PDA

View Full Version : Aerosmith Reborn: "It Feels Like 1971 Again"



Jagermeister
06-04-2010, 01:47 PM
By Andy Greene

Just a few months ago the idea of an Aerosmith tour seemed very unlikely. Steven Tyler said he needed a long break to work on "Brand Tyler," while the other bandmembers questioned his sobriety and threatened to hire a new singer. But before the worst-case scenario happened — and after Tyler went to rehab — the five bandmates sat down to hash things out. "Basically I just said one or two things to Steven and he said one or two things to me," guitarist Joe Perry says. "Being as close as we are, that's all we needed to do. Then we just looked at each other and knew it was time to get the band back together."

The group just wrapped a quick South American tour that attracted scores of young fans. "Half of them were between the ages of 15 to 25. After the encore at one show, we were getting ready to leave, but we hadn't done 'Crazy,' " Perry says. "The kids were screaming so loud for it that we just had to go back onstage and play it." After hitting Europe later this month, the band will return to American amphitheaters with Sammy Hagar in late July. Last summer they performed their 1975 classic Toys in the Attic straight through, but they have no such plans this time. "After the European tour we'll start to get feedback from fans about what songs they want to hear," Perry says. "With tweets and Twitters and all that stuff we'll get the vibe of what people want to hear. We have so many songs we never play and we'll definitely make the set list interesting enough so that people won't miss the fact we don't have a new record out."

The group hasn't released a record of original material since 2001's Just Push Play, and an attempt to record with Pearl Jam and Bruce Springsteen producer Brendan O'Brien fell apart when they failed to agree on a musical direction. Perry has higher hopes for their next effort. "Looking at the calendar we'll probably be going into the studio sometime around the holidays or maybe in the beginning of next year. We'll have to take time off from touring to make the best record we can make. We owe it to ourselves to make the best record we can make."

Looking back at the band's insane last year, Perry feels that the turmoil ultimately brought the band closer together. "This band has a really strange ways of deciding to take vacations," Perry says. "Our whole rhythm just got thrown off over the last three or four years. We ended up touring without new albums a couple of times and it just didn't work out. It felt off-kilter and the tension was pretty high. Now Steven is singing better than I've heard in a long time and the shows have just gotten better and better. It feels like 1971 again. We've had a lot of ups and downs in the past, and we're up-ing right now."


That's an understatement

ThrillsNSpills
06-04-2010, 01:56 PM
<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0Hz6v4H8dpM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0Hz6v4H8dpM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

chefcraig
06-04-2010, 01:56 PM
"It Feels Like 1971 Again" Oh, swell. What Perry really means is that in 1971, they were a full two years away from releasing an album.

ThrillsNSpills
06-04-2010, 01:57 PM
<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OM2EXWKTdLY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OM2EXWKTdLY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

ELVIS
06-04-2010, 02:06 PM
*yawn*

VAiN
06-04-2010, 02:08 PM
I'm of the opinion that aerosmith jumped the shark somewhere around the 'Pump' album... it's all been garbage since then. Too many fucking ballads and radio garbage. I wish they'd go away now.

ThrillsNSpills
06-04-2010, 02:10 PM
<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/12c9rumNvoY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/12c9rumNvoY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

Jagermeister
06-04-2010, 02:12 PM
I'm of the opinion that aerosmith jumped the shark somewhere around the 'Pump' album... it's all been garbage since then. Too many fucking ballads and radio garbage. I wish they'd go away now.


Like Van Halen did?

ThrillsNSpills
06-04-2010, 02:17 PM
<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-uXRTWuk3XM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-uXRTWuk3XM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

ThrillsNSpills
06-04-2010, 02:24 PM
*yawn*

but Dream on with Malmsteen was riveting?
He exercised much restraint to not start soloing until 5 seconds into the intro.

jhale667
06-04-2010, 02:37 PM
but Dream on with Malmsteen was riveting?
He exercised much restraint to not start soloing until 5 seconds into the intro.

:lmao:

ELVIS
06-04-2010, 02:44 PM
I didn't say it was riveting...

Va Beach VH Fan
06-04-2010, 03:08 PM
I'm of the opinion that aerosmith jumped the shark somewhere around the 'Pump' album... it's all been garbage since then. Too many fucking ballads and radio garbage.

Agreed.... Let's hear another Rocks or Toys in the Attic, not another Pump or any other commercialized album since then....

The VH similarities are funny though.... :D

binnie
06-04-2010, 05:04 PM
After their little publicity spin 'split', does anyone really care?

Terry
06-04-2010, 09:11 PM
What kind of pussy Aerosmith fans would be clamoring for the band to come back out and encore with "Crazy"?

Was anyone holding their breath in anticipation that Aerosmith would "reunite" (the hiatus wasn't all THAt long) so they could go out and flog their greatest hits on the road again for the umpteen millionth time?

Hardrock69
06-04-2010, 10:43 PM
Ugh....they are just doing publicity now to try and drum up interest.....they are going out with the Fat One...UGH.

I did not see Aerosmith until 1999. While the performance was good, I could not wait for it to be over. I had seen them on cable so many times, heard them on the radio so many times, and yes, they had been putting out garbage since the mid-80s......I was glad when the concert was over. I mainly went solely so I could say I had seen them in concert.

OOoooOooOoOOOOoOoo.....so they now are going to tour again.

YAAAAAWWN!!!

And with the fat ass Spamulus Flatulus opening for them, no way in hell could anyone convince me to go.

At least Fatso is just an opening act, though he is not worthy to even be playing on that level.

Jack68
06-05-2010, 11:06 AM
Its 2010 no one cares.Bret Michaels is more of a draw and rightly so.

Terry
06-05-2010, 04:23 PM
I'm of the opinion that aerosmith jumped the shark somewhere around the 'Pump' album... it's all been garbage since then. Too many fucking ballads and radio garbage. I wish they'd go away now.

Pump was a pretty darn good album, though.

Permanent Vacation was tolerable in spots, but Pump was even better.

After that, they kind of lost the plot.

I'd sooner throw in Rock In A Hard Place or Night In The Ruts than I'd listen to anything the band has done since 1989.

Catfish
06-05-2010, 05:07 PM
<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-uxrtwuk3xm&hl=en_us&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-uxrtwuk3xm&hl=en_us&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

lmao!!!!

bueno bob
06-05-2010, 06:48 PM
Much as it pains me to admit it, Hagar's probably going to blow them off of the stage. Maybe literally, I don't know.

I'd guess by the time the stint's over, Hagar and Mikey will decide that the solo gig is just "too much fun!" and Chickenfoot will be (mercifully) put to rest...

Hardrock69
06-05-2010, 08:27 PM
Notice they said Spammy Gaygar is opening, not Chickenfoot.