AEROSMITH - JOE PERRY's New Solo Album To Be Mastered Next Week
July 2, 2009, 15 years ago
Gary Graff from Billboard.com is reporting:
AEROSMITH's next album might be "on the bench, in pieces," waiting for the group to resume recording after it finishes touring in mid-September, but guitarist JOE PERRY's next solo album is just about ready to go.
Perry tells Billboard.com that he's just finishing mixing the follow-up to 2005's Grammy Award-nominated Joe Perry and expects it to be mastered next week. He plans to release a single in late July or early August, with the album coming out this fall.
"It's a lot different than the last one," Perry reports. "The last one was a straight-ahead rocker. This one's got some different things on it." The album was recorded in about seven weeks at Perry's home studio, The Boneyard; he shares lead vocal duties with a German singer his wife, Billie, discovered on the Internet, and there's one instrumental track. David Hull from the JOE PERRY PROJECT and Ben Tileston, who plays with two of Perry's sons in TAB THE BAND, were also involved. "We were working around the clock, through weekends and everything, and it was all live," Perry says. "In fact, a lot of the vocals are live along with the rest of the band. (Sound) was bleeding from one track to another; if somebody had a bad take everybody had a bad take, and we played it 'til we got a good one. Of course we went in and overdubbed a lot of the other stuff, but the energy is there. You can feel it."The one thing Perry doesn't have yet is a title; for that he's holding a contest via Twitter, letting fans make suggestions. If one of the fan's is chosen, the winner will receive a guitar. "It's tough, obviously, without having heard the record for people to name it," he notes, "but we may find something really good. There've already been a bunch that are possibilities."
Read the entire interview here.
