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Tom Hamilton has shed some light on the future of Aerosmith following the recent announcement that the legendary band was retiring from touring due to frontman Steven Tyler’s vocal injury. One thing the bassist “can’t imagine” is Aerosmith touring with a new singer.

On August 2nd, a month before the band was set to kick off their rescheduled farewell tour, Aerosmith announced their immediate retirement from touring, stating, “Sadly, it is clear, that a full recovery from his vocal injury is not possible. We have made a heartbreaking and difficult, but necessary, decision – as a band of brothers – to retire from the touring stage.”

In an email interview with Charlie Kendall’s Metalshop, Hamilton answered a few questions regarding the retirement and the band’s future.

First, Hamilton detailed exactly what led to Tyler’s injury, saying, “Let me start by clearing up some information on Steven’s injury.

Classic rock bands often had their biggest hits when they branched out into other genres. For example, Aerosmith’s only No. 1 song was a shift in sound and subject matter from their earlier music. During an interview, Steven Tyler revealed that he was shocked that his band had only one No. 1 song.

Aerosmith’s only No. 1 song was part of a dead 1990s trend

During a 2015 interview with PopMatters, Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton was asked if sex was the primary theme of Aerosmith’s music. “It is actually,” he said. “When we were young, we had these guitars that were like … lust weapons. You went out there as a way to impress women and get them to notice you. That’s still there now: you always want to be admired by the opposite sex. There’s a lot of symbolism in Aerosmith. The whole thing’s a big metaphor.”

Songs like “Rag Doll,...

The Aerosmith train has stopped a-rollin’.

The group announced on its official X account that it won’t return to touring, citing vocalist Steven Tyler’s injured vocals and inability to recover.

“We’ve always wanted to blow your mind when performing,” the band wrote. “As you know, Steven’s voice is an instrument like no other. He has spent months tirelessly working on getting his voice to where it was before his injury. We’ve seen him struggling despite having the best medical team by his side. Sadly, it is clear, that a full recovery from his vocal injury is not possible. We have made a heartbreaking and difficult, but necessary, decision — as a band of brothers — to retire from the touring stage.”

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The group already announced it was on its farewell tour. The Peace Out Tour abruptly was postponed in September because of...

Aerosmith have unveiled the dates for their rescheduled North American farewell tour, taking place from September 2024 through February 2025. As was the case with the original itinerary, the “Peace Out” tour will feature support from The Black Crowes.

The legendary rock act had kicked off the tour in September 2023, but the outing only lasted three shows before singer Steven Tyler experienced a serious vocal injury. The band was forced to postpone the remaining dates indefinitely.

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Now, Aerosmith have announced that the rescheduled tour will launch September 20th in Pittsburgh, and run through a February 26th show in Buffalo, New York. Along the way, they’ll play Los Angeles on December 7th; a hometown New Year’s Eve show in Boston on December 31st; and New York City’s Madison Square Garden on February 23rd, among dozens of other cities.

All previously purchased tickets will be honored for the rescheduled shows,...

Mimi Garrard of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre is proud to present a special invitation only film event, A Spiritual Journey, on Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 2pm at the Rubin Museum of Art,150 W 17th St, NYC.

With direction, camera, and editing from Mimi Garrard, and costumes by Mindy Nelson, the program consists of four dances created for video — “Realeyes,” “Mestos,” and “Seasons of the Mind” explore a mythical idealized world, while “Notes from the Underground Percussionist” uses the words of Fyodor Dostoevsky to explore the dark side of human nature.

A Spiritual Journey Program

“Realeyes”

Dancer: Austin Selden

Music: Tom Hamilton

“Notes from the Underground Percussionist”

Performer: Jonathan MevillePratt

Singer and music: Jonathan Melville Pratt

Text: Dostoevsky selected by Mimi Garrard

“Mestos”

Dancers: Tim Bendernagel and Kate Jewett

Music: Tom Hamilton

“Seasons of the Mind”

Dancers: Tim Bendernagel and Cynthia Koppe

Music: Joao Castro Pinto

About Mimi Garrard

Mimi Garrard was a dancer with Alwin Nikolais.

In 2023, Aerosmith began their farewell tour over five decades after the band formed in Boston. Though the group postponed many of their tour dates after lead singer Steven Tyler damaged his vocal chords, they currently plan to resume shows in 2024. In recent years, the band has dealt with a number of health issues and sexual abuse allegations against Tyler.

Aerosmith | Gems/Redferns

Aerosmith didn’t score their first No. 1 hit until 1998, but they were a successful group for years before this. Their first album had a tepid reception from critics and the general public in 1973, but they became one of the biggest bands in the world by the end of the decade. Fifty years later, the band is still together and planning performances.

Steven Tyler | Chris Walter/WireImage; Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Janie’s Fund

In 1969, Steven Tyler watched his future bandmates Joe Perry and Tom Hamilton perform in a concert.

Looking out the studio window of the radio station where she’d worked for 29 years, DJ “Mistress Carrie” Sarao could see a crowd gathering outside. It was a Friday night, Feb. 21, 2020, and freezing, but that didn’t stop hundreds of Bostonians from flooding the parking lot when they heard the news. There was no invitation, just an impulse, an impromptu meetup of loved ones known and unknown. At midnight, the city would lose its last rock radio station.

Debuting in 1970, Waaf helped launched the careers of local bands like Aerosmith and Godsmack,...

Pantera’s Rex Brown has teamed with Epiphone for a new Thunderbird signature model bass guitar — the first Epiphone model in Brown’s partnership with Gibson Brands.

The Thunderbird is considered arguably the definitive rock bass of the ’70s and its classic silhouette features a clean Ebony finish on Rex’s model. The axe touts a 9-ply neck-through-body mahogany and walnut neck with a C-shape profile, mahogany body wings, and a standard 34-inch scale length.

“Sometimes, it’s not about the price, but the quality, and Epiphone has some of the coolest bass designs ever made, Imo,” commented Brown in a press release. “I’ve had Thunderbird’s as long as I can remember! There is nothing cooler looking than a TBird… All my favorite bass players growing up have played them!! From Tom Hamilton to Pete Way…”

Electronically, the guitar houses a pair of Epiphone ProBucker 760 passive bass pickups,...

Standing in the basement of the Harrah’s Cherokee Center in downtown Asheville, North Carolina, Billy F. Gibbons is recalling the moment he received his first guitar. He was only 13.

“It was Christmas Day,” the 73-year-old Zz Top frontman tells Rolling Stone. “[All these years later], there’s so many different ways to remain creative and the expressiveness seems to remain as a challenge — it’s exciting.”

Gibbons was part of the guitar summit (including a number of players on Rolling Stone‘s list of the 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time) that erupted onstage...

Legendary hard rock band Aerosmith which recently hit the road with their Farewell Tour, left their fans disappointed as the group’s lead singer Steven Tyler suffered from vocal cord damage, leading to postponement of its remaining September shows.

Taking to their official Instagram, Tyler wrote: “I’m heartbroken to say I have received strict doctor’s orders not to sing for the next 30 days.”

He continued, “Sustained vocal cord damage during Saturday’s show that led to subsequent bleeding. We’ll need to postpone a few dates so that we can come back and give you the performance you deserve.”

The band as such, has postponed their next six concerts, all of which are now rescheduled for January and February, 2024.

They also announced the rescheduled dates: Detroit on January 29; Chicago on February 14; Washington, D.C. on February 17; Toronto on February 21; Raleigh, North Carolina on February 26; and Cleveland on February...

If fans of Aerosmith don’t want to miss a thing, they’ll catch the rock icons on their final tour.

Aerosmith announced on Monday that it will launch its Peace Out farewell tour on Sept. 2 in Philadelphia. The 40-date trek of North America will also visit Los Angeles, New York City, Austin, Seattle, Chicago and Toronto, and Aerosmith will play a hometown show in Boston on New Year’s Eve. The tour will officially wrap on Jan. 26 in Montreal.

Tickets go on sale Friday.

“It’s not goodbye it’s Peace Out! Get ready and walk this way, you’re going to get the best show of our lives,” Aerosmith said in a statement.

The tour announcement comes months after a woman filed a lawsuit against Steven Tyler for sexual assault, sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. She previously said the band leader had an illicit sexual...

Aerosmith will be touring a city near you for the last time to celebrate the rock band’s 50-plus years together.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band announced Monday the dates for their farewell tour called “Peace Out” starting Sept. 2 in Philadelphia. The 40-date run of shows, which includes a stop in the band’s hometown of Boston on New Year’s Eve, will end Jan. 26 in Montreal.

“I think it’s about time,” guitarist Joe Perry said.

Perry said the group, with frontman Steven Tyler, bassist Tom Hamilton, drummer Joey Kramer and guitarist Brad Whitford, learned from the staging and production from their recent Las Vegas residency shows.

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Perry believes the time to say goodbye is now, especially with every founding band member over the age of 70. Tyler, 75, is the oldest in the group.

“It...

Released in 1975, “Sweet Emotion” led the Steven Tyler and Aerosmith down a road of massive success. It was the classic rock band’s first single to crack the top 40 of Billboard’s Hot 100 list, earning them bigger gigs with a larger audience. However, even Aerosmith’s biggest fans never noticed the distinct sound of one of the instruments breaking while listening to the single.

Steven Tyler admits he broke the instrument you can hear in the song

An Aerosmith fan page on TikTok recently shared a clip from an old interview where lead singer Steven Tyler points out the mishap. While appearing on The Howard Stern Show in 2013, he told the host to listen carefully as the song played in the background.

“Listen. Hear that?” Tyler asked Howard Stern during the “Sweet Emotion” intro. “It’s called a vibraslap,” he explained. “You can hear it break. Watch. Did you hear that?...

Aerosmith have donated a pair of new Community Emergency Vehicles to the Red Cross to help serve Florida communities hit by the recent Hurricanes, Ian and Nicole, joining an effort to help those who will be impacted by future storms.

The two 2023 Chevrolet Silverados, emblazoned with the Aerosmith logo, will be delivered in the spring of 2023. Guitarist Joe Perry, a resident of Sarasota, Florida, said he and his bandmates were “devastated by the disastrous impact of Hurricane Ian,” which killed an estimated 119 people when it made landfall in late September.

Before Steven Tyler and Joe Perry became the “Toxic Twins,” they were merely intoxicated. On a newly unearthed demo tape, which is coming out with the regrettably punny title The Road Starts Hear, that Aerosmith cut in 1971 — two years before releasing their self-titled debut — the band sounds loose and lubricated on embryonic versions of “Dream On,” “Mama Kin,” and other ditties they would be performing live for the next 50 years. It’s at once both a sonogram of the band as journeymen and a testament to the vision they had early on,...

Another week, another legendary artist announces a career-spanning global alliance with a major record company. Last week, it was Madonna and Warner Music Group. This time, it’s Aerosmith and Universal Music Group (Umg), jointly unveiling a new deal inked just ahead of the band’s 50th anniversary.

As a result of the new partnership, Umg will become home to Aerosmith’s entire recorded music catalog in 2022, as well as future music releases, merchandise and audio-visual content.

All of that is interesting, but perhaps the most interesting part is the...

Thirty years ago this month, Aerosmith’s “Janie’s Got a Gun” peaked on the Hot 100, reaching Number Four — just below Paula Abdul’s “Opposites Attract,” Seduction’s “Two to Make It Right” and Rod Stewart’s “Downtown Train.” It was an uncharacteristically dark single for the band, with themes of incest, child abuse, and revenge murder.

This was a period where the band worked a lot with outside songwriters like Desmond Child and Jim Vallance, but Steven Tyler and bassist Tom Hamilton wrote the song on their own. Steven...

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Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer

Aerosmith recorded a John Lennon song for a CD compilation to raise funds for Amnesty International.

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Aerosmith has supported the following charities:

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Aerosmith will auction off a variety of gear, from microphones to guitars, alongside other items from Bts, Tom Petty, Eddie Vedder and more at a sale benefitting the Recording Academy’s non-profit charity, MusiCares.

Aerosmith will also be honored as the 2020 MusiCares Person of the Year at a special 30th anniversary benefit gala taking place January 24th, two days before the Grammys. The auction will take place January 24th as well, starting at 11 a.m. Pt via Julien’s Auctions. Advance bidding, however, starts today, December 27th, via the Julien’s Auctions website.

Creating the set list for Aerosmith’s Deuces Are Wild Las Vegas residency each night is a difficult task. Not only does the band have 50 years of hits, fan favorites, deep cuts, and beloved covers to cram into a roughly 90-minute show, but all five original members are still in the group, and each has his own ideas about how exactly to pull it off. “There’s a lot of back and forth,” says guitarist Brad Whitford. “Sometimes it happens in 30 seconds and other times it’s 10 minutes of everyone saying,...

Aerosmith kicked off their Deuces are Wild Las Vegas residency over the weekend at the MGM Resort’s Park Theater, which seats just 5,200 people. That’s about a quarter the size of the arenas they usually play, but that intimacy comes at a steep price. Tickets in front go for $1,300 each and that’s not even counting the option of shelling out an additional $2,500 to meet Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, $750 to meet Joey Kramer, Tom Hamilton and Brad Whitford, or a mere $275 for a backstage tour and the chance...

“Walk This Way” took on a whole new vibe Wednesday night as Aerosmith joined Jimmy Fallon and The Tonight Show house band the Roots to re-imagine the song with children’s instruments. Fourteen musicians all crowded into the frame to offer a cacophonous rendition of the 1975 classic rock tune.

In the clip, Fallon sits front row alongside frontman Steven Tyler, who plays out the song on a harmonica and two apple shakers. The rest of the band is behind the the pair, with Joey Kramer smacking a toy drum and...

Aerosmith, Jimmy Fallon and Tonight Show band The Roots teamed up to perform a "Classroom Instruments" rendition of the band's hit "Walk This Way" — complete with wood blocks, toy drums, maracas and more — for a segment of Wednesday's The Tonight Show.

With wood block and mallet in hand, Fallon sat in the first row alongside frontman Steven Tyler, who simultaneously played a harmonica and two apple shakers while singing the lyrics.

The rest of the rockers filled out next two rows, with Joey Kramer on toy drum, Tom Hamilton jingling a tambourine, Brad Whitford shaking a ...

Happy birthday, Paris Jackson! The model and only daughter of the late Michael Jackson turned 20 earlier this week and celebrated her birthday on Friday at SBE's Hyde Sunset in West Hollywood with her older brother Prince Jackson and a slew of celebrity friends such as Paris Hilton, Chris Brown and Ashlee Simpson Ross and husband Evan Ross. The birthday girl, sporting pink-tinted hear, a vintage, plunging pink and purple patterned Missoni dress and white knee-high boots, had a joint birthday party with her manager Tom Hamilton. At the private event, she was presented with a custom birthday cake featuring her picture. Brown helped her blow out her...

Everyman: The Story Of Patrick McGoohan – The Prisoner

The Lantern Theatre, Blundell St., Liverpool

8.30pm Sat 14th April 2012

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‘Everyman: The Story Of Patrick McGoohan – The Prisoner’ written by Brian Gorman, details the life of the theatre, television, and film star (who sadly died in 2009).

The play begins a mini tour of the UK, beginning with a special preview at The Lantern Theatre in Liverpool at 8.30pm on Saturday 14th April. The play will be seen later in the year, across the UK, as part of a double bill with ‘A Passion For Evil’ by writer/actor John Burns (detailing the life of the infamous Aleister Crowley).

Chester-based writer Brian Gorman, has played McGoohan and his character 'Number Six' on stage in Manchester, Chester, and twice in Portmeirion (as a guest of Six Of One, The Prisoner appreciation society). A reading of the play by Gorman garnered...