Joe Perry Celebrates Birthday With Aerosmith, Slash at Yahoo
Sept 10, 2014 4:53:30 GMT -5
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Sweet Emotion! Joe Perry Celebrates Birthday With Aerosmith, Slash at Yahoo Live Gig
Lyndsey Parker
By Lyndsey Parker 5 hours ago Maximum Performance
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Ageless Aerosmith axman Joe Perry incredibly turned 64 Tuesday evening at midnight, and he rang in his big birthday in a rockin' manner that men a third his age could only dream [on] about: onstage at Detroit's DTE Energy Music Theatre, getting serenaded by Steven Tyler and Slash, during a concert streamed worldwide on Yahoo Live.
"Here's to hell — may we have as much fun there as we had getting there!" Tyler declared to his fellow Toxic Twin of 44 years, as a rock 'n' roll cake was wheeled out for the occasion. The celebratory moment was reminiscent of the time when Perry surprised Tyler with a "Happy Birthday" singalong on American Idol Season 11 — proving that, despite the notorious rock twosome's many ups and downs over the decades, there is still a lot of sweet emotion between them.
But then, it was back to rockin', as Slash (Aerosmith's opening act on this year's aptly named Let Rock Rule tour) joined in for a ferocious performance of Aerosmith's 1973 barnstormer "Mama Kin." This too was a nostalgic moment of sorts, as "Mama Kin" was an early cover-song favorite of Slash's old band, Guns N' Roses; it appeared on their 1986 indie concert EP Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide and was re-released on 1988's hit compilation GN'R Lies.
The entire concert was one big nonstop party of hits, hits, hits, from '70s classics ("Toys in the Attic," "No More No More," "Walk This Way"); to '80s hair-metal jams and power ballads ("Love in an Elevator," "Rag Doll," "Livin' on the Edge," "Cryin'"); to a couple well-chosen cover songs of their own (Fleetwood Mac's "Stop Messin' Around" and the Beatles' "Come Together").
And through it all, Tyler too was a great ageless wonder. All gussied up in feathers 'n' leather (and a codpiece that could make Cameo's Larry Blackmon blush), the 66-year-old "Demon of Screamin'" belted, belched, and worked the Yahoo Live camera lens so aggressively, he could've taught even Tyra Banks a thing or two about smizing. As the show neared its epic ending and he banged out "Dream On" on his white piano, he may have been singing about "all these lines on my face getting clearer," but he did so with the same vitality he had when he first wrote and performed the ballad in his mid-twenties.
The party train kept a rollin' even as the show finally ended, as Tyler and Perry strutted side-by-side to the backstage area, Tyler's face warpainted with what looked like Day-Glo birthday cake frosting as he continued to work the camera and lip-synch to Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy." It truly was the perfect exit music for such perpetually youthful band.