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Mere months after cancelling their Canadian tour leg and remaining US dates, Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler has quit the band.
In an interview with the Las Vegas Sun, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry says, Steven quit as far as I can tell. I don't know any more than you do about it. I got off the plane two nights ago. I saw online that Steven said that he was going to leave the band. I don't know for how long, indefinitely or whatever. Other than that, I don't know."
Aerosmith had just returned to the stage following Tyler’s recovery from a broken shoulder sustained in August that forced the band to cancel the remainder of their summer tour.
The Boston Badboys had just returned to the stage, having managed to salvage a few shows from the final leg of the tour, including one in Hawaii and one Sunday at the of the Formula One racing season's final weekend in Abu Dhabi last weekend.
Perry admitted that after the accident he and Tyler didn't speak for more than a month, prompting rumours the about a band break up.
Perry attributes the trouble to Tyler's lack of communication, including his failure to return phone calls: "He's notorious for that. That's one thing I've learned to live with. I try to overlook it. I like to pick my battles.”
"Frankly, the last few months I've been wanting not to rock the boat. I don't want him cancelling any more gigs. We really wanted to do these last four. We just kind of didn't want to call him out or anything and get him anymore p**sed off, for whatever reason. So we just let things lie. So we did the gigs and, like I said, I got off the plane and saw this online. That's how I know about it... He has had no contact with me or the other band members."
Perry says Aerosmith will continue with or without Tyler.
He adds, "Right now I'm adjusting to how we're going to go on. Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean it's like a steam locomotive. You just can't disregard 40 years of four guys who play together as well as they do. We're just trying to - at least I am - trying to figure out what direction the band should take.
"As far as replacing Steve, it's not just about that, it's also four guys that play extremely well together, and I'm not going to see that go to waste. I really don't know what path it's going to take at this point, but we'll probably find somebody else that will sing in those spots where we need a singer and then we'll be able to move the Aerosmith up a notch, move the vibe up a notch."
Did you know? Aerosmith is the best-selling American hard rock band of all time with sales of over 150 million albums worldwide.
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