"I don't think Steve and Joe should carry the entire rap for what happened in those days," reflects bassist Tom Hamilton as the 'smiths relax backstage before their show in Atlanta. The band's management did their damnedest but with Aerosmith increasingly living their lives out in public, there was no way the duo's excesses could be kept under wraps and the press started recounting tales of near death experiences, car wrecks, hotel trashing and other drug related shenanigans. I mean, I would've traded my nuts in for a good ounce of heroin in those days." I was paying $1000 a gram for heroin and doing about three to five grams a week. "I once had three Porsches and I sold them all so I could snort up half of Peru. Then it got to the point where I'd drink an eight-ounce glass of Jack Daniel's and fill my nose up with cocaine before I went on stage and I'd be flying, man. Himself and Joe Perry weren't nicknamed 'The Toxic Twins' because of their strenuous keep-fit regime and during Aerosmith's 1978 American tour, the frontman's chemical consumption had reached such epic proportions that a roadie had to be assigned the task of standing by the side of the stage and sprinting on every time there was a danger of him keeling over.Īs Tyler reflected in the early Eighties, "I started taking drugs when I was 16 because it was the natural thing for anyone growing up in the States, or certainly in my home town, to do. Never mind qualifying for a bus pass, there was a time when only a mug punter would have put anything more than an each-way bet on Steven Tyler reaching his thirtieth birthday. Hey, even when I'm dead, they're going to have a hell of a job nailing the coffin lid down." I'm always going to love Jimi Hendrix - 'Purple Haze' will still give me a hard-on when I'm hooked up to a life-support machine. Now it's, 'what do you reckon you'll be doing at 60?', and the answer's exactly the same.
"Country estates?," barks the singer in mock indignation, "raising horses? What sort of fucking interview is this? People used to ask me, 'what do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em, 'rocking out and kicking ass!'. We're going to keep on raising hell 'til the Devil comes to take us away."Įr, right! Steven Tyler is responding, in typically understated fashion, to the preposterous suggestion that Aerosmith might one day run out of steam, jack in this rock 'n' roll lark and retire to a sprawling country estate where they can raise horses. How can we not be open to anything? We're never going to slow down. It was us guys who said, 'a blow job's great. "Man, I don't think our generation's ever going to slack off.
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