A video clip of
AEROSMITH's final rehearsal prior to the start of
"The Route of All Evil" tour
MÖTLEY CRÜE has been posted online at
Aerosmith.com.
As previously reported,
AEROSMITH bassist
Tom Hamilton will be sitting out a few gigs at the beginning of the tour.
Hamilton has just completed a seven-week course of radiation treatment for throat cancer. He will be with his family recovering and will join the tour in mid-October. Filling in for
Hamilton will be
David Hull, a longtime friend of the band who played in the
JOE PERRY PROJECT.
Billboard.com reported on Thursday (August 24) that
AEROSMITH plans to release a best-of,
"Devil's Got a New Disguise", Oct. 10 via
Columbia, in the midst of its fall tour with
MÖTLEY CRÜE.
"We were working on getting a studio record out, but we just couldn't do it. There wasn't enough time," guitarist
Joe Perry told
Billboard.com, calling the hits set "a good holdover."
"Devil's Got a New Disguise" takes its title from one of two new songs that will be included on the 16-track album.
Perry described it as "a classic
AEROSMITH rocker," while the other fresh track,
"Sedona Sunrise", has been around for awhile and was considered for other
AEROSMITH albums. "We felt like it really had to come out,"
Perry said.