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[The Mad Hatter]

And if the entire article is read.... as well as his tweets..... he's said he READ that Steven QUIT. That's what he's basing his entire interview on.

Now forgive me, but I've not seen a single headline saying Steven QUIT.... they all say "Is Aerosmith Replacing Tyler" and "Is ST Leaving Aerosmith?"

By his own admission he didn't even READ the article before he shot his mouth off. And also... HE'S the one that said he knows Steven wanted to do his own sh*t, so they were taking a sabbatical in order for them all to do their own thing for awhile.

This is complete and utter bullshit. Perhaps Joe should have actually read the damn articles himself before firing off tweet and interviews about something he knows NOTHING about..... nothing apparently, including his OWN damn statements to the press.

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# What about fans? The people that also love him and put him where he is.after 40 years? And I gotta read it on line? I still got major jetlagabout 8 hours ago from Tweetie

# Read on line st left band to do "brand Tyler"? That's all I know but like I've said hasn't called me in months.a bit cold forget us 4 guysabout 8 hours ago from Tweetie

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/nov/06/joe-perry-steven-tyler-has-quit-aerosmith/


Joe Perry: Steven Tyler has quit Aerosmith
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.”

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How are the circumstances different? Is he not the one who said they'd been touring too much for Steven? That they ALL needed a break from each other? Is the blood not running just as hot here as it was before?
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[debivee]

I was shocked at the headline too.

Where did Steven say he quit? And isn't JP on the road til Spring?

Good grief. will he stop at nothing for press?

Oh and thanks for printing that out. I was about to do so

[sleeper]

[AEROSMITH027]

The four victims are scared sh*tless that AeroCash may not continue on. Tyler is the brains and creative force behind Aerosmith. He cashed in for $50 mil with Primary Wave, is catching a lot of crap from Joe Perry in public forums; radio, print, internet, and probably doesn't need the aggrevation any more.

If you believe that Steven was having some recurring drug problems that are the core of this issue; maybe you should turn back the clock to the 2007 world tour where Perry was using, out of control and needed to be propped up by his "brothers". Perry is a bitter hypocrite who needs only to refresh his memory and look at himself.

I can't wait for Tyler to speak up this is going to be one interesting "soap". Keep your eye on Twitter it is just a matter of time for the musings of Bille and Joe to surface.

[AeroNT]

Thanks for dissecting it, Hatter. This is a perfect example of how speaking too quickly and without thinking can really cause problems, especially in stressful times.
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[The Mad Hatter]

[OuttaYourHead]

Now, we all love Joe, but I think he's just making things way too complicated. He always the one to talk about this stuff on twitter (which is a horrible way to get information out, in my opinion) to get us riled up. Often times for no reason- like this, he had he read that Steven quit, when it is clear that we were just questioning his stand in the band.

While I don't know if this is part of the dispute between them, I wouldn't blame Steven for getting a little mad at Joe for this twitter and press thing. And I can certainly see why he does not have a twitter account despite the fact of us whining and saying that he isn't paying enough attention to us.

They just need to chill out and after this JPP thing, come back with a tabula rasa.
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[sleeper]

OK I was trying to be good and not say anything about Joe. But he will not shut up! I guess if the only press you can get for your cd is ST press go for it Joe. As for the twittering it should get real interesting soon. Maybe JP and Billie will have another chat again by twitter. The last one was really interesting.

[Muck]

[The Mad Hatter]

[sleeper]

[NYaerofan]

You want Steven's response? Well, here it is.... he signed this yesterday. Moustache or frown? You decide. Either way.........................

To be fair and should also be mentioned...Joe signed Steven's side of the pic..which is why Steven signed Joes side of the pic..



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[elloutsay r us]

This debivee is showing she defintely hates Joe perry= the rocking force behind AEROSMITH.

So Tyler wants to leave and the rest of the band supposed to fold as per debivee?

So Joe likes to rock and play and he supposed to to fade away cause debivee says so?

Tyler tours with a band called Aerosmith over the years that did not include Joe perry , Brad whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer and that's OK?

I say that debivee is a nonsensical boondoggling hypocritical Tyler groupie who one seriously must question her allegiance.

Joe wants to rock.....let him...Joe wants Aerosmith to rock...Agreed....Tyler... aged so badly that he can not sing as he used to nor can or does he wish to rock out like it takes to do nowadays to keep a hard rocking fan base.

[debivee]