AEROSMITH Bassist Talks About Band's Near-Split

April 9, 2010

AEROSMITH bassist Tom Hamilton spoke to the Boston Herald about the band's near-break-up and eventual reconciliation with singer Steven Tyler.

AEROSMITH's U.S. trek with ZZ TOP was scrapped midway through last summer when Tyler injured himself in a fall from the stage, which began a troubled six-month period for the group.

The singer subsequently announced his intention to take a two-year break from AEROSMITH and focus on a solo project, which in turn led the rest of the band to publicly discuss getting a new frontman.

Tyler entered rehab in December for an addiction to painkillers, and his management and attorneys threatened legal action if AEROSMITH went forward with finding a new singer.

"There was a lot of sort of reconciling and processing feelings and stuff," bassist Tom Hamilton told the Boston Herald. "Everyone said how they wanted things to be in the future and it became clear that, for everybody, the coolest thing to do would be to resolve things with the band."

Hamilton joked that he and bandmates Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford and Joey Kramer came to the February sit-down in their rehearsal studio "all lawyered up."

"There was management there," he said, adding that "it took a while" to get everybody to realize that the best thing for everyone was for AEROSMITH to be AEROSMITH.

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