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Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton said the band would work out some kind of future after confirming the end of their touring days. And while he wasn’t sure what that future might include, he ruled out the ideas of hiring a replacement for Steven Tyler or creating a virtual version of the group. In a new interview with Charlie Kendall’s Metalshop, Hamilton sought to clear up confusion about Aerosmith’s recent decision and went on to speculate what he might do next. READ MORE: Tom Hamilton Recalls Aerosmith’s Wilderness Years “It wasn’t a case of him blowing his throat out by doing something wrong....
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News of Aerosmith‘s retirement from touring reverberated throughout the music world, with several of their peers and acolytes quickly chiming in to pay their respects to the rock ‘n’ roll titans. The Boston legends dominated the stage for more than half a century before they officially called it quits in August 2024, scrapping the rescheduled dates of their Peace Out farewell tour on account of Steven Tyler‘s vocal injury, which forced the band off the road in September 2023 after just three dates of their initial trek. With their signature sleazy, blues-rock boogie and Tyler’s one-of-a-kind s...
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Sammy Hagar paid tribute to the retiring Aerosmith with a Beatles song on Friday night during his The Best of All Worlds Tour stop in suburban Detroit. And he had a very personal reason for that particular choice. Coming back for the encore at the Pine Knob Music Theatre, Hagar first told the crowd that, “We had some crazy news today. We got here this afternoon sometime and we’re all sitting around backstage and a friend of ours that works for Aerosmith came and said, ‘Yeah, Aerosmith called retirement today. They quit. They stopped. God bless ’em; it’s a horrible thing. What a great fuckin’ l...
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When Aerosmith walked off the stage at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York on Sept. 9, 2023, they had no idea their touring life had just come to an end. The band had only just launched their Peace Out farewell tour, a goodbye trek which started a week earlier on Sept. 2 in Philadelphia. That night’s performance was roundly praised, with many observers noting how strong the group sounded. A second show, Sept. 6 in Pittsburgh, offered more of the same, further building the excitement surrounding Aerosmith’s tour. The New York show started much like the others – a video history of the band played on t...
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Aerosmith has announced their retirement from the road and scrapped the rescheduled dates of their Peace Out farewell tour. The band broke the news on Friday afternoon in an emotional statement. “It was 1970 when a spark of inspiration became Aerosmith,” they wrote. “Thanks to you, our Blue Army, that spark caught flame and has been burning for over five decades. Some of you have been with us since the beginning and all of you are the reason we made rock ‘n’ roll history. “It has been the honor of our lives to have our music become part of yours,” they continued. “In every club, on every massi...
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Joe Perry believes new Aerosmith music could still see the light of day, even as the band prepares to resume its Peace Out farewell tour. “Right now I’m writing stuff for the new [Hollywood] Vampires record, but that’s a whole other thing,” Perry told Rock Candy magazine. “As for Aerosmith, I don’t know. We’ll see. There’s definitely a possibility, but at the minute we’re looking at the set for the tour and the songs we can play.” Aerosmith will relaunch their Peace Out tour in September after a false start last September. The band only completed three shows before Steven Tyler injured his voc...
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If you didn’t like Aerosmith‘s ’80s catalog, there’s a good chance you hated their ’90s output. After achieving a miraculous comeback with 1987’s Permanent Vacation, the newly sober rockers were eager to keep the good times rolling. They continued riding high with 1989’s Pump and 1993’s Get a Grip, the latter becoming their first No. 1 album in the United States. They returned after another four-year gap with Nine Lives, which underperformed its predecessors but still sold a respectable 2 million copies. In hindsight, it was just a warmup for their first and only chart-topping single, the divi...
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Tracking Aerosmith‘s career trajectory from the beginning to the end of the ’80s reveals one of the most remarkable comebacks in rock history. The band was washed-up and left for dead at the turn of the decade, with Joe Perry having quit in 1979 and Brad Whitford following suit in 1981. Drugs and dysfunction had hobbled the one-mighty rockers, and they watched their album sales plummet as a new crop of bands rose up to usurp them. After reaching their nadir on 1982’s Rock in a Hard Place, Aerosmith reunited with Perry and Whitford and began the long, difficult process of mounting a comeback. T...
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When Aerosmith released “Head First” as a free digital download on June 27, 1994, the fledgling technology team at the band’s label, Geffen, just wanted to prove that it could be done. But it was an important moment in the developing landscape of the World Wide Web which ultimately helped carve a solid path for a new distribution method in the music industry. “It was proof of life for digital music,” Jim Griffin tells UCR now. Growing up as a hard rock fan outside of Chicago in Park Forest, Illinois, he was thrilled to join the label in 1992 as their first Chief Technology Officer, because the...
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When Aerosmith launched their Back in the Saddle Tour on June 22, 1984, they had to prove a lot of things to a lot of people. They needed to show fans and critics that after five years apart, their classic lineup — Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer — could still rock with the same dominating fury of their heyday as a new crop of bands vied for their crown. They also had to prove to the industry bigwigs who determined their future that they were a worthwhile investment capable of turning their career around, and not just a washed-up liability. Most importantly...
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