Wait… so Joe’s saying that Steven isn’t quitting, he’s just taking a “break”, but he’s still searching for another frontman to tour with the band in the meanwhile? Wouldn’t a temporary side project work better for that?

Guess what Joe…

If the frontman for your band (you know, in reality, the man of which 90% of your audience are there to see) wants to take two years off… then you take two years off. No questions asked.

You want to make music during the interim, fine. Do something else.

But you don’t go and make an Aerosmith album or tour without him.

Have some class and some common sense, idiot.

Maybe in your little band world, you are all equal fifths.

But to the general public, Steven Tyler is Aerosmith. Don’t you forget it.

“An ‘acquaintance’ of 4 )2*34′!?

Joe Perry, you can be a petty, pathetic, and melodramatic little bitch sometimes. Shame on you.

If you replace Tyler, Aerosmith is
surely finished…I mean boys your 60 some of years old, don’t you have enough money…I haven’t bought one of your album in 20 years..but I always will love the Aerosmith of the 70’s & 80’s..

“An ‘acquaintance’ of 40 years”!?

Joe Perry, you can be a petty, pathetic, and melodramatic little bitch sometimes. Shame on you.

Joe Perry makes me sick. Even if they don’t get along or even if they have a lack of communication. 40 years performing together should be worth something! I agree, Do something else but not with Aerosmith. Steven Tyler is Aerosmith. Irreplaceable! Wait for him!

I saw Aerosmith perform without Joe Perry. It wasn’t the same. Aerosmith without Tyler would certainly not be the same or even worth seeing at this point.

i don’t get the hate.
first of all, who cares how much money is involved and how old they are? It’s pretty obvious we’re all still reading what’s going on and that means they matter, they’re relevant and we care.
And I totally disagree that Aerosmith (whose music I dislike strongly) IS Steven Tyler. Steven Tyler is a bad singer who likes bad songs.
Perry is a great guitar player who likes writing blues songs. If this whole situation was Perry being an ass, why is the entire rest of the band siding with him?

sounds like joe wants to be the big man and play in a band with his son. Let Steven have the time off. He is the one we pay to see anyways. He is the VOICE–any one can play the guitat, Joe!!!

keep your petty drama to yourselves. when you announce a tour and everyone is healthy, let us know. i don’t need the daily soap opera updates.

Who gives a flying f**k if Tyler leaves…or not…

Both these bozos are acting like little whiney girls….

Jus’ sayin’

You won’t be homeless if you stop touring for two years, but Aerosmith will be over if they go in a tour without Steven Tyler.

With or without Steven Tyler,Aerosmith is finished as we’ve known them.It’s been apparent for well over 20 years that they are only in it for the money,and it was very telling that Perry was sending public jabs of sarcasm in Tyler’s direction instead of get well cards after Steven’s recent fall,and the hits keep on coming.How sad is it that the two of them rarely speak to each other,let alone sit down to write new music together.I’d rather see the guys break up and have enthusiasm for new projects,instead of phoning it in.Carrying on without Tyler isn’t an option,it would be a joke and I wouldn’t pay today’s concert prices to see them.If they can stop all the feuding and try to record decent,relevant music again I’m all for it,but if it’s going to be business as usual for the band they might as well leave with their rock dignity and hang it up,next stop is as a Vegas lounge act and who wants to see them end up like that?Get your shit together or get off the pot guys,your choice.

Listen guys I am really sorry that im a huge dush bag. What i am really trying to say that i am the face of aerosmith. You know the voice and the big lips, yea that was all my idea. I am sorry that i think i can go on without steven, but in reality i will get a 20 year old that can sing just like him, dont worry guys we will still sell out records and stadiums, even tho we havent made a decent record in so many years and probably couldnt sell out my grandchild’s softball stadium. Dont worry i got this.

How come nobody is talking about me here?

Tyler/Perry/Whitford/Hamilton/ Kramer is Aerosmith No One Else Will Do

Joe Perry is the gift that keeps on giving.

Rock Stars….they act like just like 8 year olds in a grade 3 classroom, after 40 years you would think they could sit down and work out their future plans without the juvenile ego tripping and ostracism.
Tyler needs Aerosmith and Perry needs Tyler, considering these guys haven’t made a decent album since ‘Rocks’ do the fans need either of them?

Remember when Joe Perry was kicked out of the band? Maybe this is just his revenge.

Didn’t this whole thing start because ST wore the same dress as JP to the prom?

Hey Steven,

Let’s get together like the glory days of Aerosmith sans Joe Perry and Brad Whitford. We could continue on and add to our stellar canon of Night in the Ruts and Rock in a Hard Place. (All the people lashing out at Joe Perry are either ignorant or conveniently forget those years.)

Their all acting stupid. Perry is overestimating himself and Tyler is being just flat out negligent of his band (their is more to Aerosmith then just Steven Tyler). These guys need a couples therapist.

The only 60 year old men i’m paying to see with their shirt off is when i’m 70 and i’m on a cruise ship. who’s still going to their shows and seeing the same songs again over and over? use the web, find a new band.

Oh, Joe, Joe, Joe… I love you, but puleeze, an aquaintance? C’mon Steven is your brother! You guys just need to get over yourselves and be Aerosmith again, because this is all very unsettling. And Steven, I hate to break it to you, but at your age, you don’t have two years to “take off”. One of you could very well die during that time. So cherish the moments you have left!

Haha, these guys are like the ultimate celebrity couple. Joe is the big tough, pissed off husband, and Steven is his little dramatic, self absorbed bitch. They need couples counseling, they fight like an old Sicilian married couple! I quote Mr. Tyler himself on that!

An “acquaintance”, mee-oww! God Joe, that was really catty. Way to play the stone cold bitch. I’m sure Steven shed a few pre-menstrual tears over that one. OUCH

I think this is all very cute.

Does anyone actually care if Aerosmith doesnt release another album for 2 years? Did you actually realize they weren’t around? Just listen to bon jovi for the time being and steven tyler will be back when he’s ready

Aero album w/out Tyler is just a waste,wake up Mr.Perry you will not make $$$ on this,you will just loose a fan..by the way steven’s real name is Steven Aerosmith Tyler…did I MISS A THING?

I dunno, seems Joe is adding fire to the fight to get publicity for his album. He really needs to zip up that mouth of his.

Score 1 for Tyler reaching out to the fans and him via showing up and doing his thing. Far more classy than using:

1) twitter
2) stupid interviews

also, that “acquaintance” is why you’re able to PLAY walk this way in the first place. Jeese

I think everyone writing into this blog beefing about Joe Perry’s “acquaintance” comment on Tyler should give you head a shake…I don’t think he was slagging Tyler, I think he was making light of what is obviously a difficult situation. And let’s keep in mind that Tyler has turned a separated shoulder into a two year break, not Perry or the rest of the band. As fans you should let Tyler know how unhappy you are and quit complaining about Perry and the rest of the band you asses…

THIS IS ALL A MARKETING PLOY, LOOK AT ALL THE ATTENTION AEROSMITH IS GETTING NOW! CHRIST, THEY EVEN HAVE THEIR OWN SCRATCH OFF LOTTERY TICKETS.

Joe is Aerosmith not Steve, and the band lays the support for the auto-tuned melody Steve delivers. Musicians make bands solid, not vocalists

Aerosmith without Steven Tyler would be like The Who without Roger Daltrey or The Rolling Stones without Mick Jagger. It just won’t work.

Steven has cancelled a number of shows on the past 3 tours because of vocal problems. He might need the time to recover and get his voice in shape. He’s earned the right to take the time off. The other guys have enough money, and can afford to do some other projects.

I doubt Joe Perry owns the exclusive rights to the name Aerosmith and if he fights Steven Tyler in court, Aerosmith will never get back together.

Joe should just form a new supergroup with some other rock legends and write some new music. Steve Perry might be available.

We don’t want Aerosmith to turn into Journey or Foreigner as long as Steven wants to sing. Forget about it, Joe!

The Joe Perry project !
Steven even shows up to help promote it !

Aerosmith should just quit now….it’s getting pathetic…

LOTS OF BABY BOOMERS WANT A SECOND CARREER !
STEVENS ABOUT TO FILE FOR SOCIAL SECURITY.
ONLY PARTIAL BENEFITS AT THIS POINT.
HE MAY NEED TO STOP MAKING SO MUCH CASH, FOR A COUPLE YEARS, SO HE QUALIFIES FOR MEDICARE.

Yeah, Joe, you couldn’t keep busy with the Project for two years? That alone should show you that, respected as your talent is, Steven is the focus, as is any great singer. Another singer? Let’s face it, you guys are two old to go Van Halen on us. Ever heard of going out with some dignity left?

This is the most news they’ve garnered in a loooong time. They’ll kiss and make up. Mark my words.On another side note, why can’t the readers of this website spell??? “Loose” instead of lose, “there” instead of their. Jesus. Take a grammar class.

hey perry take out of your mind the idea of replacing steven, aerosmith doesn’t excist without him did you get it? everybody goes to the aerosmith sohows to see him, everybody buys aerosmith records for steven your music sucks man, you need tyler , on the other han you won’t get $$$$$

i love what’s going on here, because he will realise that he is nothing but a fool and egocentric man that can’t make money without tyler
i belive that he’s a little jealous of steven, consider this if he follows a solo carreer he will be very successful but joe just can not do it!! it’s a waste of time man!!

Aerosmith doesn’t have two years to wait. These five guys own the live concert. No band is better. Steven is off the 12 steps and the rest of the band is sober. Intervention. Sobriety. Three months in Maui writing the best Aersomith album ever.

When did Joe turn into such a twat— he used to be a very cool guy— then he supports McCain and is petty with Tyler….. too bad….maybe Tyler should get Jimmy Crespo back in the band

I think Joes problem with Steven has ALOT to do with the fact that all communication with Steven is thru his managers. If a friend of mine only began talking to me and telling me of OUR plans thur their manager…in the midst of trying to talk to them by phone or in person… yeah Id be pissed too, and say theyre an ‘aquaintence’ at that point.

Sounds like they need to go back to another group therapy session like they did before Nine Lives.

I loved Aerosmith from the early 70’s up through the Done With Mirrors LP. I applauded ther clean and sober route in the 80’s, despite making crappy music which consistantly got worse as time went on. Yet, I always hoped they would go back and listen to what made them great to begin with…and great they indeed were! I would be willing to bet that depiste any petty bithcing between Joe and Steven, that Joe is telling the truth that Steven would prefer to do power ballads and just be ‘the star’ rather than actually make a fucking great hard rock album. Tyler is a fuck up with one huge ass ego and while I do agree that without him it’s not really Aerosmith, I say so what…Aerosmith proper has been over years ago. What’s out there for th past 15 or so years has been some highly glossed facsimile of a once great band. I don’t blame Perry for wanting to keep going with it. They are all 60 give or take and they don’t have a lot of time left to kick it out. That’s not being pesimistic or making fun of them, it’s the truth! Steven should just suck it up and get his shit together or say farewell and let the rest of them put the thing out of it’s (our) misery. Now go put on “Rocks” and crank it up and remember when they lived up to the title of that LP!

Usually fan stands for fanatic. All of the posts here sound more rational that Perry and Tyler. I love that band and love them live. Aerosmith needs them both. I wouldn’t go see a fake Steven Tyler.

I’m doing a solo tour right now and now one talks about me, WTF!!

I read something a while ago that Tyler was feeling “underappreciated” by the band, and I can see why now. You can’t have the Rolling Stones without Mick Jagger, and you can’t have Aerosmith without the lead singer of 40-plus years. There is actually a group out their calling themselves CCR- problem is, John Fogerty isn’t in it. Tyler almost gets killed and the band gets pissed at him? Something’s wrong here…

When Joe called Steven “an acquaintance of 40 years”, I’m pretty sure he meant that in jest. I mean, the part where he mentioned 40 years pretty much tells you that he definitely acknowledges Steven as way more than just “an acquaintance”.

I’m losing my respect fot Joe Perry

I agree that Aerosmith without Steven Tyler would be crappy, but I think that would be true of the band without any of the other guys too. If there’s any value to the band now, it’s in that the original 5 are still (mostly) there. Joe Perry rules…

Take two years off?! What the hell have they been doing the last few year? Touring once in a while sure, but come on!! When the F was the last time they wrote new material?

WTF!!!

I’m sorry. Aerosmith hasn’t made a good record since Rocks. They said all they had to say by then!

“Searching for a new singer”….hmmmm…reminds me of another band-Velvet Revolver…

Perry should team up with Alice Cooper (as they briefly did in the 80’s) and create a whole new thing. Forget Aerosmith.

Take it from me, don’t do it Steven!

Hey..Lets do a reality tv show to find the new vocalist…..!

“Being an acquaintance of 40 years”… Sounds like Perry has a lot of things to work out with Tyler that go way beyond what direction to take the band. Someone you’ve worked and toured with for 40 years is just an acquaintance? I mean, you don’t have to be best friends or even friendly, but to call someone who’s been such an important part of your life for so long an “acquaintance” is pretty dismissive. I’ve gotten sick of this story fairly quickly. Whatever internal issues the band has should be worked out behind closed doors, not on Joe Perry’s twitter account. What a lame-o!

There is no Aerosmith without Steven Tyler?!?!?!? Obviously there are some readers who never heard the abortion albums Stevenb put out minus Joe Perry in the really eighties. Perhaps also they never realised that Steven is not the greatest performer anymore. It is all Joe Perry! Steven is lost in adolescence prancing around like a cheerleader while his band grew up. The best thing Aersosmith could do is move on – sure maybe a name change would be cool – but really Steven is the sole reason we are not holding a new “rocking” Aerosmith album in our hands. Joe meanwhile has a work ethic that has been producing albums while Steven whiles away his teen years dreaming that he has all the time in the world. Screw Tyler let’s rock, and I am available if you guys need a singer with attitude.

CHECK THIS CAT OUT FOR NEW SINGER: YOUTUBE SEARCH “GEORGE STECKERT”

This is the best publicity stunt in a long, long time.

If you have followed the band even casually over the past two years or so, it is quite obvious that Tyler is drinking again, and quite possibly using prescription drugs. Steven went to rehab in March of ‘08 to kick painkillers, and the band has been a train wreck ever since. I suspect he may need the two years off to get his shit back together, and Perry likely realizes that at their age, if they stop for two years it is definitely over. As for the war of words, this band has already lost their career once due to drugs and booze, and it is understandable that Perry is furious that Tyler has hamstrung the band again. However, I agree that it just isn’t Aerosmith without Tyler, and to tour as Aerosmith without him at this stage of their career would be destroying a 40 year legacy. Joe, you aren’t going hungry anytime soon, so if you need to stretch your legs creatively put together a side project and rock out. Steven may be a mess, but if he needs to bow out, let him do it gracefully. That way everybody wins.

Steven has separated himself from his friends/band intentionally. He won’t speak directly to them. What should they do, sit around and wait for Steven’s call? Something is going on with Steven and for all the denials, all roads point in the same direction. This really doesn’t sound like anything new.

You know Aerosmith, a bunch of bitchy little girls.

Man, there are some funny ass comments on here! Quick facts:

1) Aerosmith cannot be without Tyler

2) It is highly doubtful Tyler can make it without Aerosmith

3) Either reconcile to play together or split up. That simple.

Any word from Tom Hamilton ? David Hull is still playing bass.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Steven in back on the drugs. That’s the problem plain and simple. Through his own selfish, egocentric behaviour he has jeopardized the other band member livelihoods and the relationship with the fans. Joe Perry is being remarkably restrained given the circumstances. Cut the guy some slack. I’d be pretty pissed off if a friend turned up high and tried to cash in on my gig. Seven Tyler is talented, but he is an addict. Just check out the lip-licking in the TMZ video.

Steven Tyler needs to listen to four albums: She’s the Boss, Primitive Cool, Wandering Spirit, and Goddess in the Doorway.

Remember the solo career trajectory of that guy?

shouldn`t steve be hanging around with joe instead of that hudson brother with the multi-coloured beard (yes i`m canadian)…

maybe then they`d write some aerosmith songs instead of the pop songs they`ve been writing

David Lee Roth anyone?

Here’s an idea: How about RS doesn’t report any stories about Aerosmith’s JP/ST’s whiny asses until something is definitive? RS is becoming US Weekly. Pathetic.

Nothing is more pathetic is an aging hipster.

Joe Perry should get me to sing with him. We are both douche bags that haven’t had talent since the 70’s.

Aerosmith’s last worthy album was Toys in the Attic. Too bad they didn’t die of drug overdoses after that one. Instead we got decades of High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Tyler IS aerosmith. PERIOD. I wont be interested in anything called aerosmith without Tyler in it. Perry can go bitching he wants to work n stuff while tyler wants to rest. then rest. you made a name, you made a fortune, you are legends now, rest is well deserved.

Does Joe Perry really think he can tour with the “Aerosmith” name without Steven Tyler? Does he think people want to see that crap? What a f’n moron.

“HELOOOO” is absolutely right about one thing: Aerosmith hasn’t had this much press in YEARS. I don’t know if this drama was calculated; I DO know that their last great album was “Pump,” and that the power-ballad era has hurt their legacy.

I SMELL REALITY SHOW. DO YOU? PERFECT FODDER FOR THE TIMES. Just more money for this old, dried up band. Seriously, how many times can you hear their old songs before you want to vomit.

Why is everybody freaking out at Joe? Steven is being a spaz and not even explaining himself or communicating directly with the band for whatever reason. His bandmates for decades seem bewildered as to why he’s doing any of it. Joe seemed to react to Steven showing up spontaneously with an attitude of something like “sure weirdo, do whatever you want, not that we know what the heck you’re doing lately anyway!” I can’t blame him! Sounds to me like when Steven fell off the stage during their last concert together, he must have had some thoughts about what he was doing with Aerosmith, and came up with some new ideas.

I hope all parties figure out what they want to do. I heard Steven wants to go solo for a while, but if the rest of the band has more creative ideas to explore, this may be a 2 year experimentation period for everybody. I say let everyone do what they want, and why crap on anyone anyway? People can’t help it if they want to explore other options for a while. And Steven did specify he doesn’t want to just quit. Although I’m sure his band would have appreciated a bit of communication for respect’s sake.

I don’t get people’s interpretation of this story where they end up with the conclusion of “let’s crap on Joe Perry.” There’s more to it than this one incident people. The band seems to be at a point where they’re going to experiment with separate projects. That’s what creative people do: experiment. Leave them alone!

Their last good album was Rocks and that was their best. That was also 1976. Hang it up…

Means canceled shows do to poor ticket sales .
Also an Aerosmith album without
Steven Tyler will not be an album
by Aerosmith period.
put these two guys
in a room let them talk it out
and then go make one more classic
Album that rocks. Aerosmith has
not made a hard rocking album
in years and if they cannot
work it out do a farewell tour and call it a day.

Singers I could see stepping in.

Axl Rose

Chris Cornell

Gary Cherone

Scott Weiland

and I’m sure there’s a couple of Aerosmith cover bands out there with near perfect Tyler sound-alikes.

I actually agree with Dope Boy on this one.

Re: Anonymous | 11/11/2009, 7:57 pm EST

Their all acting stupid. Perry is overestimating himself and Tyler is being just flat out negligent of his band (their is more to Aerosmith then just Steven Tyler). These guys need a couples therapist.

This comment was a classic! You successfully misused “their” twice for both of the other homonyms for “their!” I will correct your mistakes in capital letters. If you are going to be so critical of others, learn how to spell homonyms, idiot!

THEY’RE all acting stupid. (It should also be stupidly, stupid!) Perry is overestimating himself and Tyler is being just flat out negligent of his band (THERE is more to Aerosmith THAN just Steven Tyler).

I smell a tour without Tyler, which flops…only to allow for the re-entrance of Tyler which they can then market as a reunion tour and slap an additional $50-$100 per ticket and all you suckers will pay to see it!!

first of all, the only thing wrong that joe has done is dragged this on in the media. both him and tyler need to just shut the fuck up. handle your business and dont do it like a couple of petty bitches. be men and talk to each other. not in fron of the media.

but mostly, steven tyler is the fucking problem. joe just wants to make music with his band, he wants to get back to that real sound. what is so wrong with that? joe should do whatever he wants with the band, because people that know actual MUSIC, understand. steven is preventing him and the band from making music together. they just want to rock and steven wants to be a prima donna and work on his shitty solo record that no one would fuckin buy. joe is just as much of aerosmith as steven is. if the rest of the band wants to move on, they should do it. steven thinks he is bigger than the band. And we all know that no singer, is ever bigger than the band. respect your friends steven

seriously, has this band even crafted more than a handful of songs to give a shit about anyways in the last 20 years? Talk about a modern-day rolling stones.

“Don’t wanna miss a thang” anyone?
abysmal.

Who cares about this pathetic group of old dudes singing shitty pop songs anyway?

Rock is dead.

I saw Joe posted earlier here. My response to Joe is as follows. Frankly Joe, after all this time, you wanna do me like this? This is worse than when we called off our experimental sexual relationship with each other in the 80’s. Remember that? You cried luck a bitch for 2 months on tour because I wouldn’t wrap my DSL’s around your pipe anymore. Anyway, I need to take 2 years off to rest and recuperate and possible think of at least one decent song to put on a record. Our records have been kind of dry lately, well not lately, since the 80’s.

Maybe we should try the Bon Jovi thing and take ourselves so seriously that people are forced to take us seriously as well. Hey it works for JOn, have you heard his albums in the past 15 years, I’d rather listen to two squirells go at it. He still makes money though.

Finally, I’m also contemplating whether bands like Areosmit and Bon jovi who put out a couple decent records 20-30 years ago should just give it up. At the end of the day, people are laughing at us. To boot, we all know the only band that mattered in the 80’s is Guns n’ Roses. Ale is probably hanging upside down in a cave right now, talking to himself… and he’s still taken more seriously than guys like me or on Bon.

Hell, I’m calling it a career. Hey joe, go get that wannabe steven tyler from Buckcherry and tour some country bars. We were going to do that anyway, but to hide the fact that we suck… we were just going to say we wanted an intimate setting with the fans.

I’m out, I wonder if Liv’s here in LA, her ass has been looking good lately.

Aerosmith without Steven Tyler is not Aerosmith.They should tour with a new name.

I think they need to do a documentary on this whole mess.

If Metallica can do it, why can’t Aerosmith?

Also, Aerosmith with out Steven Tyler = Joe Perry Project.

Think about it Joe …

This whole thing seems like a publicity stunt. And guess what….it’s working! When was the last time there was this much press surrounding Aerosmith. This is a shrewd move by two accomplished, self-promoting businessmen.

I love every person in Aerosmith, but come on guys, don’t get mad at Joe! Of course they need Steven for Aerosmith, but don’t go fucking blaming Joe! This is all Steven’s faults, and it is our duty as fans to say so. Joe Perry is the nicest guy in the world and he didn’t do anything wrong.

Hello Joe

In case you haven’t noticed, Steven is the voice of Aerosmith. Why would you want to see the band with another singer? It really wouldn’t be Aerosmith, now would it. These guys have been together so long it’s more like a fight between lovers he said she said

Aerosmith died when they released Get A Grip, a horrific record. And they’ve done even more awful, sell-out things ever since.

Great band from 1973-1979; great band in 1985-86; decent band from 1987-1990. Since then, RIP.

You know, bands like Aerosmith, The Stones and others were the bands of our youth..they let us dream, carried out our needs through their music..now that we are a lot of older what can they say with their music that we already haven’t lived through..I’m sorry once they all got rich & famous they lost their out on street’s touch, the poor man’s talk of freedom, righting the wrong, poor vs the rich…us againt the estabishment…I couldn’t listen to them no longer, they turned into what we, as well as they, sung about & against in the beginning…we could not relate to them no longer..leaders of our youth..now their only in it for the money, everyone knows this..please give it all up boys

Mr Tyler.
May I buy your bus ticket home?

First off, anyone who says that the lead singer of any band is the “main attraction” is a complete moron. Sure, he provides the upfront melody of the song, but there are many more pieces to an attraction such as aerosmith or any other act than simply performing a melody. If Tyler is the main attraction in the public’s eyes, then maybe he can perform a capella and charge the same entrance fees that aerosmith charges. In my eyes, people are so caught up in the american idol, “lead singer is the band” way of thinking that their minuscule minds almost forget that the best songwriters and “frontmen” of popular bands were not lead singers. I’m not bashing lead vocalists, I’m just bashing the public’s view on lead vocalists because it seems so many people are so ignorant to what happens behind the scenes within a band outside of a lead single. About the Aerosmith split, it would be a shame to see Steven Tyler leave. It just wouldn’t be Aerosmith.

Get a Grip was my favorite.

Joe Perry is the Eddie Van Halen of this band- an egotistical whiny little byatch who runs his band tyranically and thinks he is EL JEFE.

But wait, I thought Kurt Cobain killed these bloated, cheesy, formulaic, overproduced, top 40 wussies years ago? Damn, he musta forgot to pour lye on the bodies, and now we’re left with the walking (brain)dead.

Aerosmith is not Aerosmith without Steve Tyler!!!!

so aerosmith played a show, THEN had steven tyler come on to do an encore….SO WHO WAS SINGING WITH AEROSMITH BEFORE THE ENCORE?

and why am i the only one asking this question?

Sounds like the timing is just right for Justin Thyme reunion….whaddya say Brad ?

You cant replace Steven Tyler he is Aerosmith and anybody else has his crazy voice, i’m just 14 years old and i love aerosmith and my brother is 8 and he also loves aerosmith. Aerosmith is the biggest american rock band

The Beginning of the End…

Joe, stop whining, you’re looking like a kid crying ’cause he just spilt his own milk. If Steven says he needs a break, then maybe it’s a good idea for the whole group. Ever heard of over-exposure?

Get Axl and play “Mama Kin” to the masses

Wait, people still care about this band?

All the Perry haters should take a deep breath. This guy is Aerosmith. Body and soul. He is the riff. ANyone else can screech like a banshee Tyler has proved that, but only one guy can churn out the riffs. I’ll be seein’ Joe in Poughkeepsie soon enough.

Anyone mentioned that David Lee Roth is available? AeroRoth!

retire

Hope Joe reads these posts and gets an ego check. He just wants to use the brand ‘Aerosmith’ and make more money touring but I would doubt they would fill half an arena without their focal point of the show, the unique Steven Tyler.

Maybe Joe is worried that he’ll be using a Zimmer frame in two years’ time.

Stevie T, you say your Sorry.

Hey Joe, come ON bro.

I know! They could get Gary Cherone, who did one album with Van Halen…or maybe Ray Wilson, the guy who replaced Phil Collins in Genesis.

un-freaking believable

Seriously, one would have thought that what the band went through with drugs and a lost decade, would have precluded this type of thing from happening.

I’m an old fart, loved aerosmith, steven and joe all the way back to Aerosmith, Get Your Wings, Toys In The Attic etc., and I still pay good money to see Aerosmith today. A few things are clear:

1) Without Steven whatever the band does IS NOT AEROSMITH. Ticket/CD sales will be dismal if the band goes out as Aerosmith without Steven.

2) Steven without the rest of Aerosmith is doomed to fail. He may sell out a small show or two (he’s got some solo NH gig planned) but interest will fade rapidly.

3) The Joe Perry Project is not a ticket to huge success for Joe either. This Sunday he’s playing a gig in Albany, NY; in a room that is basically a large pub (might hold 1,000 people tops). Tix are $25. Having seen video of JPP gigs on youtube…I wouldn’t pay even that.

I don’t know whose fault all this is, but they are making a huge mistake in pissing away the few years of commercial viability the band might have left. Steven, Joe…figure it out..if you don’t you’ll wind up regretting that you didn’t.

publicity stunt.. due to the fact their last few albums and/or singles have been dogs… as well as their lack of selling tickets for their recent attempts at concert tours..

who the hell cares about joe perry?

steven was the band. without him there is no aerosmith.

bunch of prissy ass girlies. joe you are a bore. without tyler your just a nostalgia band like creedence without fogerty. who he hell would pay to see you without the star tyler. thing your gonna play the garden. maybe atlantic city and vegas. better wrap your ass around steven again you dirtbag.

Hey I’m available.

I’m also available.

Isnt joe gonna be on the cover of AARP magazine next month. old fart.

I love how most people are bashing joe perry for this. Steven tyler in one of the most arrogant jackasses in music. HE’S THE ONE RUINING THE BAND !! Insisting on writing with outside songwriters. That’s why their albums suck now. they were at their best when tyler and perry wrote most of the songs. Good riddance tyler.

I will have my revenge when my new cd goes #1. I’ve been witing songs with Mariah Carey and Celine Dion and we’ve come up with some really great stuff.

They should let Steve do his solo thing. Look at Radiohead, Thom Yorke needed a break from the band so he went to record The Eraser. And then he came back better than ever to record In Rainbows.

If they aren’t able to tour with Tyler, how are they gonna make enough money to pay for Joe Perry’s plastic surgery?

I love Joe but look how bad Yes looks with out Jon Anderson. No Tyler no Aerosmith.

No Steve Tyler, No Aerosmith. This is as bad as Led Zepp wanting to tour and record without Robert Plant. You can’t do it.

Lots of stuff here from people who obviously take bands and themselves too seriously, or don’t understand what bands are. 1. They don’t belong to you, you either go to the concerts and buy the stuff or you don’t. 2. A band is quite a bit like a marriage, do you go around trying to pressure everybody into staying married because they look good together? It’s their choice who is in, who is out and what they call it. If GM, Microsoft, Marshall, TGIFridays change management personnel, if you like the product they produce do you boycott? Do you care? Now as to Steven and Joe, they had a long separation period like Mick and Keith did, and they did all right but they seem to be a lot more popular together. For anyone to say Aerosmith is all about Tyler is very wrong, he works the crowd, he sings, but the guys behind him do a tremendous amount of work to produce the music he riffs over, and it grabs a lot of people’s attention. Steven couldn’t have done something like Walk This Way on his own, you know that song instantly well before Steven comes in and he had no part in that aspect of the song. But his manic, freaky antics and vocals add a lot of life and excitement to the sound. Whatever they do, it’s totally silly to demonize or worship them, either way. Take ‘em for who they are, manufacturers of a product. Nobody is as bad or as good as they seem.

why don’t they just hang it up and starting snorting coke again

Yea just hire a substitute singer like you know Sammy Haggar for a couple years and then two years later – back to Steven.
Worked for Van Halen.

Everyone is dispensable, even lead singers.

its like tull without ian anderson…..the stones without mick…..the monkees without davey…list goes on and on. joe perry is a jerk.

WHY dont they just break up gracefully and go away.how old is perry now? about 70. Pretty soon tyler will come out on stage witha walker or a wheelchair. he looks like an old aging drag queen. thanks to run-dmc they had one hit.

Is joe perry free to play my sons bar mitzva? the kids would say who is this old man.

Jimmy Crespo. nicely done. thank you for that, whoever you are. and maybe you really are Jimmy Crespo haha.

(scroll through to find it folks. its that good.)

Well Joe, we better come back and endorse you, after all, Neal Schon was the last superstar guitar emblem to replace his lead singer, Steve Perry, and it worked. Although, Arnel Pineda, their latest front man, is having problems keeping his voice because he isn’t a natural tenor with soprano range. So, make sure they’ve worked at least 2 years in a row before you try to replace an ageless Steven Tyler, everyone knows that Joe holds the keys to the vault, namely Steven’s voice, as Steven needs massages and throat therapists and the person who is currently interesting to Joe doesn’t. In other words, Joe wants to tour to government retirement age and Steven doesn’t, but the moment Joe asks for his resignation, he being the band leader of Aerosmith, Steven comes back for another tour. Not a publicity stunt, simply a well known relationship between Steven and Joe that started in the 80’s when everyone had to knock off the other guy’s or gal’s rock ballad. Best of luck, touring is expensive at their level and that’s the other notable consideration, ask Ann and Nancy, they made more than AC DC with their 2009 tour but then again they had to sing for 6 years in a row and both have stellar range and quality at the end, so it worked for them and it certainly has worked for Steven, but could he downsize his per capita recorded voice samples instead of knocking them out every night, going to ticket value and more instead of a supernatural recorded performance? Tis the question, and rock audiences world wide will support all answers!

Sorry, just a quick clarification, Ann and Nancy worked the resort/winery to 3,000 seat arena venus for 6 years, AC DC knocked everyone out with their Australian thighs with an unbelievable performance from Brian Johnson, everyone’s current reigning King of Modern Metal style voices at the mic, and Angus Young, another one of a kind legendary guitar emblem at lead guitar, and they equaled Heart’s per capita success by running the bases in mega-huge venues for one year. 6 years v. 1 year for the same $$’s but without the wild upfront investments for a large venue stage and PA and all that goes with it, either works and it depends on what you want to do with yourself between shows, as they’d say…

Joe, when I go too see Aerosmith I go to see Tyler. He’s a legend. Whoever gave you the big head and made you think you can tour without him or use a new singer should be shot. That person is not your friend. You will not succeed in such an endeavor.

If they don’t tour, who’s gonna pay for Joe Perry’s plastic surgery?

Why do I keep thinking Joan Rivers would be appropriate as lead singer in Aerosmith?

I’m unemployed. Why not try me?

hey, i remember when they broke up in 79 /80 – Aerosmith made agreat album without Joe (’Rocks’) and Joe, after a not-so-good first Joe Perry Project album made the excellent ‘I’ve Got the Rock and Rolls Again’. BOTH of those albums are better than anything they have done since they got back together in 1985.

here’s an idea, don’t go to any of their concerts, buy merchandise, music, ect. Bet they’ll stop bitching and focus on kissing ass to get their fat paychecks

Wait, Aerosmith is still together?

CONTEST RESULTS!!

1-Tyler
2-Bono
3-Mi ck
4-Perry
5-Daltry
6-Angus
7- Van Halen
8-Plant
9-Bruce(without his “face” on)

They all win a wheelchair and a bus ticket home for being in
“RAYRAY’s KEITH RICHARDS LOOK a LIKE CONTEST” I been waiting on these.What a great show these old farts put on.

The entire scandal is ridiculous. Steven would NEVER be stupid enough to throw away what he has with Aerosmith. The media really should get their story straight before spreading rumors about stars that are well-respected as Steven is. Is Steven taking a solo tour and a break? Sure, he could, why not? He is getting older and wants to do other things in his career; but I guarantee you Aerosmith is far from over. Steven and those guys still have at least another good 5 or 10 years left in them. Steven would never throw the band away, he may do his own thing sometimes, but he would never throw Aerosmith away…

I agree with you long-time fan it is un-freaking bevilable. By the way Steve Perry is cute. But Aerosmith is not right with out steven tyler. To Joe Perry get over your self.

Aerosmith without Tyler!?
Well that aint even CLOSE to Aerosmith. Not even a tribute band.
Do something else boys. Get a hobby!

C’mon boys, just kiss and make up. If you can’t get along, just take your toys and go home.

Tyler sez he ain’t leaving the band. He even showed up and jammed with Joe, which seems to me like a very cool gesture. If the man wants some time off, I’d say he has earned that right. He certainly doesn’t deserve to be disrespected in the national press by his fucking guitar player for christ’s sake. Come on Joe,lighten up. You guys have made a lot of music (and money) together. I assume at one time you were even friends. Let him be.
Do a side project, I’d buy it. Do a tour,whatever. Just don’t call it Aerosmith. It wouldn’t be right. And you know it.

Quit bitchin’ Tyler lovers. Great idea by Tyler to take two years off. Maybe do some solo work like Peter Wolf did eons agp.
Who cares if Tyler still wants to be a part of Aeros,ith. Hey, Steve, you’re like a beaten-down boxer who doesn’t know when to get out of the game.
Any true rocker knows you can play kick ass guitar for decades but all singers get old.
Aerosmith needs a new singer. And there’s a world of top notch vocalists who could being a freshness that has been needed for years.
It’s a shame that a band, thirty years past its glory warrants this kind of coverage.

these guys had two good songs, ‘walk this way’ and ‘dream on’ and both came out over 30 years ago. ‘love in an elevator’? think about it.

carrying on without tyler? i’d go see it. seeing the guitar playing of perry and whitford on deep tracks from get your wings, toys in the attic, rocks – killer…i’ll put those albums up against anything by the who, stones, zep. 90% of the 1500 people aerosmith (w/o perry, whitford)were struggling to play for in ‘83 may have been there to see tyler…tyler in the band doesn’t guarantee success

I hate when my grandmother’s fight.

Aerosmith without Tyler won’t work, just like it didn’t work without Perry.

But c’mon, if a guy in your band refuses to talk to the rest of the guys except through his agent, which is what Tyler is doing, something is wrong. Apparently, Steven wasn’t even talking or spending time with his band mates on the last tour, he would just show up right as the band would hit the stage and then disappear again until the next show was about to start.

Give Joe a break, he’s dealing with an egotistical druggie who wants to put out pop songs. The rest of the band wants to rock like it used to. It’s a no win situation.

Joe Perry should go back to taking drugs. I think his thought processes worked better then. There’s no one alive that can replace Tyler, just like there’s no one alive that can replace Freddie Mercury, or Lennon, or Bonham etc., etc., etc. Fame and fortune are the most powerful drugs, and these guys just can’t let go! Stop wasting your time. Aerosmith is irrelevant anyway, haven’t made a great album since ‘Pump’. Do yourself a favor and call it a day.

hey i think these guys look great for their age!

i have two words for a new lead singer — BOB DYLAN!!!

I still think this is all about Tyler auditioning for Led Zeppelin last year. Can’t be in 2 bands at once, according to EVH…

I’ve been a die hard fan of Aerosmith since the early 70’s, I love Joe & Steven. My biggest crush was always Joe, I’m a sucker for a guitar player! Aerosmith just wouldn’t be Aerosmith without both of those guys! NO WAY! Don’t try to walk THAT WAY guys! Stay together for ME, man, I’m 50 and still “crankin’ it up!”

To respond to Anonymous’ comment:

“Guess what Joe…

If the frontman for your band (you know, in reality, the man of which 90% of your audience are there to see) wants to take two years off… then you take two years off. No questions asked.

You want to make music during the interim, fine. Do something else.

But you don’t go and make an Aerosmith album or tour without him.

Have some class and some common sense, idiot.

Maybe in your little band world, you are all equal fifths.

But to the general public, Steven Tyler is Aerosmith. Don’t you forget it.”

So what are you saying? That Aerosmith should just sit around waiting for their exalted “leader” to come back to them?? In case you haven’t noticed…it’s Joe Perry’s guitar (among other things) that gave Aerosmith its SOUND. And he wrote the songs WITH Tyler. Steven Tyler is NOT Aerosmith!! He is just one element…an important one, to be sure…but NOT the whole band, no matter what it seems like to the outside world. Just like Mick Jagger is NOT the Rolling Stones….Keith Richards is JUST AS important, if not more so. He is the soul of the band…and Perry is the soul of Aerosmith.
I’m not saying they should continue with another singer…but they shouldn’t be expected to kiss Tyler’s ass while he decides what he wants to do.

Hey, I think I’ve got some material here for another ‘Spinal Tap’ movie.

I’m a Guns N’ Roses fan that this sounds strangly similar…..

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! Please fire steven Tyler! Hopefully Def Leppard and Bon Jovi break up!Hopefully poison and Journey die in a plane crash!Hopefully Eddie Van Halen gets lung cancer!HAHAHAHAHAHA!

I agree Aerosmith has been rather shitty in recent years but they have had good albums since Rocks. Draw the line is awesome, Pump is awesome, Get a Grip is average, Nine lives is a great record, and honkin on bobo is kick ass (i know its covers but it rocks). You idiots read to many reviews from these asses at rolling stone. They changed with the times and did it right. There far more succesful than the stones the last 20 years. Bands that dont change or “sell out” sometimes hurts them. ACDC sucks major dick cheese and they still write the same song over and over again…

I gotta admit, Tyler’s behavior has been a bit strange lately. If I were to guess he’s fallen pretty hard off the wagon.. sad. That said, Aerosmith isn’t Aerosmith without Steven Tyler. I think Perry & Co need to Get a Grip, and just do side projects or call the band something else if they’re gonna play without Tyler.

I’m available. Put me in, Joe!

Oh, that’s just great…… another situation of guys in bands who don’t even talk to one another anymore….. who just show up for the money. Who do they think they are? The Eagles?

Hey, hey, hey!

In my room, little surfer girl!

Hey JOe give me a call

You’d be grumpy too if your ball bag was drooping down around your knees. I’m old, dammit!

Now get off my lawn!

Are they back on my coke?

It seems to me that Steven Tyler jumped on stage because he know/thinks there may never be a time again when he shares a stage with his artistic soul mate Joe Perry. And he had to end the Aerosmith with one last beautiful song like the final period of the final sentence from the last chapter of a classic novel.

agree Aerosmith has been rather shitty in recent years but they have had good albums since Rocks. Draw the line is awesome, Pump is awesome, Get a Grip is average, Nine lives is a great record, and honkin on bobo is kick ass (i know its covers but it rocks). You idiots read to many reviews from these asses at rolling stone. They changed with the times and did it right. There far more succesful than the stones the last 20 years. Bands that dont change or “sell out” sometimes hurts them. ACDC sucks major dick cheese and they still write the same song over and over again…

if you guys are trying to stir up new interest well it’s not working you fuckin’ cry baby’s.
go buy some huggies steven and joe go take a fuckin’ dump and clean your head!
neither one of you’s can do good on your own.
so get your illusion drenched ego out of your ass, play some robert johnson so you can remeber what real music sounds like, then make some music like you did in 1976
FUCKERS!

I don’t want to see Steven leave, but Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes would be an interesting choice if it comes down to it.

Steve has always been the Aero in smith like Freddy was to Queen. There comes a time however when one has out worn that place and has to realise that it’s best to Armageddon out. I still think still has lot left if he will just get a grip? What do you think?

Steve has always been the Aero in smith like Freddy was to Queen. There comes a time however when one has out worn that place and has to realise that it’s best to Armageddon out just until the meteor passes . I still think Steve has lot left if he will just get a grip? What do you think?

That comment Perry made that Tyler is “an acquaintance of some forty years” could be the truth. It’s a weird thing working in a band or with anyone. You might be friends but it’s sometimes more like frenemies, you might not really be friends or mates, but rather are working colleagues. You work with people day in and day out but it doesn’t make them your friends necessarily. Just sayin’.

whitford is under rated folks. he is a lot of what aerosmith is.

Wait, Tyler wants to take two years “off”? The band hasn’t released a full studio album in eight years! And that one was just as awful as the two before it! That’s three studio albums Sony’s gotten out of them in almost 20 years…great contract that was! Sure, they keep putting out “greatest” hits records, and touring, but they’re so not even a real band. I loved Joe for a long time, but he should have walked away before Get A Grip ever saw the light of day.

@tony

Nobody goes to an Aero show to see Brad Whitford dude. I agree the band is greater than the sum of its parts and they’re all important in their own ways, but when you have generic hard rock musicians the only thing that truly distinguished them from their contemporaries was the frontman. He sold, and sells, the band, with Joe Perry’s half ass tired old blues licks playing behind him. I guarantee you 2 out of 10 people at every show can point at the people behind Tyler and Perry and say “look there’s Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer!” If Tyler needs a break to come back inspired and make real music before he’s waaaaay too fucking old to do so, then good for him. Their output has been way too sparse the last 20 years but if it helps him make another Nine Lives or Pump then go for it.

Touring without Steven would be a failure. We are there to see the real band not some imposter. Steven needs to join the band, but they should deft go back to their roots and go back to the sounds they made on Rocks, Toys in the Attic, and their self titled album

Brad Whitford wrote some of their best stuff. Look up the song writing credits. Anybody who truly knows Aerosmith knows that all 5 of them are equally awesome.

Joe balls needs to be reminded that it isn’t Perrysmith! Without Tyler there is no group and while the other four have every right to continue playing during Tyler’s hiatus, a new name for this projuect needs to be used. ‘Sweet Emotion’ sounds like a good name to me?

Anyone replacing Tyler needs to be a REAL Number One singer. Tyler is the truest ANY Rock singer can get to be called a Rock n Roll vocalist.He´s got electric guitar strings right along his throat and no yeller Axl Rose neither soft Steve Perry can deal with that kind of flex!…We need them in CARACAS…please Steve!.

I’m heading off to Aerosmith’s Rockin’ Rollercoaster to light a candle ( a vigil , if you will ) . Let’s pray for a speeding recovery as they surgically remove Joe Perry’s head from his ass.

I just want to say that the LP jr. in Joes Hand in the picture is a beautiful guitar.

Joe I know your reading all these comments so hers my solution.

Go on tour with the NY Dolls as openers and then ask David Johanson stand in for Tyler while he relapses.

I’m sure David would be glad to give Steven the Payback he deserves.

Now that I have solved your problems can you throw me the Paul Jr. ?

Thanks Man Solid!

I see another Highwayman-like tour with David Lee Roth, Steve Perry, Stevn Tyler and take Mark Walberg too.

Don’t know if he can sing, but he looks damn good without his shirt!

With a good group of backup musicians, no one will know the difference.

lol REALLY OUT LOUD!! THE NEW YORK DOLLS? MY FUKIN GOD THATS OLD. THE BAND THAT GOT THERE ASS KICKED BY KI$$!!! THATS A BAND THATS WAY UNDERGROUND.just throw some dirt over the hole

courtany love would be a great stand in,but what aerosmith needs is a pemanent vacation