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Post by selloutrus on Sept 19, 2014 18:10:19 GMT -5
Thanks to Joe Perry, Selly is proven right and Fwanger...not so right.
"As the Project prepared to leave for the UK, we played Irving Plaza in New York. During the encore break, much to my surprise, Billie came into the dressing room and said, “Steven’s here,” just as Steven, Mark Hudson, and entourage walked through the door. Tyler had timed it so he’d arrive backstage during the break. Having just completed a steamroller set, we were exhausted. “I want to sing ‘Walk This Way,’ ” said Steven coldly. I could see that he was not in good shape. He made it plain that he had not come to discuss reconciliation. He simply demanded to sing the song as my encore. “Fine,” I said, “but you’ll have to sing it as a duet with Hagen.” He kept saying he wanted to sing alone, but when I made it clear that wasn’t going to happen, he agreed. Onstage, he sang over Hagen’s lines anyway. Making matters more confusing, he also announced to the audience that rumors of his quitting Aerosmith were bullshit. He said that he was not leaving the band. All fine and good, but I knew the truth. Over and again he’d made it clear that he wa s leaving. At the same time, at the end of this great show I wasn’t about to comment. Let Steven say whatever he wants to say. After he had his say, he walked offstage and left the building—no goodbye, no thanks for letting him sit in, no anything. After the show, I saw a clip on YouTube of Tyler and his crew leaving the club. Mark Hudson was shouting at reporters and cameramen on the street, “Did you hear what went on in there? Does that sound like Steven is leaving the band?” Mark had worked himself up into a frenzy over an announcement that apparently he and Steven had planned."
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Post by jj on Sept 19, 2014 18:40:12 GMT -5
Are Hudson and Kato cousins?
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Post by joey78 on Sept 20, 2014 10:29:23 GMT -5
Just finished reading the Joe book yesterday and frankly there's a not a lot of things about the band that i did not already know.
The first 300 pages were practically Walk this Way told from Joe's view which is not saying much.
The last 65 had a couple of interesting tit bits but nothing to get excited about.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2014 17:47:38 GMT -5
I thought there were enough little stories, like the older couple who he found with the husband wearing a Get Your Wings Tshirt that made the book more than worth while.
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Post by joey78 on Sept 22, 2014 5:35:55 GMT -5
Maybe, but when you promise to tell the truth and then gloss over a lot of confidential stuff it doesn't make sense.
I commend him for not doing the usual "we did so many drugs"thing like most books . In fact when he talks about the 70s he hardly ever talks about the drugs.
However I expected him to shed some light on the turmoil in the camp over the last decade but apart from a couple of instances of him and Steven snorting Percodan, there isn't much else.
He denies that the band ever auditioned any singer when Steven joined Idol.I am pretty sure that is correct. However he never talks about approaching or calling any singers but Brad confirmed that they did call Sammy. (http://ultimateclassicrock.com/aerosmith-sammy-hagar/).
In the book,he appears to be proud of MFAD and says that "Dimension came as close to a classic Aerosmith album as we had made in years."
Anyone that has followed Joe's interviews in the last few years is not going to learn anything significant from reading this book.
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Post by Zen on Sept 22, 2014 21:24:58 GMT -5
Are Hudson and Kato cousins? Mark Hudson is Kate Hudson's uncle, his brother Bill is her father.
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Post by jj on Sept 22, 2014 23:45:17 GMT -5
Are Hudson and Kato cousins? Mark Hudson is Kate Hudson's uncle, his brother Bill is her father.I was attempting to be wry, and obviously not so successfully. The "Kato" i was referring to is Kato Kalin (spelling?), that hanger-on to OJ Simpson.
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Post by Zen on Sept 23, 2014 0:24:34 GMT -5
Sorry jj, a lot of American stuff goes over my head.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2014 17:39:25 GMT -5
You obviously care more about this than I do. I still don't see where I was wrong, but if it makes you feel better than fine, sellouts was right about whatever stupid argument we had six months ago about this.
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