AEROSMITH guitarist
Joe Perry has told
The Providence Journal that the band will start work on a new studio record in the spring. Ever since the second album of their comeback, 1987's
"Permanent Vacation", the band have worked with outside songwriters such as
Desmond Child,
Diane Warren and
Jim Vallance.
Perry says he's not sure yet whether that'll happen again, but whatever happens, he's OK.
"It's inspiring. When you bring someone in, they have an idea of what an
AEROSMITH song should be, and it's interesting to hear what their interpretation of the
AEROSMITH sound is — whatever that is," he explained. "It's always fun to do.
"We've got piles of stuff — some of it works and some of it doesn't. . . . It depends on what the vibe is when we start rolling."
AEROSMITH are currently on tour in support of their latest disc,
"Rockin' the Joint". Recorded live at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, the new disc has renditions of hits such as
"Same Old Song and Dance",
"Draw the Line",
"Walk This Way" and
"Train Kept A-Rollin'" (and the video side of the DualDisc includes the warhorses
"Dream On" and
"Sweet Emotion"), but the band also rips through such less-known songs as
"Beyond Beautiful", from 2001's
"Just Push Play" album;
"No More No More", from 1975's breakthrough
"Toys in the Attic"; and
"Seasons of Wither", said to be singer
Steven Tyler's favorite
AEROSMITH song, from 1974's
"Get Your Wings".
"They're all favorites of ours,"
Perry said of the songs on
"Rockin' the Joint".
"At this point," he added, "you have such a backlog of songs that you could almost go out there and play a whole set of 'new material' that you wrote 5 years ago, 8 years ago, 15 years ago. And it's all new stuff because it never really got played live."
The record is taken from one performance, rather than pieced together from many shows on a tour, as most live records are. The Joint, at the Hard Rock Hotel, is much smaller than most of the giant venues
AEROSMITH plays, and
Perry says that helped.
"You just feel like you can cut loose a little more when you know it's going to be packed," he said. "You give yourself a little more latitude to play the esoteric songs, the so-called album cuts that we don't often play in the big shows. . . .
"We try and represent each record when we're writing up the set list, but on this particular night — you know you're playing to people who have most of the records."
Read more at
The Providence Journal.
