking their recent reunion tours).
Rock on Joe Perry and Co., hope you can keep the tunes goin!
I was wondering why Joe Perry was doing a small club/casino solo tour….. I wonder who he has playing with him.
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