MOA Arena manager confirms Aerosmith’s Manila concert

MANILA, Philippines—The bad boys from Boston, otherwise known as Aerosmith, will finally perform in Manila, on May 8 at the SM Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena—concert promoter Pulp Live Productions announced Tuesday night, March 5, on its YouTube channel.

The news was confirmed to the Philippine Daily Inquirer by Arnel Gonzales, MOA Arena general manager, although the band’s official website, aerosmith.com, has yet to add the Manila date to three coming shows in May: Brisbane (May 1), Melbourne (May 4), and Jakarta (May 11). Gonzales added that he’s dealing directly with Vernon Go of Pulp Productions.


Rumors that Aerosmith will play in the Philippines first surfaced in February 2011, which was later denied by the band’s drummer, Joey Kramer.

The band was formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970. Guitarist Joe Perry and bassist Tom Hamilton, originally in a band together called the Jam Band, met up with singer Steven Tyler, guitarist Ray Tabano and Kramer, and called the new group Aerosmith. In 1971, Tabano was replaced by Brad Whitford.

Aerosmith has gone through a series of breakups and reunions; the breakups were caused mainly by the band members’ drug problems especially Tyler’s. Feuding had also erupted between Tyler and Perry, but they have patched up their differences lately and agreed that the band should keep on playing.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which inducted Aerosmith in 2001, has this to say about the band:

“Aerosmith was America’s feisty retort to hard-rocking British groups like the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, the Who, Cream, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. Almost alone among American bands, Aerosmith matched those British legends in power, intensity, and notoriety.

Moreover, it has long since surpassed many of its influences in terms of longevity and popularity. In the words of vocalist Steven Tyler, “We weren’t too ambitious when we started out. We just wanted to be the biggest thing that ever walked the planet, the greatest rock band that ever was.

“We were America’s band,” Joe Perry proclaimed with no false modesty. “We were the garage band that made it really big – the ultimate party band.”

No less an authority than Jimmy Page has called them “the ideal rock and roll band.” Thirty years after forming, the “bad boys from Boston” remain a vital, ongoing force whose unshakable spirit and boundless energy virtually define rock and roll.

Surviving shifting tastes and trends in popular music, Aerosmith has solidly epitomized the bedrock virtues and raucous magic that comes from a simple yet combustible recipe of guitars, bass, drums, vocals and attitude.

“Aerosmith’s philosophy is best expressed by the flamboyant Tyler: “Kick ass and leave a footprint.”

The group has left indelible footprints on the rock and roll landscape with such milestone albums as “Toys in the Attic,” “Rocks” and “Pump” and classic songs like “Dream On,” “Walk This Way,” and “Janie’s Got a Gun,” to name only a few.

“Aerosmith is built around the Jagger/Richards-style chemistry between singer Tyler and guitarist Perry, but group is a solid five-way proposition whose success would have been unthinkable without the solid musicianship of guitarist Brad Whitford, bassist Tom Hamilton and drummer Joey Kramer.” 

source: entertainment.inquirer.net

Stanley bites back at Tyler

Kiss frontman Paul Stanley has bitten back at Steven Tyler, saying the Aerosmith singer needs a “reality check” after calling the glam icons a comic-book band.

Last week Tyler told a radio interviewer that he’d “hated” Kiss since the time the bands toured together and one of Aerosmith’s roadies wound up in a knife fight with the other outfit’s crew.


“Sometimes I get offended,” said Tyler. “They’ve got a couple of hits but they’re more comic book. I hear that and I go, ‘Yeah, that’s alright – do they really mean it? What’s this all about?”

But he added that after the violent altercation he’d “gotten to know Gene and Paul, and they’re beautiful people.”

Now Stanley, talking to the Rockline radio show, has responded to the comments.

“Maybe Steven’s feeling a bit full of himself because he has an album coming out,” the Kiss frontman says. “When their album comes out, let’s put it with ours and let the music do the talking.”

Discussing the bands’ 2003 double-header tour he reports: “Steven insisted they close the show. I didn’t care because one way or the other you have to come up onstage. He had a chip on his shoulder back then.”

Stanley says he remembers “looking down his nose a bit at Kiss. Seeing him come onstage to an underwhelmed audience and people walking out.”

He adds: “Steven may have been over enthused and needs a reality check.”

Aerosmith’s long-awaited album Music From Another Dimension, their first to feature new music in 11 years, is due for release on November 6. Kiss’ latest record, Monster, came out this week.

source: classicrockmagazine.com

Aerosmith Tap Johnny Depp, Carrie Underwood for 'Another Dimension'

To the sound of a collective "whew" from fans, Aerosmith are – to quote one of their vintage song titles – back in the saddle. Just over two weeks ago, Steven Tyler announced he was leaving his judge post at American Idol, and the band's three-years-in-the-making album, Music from Another Dimension!, will finally be released in November. But as they tell Rolling Stone, Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry may be the most relieved of all – for different reasons.

Tyler now admits that Aerosmith's troubles (his often nasty public spat with the other band members starting in 2009) were the principal reason he signed up with Idol in 2010. "It was something to do while the storm blew by, to be honest," he says, calling the show "not my cup of tea." Regarding his two-season stint, for which he was reportedly paid $10 million a season, he now says, "I loved it and hated it. It was a great job, I sat next to J. Lo and I made a ton of money. It was a moment in life and it became larger than life."

The downside, he says, was the workload and his supposed role as the new Simon Cowell. "It was just hard work: seven-hour days and then I went and did the [Aerosmith] album for eight hours after that," Tyler says. Of criticisms that he and Jennifer Lopez, who is also exiting the show, weren't hard enough on most of the contestants, he explains, "The show's about kids and what you do to nurture their talent. They wanted me to take the piss out of the kids and I don't have that in me. That's not what I'm about. That's more about that other guy. Not me." Tyler declined to comment on rumors that money issues were a factor in his departure from the series.

Perry also seems relieved that his longtime bandmate is no longer on Idol: "There was certainly the fame and notoriety that went with it. But you can't figure out what a band is about reading about it in the gossip column." Perry saw Tyler's double life in action when the two were wrapping up work on Music from Another Dimension! in Los Angeles. "He did double duty," says Perry. "I never felt for a minute he was lagging in the studio because of his other job. He did his whole thing [on Idol] and then showed up at eight at night and was in the studio until two in the morning."

Music From Another Dimension! finds the band working with a number of familiar faces: producer Jack Douglas (who helmed classic Seventies Aerosmith albums like Rocks and Toys in the Attic), songwriter Diane Warren and even guitarist Rick Dufay, who briefly replaced Brad Whitford in the early Eighties. Dufay joined the band on a cover of the Temptations' 1975 hit "Shakey Ground," which Tyler had initially planned to include on a solo album.

The album also includes a number of newer acquaintances. Perry says he was initially skeptical about Carrie Underwood dueting with Tyler on "Beautiful," which Tyler describes as "a country-western crossover ballad." But Perry was won over: "Their voices matched up really well. It doesn't sound forced. It was just right." While in Los Angeles working on Idol, Tyler met Julian Lennon in his hotel, and Lennon wound up contributing harmony vocals to "Love Three Times a Day," which Tyler not surprisingly describes as "Beatlesque." "He's such a sweet fucking guy," Tyler says. "And he's John's first son with that voice and sense of humor – gimme a break!" Johnny Depp also added backup vocals to Perry's politically conscious rocker "Freedom Fighter," but the song may end up an outtake or on a later deluxe edition of the album, according to Perry.

Perry says he's happy Music from Another Dimension! has been completed for another reason: The band will finally have new songs to play onstage. They've already incorporated two of them, the rockers "Legendary Child" and "Oh Yeah," into their current Global Warming tour sets. "Everyone wants to hear the same 'Dream On''s and 'Walk This Way''s, but that's not what I had in mind to be in a band – to be the best cover band you can be," Perry says. "We can be the best Aerosmith cover band out there, and I was getting tired of it. So I'm really glad to have this record."

source: rollingstone.com

Aerosmith Push Album Release Back to November

Aerosmith have moved the release date for Music From Another Dimension, their first album in 11 years, back from August 28th to November 6th, frontman Steven Tyler revealed during a call to Cleveland radio station 100.7 WMMS.

"It's pushed back because too many people are releasing those weeks, and we don't want to step on their release dates," said Tyler. "So we said, 'You know what, we got the goods, ain't no doubt about [it], we'll wait a couple months.'"

Music From Another Dimension will be the band's first LP since 2001's Just Push Play. The group debuted the record's first single, "Legendary Child," during the season finale of American Idol last month, but the song has failed to gain traction on both the Billboard and iTunes charts.

Tyler also mentioned on-air that Sony will release two more singles before the album drops in November. One of those tracks could be the blues-tinged rocker "Oh Yeah," which the band debuted last week at the Minneapolis kick-off of their Global Warming tour, which finds them rekking across North America alongside Cheap Trick throughout the summer.

"We accomplished what we set out to do, which was write some stuff so we could represent who we were in the old days," Tyler told WMMS. "After all these years, you can become something other than you started out to be – and I'm not saying that's a bad thing – but we kinda love our rock and I love the diversity of this band ... I thought that was one of the secrets that Aerosmith had that other bands didn't – a little bit of this, a little bit of that."

source: rollingstone.com

Joe Perry: Aerosmith Will Perform on 'American Idol' Season Finale

In the fall of 2010, Aerosmith's future was thrown into doubt when news broke that Steven Tyler would become a judge on American Idol. The singer hadn't shared the news with his bandmates yet, even though they were touring at the time, and the fact that Tyler had taken a job that would make him unavailable for a big chunk of the year didn't sit well with the guys.

"It's his business, but I don't want Aerosmith's name involved with it," guitarist Joe Perry famously told the Calgary Herald at the time. "It's a reality show designed to get people to watch that station and sell advertising. It's one step above [Teenage Mutant] Ninja Turtles."

Two years later, Perry seems to have a whole new attitude. In March, he appeared on Idol to sing "Happy Birthday" to Steven Tyler and even sat down at the judge's table. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Perry says that the group will appear on the show's May 23rd season finale to perform their new single. We also spoke with the guitarist about Aerosmith's new album, tour and ever-present backstage drama.

What's the status of the new album at this point?
It's really close. We've started to mix. We've mixed a couple of the songs already, but I guess this week we're really kind of rolling into mix mode. We have a couple of tracks left to finish up, just to put some overdubs on, but we're kind of going from the final, final recording tracks to mixing this week.

Nice. I'm sure that bringing producer Jack Douglas back into the studio was a nice boost for you guys.
Definitely. This was supposed to be the record that we did with him five years ago, but we ran out of time so we did the Honkin' on Bobo blues record instead. We did that record kind of the same way we did this one, which is we all got in a room with Jack, as we used to back in the 1970s, and just hammered stuff out.

Fans are definitely ready to hear a new Aerosmith album. They've waited long enough.
I've been wanting this record to come out for years, but there's a reason for everything and the timing for this is just right. The pressure for this to be what everyone hopes it's going to be is enormous and I'm starting to feel a little bit of that heat. We've talked about doing a new record and it's kind of like the boy crying wolf the last bunch of years...I just have to wipe out all the expectations that everybody has because we've always done every record on its own, taking its own place, not looking at it in the context of the last record or the next record or whatever is going on in the world or whatever. It's just about getting in and trying to do what we do best and that's it. I'm definitely feeling some of that weight. It's really about keeping he doors locked and finishing this up without letting any of that get to us.

Tell me about the tour. How are you guys going to pick a setlist?
We'll probably do it the way we always do it. We have new tunes this time, and there was a short time where we wouldn't necessarily play much from our new records. We tried, but there were just so many songs that Aerosmith fans wanted to hear when they came to see us. When we played something new, something old had to come out.

But this time is going to be a little different. We're releasing a new single in three or four weeks, and that is going to open the door. I would like to see us play three or four songs from the new record, kind of sprinkling them into the set as the tour rolls out. We've also been talking about bringing in some other songs that our old fans want to hear that we haven't played in a long time. There are some songs from our early records that used to be the backbone of our set, and we're gonna bring some of them back to the table, too. It'll be a mixture of all of it.

Is there one deep cut in particular that you really want to bring back?
Yeah. I've always liked playing "Woman of the World" [from 1974's Get Your Wings.] I don't know though. We'll see.

How would you compare the sound of the new record to the last album, Just Push Play?
Let's say they're polar opposites. The whole attitude of making this record and the way that we went about it is so opposite. I mean, the band stayed in the room and everybody had riffs, songs. I can remember writing some of the riffs 20 years ago; they've been kind of bubbling under. Steven and I would look at each other and go, "We gotta use that one," and they'd always end up somewhere. A lot of these riffs that we love, that are really part of our inner Aerosmith lexicon, are now songs, finally. So the whole process was different. The record's gonna sound modern and hi-fi. We're not sitting around going, "We're gonna do Night in the Ruts again or Rocks again." We want to make a modern sounding record, but the main thing is the energy that the early records had.

The press is always so focused on drama in the band, but you guys seem to actually be functioning relatively well at this point.
Well, we're as dysfunctional as we've always been. Some of it gets out into the press when there's nothing else to talk about. I think the band is doing pretty much what it usually does. I don't know if it's fair to call it dysfunctional. You have to have some really great highs, and you have to have some real deep lows. There's always going to be that give and take in a band like this, and some of it gets thrust out into the public and some of it doesn't.

You appeared on American Idol recently, so I assume you've softened your position a bit about that.
It wasn't about the show – it was about how we found out about it. I was pissed off about that whole thing, but I've played on it before and the band is gonna play on it in the last episode of the season to debut the new single. So it's not about the show, it's about how we found out about it. It was a bit of a shock and it took us off balance.

You guys played Toys in the Attic straight though a few years ago. Are you thinking about doing more complete album shows in the future?
Well, there's a lot of things we've been thinking about doing, and a lot of the ideas that we've had are going to start coming out. We've got a few good years left in us, so I think nothing's out of the question.

source: rollingstone.com

New Aerosmith Album Due in Three Months, Band Confirms

At a press conference at the Grove mall in Los Angeles, just around the corner from the American Idol studio, the members of Aerosmith (minus guitarist Brad Whitford) bravely stepped into the sunshine and proved that they don't melt in daylight. After being introduced by Jimmy Kimmel – "Aerosmith are literally walking this way" – the band confirmed that their Global Warming tour will kick off on June 16th in Minneapolis; it's currently scheduled through August 8th, with Cheap Trick rocking the opening slot.

But the big news was that the band's 15th studio album, their first in eight years, is almost done and should be released in roughly three months. "We've been underground for four months, doing what we do best," said Steven Tyler, who was wearing a half-buttoned shimmery red polka dot shirt. "We got two more songs to finish" before mixing, he added. Among the song titles on the album are "Legendary Child," "Beautiful" and "Out Go the Lights."

Tyler and his bandmate Joe Perry seemed comfortable with one another. Tyler mentioned how happy he was that the guitarist performed "Happy Birthday" to mark his 64th on Idol, and when Perry was asked about the perks of having a TV star in the band, he said drily, "He gives us free sunglasses."

As the band left the stage, Tyler issued a promise to Aerosmith fans: "We will not let you down."

source: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/new-aerosmith-album-due-in-three-months-band-confirms-20120328

Steven Tyler Dude Looks Like a Fiance

Steven Tyler is domesticating himself ... because his longtime GF was sporting a huge rock on her finger this weekend ... and sources close to the rocker tell us it's an ENGAGEMENT RING!

63-year-old Tyler and 38-year-old Erin Brady hit Maui on Xmas day ... along with a massive new diamond. It's unclear if Tyler proposed before or during the tropical vacay.

The two have been dating since 2006. Tyler has been married twice before ... he married a model in 1978 and a clothing designer in 1988.

source: TMZ

Steven Tyler Two New Teeth After Shower Accident

Steven Tyler's face has some new hardware -- thanks to a Paraguayan dentist, who implanted two teeth in the singer's mouth ... to replace the ones he lost in that nasty hotel shower accident yesterday.

The dentist -- a woman named Maria Bastos -- called into a local radio station today, claiming the singer is "doing splendidly" after the procedure.

As we first reported ... Tyler -- who says he was dehydrated from food poisoning -- collapsed and smacked his face in a hotel shower yesterday, knocking out two teeth.

Aerosmith postponed their concert last night due to the accident -- but we just checked ... and tonight's show is still scheduled to rock on.


Source: http://www.tmz.com/2011/10/26/steven-tyler-implants-aerosmith-paraguay-teeth-knocked-out-dental/#.TqiL6VsbBog