ABOVE: After 40 years, Aerosmith’s train may have finally stopped rolling. Will fans accept a new singer?
It has been a dramatic few weeks for Aerosmith, to say the least.
After a seemingly jinxed tour plagued by injury, both common (twisted knee) and bizarre (singer dances right off the front of the stage), the band recently made headlines as guitarist Joe Perry announced that singer Steven Tyler had left the band. Set to celebrate its 40th anniversary, the band is now faced with the challenge of finding a new singer.
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Of course, break-ups are never quite that simple.
Tyler then shocked everyone as he jumped on stage during one of Perry’s solo concerts so that he could sing an Aerosmith song and announce that he was still in the band. According to Perry, Tyler then promptly disappeared, again.
Finally, after weeks of this nonsense, comes word that the band is in fact concerned about Tyler, who, until now, they’d merely seemed to be annoyed by. The singer’s increasingly erratic behavior is causing the band to worry about long-in-recovery Tyler’s sobriety.
Well, duh. We’re glad somebody finally said it though.
According to a blurb from the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone, drummer Joey Kramer elusively states that he wants Tyler to take care of his “health,” while guitarist Brad Whitford hits the matter more directly by saying that Tyler isn’t acting like a sober person and that he may be in a tough spot because “full blown recovery is a difficult thing to pull off.”
In recent months, Tyler had been accused of returning to his reckless ways after spending a stint in a recovery facility—something he later attributed not to drug use, but to his need to ” recover from a foot injury” in a quiet place.
We wish Tyler and the rest of the band the best, but expect the worst.
POLL: Will you still like Aerosmith if they replace Tyler?
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Jolie says...
11.20.09 9:34 am
Replace Steven Tyler what a joke!
Aerosmith is not nor never will be Aerosmith
with out Steven.
If they boot him out of the band we will
be seeing the death of Aerosmith.
I won’t be crying either because without Steven they
will be just another aging past their prime band.
Steven gives the band 90% of it’s magic, not to mention
no one, but no one can sing the greatest love song (I Don’t Want to Miss A Thing )
of all time like Steven.