“Joe also comes from that school of ‘beat the shit out of your guitar’. “He’s a great riff writer and has a wonderful head for catchy licks that are always different to what anybody else would do,” Slash continues. Guitarist Joe Perry has his own unique style. they’ve experienced the highest highs and the lowest lows of the music business, they’ve been around since 1970 and are still going strong.īrad Whitford, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer (drums), Steven Tyler and Joe Perry on Midnight Special, June 1974.
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They’ve done TV adverts for Gap the press considers them to be America’s finest-ever rock band their peers respect them, the public loves them and they’ve sold tens of millions of albums. they were recently inducted into the prestigious Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, MTV has crowned them ‘Icons’ and Disney has built an incredibly popular rollercoaster ride around them. that’s how much of an impact Aerosmith had on me.”Īerosmith have had a bit of an impact all over. She eventually walked out of the room and I split.
I ignored her completely and just kept playing the album over and over. It was the first time I’d ever heard it and I totally forgot about her.
In fact, it was Aerosmith that inspired me to start playing guitar in the first place… Hell, they even distracted me from the hottest chick in my junior high! I’d finally gotten over at her place after chasing her for months and she put Rocks on.
This interview was originally published in 2002.