"I cracked my skull and was in the hospital. And nobody called me": How America's most dysfunctional band grew to hate each other but learned to love again

Aerosmith.

In 2012, as Aerosmith released Music From Another Dimension!, their first album of all-new material since 2001's Just Push Play, Classic Rock despatched Boston writer Ken McIntyre to Los Angeles to interview Boston's favourite sons.

In this feature, which has never been published online before, the five members discuss – with characteristic frankness and humour – the falling out, the making up, the ups and downs of 'Brand Tyler', and the making of the album.