AEROSMITH Frontman Explains The Roots Of Tieing Scarves Around His Mic!
February 23, 2007, 17 years ago
In the 'Ask Blender' section of the March issue of Blender Magazine, AEROSMITH frontman Steven Tyler is asked about his ritual of tieing scarves around his mic stand.
According to Tyler, it started as an accident. “Very early on,” he tells Blender, “I had a favorite macramé shirt that I wore onstage all the time and an Indian scarf in my hair. The shirt and scarf got worn out and torn off me eventually,” he says, but rather than throw them out, Tyler “hung them on the mic-stand for good luck. Must be the gypsy in me” The look stuck, and its now one of his trademarks.
Interestingly, in addition to looking cool, the scarves doubled as a makeshift medicine cabinet. “Some of them had little pockets sewn in,” Tyler said in the band’s 2003 autobiography, “and I’d weight them with Quaaludes and Tuinals. That way I wouldn’t run out.”
