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"We headlined, but he kicked our ass": Joe Perry and Brad Whitford on the support act who blew Aerosmith off the stage

In the summer of 1974, Aerosmith still hadn't broken New York, and their support act wasn't helping

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"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

Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer on the making of Aerosmith's Music From Another Dimension!

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“Love in an elevator? Yeah, I've done it!”: Steven Tyler and Joe Perry on the making of the Aerosmith classic Pump

Plus: the Aerosmith song that Slash said was "too pop"

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"I know there’s gotta be at least another Aerosmith gig." Joe Perry reveals band have been talking about a proper farewell

Aerosmith abandoned their farewell tour in 2023. Now guitarist Joe Perry says they're talking about bowing out in style

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“I know there’s going to be at least one more gig - I'm not looking forward to putting the setlist together”: Joe Perry is convinced his band will play again, despite retirement from touring

He suggests that Steven Tyler would be able to take part

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“We’re talking about it. I know there’s gotta be at least another Aerosmith gig”: Joe Perry leaves the door open for an Aerosmith reunion – and he’s not the only band member who’s keen

The guitar hero is the latest Aerosmith member to hint at a final send-off at some point in the future

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Joe Perry teases Aerosmith could make a live return after 2024 retirement announcement

Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry believes the band could make a live comeback, following their decision in 2024 to stop touring due to singer Steven Tyler's vocal issues.

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“Gibson had lost the recipe, not only for guitar building but for pickup making based on their original designs. What I was after was making a rock ’n’ roll pickup”: How Larry DiMarzio changed the sound of rock guitar – and redesigned the Strat bridge

The master pickup maker tells us how his problem-solving mindset took him from repair shop to working with the biggest names in the biz and changing the face of rock guitar

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“No, man! If we had had this level of success in the 70s we would not be here now. We would never have survived it”: The wild story of Aerosmith’s Pump, the album that turned them into superstars all over again

How a drug-free Aerosmith hit a new career high with 1989’s Pump

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On the road with America's loudest survivors: Aerosmith, Kiss, and the making of Honkin' On Bobo

With the back-to-basics blues-oriented album Honkin' On Bobo, Aerosmith let the music do the talking once again

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“We were getting comfortable being back together – that was part of the reason we went out on the road without a record deal. Another reason was that we couldn’t get a record deal...” Why Aerosmith’s ’80s misfire, Done With Mirrors, was the making of them

After a few weird years with replacement guitarists, the Bad Boys from Boston were back and ready to prove themselves. It did not quite go to plan. We’ll let Joe Perry explain the rest…

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Kurt Cobain's 1989 Takamine expected to fetch up to $500,000 at auction – alongside guitars played by the likes of Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, David Bowie, Joe Perry and Melissa Etheridge

This year's Music Icons sale – organized by Julien's Auctions – includes over 700 collectible items from some of the world's biggest guitar stars

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Joe Perry announces his first big post-Aerosmith tour – and he’ll be playing with members of Aerosmith, Black Crowes and Stone Temple Pilots

The guitarist is keeping busy after Aerosmith retired from touring, and he’s recruited quite the cast for his latest solo tour

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Video: Steven Tyler and Joe Perry reunite onstage in San Francisco

Tyler and Perry have performed together for the first time since Aerosmith's Peace Out... tour was abandoned in 2023

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Klon Centaur creator Bill Finnegan once said that the hype around his pedal was “ridiculous,” yet originals still fetch $10,000 or more on the secondhand market. With plentiful, far cheaper clones, why does the Klon remain a holy grail pedal?

Klons have been used by Jeff Beck, John Mayer, Joe Perry, Ed O'Brien, and countless other guitar heroes, and are often spoken about as a sort of overdrive sword of Excalibur. But what exactly sets them apart? And how did they become so darn valuable?

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“We were drug addicts dabbling in music, rather than musicians dabbling in drugs”: The unhinged story of Aerosmith’s Draw The Line, the album that sent them crashing off the rails

Drugs, dysfunction and 1977’s Draw The Line album sent Aerosmith into a tailspin that would take a decade to pull out of

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“I always felt like that record could have been better if we had worked on it some more”: Looking for a blockbuster comeback album, Aerosmith turned to Van Halen producer Ted Templeman. For Joe Perry, it served as a learning experience

Having been impressed by the producer’s touch on Van Halen's “monstrous” records, Templeman was tasked with reigniting the band’s spark

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“I don’t want to sound pro-drug or anything, but there is something about being high that makes you look at things differently”: How Aerosmith made their first great chemically-fuelled masterpiece Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith were always destined for stardom – and Toys In The Attic was the album that finally got them there

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“I got a long text message praising the amp and talking about tone. I’m like, ‘Holy crap… I think this is Joe Perry!’” Why Silktone’s tube amp range is rapidly gathering big-name fans

Self-taught boutique builder Charles Henry puts musicality first with his designs, winning fans including Grace Bowers and Yvette Young – but he’s only just getting started

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“Things had got pretty bad. I don’t know what demons Steven was fighting, but we definitely both had our ups and downs”: How Done With Mirrors put Aerosmith back on the long road to redemption

In 1985, the reunited Aerosmith had a long way to go to recapture old glories –and Done With Mirrors was the first step

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“When I read stories about guys who snorted everything they had, I said, ‘That‘ll never happen to me.’ But in the end I blew 20 million”: The wild story of Aerosmith’s spectacular 1980s fall and rise

They started the 80s in drug-addled disarray and ended it bigger than ever

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Aerosmith to reunite for a performance at Steven Tyler's charity event

Aerosmith look set to reunite for a performance at frontman Steven Tyler's Jam for Janie Grammy Awards Viewing Party next month, after the group called time on touring in August.

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“Whenever I’d see him play live it was an off-the-rack Strat. He was never one to say, ‘I’ve got to play that’”: Joe Perry says he was planning to take Jeff Beck’s Strat on tour with Aerosmith –but its owner was the only special thing about it

The Aerosmith great been discussing friendship with the late, great Beck – and says he almost took his Strat on tour last year, before the shows were cancelled

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“Our best friends were drug dealers. We identified with them because we felt like outcasts, menaces to society”: The chaotic story of Aerosmith’s early years

The birth of American rock’s original Crazy Gang

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“I was doing a gig, I dropped the pick, and I was drunk. I was afraid if I bent over to pick it up, I'd fall. So I played the rest of the show without the pick and started to really like it’”: What Jeff Beck told his friend Joe Perry

Beck’s guitars are up for auction this week

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