“There’s gotta be at least another Aerosmith gig”: Joe Perry on the band’s future following last year’s retirement
Less than a year after Aerosmith pulled the plug on their farewell tour, guitarist Joe Perry says one last gig isn’t off the table – if they can get there.
The band announced their retirement from touring last August, cancelling all remaining dates of their Peace Out farewell tour due to frontman Steven Tyler’s vocal injury.
Now, appearing on a recent episode of SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, Perry opens up about the possibility of one last Aerosmith show, and what it would actually take to get the band back on stage.
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“Well, yeah, I’m always hoping, but going on the road, it’s a big deal pulling that together,” he says [via Ultimate Classic Rock]. “It’s one thing to sit there and look online and see who’s touring and stuff, and there’s dates that show up, but there’s so much planning, and what it takes out of you physically, it’s a lot more than people realise.”
“It’s one thing when you’re doing it when you’re 25 or 30,” Perry adds, “but it’s another when you’re starting to get up there [in age] like us. It’s a really physical thing, going out on stage. And all that energy that you’re putting out, that you’re transferring to the audience, it takes something out of you in a physical and emotional way. And all of that energy that you give, that’s flowing out there, that’s making people feel good, it takes it out of you.”
The guitarist also shares that the members are still in regular contact; he and Tyler even shared the stage at a San Francisco charity gig back in April.
“So I don’t know, man. But we’re talking about it. I mean, except for anything on the calendar, we’re all alive and well. So, we’ll just have to see.”
“I know there’s gotta be at least another Aerosmith gig, and I’m not looking forward to putting the setlist together for that one. But I don’t know, man. We’ll just have to see,” says Perry.
And as for Tyler? “I think he would [do it],” Perry reckons. “I think it’s just a matter of getting there, you know? I mean, we’re up there, man. And it’s a lot.”
He continues: “I’ve always played like every show’s the last one. I hate to sound like it’s a downer, but I give it up every night, you know? The first gig we did for that [farewell] tour that got cancelled, we certainly felt like it was gonna be another one, but, you know, shit happens.”
Check out the full interview below.
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