Update: Steven Tyler jumped onstage with Joe Perry in New York last night for "Walk This Way" and said he's still in the band.
The writing was on the wall this summer that Aerosmith was running out of steam.
For starters, the band couldn't finish a new album because of the various Steven Tyler/Joe Perry surgeries. Then, on tour, while ZZ Top ran like a smooth machine, Aerosmith had two members drop off before Tyler dropped off the stage in South Dakota, ending the tour in August.
Now comes the bombshell: Tyler appears to have quit the band.
Perry told the Las Vegas Sun, "Steven quit as far as I can tell. I don't know anymore than you do about it." (Which is clearly not the way a tight, longtime band is supposed to function.)
Perry was responding to Tyler telling Classic Rock magazine, a British publication, that he was turning toward a solo career and would be working on "Brand Tyler." Perry added that Tyler wasn't answering his calls: "He's notorious for that. That's one thing I've learned to live with. I try to overlook it."
The way things have flip-flopped between Tyler and Perry for decades, we probably haven't seen the last of them. But after what happened this summer, it makes sense to put Aerosmith on the Rocks for a while.
As for Brand Tyler, he's 61. It's a bit late in the game for that. Isn't it?
Posted
Nov 09 2009, 03:14 PM
by
Scott Mervis