Steven Tyler has quit Aerosmith according to Joe Perry
Posted on November 7th, 2009 by Hot Momma
The Boston bad boys of rock, AeroSmith seem to be fighting again. Steven Tyler, 61, who suffered a broken shoulder in fall from a stage in August, has reportedly quit the band, per Joe Perry. It’s not the injury that is the catalyst for the latest dissension because even though most of Aerosmith’s recent world tour was canceled in August after Tyler fell from the stage at a Sturgis, S.D., concert and broke his shoulder, Aerosmith salvaged the final leg of the tour, including two shows in Hawaii and one Sunday at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix before more than 50,000 fans.
Perry who will perform his Joe Perry Project Nov. 28 at the Las Vegas House of Blues, told the Las Vegas Sun today that he believes Tyler is history but doesn’t know why:
“Steven quit as far as I can tell,” Perry said from his Boston home. “I don’t know anymore than you do about it. I got off the plane two nights ago. I saw online that Steven said that he was going to leave the band. I don’t know for how long, indefinitely or whatever. Other than that, I don’t know.”
But Perry tells the Las Vegas Sun, he believes Tyler has been planning on leaving for a while.
“Obviously he hasn’t been giving 100 percent to this thing for a long time,” Perry said. “He’s obviously had this planned for a long time. To disregard his brothers to the point where we have to find out about it on the Internet – it’s like, ‘See you later, Bud.’ I still care for him as a person, or at least the person I used to know. But things change.”
Everyone that follows AeroSmith knows there’s always an uneasy truce between the guys even when things are going well. They are more like brothers now than bandmates and are likely to reconcile again sooner or later.
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