AEROSMITH Bassist Issues Update From Brazil

AEROSMITH bassist Tom Hamilton has posted an update from Sao Paulo, Brazil where the band performed last month as part of its South American tour. An excerpt from his posting follows:

"This was a big stadium show that we've been looking forward to for a long time. We haven't played in Brazil or Argentina or Mexico for thirteen years but we well remember the intensity of the crowds. It makes it easy. When the audience is supplying so much of the energy we can relax and just have a good time.

"We had to do a runner which is when the band goes straight from the stage to the cars at the end of the show in order not to get caught at the venue for hours as the place clears out. We had a police escort tonight. The motorcycle cops here use super agile bikes. They look like big dirt bikes and whatever they are they're really fast. The streets were full of people and cars and buses and trucks. In order to get us through the throngs of pedestrians they had their sirens going full blast and their red lights blazing away. They cleared a swath by whipping back and forth like slalom skiers. The people sort of calmly parted like the red sea as if wondering what the fuss was all about. A few gave the finger which was funny. The bikes would lunge right up to people nearly ramming them as they charged ahead. I could barely watch.

"The suspense was unrelenting. I thought any minute a bike was going to wipe out or somebody on the street would get hit but somehow we got back here without a scratch. We lined up outside the lobby and took pictures with the cops. I still love the irony of that situation. Usually when cops and long haired freaks are in the same picture it means someone got arrested."

Read Tom's entire message at Aeroforceone.com.