Geoff Edgers of
The Boston Globe is reporting that
AEROSMITH's
Steven Tyler and
Joe Perry will headline this year's nationally televised
Boston Pops concert on the Esplanade on July Fourth.
This isn't the first time
AEROSMITH's leaders have been wooed by the Esplanade concert organizers. In 2004, an attempt to sign up
AEROSMITH fizzled when the band couldn't work out a way to play Boston between the end of its North American tour and the start of its dates in Japan.
"It just didn't come together, but
Steve Tyler and I were talking, and we want to make it happen at some point,"
Pops conductor
Keith Lockhart said at the time.
Read more at
The Boston Globe.