But that's where we had a free rehearsal room. So, our first date actually wasn't at Nipmuc High School, it was in a courtyard at Boston University at night. What we had to do was play one time for the student body. So, he let us as a storage room down in the basement of the building.
She asked him if he could help her son out. Mary, she was a wonderful woman, she knew someone at Boston University. Hearing Steven scream, "You're playing too f**king loud, man! You're missing your f**king beat! You're playing backwards! Your guitar sounds like shit!" What were those early rehearsals like, what would have been like to be a fly on the wall at the rehearsals? I'll see you later." He and Joe came down and then Steven came down to Boston, they got the apartment, Joey walked in, and then the next thing we've got a band called Aerosmith. Mayonnaise." He just told his parents, "I'm leaving. Tom is the quietest guy, we used to call him "Mr. Joe told Steven, "Well, if Ray's coming, then Tom's coming." David "Pudge" Scott was the Jam Band's drummer, but his parents told him the same thing that our friends in Yonkers's parents told them, "Hey, you ain't f**king going to Boston to start a band, you're getting a f**king job, pal!" So, he couldn't leave. Steven said, "No, Ray's coming." I was playing rhythm guitar at the time. Joe wanted to do a trio with him, Tom Hamilton, and Steven as drummer. He's crazy, he's great." That one song, just like that one song did it for me, "It's all over now," and I wanted to play rock and roll. He told me, "You got to see this f**king guy. When he saw them do "Rattlesnake Shake," and jump up in the air and play the guitar, that's what sold Steven on Joe. But then there's another story where Steven insisted on bringing his bassist, which I presume is you. But Joe had already met Joey, so that was a problem.
In one, Joe approached Steven after he moved to Boston during a visit to Sunapee. There's a couple of different stories about the formation of the band. Three years later she was sleeping with Steven.
She said to me, "How old are you guys?" I said, "Why?" She goes, "The lines on my face getting clearer." And she made a crack about it, and she didn't really dig it that much. I got a copy from Steven, and I bought it down to WBCN and played it for her. And I said, "You know what? I'm in a new band and we have a tape of this song, can I bring it down to your studio and let you listen to it?" And she said, "OK, when do you want to come down?" She was one of the hot DJs back then on WBCN, and he knew her. Avenue, at a little cafe, and Maxanne Sartori walked in. When we finally had a rough tape of it, we were having breakfast with a friend on Mass. I started looking at him differently, more like the way I looked at Joe, that Steven really might actually have something here. I heard it in the writing, and I was flattered that he'd picked up on it. I used to read a lot about Eastern philosophy, and I was in karmic stuff and astrology and all that. When you start looking at the words, I was looking at him differently, too, because a lot of the stuff that he was talking about was stuff that I was into, Eastern philosophy. Steven was looking for that big time ballad.
You can check out the full interview over at ArtistDirect.What did you think of "Dream On" when you first heard it, did you hear its potential? How could it not be?Īnd of course if you’re curious what types of guitars are best suited for you as a beginner, well we’ve got you covered there too!
Make sure you see Aerosmith and Slash this summer…it’s bound to be remembered as a historical jaunt. I replaced the others with guitars that were as close to the originals as possible.” There are seven or eight that I still have the originals. I put in appendix in my upcoming book, Rocks: My Life in and Out of Aerosmith , with a picture of all the guitars I played in the seventies. He goes on, “I’m actually surprised by the number of guitars I have left from the Seventies. That’s not the only classic axe he’s packing in his arsenal though. It’s an acoustic for acoustic-style playing and maybe some blues-based stuff.” Then, I got an off-brand acoustic after that. “First, I had a Silvertone acoustic student model. “I actually still have my second guitar,” he laughs. So, we asked him in this exclusive piece by Rick Florino. Given Perry’s six-string gravitas, really wanted to know on which guitar it all began for him though. Slash with Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators are supporting them, and it’s turning out to be 2014’s most undeniably rocking tour. Right now, he’s playing them nightly on the “Let Rock Rule” tour. Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry has written some of the greatest and most recognizable riffs and leads of all-time.