"They just barraged him with every little nasty thing we said about him. Hamilton clearly regained some much-needed respect when he saw Tyler's equally honest responses. Hamilton says 60 Minutes took all the footage of the band members badmouthing Tyler then confronted him with it. "So that's a tough question, but you know what, we were able to answer in the affirmative." "But the question, 'do you like each other' is a little bit more challenging, because sometimes you really are pissed at that motherf. We do love each other, even though sometimes we hate each other's guts. "So they ask, 'do you love Steven?' and we're like 'oh yeah, of course, we love Steven, we love each other'. They asked us all kinds of questions like, 'do you like Steven?' "So that leads us to the end of the table answering all these embarrassing questions. "They said, 'OK, we're going to get into it with everybody'. "I sat the producer down at the beginning and said, 'are you gonna just do another three-day thing about Steven and Joe on drugs, and sex and love-hate, you know, or are you going to really get into it with everybody?' " were going to just come and do an article about being on the road with Aerosmith, blah-de-blah-de- blah," he says in a phone call from the United States. Now, he confesses he played a part in the plot to ambush Tyler.
He may have been even more embarrassed when he joked that the reporter's cleavage had distracted the band and caused them to drop their guard. It culminated in a brutal and bitchy blood-letting session on the American current affairs show 60 Minutes last August, which just may have been the band's salvation.Īfter it aired bass guitarist Hamilton was reportedly embarrassed at how much the band vented when interviewer Lara Logan prodded them to open up about their absent frontman. Hostilities between team Perry (with bandmates Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer and Brad Whitford) and Tyler had reached a seemingly impassable checkpoint.
None of them would have imagined they'd find themselves here when just three years ago guitarist Joe Perry was publicly touting for a new lead singer and his songwriting brother from another mother Steven Tyler was signing up for a potentially band-scuttling tenure as a judge on TV show American Idol. And tonight, the train will keep-a rollin' in Dunedin when they play their first New Zealand concert in a fabled 43-year career.