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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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JOE PERRY has not been shy about letting his feelings be known regarding how irritated that AEROSMITH has been sidelined due to STEVEN TYLER’s tour injury. Rather than sit idle, PERRY has been keeping busy promoting his forthcoming solo album, HAVE GUITAR, WILL TRAVEL.

The new incarnation of the JOE PERRY PROJECT debuted is new lineup and offered its first preview of new material on Sunday, September 20^th at Plymouth Memorial Hall in Plymouth, MA. The band includes German singer HAGEN, found completely by chance on YouTube by PERRY’s wife, bassist DAVID HULL who was with PERRY since the 80s’, drummer BEN TILESTON who plays with PERRY’s sons band TAB THE BAND, organist PAUL SANTO who has performed with Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton and Ozzy.

The black-leather glade rock and roll hall of famer hit the stage with the title track from the first JOE PERRY PROJECT album, “Let the Music Do the Talking” then pulling from the AEROSMITH catalog he offered up such classics as, “Combination,” “Dream On,” and “Walk This Way” along with few covers including Fleetwood Mac’s “Somebody’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight.”

The band had a light moment with a reggae version of “Dream On”; Perry provided the just-greasy-enough rift and some scorching slide work on Woody Guthrie’s “Vigilante Man,” from the solo Perry album and Malden’s own Charlie Farren infectious rocker “East Coast, West Coast.”

While AEROSMITH’s career seems to be in a state of disarray with frontman STEVEN TYLER, PERRY made no mention of any revived Aerosmith tour, and hinted at the JOE PERRY PROJECT getting ready to go on the road, he encored with a smoldering version of the Neil Young classic “Rockin in the Free World.”

Perry will rejoin AEROSMITH in November to play a series of rescheduled dates Hawaii, after which the future of the Toxic Twins seems unclear.

SET LIST:

• Let The Music Do The Talking
• Walkin The Dog
• Sombody’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight
• Long Way to Go
• No Surprise
• Slingshot
• Do you Wonder
• Dream On
• Scare the Cat
• Vigilante Man
• Rockin Train
• Train Kept A Rollin
• Combination
• Walk This Way
• Rockin in the Free World

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