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After Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler injured the larynx in September 2023, the band shifted their farewell tour “Peace Out”. Later they canceled the tour completely and announced in 2024 that Aerosmith would withdraw from the tour business, since Tyler could not fully recover from his vocal cord injury.
Comeback hope without tour plans
Some believed that Tyler would never be able to appear again. But the singer’s individual appearances-especially his appearance at Ozzy Osbournes and Black Sabbath’s farewell concert “Back to the Beginning” in July-gave hope for a long-term stage return of the rock band. Lead guitarist Joe Perry does not exclude individual appearances from the band, but a tour is by no means in the cards. “I’m not sure if I want to book a tour of 40 cities again. It is a long way to stay at the top and staying there, especially an Aerosmith tour,” he said in an interview with Wbur.
Perry and Tyler met in Sarasota, Florida in mid-July, to discuss the possibilities of other shows: “I spent a lot of time with Steven, and he just doesn’t want to go on tour, and he can’t go on tour either. It is difficult,” said Perry about the 75-year-old front man. “You really have to be out there and we are all at the point where you have to ask yourself: How do you want to live? How do you want to spend the next time? Who knows how much we still have.”
Aerosmith are considered the largest representatives of the Hard Rock of the 1970s and 1980s. The formation around Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer and Brad Whitford has existed for 55 years. It is inevitable that after such a long time it has to be at the end of an era. However, the guitarist does not rule out one last show. When asked whether Tyler still creates a concert after the larynx injury, Perry replied: “I think he would get it. It’s just a question of how to get there”.
What also happens: The Joe Perry Project continues to tour
Until it is time, Perry will be with the Joe Perry Project Go on a short North America tour that begins in Tampa, Florida on Wednesday.
The project is Perry’s long -standing Plan B, a kind of “revolving door for musicians: inside”. He has put together the group several times since 1979. This time he has Chris Robinson from The Black Crowes as lead singer, Stone Temple Pilots’ Bassist Robert Deleo and drummer Eric Kretz, Brad Whitford from Aerosmith on the guitar and the long-time Aerosmith-Sideman Buck Johnson on the keyboard.