Canoe.ca has issued the following report from Mark Daniell:

This was supposed to be the year of AEROSMITH.

There was the much ballyhooed summer tour – their first since 2007; an album of all-new material; a new solo record from lead guitarist Joe Perry; and autobiographies from two of the members, drummer Joey Kramer and vocalist Steven Tyler.

After a series of accidents, topped by Tyler’s stage-fall in South Dakota, sidelined the tour last month, the band’s carefully plotted return to the spotlight has fallen by the wayside.

But Aerosmith has lived through many ups and downs, and if there's a message that fans can take away from Kramer's newly-released autobiography, Hit Hard: A Story of Hitting Rock Bottom at the Top, is that the band can bounce back from anything.

Kramer offers an inside glimpse of the girls, parties and drugs that were habitual during the band’s first 15 years (in one scene, he soberly recounts how his drum tech had to literally push him onstage at a show at Boston College).

In Hit Hard, the 59-year-old also candidly expands on the strained relationships he and bandmates Tyler, Perry, rhythm guitarist Brad Whitford and bassist Tom Hamilton have endured during their 39-year history, his battle with depression and his painful family upbringing.

Kramer checked in with JAM! from Boston to talk about how his book is different from other rock memoirs, why he thinks the band has lasted as long as it has and just how much gas Aerosmith still has left in the tank.

Q: Hit Hard goes a lot deeper and reveals some pretty personal history. Did you have any reservations about telling your story?

A: "Not really. My commitment to it started right from the beginning and part of my commitment was to be as honest about it as I could be because I decided that I wanted to be of service to people. If people are able to identify and relate to what I am writing about then I accomplished what I was after."

Q: Why was now the right time to write the book?

A: "Well, it just happened to get finished at this point in time. It took me four years to write it. But right now was an apropos time because the band was going out on tour and I had the ability to do meet and greets and book signings. So it worked out real well."

Read the full report / interview at Canoe.ca.