our first guest tonight the founding members of one of
the Great American rock and roll bands Aero Smith
this is the brand new CD uh their first studio album in the original songs in 11 years wow has
it been that long but this is one of these bands they got staying power because just
you can't deny the power of rock and roll you cannot deny that power that's right
um the title is Music From Another Dimension please welcome Stephen Tyler and Joe Perry foreign
how long has the band been together early like 1970 is that when you're 71 71 so how many how
many years are we talking about I can't do that kind of math 41 or two or 21 or two years it's
remarkable that as a musical organization you guys have withstood well all of the
rigors and the pitfalls of being together as any kind of artistic group I think it's
the music you know once you create something and you sit there and go look what we've done
and then you continue to do album after album it's just a how close has the band been to exploding
well three times many times many many times and what was the cause what dynamic broke down oh you
can name anything I mean it's like it's a family it uh about a nasty look I mean who knows you
know and the band goes apart for for uh six months you know now could you let me ask you this could
the band break up everybody goes their separate ways and you remain friends is that possible well
that's what just you know that's what happens all the time it's like but it's really our only legal
out from Sony to take a break for any considerable amount of time so you're blaming it on Sony well
no we blame it on ourselves we're going to own it but uh yes it's Sony now what happened
what happened when you uh decided to be on the American Idol what what did that do to the band
did it was that hurtful to the band I think it was great it's actually um I was a little upset
about it well okay right there right there in the beginning what's what message did that send
to the band well you know it's just another bump in the road but as it turned out to be
a great thing you know I mean we were a little upset about the way we found out about it but
you know it turned out to be a great thing for for Steven and for the band and at one point
were you looking for other lead singers there was a rumor that that was out there yeah and
I think we had a lot of fun with that over the last it's given us something to talk about in
reviews and stuff but did you did you actually make a call to anybody no no no we did not say
that yeah honestly maybe stepping on my toes for years it's just a good excuse to get new boots
I mean you name it we've been through it now uh uh how are you guys now together friends you know
what we're on fire we just finished another album called Music From Another Dimension
we spent uh a year and a half doing it in the studio with Jack Douglas and Joe and I in the
band and the band is on fire we're going to do a song tonight um we got we've got 18 19 right
and uh you know it's it's it's that energy uh that keeps the band together you know we're all
full of ourselves you know titled rock stars sure can go off and get lost do you know the truth be
known you know and so uh with all the attitude and all this stuff but once we get in the studio
we become like uh you know uh and on stage it just the whole the dream of what we wanted to do when
we first started it all of a sudden comes back into focus and all the other stuff kind of from
a physical standpoint you look back on the the time and the culture that you uh came to be and
lived through with the drugs and really abusing yourselves are you grateful and surprised that
you're still alive well that part that's a that's a two-part question and yes we are we are grateful
and surprised that we are here I mean we had no no uh uh idea that we would be together this long but
you have to remember that that our uh wild crazy kid partying days only were about seven years of
our career and then you take seven from forty so what do you get from that um so so all that
I gotta figure that the rest of the time the rest of the time we're relatively sober and
uh and and having a career but as as we know and uh the landscape is littered with Fallen
Soldiers Fallen fellows Fallen Souls that didn't didn't even party for seven years maybe tried it
a week and it was adios well it just shows what kind of Troopers we are yes I mean were you uh
uh I and I I don't want to be insulting about this but I'm I'm fascinated by this like the
Grateful Dead they said you know good luck keeping up with these guys that's what they said about you
well it was in the 70s but now is that true were you guys like the big the major league here we
go you know you know we were an army marching on you know and uh and and we were raping and
pillaging and and uh going from town to town New York's Madison Square Garden wherever it was and
when it's done you don't go back and go bowling or knit in your room you you drink it feels good you
may have some cocaine it feels good look if you could if you could put a button here and humans
could orgasm how many people out in the audience wouldn't be hitting that button all day long
so Dave can you answer that I have no no more questions your honor I just want to make sure
viewers at home have your email address so you can direct all inquiries Mr Tyler straight away
and just leave us out we have promised to be the last man standing with there's no there's
no Finish Line with us and um you know I mean this album proves it it's it's how old were you
guys when you got together in the 70s how old were you 46 20 25 in our teens in your teens yeah you
you uh your first gig was high school is that what it was nipmuk high school yeah there it is
yeah this is uh yep 1970. well it was up in Massachusetts wow that's it that's a true picture
was this the uh the the first gig where you felt you were had really taken a major step to
being successful in music well we were obviously successful making it to the gig uh I think that uh
it took it took a few years for us to really feel like we were um we're actually making it there was
one event where we came back to Boston and the single had been out for a while and it was the
first time we felt like fans were coming to see us that weren't just our friends yep you know uh
and this is uh your first official publicity photo shortly thereafter in 1972. oh yes you
guys don't look that much different today I don't know about that there they are Aerosmith over here
and did you get fired off the American Idol show no but I'll tell you what it was two beautiful
years you know I took that show because of obviously there was tumult in the band and
um you were you were injured too your feet were in bad shape right my feet are in bad shape but
I'd fallen off the stage I took a fall and uh and and checked into Betty Ford for three months they
do the Orthopedics they simonized I got a good simonizing to Waxman I took a look at what the
hell I was doing yeah and came out and said I want to do idle it was just another look at the
top I mean TV is nuts especially the reality shows and it was wonderful it was a really great thing
for two years like I think what are you doing I thought you pulled something out of stuff here
are you uh uh like Dean Martin used to say they would say are you really drunk when you
go on stage and he says yeah I'm not going out there alone now do you are you guys now go on
stage alone speaking with each other I've got the other four guys yeah we go out with each
other but you know what I'm saying well you know what it took us down it took us down Dave and it
takes it takes a while for a good for for an addict to realize that what's taking you down
is taking you down right because you rely on it so much and you love it and look without our
ups and downs and and God knows but we're back it took a little practice and they'll be back
ladies and gentlemen right here Joe thank you very much Stephen thank you very much