AEROSMITH: Footage From Italy's HEINEKEN JAMMIN' FESTIVAL Posted Online

July 5, 2010

Fan-filmed video footage of AEROSMITH's July 3, 2010 performance at the Heineken Jammin' Festival in Venice, Italy can be viewed below.

AEROSMITH frontman Steven Tyler told the Associated Press in a new interview that it was "really unfortunate" that the band's problems late last year — which almost broke them apart — became public knowledge. The singer seemed to take a poke at his bandmate, guitarist Joe Perry, who was the most vocal in the press about possibly getting a new vocalist for the band. Tyler said, "Certain people that decide to go in the press with dirty laundry, I just have to look the other way and realize I need to keep my side of the street clean, and they do what they do. It's really unfortunate that certain people were Twittering and going to the press."

Despite that tinge of residual bitterness, Tyler said that "the band has never been better," following a year that included his stage injury last August, a canceled tour, his stint in rehab and threats to find a new lead singer or get lawyers involved. But ever since hashing out their issues earlier this year, Tyler said, "It's been beautiful and I realized when I was taking care of my problems that the band is all I really care about."

AEROSMITH is currently touring Europe and launches a new U.S. trek on July 23 in Oakland.

Tyler admitted that a series of surgeries and the loss of his mother last year contributed to his falling off the wagon, but also said, "I managed to pull it all back together again and say, 'Look, let's just get out there and be the band that we know we are and not argue about this crap anymore.'"

Tyler also said that he's got "12 songs I'm sitting on right now for a solo record" — another source of tension between him and the band — but added that AEROSMITH "has to finish a studio album; we're gonna do that first."

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