AEROSMITH drummer Joey Kramer recently spoke with Matt Wardlaw of Ultimate Classic Rock about his band's summer tour with SLASH Featuring MYLES KENNEDY And THE CONSPIRATORS, an excerpt follows:

Aerosmith got their first look at Slash when GUNS N’ ROSES opened for them in 1988 during the Permanent Vacation tour. What are your memories of that tour? Sobriety was pretty fresh in the Aerosmith camp at that time. Meanwhile, Guns N’ Roses were certainly the opposite to that.

"I remember them getting rid of their sea legs, so to speak, to get more familiar and more comfortable on a big stage. It was a little awkward because of the fact that we were all sober and they weren’t, but because of who we were and who they were, there was a respect on their part and they didn’t get involved with that around us or in front of us. They pretty much kept to themselves and in their dressing rooms. So they were respectful of what we were doing."

At the kick-off event for the tour held at The Whisky A Go-Go, there was some jamming that went on with Aerosmith and Slash. Is it a safe bet to say that there will be something similar at the shows this summer?

"I don’t know for sure, but I would certainly imagine so. I would imagine that he’ll come up and join us for a song, maybe two."

The band was slated to play the entire Toys In The Attic album on the 2009 tour. Do you think the band would ever take another shot at playing a full album?

"No, I don’t think so and I’ll tell you why. We tried that and as with any album and every album, everybody doesn’t like all of the songs on every album. So therefore hypothetically, you would have to have an audience full of Toys In The Attic fans in order to enjoy that show. Even though it’s 10 songs, which is like half a show, not everybody wants to hear all of those songs.

Off of Toys in particular, they want to hear ‘Sweet Emotion’, ‘Walk This Way’ and maybe another one, so there might be maybe three songs at the most that people really want to hear off of that particular record and those are the songs that we play. To sit there and play all of these other songs for our own selves and anybody else not really enjoying them or getting off on it is kind of a waste of time and energy and it’s selfish."

To read the interview in its entirety, click here.

Let Rock Rule Tour dates include:

July

10 - Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre - Wantagh, NY
13 - McLennan Park - Kitchener, ON
16 - Xfinity Center - Mansfield, MA
19 - Rock Fest - Cadott, WI
22 - Riverbend Music Center - Cincinnati, OH
25 - First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre - Tinley Park, IL
30 - The Forum - Inglewood, CA

August

2 - MGM Grand Garden Arena - Las Vegas, NV
8 - Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena At Harveys - Stateline, NV
13 - Sleep Train Pavilion - Concord, CA
16 - The Gorge Amphitheatre - George, WA
19 - Pepsi Center - Denver, CO
22 - American Airlines Center - Dallas, TX
25 - The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion - Woodlands, TX
28 - Phillips Arena - Atlanta, GA
31 - Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall - Atlantic City, NJ

September

3 - Prudential Center - Newark, NJ
6 - Jiffy Lube Live - Bristow, VA
9 - DTE Energy Music Theatre - Clarkston, MI
12 - Open Hearth Park - Sydney, NS