If you value coverage of Manitoba’s arts scene, help us do more. The tour was "beyond successful" and if he bombs on Idol he still has a day job, "And, boy, what a day job I got!" But that's all "water under the bridge," Tyler says. He remembers Perry barging into his dressing room, furious that he learned about it from the press. His inner voice tells him, "Yeah, I'll do it." "Like a dummy," Tyler recalls, he asked only how high were the ratings. He was touring in France in June 2010 when he got a text from Idol judge Kara DioGuardi wondering if he wanted to give the show a try. He writes briefly about joining American Idol. "I got chastised for falling off the stage high," he remarks. ("I zigged when I should have zagged.") His band mates didn't call him for 27 weeks and looked for a new singer. He gives a "moment-by-moment" recap of the summer night in 2009 when he fell off a stage in South Dakota. He cleaned up a few years ago but relapsed after the death of his beloved mother, Susie, in 2008. I agree to the Terms and Conditions, Cookie and Privacy Policies, and CASL agreement. "I snorted my Porsche, I snorted my plane," he confesses. Drugs were bad for his health, his spirit, his wallet. Sober now, Tyler has been in rehab often enough that he lists the treatment facilities, eight of them, from Hazelden to the Betty Ford centre. Tyler is open about his battles with Perry, a bond "fraught to say the least." They are "soul mates" who might not speak for months, brothers caught up in "moments of ecstasy and periods of pure rage." But that's OK with Tyler, who reasons that all rock stars are egomaniacs and that you wouldn't want to be stuck with "clones of yourself." He's a born braggart, but he's willing to kick himself, too. Walk This Way was partially inspired by Mel Brooks' horror spoof Young Frankenstein and the famous line uttered by Marty Feldman. Tyler describes working on such classics as Dream On, written at a Hilton Hotel near the airport in Boston and a touchstone for his own life, with its warning that "Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away." Another favourite, Sweet Emotion, was inspired by his "anger and jealousy" over guitarist Joe Perry's moving out to live with his girlfriend. Perfect, "The name evoked space - aerodynamics, supersonic thrust, Mach II, the sound barrier." Like the novel by Sinclair Lewis? No, Aerosmith, a-e-r-o. They had considered Stit Jane, or the Hookers (Tyler's idea). The band's name was suggested by drummer Joey Kramer. Their self-titled debut album comes out the following year. They get their first record deal in 1972.
By the late 1960s, he has met the other members of Aerosmith and hung out with them at Woodstock.
At age 16, lightning hits - someone tells him he looks just like that rubber-lipped singer from the Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger.
He remembers hearing Elvis Presley as a little kid, and feeling like he was "bitten by a radioactive spider." By age 15, he knew he wanted to be a rock star and he knew he liked to get high, mastering the art of rigging his bedroom door so he wouldn't get caught smoking pot. "I like your music, man," Paul says.Ī native of Yonkers, N.Y., Tyler was born Steve Victor Tallarico in 1948. Buell calls her "Sluggo." McCartney answers "Sluggett." They wrestle to the floor. Buell and Linda McCartney do not hit it off. He recalls visiting Paul and Linda McCartney backstage with Bebe Buell, the mother of Tyler's daughter, Liv. The road was so crazy that Tyler can't remember how many times he was arrested. Or as Tyler states it: "To snort or not to snort. Tyler, 63, settles back and tells story after story about life in the "most decadent, lecherous, sexiest, nastiest band in the land." Explicit and filled with expletives, it reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richards' bestselling Life. The Associated Press purchased a copy on Thursday of Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?, scheduled for release next week.