Way back in 1978, when Aerosmith were touring America, flying high before their taste for excess brought them down, guitarist Joe Perry had enough presence of mind to realise that their support act, a bunch of ruffians from Australia, had something special about them. “AC/DC seemed to boil rock’n’roll down to its essence,” Perry recalls. “With every song, they managed to make it sound fresh.”
All these years later, Perry is in an enviable position. Despite all the drugs they did in the past, when he and singer Steven Tyler were christened ‘The Toxic Twins’, the recently retired incarnation of Aerosmith was missing only drummer Joey Kramer from the classic line-up of ’78.
