AEROSMITH Drummer Joey Kramer - "My Desire To Help People Plays A Strong Part In My Character"
July 1, 2009, 15 years ago
Gary Graff from Billboard is reporting:
AEROSMITH drummer Joey Kramer says he wrote his new book, Hit Hard: A Story Of Hitting Rock Bottom At The Top, in order "to be entertaining, but at the same to ... help people."
Kramer tells Billboard.com that Hit Hard, which was published Tuesday (June 30), is the result of a four-year process with writers William Patrick and Keith Garde. The book, which includes a forward by MÖTLEY CRÜE's Nikki Sixx, chronicles the drummer's substance abuse problems, his psychologically scarring relationship with his father and a similarly tumultuous, "co-dependent" battle with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler. Kramer hopes that the book will shed some light for those dealing with the same issues in their lives.
"My desire to help people plays a strong part in my character," Kramer says. "Because I've been allowed to do what I've done via Aerosmith, I'd like to be able to carry it on as I get older, on another level. Whatever that may be is really unbeknownst to me - maybe some sort of a lecture series or circuit or whatever -- but I know that it will come."Kramer says that Tyler - whose own autobiography, Does The Noise In My Head Bother You?, has been pushed from an October publication date to the summer of 2010 -- was supportive during his bandmate's book-writing process. "When I was trying to tell him about some of the stuff that was in the book, his comment was ... 'Hey, man, as long as it's the truth, I don't care,'" Kramer recalls. "And that's pretty much where Steven is at. He's about the truth."
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