
In the new issue of Rolling Stone, Steven Tyler talks about why he signed on to American Idol, doing drugs with Joe Perry, and his first solo single. “I’m really lucky right now,” Tyler tells the magazine. “I’m on top of the world: I’m Hollywood’s little f*ckin’ sweetheart, basically.”
As for joining Idol, Tyler tells Rolling Stone he made his decision after his bandmates threatened to throw him out of Aerosmith. “Did I take this job to show the band?” he says. “F*ck, yeah. Not to show them, but that I can’t be held hostage anymore. I will be my own hostage. The band can’t throw me out.”
During Aerosmith’s ill-fated attempt to cut a new album with producer Brendan O’Brien a couple years back, Tyler says he did drugs with Joe Perry for the first time in years. “It was just like 30 years before,” Tyler says. “I whipped out mine, he whipped out his and we got high together again.”
In the fall of 2008 Tyler flew to London to sing for Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham, who were considering starting a new project with him. “I decided, ‘Well, I know that I’m mad at those [Aerosmith] guys, but I’m not that mad,’” Tyler says. “So I called Jimmy up after I left, two weeks later, and said, ‘You’re in a classic band, and so is mine, and I just can’t do that to my guys.”
Tyler is releasing his first solo single of his entire career, a poppy tune called “Feels So Good.” “I can hear it coming out of people’s cars this summer,” he says.
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Posted Wednesday, April 27th, 2011 at 12:12pm
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