AEROSMITH Bassist Says Band Is Working On New Album

January 22, 2011

In the short video below, AEROSMITH bassist Tom Hamilton checked in with the AeroForceOne web site to talk about the status of the band and his new television show idea.

Steven Tyler recently said that guitarist Joe Perry is the one holding up the recording of a new AEROSMITH album. The singer told RollingStone.com that after spending several months preparing for his first season as a judge on "American Idol", he's ready to get to work on the band's first all-new set since 2001. Tyler explained, "I'm trying to rally the guys together. We're having trouble getting Joe. I don't know where he is, but just come down to L.A. at the end of January sometime. I've had enough downtime."

Tyler added, "(Joe's) got LSD — Lead Strummer Disorder. We've been brothers forever. He's just going through his thing. I think the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of unrecorded Joe Perry licks floating around in the ether somewhere."

Tyler told The Pulse Of Radio last June that he felt sure about making a new record. "It's something that we all wanna do and we all are gonna do, and that's that," he said. "You know, once you've written your first song, it's very addicting. You've got to keep writing, and God knows Joe's kept writing and I've been writing and we're gonna put it back together again. It's just what it is, you know."

It was Perry who was pushing to make a new album until Tyler's "American Idol" gig derailed those plans. It was just over a year ago that the future of AEROSMITH itself was in doubt, followed a canceled summer 2009 tour, a stint in rehab for Tyler and a public feud between him and the rest of the band that included threats about hiring a new singer.

The group mended its fences in early 2010 and took off on successful South American and North American treks. Then Tyler's stint on "American Idol" was made public, putting AEROSMITH on hold once again.

Perry has had nothing good to say about "American Idol", calling it "one step above 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'. When we put this band together, this is not something that (Steven Tyler) would do."

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