Imagine if this was Mick doing this?


Perry slams Tyler over 'Idol' role

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Joe Perry (L) and Steven Tyler (R). (WENN.COM file photo)


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Steven Tyler's plans to join American Idol have infuriated his Aerosmith bandmates - guitarist Joe Perry has criticized the singer for keeping the news from the rest of the group.

There are currently two empty slots on the TV talent show's judging panel and rumours have been rife over who will replace Simon Cowell and Ellen DeGeneres, who quit after just one season.

Tyler is one of many stars linked to a judging role, and the rocker confirmed this week that he has spoken to executives at TV network Fox about joining the show.

But the revelation came as a shock to Tyler's bandmates, with Perry criticizing his pal for not sharing his plans.

The guitarist has also spoken of his fears for the future of Aerosmith if the frontman does decide to step in front of the cameras as an American Idol judge.

Perry tells the Boston Herald, "I found out on the internet like the rest of the world... I mean, this is no small thing. 


"I mean, after working with me for 40 years, he couldn't tell me about this... Why so secretive? We're told it's a done deal. If Steven is committed to a TV show, that kind of affects the rest of us. We'd like to plan our lives, ya know?"

Tyler unexpectedly quit the band last year, and the rockers decided to audition for a new singer so they could continue plans for a tour and a new album, but Tyler's lawyers blocked the move and he subsequently rejoined them.

Tyler is the Brett Favre of rock and roll...........

Maybe Ronnie can get the 2nd opening.

Tyler can do AI and Perry can tend to his vineyards.

Joe's made a lot of whine lately...

Nellcote wrote on Aug 4^th, 2010 at 7:36pm:

Hey Nellie. Saw these guys at the US tour opener in Oaktown coupla weeks ago. Thanx to a last minute radio station giveaway. The boys sounded good. Actually it was more like the Joe Perry and band show. Steven sounded good, but was decidedly low key. Meanwhile Joe and the boys rocked. Throwing in some great nuggets like Rats in the Cellar and Lord of the Thighs. As well as a number from Honkin on Bobo. Fuck Tyler. These guys are better without him.

really had to dig the back pages to find anything on Aerosmith.


Steven Tyler Tells All: The Real Story Behind His Aerosmith Battles and 'American Idol' Triumph
'Did I take this job to show the band?' he says. 'F—k yeah'
Photograph by Theo Wenner
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By Rolling Stone
April 27, 2011 9:00 AM ET


Watch: Steven Tyler reminisces at his Rolling Stone cover shoot in the video below.

The new issue of Rolling Stone, on stands and in the digital archive on April 29th, includes an in-depth cover story on Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler by writer Brian Hiatt, who finds the Aerosmith frontman overflowing with positive energy. "I'm really lucky right now," Tyler says as he hikes to the edge of a Laurel Canyon cliff. "I'm on top of the world: I'm Hollywood's little fuckin' sweetheart, basically."

In the story, Tyler talks about his motivation for signing on as an American Idol judge – a move he made after his bandmates threatened to throw him out of Aerosmith. "Did I take this job to show the band?" he says. "Fuck, yeah. Not to show them, but that I can't be held hostage anymore. I will be my own hostage. The band can't throw me out."

Choice Excerpts From Steven Tyler's Cover Story: The Aerosmith Frontman on Addiction, Sex and 'American Idol'

Tyler is awestruck at the Idol finalists' level of talent: “You know what, out of the 20 kids you saw tonight," he says, after watching an Idol episode at home, "if you could just sprinkle 10 years of smoking pot, getting fucked up, getting laid, getting fucked, and 10 years of just life, which one of those people wouldn’t be a star?”

Tyler was one of about 40 people that the show's producers interviewed to replace Simon Cowell. "I actually saw Roger Daltrey," says Fox exec Mike Darnell. "He came in and was the complete reverse of Steve, very formal, his hair was cut, he looked like a regular guy. He had lost that sort of rock & roll charm. But Steven was unbelievably charming."

Other highlights:

• In the fall of 2008 Tyler flew to London to sing for Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham, who were considering starting a new project with him. "I decided, 'Well, I know that I'm mad at those [Aerosmith] guys, but I'm not that mad,'" Tyler says. "So I called Jimmy up after I left, two weeks later, and said, 'You're in a classic band, and so is mine, and I just can't do that to my guys, and I can't do it to Robert [Plant],' and I couldn't see finding a year to really put myself into it. So for whatever the band thought, never in a million years was I going to quit Aerosmith to start Zeppelin."

• During Aerosmith's ill-fated attempt to cut a new album with producer Brendan O'Brien a couple years back, Tyler says he did drugs with Joe Perry for the first time in years. "It was just like 30 years before," Tyler says. "I whipped out mine, he whipped out his and we got high together again. I say to Joe, 'Wow, man, how you been, it's been, what, 17 years since we got high together? Joe, you've been fucking running away from me ever since.' " Bonding aside, the album sessions didn't go well. "Joe was high and he couldn't play," says Tyler. "I couldn't sing, really, because I was snorting everything, and it fucks up your throat. It was the wrong time." (Despite repeated requests, Perry declined to comment for this story.)

Photos: Four Decades of Aerosmith Live and Unleashed

• In May, Tyler is releasing his autobiography, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? Around that time he'll release the first solo single of his entire career, a poppy tune called "Feels So Good." "I can hear it coming out of people's cars this summer," he says. He's also working on new material with Aerosmith: Earlier this year the entire band – minus Perry – flew to Los Angeles to work on  demos, and Tyler is talking to Toys in the Attic producer Jack Douglas about working on some of the songs. Working titles include "Asphalt," "Bobbing for Piranha," and "Legendary Child." The story describes the material as "slinky riff-rock, big-chorused soul ballads, leaning more Seventies than Nineties."
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/steven-tyler-tells-all-the-real-story-beh...

Factory Girl wrote on Apr 27^th, 2011 at 7:15pm:

Completely Tyler!

Well whether his fellow bandmates liked the idea or not. Aerosmith's past album and Itunes sales have increased since Tyler's been on AI.

mojoman wrote on Apr 28^th, 2011 at 10:25am:


I agree, they were the recovery icons in the 80's, wasn't one of their former managers accusing them of doing drugs on the side, for which they denied? Tyler himself said he doesn't want to be 12 step recovery icons.