Report: AEROSMITH Hitting The Studio In November
September 4, 2007, 16 years ago
Billboard.com has issued the following report from Gary Graff:
AEROSMITH plans to hit the studio on November 1st to begin recording its next album - and that's about the only concrete detail guitarist Joe Perry has about it right now.
"I'm not sure who the producer is gonna be or what (studio) we're gonna do it in," Perry tells Billboard.com. "We may use a few different producers. I don't know. All I know is that the heart and soul of the thing is us getting in the studio and seeing what comes out."Perry did say that the band was "excited Rick Rubin is now in the so-called captain's chair at Sony; his heart's in the right place when it comes to rock'n'roll." Rubin, according to Perry, will be involved with the album in some capacity, even if not necessarily as a hands-on producer. "It's not just about the music; it's about the feel, and he's one of the few that really gets it," Perry explains.
The guitarist says there's already some material around for the album, including songs that Aerosmith was working on in 2006 but was put aside when it ran out of time to finish an album, opting instead to stick two new songs on the Devil's Got a New Disguise: The Very Best of Aerosmith collection.
"I always have bits and pieces. Steven (Tyler) always has bits and pieces. It's just a matter of getting together and rehearsing the stuff," Perry says. "I'd like to have songs that the band can play live and have them sound great and not need to have a bunch of overdubs and all that, even though we will do that after the fact. But that's the icing on the cake. The cake is good songs, and that's what we're gonna be shooting for."Nothing that "I don't think we've ever delivered a record on time since the first one," Perry says he'd like to see the new Aerosmith project "ready to go in March."
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