“We have nothing like life-threatening underlying medical issues, but we’ve definitely lived hard lives. (He’s actually 69, as is drummer Joey Kramer guitarist Brad Whitford and bassist Tom Hamilton are 68 Tyler is 72.) “Whatever we do on stage, with Steven, as physical as he is, that stuff doesn’t bother us, but it definitely puts more pressure on your immune system and we’re in that zone. “We’re pretty healthy as far as 70-year-olds go,” says Perry.
With a catalog that includes “Dream On,” “Walk This Way,” “Toys in the Attic,” “Sweet Emotion,” “Cryin’” and “Janie’s Got a Gun,” they’re one of the top legacy bands in the world. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers - class of 2001 - have sold in excess of 150 million album copies worldwide, which accounts for 25 gold, 18 platinum and 12 multiplatinum albums. You probably don’t have to worry about Aerosmith or their fans not coming back. These questions linger and haunt: Will the venues still be there? Will promoters risk putting tours together? Will audiences be afraid to congregate? Will their audience still be there? Will anyone have enough disposable income to consider attending concerts?
Obviously, the smaller bands are in a more financially precarious position, especially since musicians now make the biggest chunk of their living not through royalties on record sales or internet streams but, by far, from gigs and the merchandise sold at them. Say this about the pandemic: It has been, if nothing else, a great leveler, taking down rock bands large and small. That, he hasn’t been doing - “knowing we don’t have to go anywhere for X amount of days.” Normally, he’d practice guitar two or three hours a day, just to keep his chops up. Perry, Aerosmith’s co-songwriter and band-leader with singer Steven Tyler, has altered one major part of his downtime routine.
"As soon as I realized we weren’t gonna be playing for at least months, if not a year, it was almost like I felt like I was on vacation for the first time in 30 years." Joe Perry Where I didn’t have to think, ‘Well, I don’t need to unpack my bags because I’m leaving in a week.’ We know we’re going to be rolling again soon.” “As soon as I realized we weren’t gonna be playing for at least months, if not a year,” Perry says, “it was almost like I felt like I was on vacation for the first time in 30 years. Now, Perry is dwelling in the same COVID-19-afflicted netherworld as the rest of us - but with a little twist. Aerosmith had been playing Las Vegas in March and was in the midst of an extended, on-and-off residency at the Park MGM. Perry is on the phone from his beachfront condo in Sarasota, Florida, where he and his wife, Billie, reside when his main band and his secondary band, the Hollywood Vampires, are not on the road or in the studio. Basically, it has shut down the touring business for an indefinite period of time.” “If you tick off the boxes, it is a world war. “I would say this is as close to a world war as you could get, in a lot of ways,” says Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry. (Winslow Townson/Invision/AP) This article is more than 1 year old. Joe Perry performs with Joe Perry and Friends at the House of Blues on Wednesday, Apin Boston.
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