“Look what happened with the rock world,” Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler told theArizona Republic. “Look where it went. It kind of spun off like a supernova and now there isn’t really much of it at all except for that (Tyler does a cross between Marilyn Manson in ‘Beautiful People’ mode and a death metal singer) kind of shit. You know? You don’t hear anything like the Kinks or the Stones. You won’t hear ‘You Really Got Me.’ Something that when you hear it one time, you go “Fuck!” and you know you won’t ever forget it. That kind of era is gone with rock,” says Tyler about the state of rock.

Tyler is readying his debut country album and said, “If I have my way and this record hits it’s gonna be a piece of new country. And it’s not that I’m not country. I grew up in, 900 people were in Sunapee, New Hampshire, back in 1960. That’s the town that I grew up in. I knew everybody and that country feeling of real people and mowing lawns and dogs and sheds and snakes and foxes and knowing everybody in town, that’s how I grew up.”

On July 10th, Tyler performed at Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia as part of his ...Out On A Limb solo tour. Fan-filmed video footage of Tyler and his band doing "Cryin" and a cover of The Beatles' "Come Together"  can be seen below.

Tour dates:

July
14 - San Francisco, CA - The Masonic
20 - Phoenix, AZ - Comerica Theatre
23 - Denver, CO - Ellie Caulkins Opera House
26 - Austin, TX - Bass Concert Hall
29 - Houston, TX - Brown Theater at Wortham Center

August
1 - Dallas, TX - Music Hall at Fair Park
13 - Chicago, IL - Chicago Theatre
17 - Nashville, TN - Andrew Jackson Hall at TPAC
23 - Washington, D.C. - Warner Theatre
29 - Clearwater, FL - Ruth Eckerd Hall

September
1 - Atlanta, GA - Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center
4 - Boston, MA - Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre
7 - Philadelphia, PA - Academy of Music
10 - Providence, RI - Providence Performing Arts Center
13 - Toronto, ON - Sony Centre for the Performing Arts

Tyler tells Rolling Stone that his first ever solo album, We’re All Somebody From Somewhere (out July 15th), will feature 15 new songs including his first two country singles, “Love Is Your Name” and “Red, White And You”, as well as a new, “darker, countrified” version of Aerosmith’s “Janie’s Got A Gun”.

"Country music still plays stuff with melody, I have a sorcerer's grasp of melody, I like to think," he explains. "I'm a freak for that so thank God they're still playing it in country, and I think they're gonna be all over songs like 'Only Heaven' and you guys are gonna be surprised."