We don’t want to miss a thing about this potential reunion.
Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry got candid on the possibility of Aerosmith reuniting, despite the band retiring from touring in 2024, following Steven Tyler’s 2023 vocal cord injury.
“I don’t know, man, we’re talking about it,” the band’s founding member, 74, said while on SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk” on Monday. “Except for like, anything on the calendar, we’re all alive and well. So we’ll just have to see.”
“I know there’s got to be at least another Aerosmith gig and I’m not looking forward to putting the set list together for that one!” Perry continued. “But we will just have to see. I’ve always played like every show is the last one. I hate to sound like it’s a downer, but I give it up every night.”
He added that he and fellow Aerosmith members, including Tyler, 77, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer and Brad Whitford, all keep in contact and talk “probably a couple of times a week.”
Touching on the band having to cancel the remainder of their Peace Out: The Farewell Tour in 2024, the rocker said, “The first gig we did for that tour that got canceled, we certainly felt like there was going to be another one, but s–t happens.”
Radio host Eddie Trunk then asked Perry if Steve “seems well enough” since he has been playing shows sporadically.
“I think he would [like to do a show],” Perry stated. “I think it’s just a matter of getting there. We’re up there, man. It’s a lot. It was interesting with COVID and everybody being home for that length of time, it was like, ‘Oh, so this is how other people live.’”
Perry isn’t used to that kind of stillness since founding the rock band in 1970. Since then, the group has released 15 studio albums and performed at over 2,000 concerts.
“Sleeping in your own bed every night and hopefully not feeling s—-y from COVID. In the beginning, it was pretty bad,” he went on. “It really, really opens your eyes. I don’t think I’ve gone a year without something on the calendar and having to be somewhere. So that’s the bigger picture.”
Perry isn’t ready to quit yet, as he’s set to embark on The Joe Perry Project tour this year.
“I have enough left in me. I still want to do it,” he confessed. “But right now, for this project, I’m going to be taking it out and giving it up. I’m just glad I got these guys to open up enough time to come along. So we will see what happens.”
In April, Aerosmith producer Jack Douglas also opened up about the possibility of a reunion for the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers.
“I hope so,” the producer exclusively told The Post. “I don’t know, I hear rumors. But I’m sure that they would love to, you know?”
Aerosmith announced their retirement from touring due to Tyler’s vocal injury after the singer fractured his larynx during a show in September 2023.
“As you know, Steven’s voice is an instrument like no other,” Aerosmith wrote on Instagram at the time. “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,” the statement continued. “We have made a heartbreaking and difficult, but necessary, decision — as a band of brothers — to retire from the touring stage.”
Douglas knew that Perry, at least, wouldn’t slow down.
“I mean, Joe [Perry] is gonna keep rocking,” he said. “I mean, these guys want to keep playing.”
Touching on Tyler, in particular, Douglas exclaimed, “There is no Aerosmith without Steven.”
“So if Steven can sing, believe me, he’ll want to be out there.”
