AEROSMITH Members Reflect On South American Tour

June 7, 2010

Video footage of AEROSMITH members Brad Whitford (guitar) and Tom Hamilton (bass) talking about the just-completed South American portion of the band's 2010 "Cocked, Locked, Ready to Rock" tour can be viewed below.

AEROSMITH guitarist Joe Perry told Rolling Stone on Friday (June 4) that it "feels like 1971 again" for the 40-year-old band, which nearly split with singer Steven Tyler last fall. Perry explained, "Our whole rhythm just got thrown off over the last three or four years. We ended up touring without new albums a couple of times and it just didn't work out. It felt off-kilter and the tension was pretty high. Now Steven is singing better than I've heard in a long time and the shows have just gotten better and better. It feels like 1971 again."

The band is touring without a new album now — and has not made an all-new record since 2001 — but Perry says there's hope on the horizon. "Looking at the calendar we'll probably be going into the studio sometime around the holidays or maybe in the beginning of next year," he said. "We'll have to take time off from touring to make the best record we can make. We owe it to ourselves to make the best record we can make."

Just a few months ago, a new AEROSMITH record was the last thing on anyone's mind.

Following a fall from a stage and canceled tour last summer, Tyler said he needed time off for a solo project. But the band questioned his sobriety and threatened to find a new singer. Tyler instead went to rehab and the band then sat down to hash out their issues.

Perry revealed, "Basically I just said one or two things to Steven and he said one or two things to me. Being as close as we are, that's all we needed to do. Then we just looked at each other and knew it was time to get the band back together."

AEROSMITH will begin a new North American tour in late July, and Perry said to expect them to change up the set. "With tweets and Twitters and all that stuff we'll get the vibe of what people want to hear," he said. "We have so many songs we never play and we'll definitely make the set list interesting enough so that people won't miss the fact we don't have a new record out."

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