AEROSMITH's Tom Hamilton On Tyler Vs. Perry On-Stage Battles - "It’s Part Of The Dynamic Of Their Personality And How They Relate"
August 26, 2010, 14 years ago
AEROSMITH have been seemingly doing battle on stage. Frontman Steven Tyler accidentally hit guitarist Joe Perry with his mic stand at the end of 'Sweet Emotion' at Jones Beach, NY on August 12th and during some harmless roughhousing on August 17th at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre resulted in Steven Tyler being pushed by Joe Perry off a catwalk and into the crowd (see video of both incidents below).
“I tend to be in the middle of every argument,” bassist Tom Hamilton tells Mark Bialczak from Syracuse.com about the famed Toxic Twins. “It’s always fascinating and sometimes very frustrating. I feel like I’m watching miscues and miscommunications going back and forth.“It’s part of the dynamic of their personality and how they relate,” Hamilton says. “It’s not a squabble where they yell. You won’t see that. Steven absolutely and utterly depends on Joe, with Joe being an arbiter of coolness. Steven needs to touch base, where he gets a feeling of security by seeing Joe and thinking he’s cool, too.
“There’s been times where that gets out of control. Joe might be having a night where he’s aloof and self-absorbed, and Steven backs into him, and Joe gets irritated. And it escalates. That happened in ’79, and the band broke up,” Hamilton says. “For me, I’ve felt the tragedy of those moments for a long time.”
After the band's Cocked, Locked, Ready To Rock Tour ends on September 4 in Connecticut, Hamilton will “write songs for the next record.”
He says he hopes Tyler’s new job as a judge on American Idol”doesn’t interfere with that project.
“We don’t have a specific plan, but we want it to take place in the next six to nine months,” Hamilton says. “I hope and pray every day that we can stick to that.”Read the entire interview here.
