AEROSMITH bassist Tom Hamilton is featured in a new interview with Classic Rock Revisited founder Jeb Wright. An excerpt is available below.

Jeb: ZZ TOP and Aerosmith are going on the road. When were the seeds for this tour planted?

Tom: "About two months ago, we were at the point where we needed to figure out what kind of band we wanted to take out on tour. It is usually who is available that determines that process. Our manager calls out of the blue one day and says, 'What do you think about touring with ZZ Top?' My initial reaction was, 'Absolutely.' I love bands that have a lot of good songs and ZZ has tons of good songs.

We are in this period where people are always commenting on how old we are and how long we have been doing this. There was a point in the past where we would have thought that we had to get a different band, so it doesn’t look like an old guy show. Nowadays, the fans don’t think about that; people in the press think about that. Some of the more precious, new entertainment sites were all pointing the age factor out, as if that was something new. I am like, 'Are you kidding? We get to hear Billy Gibbons play guitar every night.' A lot of people are going to look forward to that. There are other bands out there who are newer, cooler and hipper but the audience is not going to be rocking out to every single song like they will be with ZZ Top.

Jeb: Every member of both bands, all eight of you, are original members and are all members of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame. I wonder if you have thought of a jam with everyone on stage . . .

Tom: "I hope we get some kind of jamming thing going on. We have not talked to them about it, and it is not in the least expected. I would love it if it turned into that kind of thing."

Jeb: I don’t remember ever hearing about ZZ Top and Aerosmith touring.

Tom: "We opened for them at some point in the Seventies. We were playing a big stadium, I think it was in Cleveland. I remember they had Astro Turf and it was like standing on a big carpet. ZZ Top’s big visual thing for that tour was bringing out farm animals. They actually had farm animals on stage. I remember we were all laughing about how ridiculous that was. We walked out to watch their set and there was a big pile of cow shit right in the middle of that big green rug. We were laughing about that, and we sent somebody to go get some plastic forks and took pictures of us like we were about to eat it."

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