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As anyone who’s either watched American Idol this season or paid attention to rock music over the last 40 years can attest, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is capable of some outrageous behavior. Naturally, his memoir, Does The Noise In My Head Bother You? (Ecco), is loaded with enough badass tales of sex, drugs, and rock’n'roll mayhem to make Keith Richards’ autobiography Life look choirboy-cute by comparison. Is it a sharply written masterpiece? Far from it. Is it a fun read? You betcha. For the benefit of all you CliffsNotes fans out there, we’ve compiled the book’s wildest and weirdest revelations.

1: Did the dude look like a lady? Tyler isn’t saying, but he does admit to having a homosexual tryst in his youth. “Gay sex just doesn’t do it for me,” he reveals. “I tried it one time when I was younger, but just didn’t dig it.”

2: Tyler was rehab buddies with rock royalty (sort of). In December 2009, after another drug relapse, Tyler checked into a Betty Ford clinic. When he arrived, Tyler recalls being greeted by Ivan Followill, the father of the Kings of Leon’s Caleb, Nathan, and Jared. “His kids didn’t like the way their dad was behaving,” Tyler writes. “He’d remarried and they hated his new wife, he was getting drunk all the time, running trucks and buses off the road — he was the band’s tour manager — just fucked up shit. So they sent him to rehab, and so I spent the next month in the best of company with the Kings of Leon’s dad.”

3: Tyler was contacted by Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page in 2008 with an offer to form a band with ex-Zep members Page and John Paul Jones, as well as John Bonham’s son Jason. The quartet rehearsed once, “but I soon realized it wasn’t going to work,” writes Tyler. “Not that I couldn’t sing the stuff, I could do Led Zep in my sleep, but I wasn’t Robert Plant, and Robert wasn’t anything like me. Fans want to hear ‘Percy’ [Plant's nickname] wail on ‘Whole Lotta Love,’ ‘Communication Breakdown,’ etc. It never would have been the same.”

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Steven Tyler and the rest of Aerosmith: Can this marriage be saved????

The “American Idol” star threw guitarist Joe Perry under the bus yesterday, saying he and his erstwhile Toxic Twin got high together a couple of years ago — decades after the 12 Steppers supposedly had sworn off drugs. Tyler also had a few digs for the rest of the band, saying two members, whom he didn’t I.D., were “using” in 2009.

We have three words for this mess: Paging Tim Collins . . .

You may recall that Aerosmith’s former manager was credited with getting Tyler and Perry off heroin and putting the band back together back in the ’80s — the last time they were this screwed up. He steered the Bad Boys of Boston through some of their most tumultuous times to some of their greatest successes. As thanks, he was canned back in 1996 in a 14-minute meeting at the fab Four Seasons.

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Fan-filmed video footage of AEROSMITH’s June 20, 2010 performance in Athens, Greece can be viewed below.

The band’s setlist was as follows:

01. Love In An Elevator
02. Back In The Saddle
03. Falling In Love (Is Hard On The Knees)
04. Eat The Rich
05. Pink
06. Livin’ On The Edge
07. What It Takes
08. Rag Doll
09. Crazy
10. Cryin’
–Drum Solo–
11. Lord Of The Thighs
12. Stop Messin’ Around
13. I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing
14. Sweet Emotion
15. Baby Please Don’t Go
16. Draw The Line

Encore:

17. Dream On
18. Walk This Way
19. Toys In The Attic

As previously reported, AEROSMITH is being sued by Keystone Entertainment Group of Canada for $6 million over its canceled tour of the country’s western provinces last August.

The band was forced to scrap five shows there after singer Steven Tyler was injured in a fall during a concert in South Dakota. The group’s new summer 2010 tour only features one Canadian stop, in Toronto on August 17.

Keystone’s suit claims that AEROSMITH breached its contract with the concert promoter by failing to reschedule the 2009 dates, further alleging that the company is out expenses incurred for promoting and producing the canceled gigs.

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On Saturday, August 14, AEROSMITH and THE J. GEILS BAND will descend upon Fenway Park in Boston to deliver the grandest slam to their hometown crowd. For the first time ever, the Bad Boys of Boston will be bringing their brand of major league rock straight to Fenway Park.

During Wednesday’s Red Sox-Yankees game, Steven Tyler from AEROSMITH and Peter Wolf representing THE J. GEILS BAND appeared in the booth alongside Jerry Remy and Don Orsillo in the bottom of the fourth to announce the event.

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AEROSMITH will embark on the “Cocked, Loaded And Ready To Rock Tour” this summer.

The group’s schedule is as follows:

Jun. 10 – Sweden – Sweden Rock Festival
Jun. 13 – UK – Download Festival
Jun. 15 – UK – London 02 Arena
Jun. 18 – Romania – Bucharest
Jun. 20 – Greece – Athens Olympic Stadium
Jun. 23 – Holland – Nijmegen Goeffert Park
Jun. 25 – Belgium – Graspop Metal Meeting
Jun. 27 – Spain – Barcelona St Jordi Arena
Jun. 29 – France – Paris Bercy Arena
Jul. 01 – Czech Republic – Prague 02 Arena
Jul. 03 – Italy – Venice Festival

The various AEROSMITH members offered the following comments about the trek in an official press release:

Steven Tyler (vocals): “Back by popular demand with more spit and fire than ever before, we’re coming across the pond and parting the waters as we go.”

Joe Perry (guitar): “AEROSMITH is going to be rocking in the UK and Europe this summer. Enough BS, we’re coming and everything is going to be set at 11.”

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Amidst continuing reports of other singers being approached to front Aerosmith, Steven Tyler and his handlers are taking steps to reassert his position in the band.

Tyler’s Los Angeles-based attorney, Skip Miller, fired off a letter to Aerosmith manager Howard Kaufman last week, independently obtained by Billboard.com, requesting that Aerosmith’s management “immediately cease and desist from engaging in acts and conduct to the harm and detriment of your own client, Aerosmith, and our client who is one of its members.” Miller subsequently told Billboard.com that on behalf of Tyler he’s called a meeting of Aerosmith’s “shareholders” on Feb. 9 to discuss the band’s future, including recording a new album and touring this year of Europe and South America. The four-page letter also states that “we reserve all of our legal rights and remedies in this matter, including, without limitation, pursuing legal action for damages and other appropriate relief.”

“Steven Tyler does not want lawsuits,” said Miller. “We do not want to go in that direction. The direction we want is Aerosmith, with Steven Tyler, touring in Europe, touring Latin America, releasing a new album…This is the direction it’s all intended to go. It’s just amazing to me current management would be taking any other position.”

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