AEROSMITH Bassist Talks To POWERLINE About 'Rock For The Rising Sun' Concert Film

Patrick Prince of Powerline recently conducted an interview with AEROSMITH bassist Tom Hamilton about the band's newly released "Rock For The Rising Sun" DVD. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

Powerline: On "Rock For The Rising Sun", do you have a favorite performance or venue?

Hamilton: No, I don't think so. I really look at it all as one piece. I remember it all as together. I really like it that way. I think we got some great shows together that people are going to really enjoy together. I think a lot of Japanese fans will love it but also I think a lot of American and European fans and South American fans will also like it because we got a lot of high quality footage of us playing.

Powerline: So you think that the director Casey Tebo captured it the right way?

Hamilton: Yeah, Casey Tebo is an amazingly talented guy. He's done a lot of video and that kind of content for us — and also graphics. He did the artwork on our album cover. They guy is constantly working. I don't know how he does it. The labor of taking all those shows, going through them and picking out the moments … that's something where a band has to put a lot of trust in a person like that. So it's really great when you get somebody who you realize sees things the way you see it. Because it saves the band having to sit there and listen to all those songs over and over and over again. Not that that isn't fun but that editing process … that is just pure labor. Thankfully, Casey is really good at it and we've always been really happy with what he's given us.

Powerline: Didn't Tebo give the band a private premiere, to have you the guys watch the finished product beforehand?

Hamilton: Yeah, and we had been improving it bit by bit for awhile so I'm looking forward to that day when there's a delivery on my doorstep and I pick it up and it's a bunch of copies. That's when I'll put it on and really feel how it is. Really, really see it and hear it, visualize it and understand it. Up until now it's been cool looking at the stuff but we really entrusted a lot of it to Casey, as far as putting it together.

Powerline: Tebo said he wanted to capture a glimpse of life on the road with the AEROSMITH like never before. Do you feel like he honestly captured that — both the rigors and joys of touring?

Hamilton: I think so. I think he did, and the thing is, it's so much fun to tour in Japan that you're bound to get a lot of situations that you might get in the States. But I so hope our fans really love this DVD and go for it because then we can expand on it and show more and more of that type of footage where ever we go — in the States, South America and Europe … it's really hard but you just want to portray every second for the fans, even if you have to keep it to a certain length.

Read the entire interview at Powerline.