By Jerry Fink (contact)

 

Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 | 4:03 p.m.

 

Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry said today that singer Steven Tyler quit the band following a recent concert in Abu Dhabi.

 

Bassist Tom Hamilton told the Boston Herald’s Inside Track that there is dissension among the “Bad Boys From Boston,” but that he hopes things can be worked out. He dismissed a report that guitarist Brad Whitford discussed the possiblity of Aerosmith finding a new frontman.

 

However, Perry told the Las Vegas Sun today that he believes Tyler is history.

 

“Steven quit as far as I can tell,” Perry said from his Boston home. “I don’t know anymore than you do about it. I got off the plane two nights ago. I saw online that Steven said that he was going to leave the band. I don’t know for how long, indefinitely or whatever. Other than that, I don’t know.”

 

Part of the problem, he says, is that Tyler doesn’t return his phone calls.

 

“He’s notorious for that,” Perry said. “That’s one thing I’ve learned to live with. I try to overlook it. I like to pick my battles. Frankly, the last few months I’ve been wanting not to rock the boat. I don’t want him canceling any more gigs. We really wanted to do these last four. We just kind of didn’t want to call him out or anything and get him anymore pissed off, for whatever reason. So we just let things lie. So we did the gigs and, like I said, I got off the plane and saw this online. That’s how I know about it.”

 

Perry will perform his Joe Perry Project Nov. 28 at the Las Vegas House of Blues, performing from his latest release “Have Guitar, Will Travel.”

 

Most of Aerosmith’s recent world tour was canceled in August after Tyler fell from the stage at a Sturgis, S.D., concert and broke his shoulder. The band members were unhappy with Tyler over the incident. However, Aerosmith salvaged the final leg of the tour, including two shows in Hawaii and one Sunday at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix before more than 50,000 fans.

 

After the Middle Eastern concert the band parted ways with Perry going to London to attend the Classic Rock & Roll of Honour awards ceremony on Monday. Perry said he arrived home in Boston on Wednesday and read on the Internet that Tyler planned to leave the band.

 

“He has had no contact with me or the other band members,” Perry said.

 

He says he hopes to keep Aerosmith together, with or without Tyler, but he was so stunned by recent developments he doesn’t know what’s going to happen.

 

“Right now I’m adjusting to how we’re going to go on,” Perry says. “Aerosmith is such a powerful band, I mean it’s like a steam locomotive. You just can’t disregard 40 years of four guys who play together as well as they do. We’re just trying to – at least I am – trying to figure out what direction the band should take.

 

“As far as replacing Steve, it’s not just about that, it’s also four guys that play extremely well together, and I’m not going to see that go to waste. I really don’t know what path it’s going to take at this point, but we’ll probably find somebody else that will sing in those spots where we need a singer and then we’ll be able to move the Aerosmith up a notch, move the vibe up a notch.”

 

Perry believes Tyler has been planning on leaving for a while.

 

“Obviously he hasn’t been giving 100 percent to this thing for a long time,” Perry said. “He’s obviously had this planned for a long time. To disregard his brothers to the point where we have to find out about it on the Internet – it’s like, 'See you later, Bud.’ I still care for him as a person, or at least the person I used to know. But things change.”

 

Aerosmith rose to popularity in the ’70s with a combination of hard rock and power ballads only to be derailed by drug and alcohol abuse. After Tyler completed rehab in 1986, the band rose to prominence again. There were rumors last year that Tyler had checked back into rehab after more than 20 years of sobriety.

 

Perry himself left the band for two years in 1979. While he was away he created the solo Joe Perry Project, which has now released five albums.

 

“The circumstances were different then,” Perry said. “We’d been touring pretty much nonstop for eight years and the band was just pretty much burned out on each other. We needed a break. We needed to take a vacation but blood was running so hot I just had to leave, had to get out of there. But I certainly wasn’t going to stop playing so I put out a solo project.”

 

 

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/nov/0...quit-aerosmith/

Edited November 10, 200915 yr by *Trouble*

Hard Rock band Aerosmith are on the verge of splitting up after members revealed they are tossing up whether to call it a day or replace front man Steven Tyler.

The singer signalled he is ready to work on solo material, and the rest of the band are considering their options.

 

Although the group's 40th anniversary is less than a year away, a growing wedge appears to have grown between the band and their frontman.

 

After injuring himself in a fall off stage in August, the band were forced to cancel gigs in America.

Steven Tyler returned to front gigs in Hawaii and Abu Dhabi last month, but in a post-gig interview with Classic Rock magazine, he indicated he was ready to focus on his solo career.

The 61-year-old said: 'I don't know what I'm doing yet, but it's definitely going to be something Steven Tyler: working on the brand of myself - Brand Tyler.'

The rest of the band reportedly plan to meet soon to discuss 'either the announcement of a long hiatus or carrying on with a new lead vocalist'.

Rhythm guitarist Brad Whitford claimed that they would consider hiring a new frontman first.

 

He said: 'I'm not sure how good that would look, it would largely depend on who we could get and who would want to do it.

 

'That's big shoes to fill. Nobody could replace Steven or imitate him - he's one of a kind. But if somebody was willing to do it and the chemistry was right, why not?'

 

In Abu Dhabi, Tyler's dressing room was reportedly far away from the rest of the band

 

After Tyler injured himself in the fall, guitarist Joe Perry said he was upset the group had to cancel the rest of the tour and said they did not speak for more than a month.

'All I know is [steven's] got to get his act together,' Perry told Associated Press recently.

 

'He and I haven't written a song together in over 10 years, so there's been some changes in what Aerosmith is.'

And he told an U.S. newspaper: 'Steven quit as far as I can tell. I don't know any more than you do about it. I got off the plane two nights ago.

 

'I saw online that Steven said that he was going to leave the band. I don't know for how long, indefinitely or whatever. Other than that, I don't know.'

The band formed in 1970, have released 14 albums and won numerous awards.

Among their best-loved singles are Walk This Way, Cryin, Janie's Got A Gun, Dude (Looks Like A Lady), Dream On and I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing.

 

 

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/artic...l#ixzz0WTqjm2Ql

 

They should split rather than replace him, he IS Aerosmith, it would be like the Stones replacing Mick Jagger

exactly!

 

no freddie = no queen

no ozzy = no black sabbath

no steven = NO aerosmith :cry:

 

These boys were top of my list of people who i have yet to see live and really want to, and now i will probably never get to see them :cry:

exactly!

 

no freddie = no queen

no ozzy = no black sabbath

no steven = NO aerosmith :cry:

 

These boys were top of my list of people who i have yet to see live and really want to, and now i will probably never get to see them :cry:

 

I preferred Ronnie James Dio to Ozzy :blush: but agree with the others :)

exactly!

 

no freddie = no queen

no ozzy = no black sabbath

no steven = NO aerosmith :cry:

 

These boys were top of my list of people who i have yet to see live and really want to, and now i will probably never get to see them :cry:

 

errr....

 

No Bon Scott no AC/DC

No Peter Gabriel no Genesis

No Paul Di'Anno no Iron Maiden

No Fish no Marillion

No David Lee Roth no Van Halen

No Syd Barrett no Pink Floyd

 

......................................

 

Sometimes there are exceptions to the rule ......... but after 30 years that is a tough ask.

 

Seeing as Roger Taylor & Brian May have asked Adam Lambert to become their new frontman in Queen+ http://www.hollyscoop.com/music/adam-lambe...group_1910.aspx

 

Then maybe Aerosmith should go after a similar Reality TV contestant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_26ZTPU2VXE

 

:rofl:

 

I'm actually in shock. :mellow: I can't think of anything to say :lol: :( except that I just hope that it's not true!..

If Queen want an American Idol to replace Paul Rodgers they should go for Constantine Maroulis, his version of Bohemian Rhapsody in the Freddie tribute album was almost inch perfect

No Paul Di'Anno no Iron Maiden

 

Nonsense.... No Bruce Dickinson, no Iron Maiden more like..... :P Bruce is the bloke I grew up with... I liked Di Anno, dont get me wrong, but compared to Bruce, the bloke cant sing.... The less said about fukkin' Blaze Bayley on the other hand, the better.....

 

Of course this isn't just confined to frontmen... I think we can safely say No Slash/Izzy = No Guns N Roses or No Twiggy Ramirez = No Marilyn Manson..... :rolleyes:

 

And, well, let's almost certainly add No Tarja = No Nightwish..... I've seen them perform live with the new singer, it was simply awful when she attempted to sing the older material..... Apparently she used to sing in an ABBA tribute band, which frankly says a lot..... :lol:

THERE IS A GOD :wub:

 

 

Steven Tyler has insisted that he is not leaving Aerosmith to launch a solo career.

 

The singer made a surprise appearance on stage at bandmate Joe Perry's solo gig in New York last night to refute claims he quit the group.

 

"I just want New York to know, I am not leaving Aerosmith," NME quotes him as saying.

 

Tyler then turned to Perry and added: "Joe Perry, you are a man of many colours but I, motherf***er, am the rainbow!"

 

The pair reportedly performed Aerosmith's 1975 hit 'Walk This Way' toghether and ended the show arm in arm.

Tyler then turned to Perry and added: "Joe Perry, you are a man of many colours but I, motherf***er, am the rainbow!"

 

Err, this doesn't exactly really sound like they're getting on with each other..... :lol:

 

ha who even cares that aerosmith broke up

after BIG ONES i stopped caring!

 

 

ha who even cares that aerosmith broke up

after BIG ONES i stopped caring!

Then you should give 'Honkin On Bobo' a listen.

For Dave to say that we need to broaden our horizons when discussing one of the most generic bands in history is pretty amusing.

 

The Doors are one thing, but Aerosmith? Come on, bro.