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They're getting inducted into the "Boston Garden Hall of Fame" this week,
between periods at a Bruins game.

    And they'll be showing up on the Simpsons on Nov. 21!
    
    K.C.

    November 19
    
    "Pandora's Box" - a 3 CD box set by the BAD BOYS from BOSTON!
    
    (Boy...that's really going to be their week, no?)
    
    K.C.

    They were a riot on the Simpsons last night.
    
     " Homer , you just fell on Aerosmith ! "

    Steve Tyler's home in Marshfield burnt to the ground today. His
    daughter and wife (who is 8 months pregnant) escaped from the second
    story of their home using a chain ladder. Steve sprained his ankle and
    is on crutches. There were no other reported injuries but the house and
    its contents were destroyed.
    
    Not much of a Christmas present, was it?
    
    Brian

    Stephen Tyler is "married with children"???!!!
    
    Perhaps this is another case (exactly like David Lee Roth) where the
    image presented is purely for public consumption, but I've heard this
    guy tell stories of sexual exploits on MTV that a normal person would
    not want a wife to hear.
    
    Without going into detail, Stephen Tyler practically bragged about 
    being in the "high risk" category for HIV infection.
    
    	db

    My folks know his folks (live in the same retirement community) and
    they are always apologizing for Steve's antics.  You know, "We didn't
    raise him to use language like that", etc.
    
    My dad met him once and said that he really acted very much like a
    businessman.  Which, of course, he is.
    
    						Brian

    
    There are pictures of Tyler in today's Herald.
    
    He is carrying a cat out of the fire and doesn't look like he
    sprained his ankle.
    
    Additionally, both the Herald and the Globe report that the
    fire was contained to the first-floor kitchen. No one reports the
    house as being "burned to the ground."
    
    It looks like I'm rapidly becoming a self-appointed critic of 
    truth in rock journalism.  Why does everything have to be
    inflated?  To sell newspapers and magazines, I suppose.
    
    Bob Greene, a syndicated columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, toured
    with Alice Cooper in the 70s and wrote a very interesting, straight
    jornalism book about the experience.  There is at least one description
    of the group's manager preparing completely phony press releases
    to "keep public interest up."
    
    Particularly funny is a scene in NY city where Alice is recording in
    the Record Plant.  A NY radio station interviews him over the
    phone and everyone in the studio has to keep very quiet because
    Alice is allegedly calling in from a big fishing boat off the
    Bahamas... all to add to the glamorous rock star image.
    
    Sometimes I feel like that old guy that Dana Carvey plays on
    Saturday Night Live:
    
    "Back then we didn't have press agents and fancy-schmancy managers,
    and we didn't lie to the papers, we just told the truth and it
    was boring and we LIKED IT!"
    
    Brian

    
    Rolling Stones "bad boy image" was complete fabrication. The Beatles
    goodie image had them scrambling for old pictures and other
    incriminating evidence that life in Hamburg breeds.
    
    Conjuring up those clean wholesome jokers from late 50's early 60's to
    perform that sinful music.
    
    Things being not what they seem is a very old gig indeed!
    
    bob

    Regarding my report about Tyler's house being a total loss: (OK, I
    used "burned to the ground" instead of total loss. I suggest we start a
    new note and discuss this distinction in excruciating detail.)
    
    Anyway, the part about the house being a "total loss" and about Tyler's
    ankle came directly from a phone interview of Tyler by Mark Parenteau
    of 'BCN at approx 4:20 yesterday. He stated that he had just returned
    home from the hospital, told about his injury and the fact that no one
    else was injured and described the house and conctents as, and I quote,
    "all gone".
    
    If anyone wants to challenge the truth of Tyler's claim or the ability
    of my ears to hear, that's your prerogitive. Frankly, ... never mind.
    
    Brian

    Ankle sprains are funny - you can do it and not know it for
    hours.
    
    The standard mistake is that you sprain your ankle playing ball, say
    "eh, not that bad, I'll keep playing" and you pay for it dearly
    later.
    
    	db - unfortunately an expert on ankle sprains
    
    p.s. Bri - the only part of your note that I doubted was that he
    	 was married and had kids.
    
    	 C'mon - you don't REALLY expect me to believe THAT do you????
    
    	;0-)  ;-() ;-))

    Mr. Markey:
    
    I wasn't making any claims about your ability to hear....or the
    distinctions of disaster.  
    
    Seriously!  I didn't mean anything personally...I just have to laugh
    at the exaggerations that colors the press these days.
    
    And Tyler's comments on 'BCN!  C'mon, no one expects Steve Tyler
    to play it straight.  "All lost, man" is far more dramatic than,
    "We had a grease fire in the kitchen."
    
    In Saturday's Boston Globe, Tyler *did* poke fun at himself by
    saying, "I guess we need a new kitchen."  The sprained ankle
    thing has been reported again, so maybe there's truth there.
    
    I'm an aging skeptic, what can I say?  It amuses...and saddens...
    me to see the "big spin" put on everything the media touches.
    
    And Tyler?  Well, he's playing to his audience, whether in a concert
    situation, a video, or a radio interview.  He wants to impress
    (rightfully so) the young guns that listen to 'BCN, and he did
    a good job. He's an entertainer....
    
    Take care, no flames intended,
    
    Brian

    	FWIW, I was at my Mother house in Marshfield and picked up
    	a copy of the Marshfield Mariner. Tyler was on the front page
    	holding his Cat, all it said in the caption was that they got 
    	safely out of the House, No one was Hurt and there was damage 
    	to the Kitchen. 
    
    	Dave

    YIKES!!!! This note sure died a while ago.....
    
    Any other ::MUSIC noters going to be at Friday's Greatwoods show?
    I've got lawn tickets but would love to try and meet up with otehr
    DECcies that night.
    
    
    Joyce

    Great show Friday night at Great Woods in Mansfield, MA.  The sound was
    better than I've heard it in a while there and the band seemed right
    on.

    Other than Tyler sticking his face in the cameras all night, there
    seemed to be a total lack hype.  To me, the show had a very "loose"
    feel to it.  Almost as if I was seeing them in a small club or on a
    high school stage.

    Highlights for me:

    o 	Opening - "Eat the Rich".

    o	Closing - Sort of a medely sandwiched in between "Train Kept a
    	Rollin'" (sp?).  The band's still chuggin' along.

    o	The first few moments of Brad Whitford's solo - A tribute to SRV.
        Brad can play.  REALLY!

    o	Right in the middle of a tune, Perry decides he's too hot and puts
    	his guitar down on the drum riser, takes his shirt off and ties it
    	around his waste, then starts playing again.  Kept the show loose.


    Dave

    P.S. 4 Non-Blondes (sp?) opened.  IMO, the singer should drop the rest
    of the band like a bad habit.  She's FAR too good.

    Hey Dave - I didn't see you there :^}
    
    AWESOME!  loved it.....we had "lawn" seats - actually woodchip seats
    :^) rigt in front of center stage in front on teh screen.  Most of teh
    time I couldn't actually see the band - thank goodnes for the screen -
    but I thought they really delivered!!!  Steve Tyler did ham it up - but
    hey - thast ST..... I did get a kick out of what he did during Get A
    Grip....he faced the camers, lifted his shirt and written over his
    belly button was Get A Grip with an arrow pinting down :^} No I don;t
    find him sexy - I just enjoy watching him have fun on stage.  
    
    They only played GAG and Eat the Rich off the new album (I'm pretty
    sure) and played so many old tunes!!! I was having a blast!  Dream On,
    Toys in the Attic, Walk This Way, Sweet Emotion, Train Kept A Rollin
    and Joe Perry did do a few songs from his solo album - can't rememeber
    the names of the tunes - I'm terrible about that.
    
    4 non-blonds were entertaining - though I did sit through their show -
    saving my energy for The Bad Boys of Boston :^) which I needed since I
    stood/danced sang/screamed through the whole show :^)
    
    Joyce
    
     

    
    When I got into Logan for the UNIX symposium a week ago sunday, I
    walked past Tyler and the boys going to the gate next to where I came
    in.  
    
    That gig were they going to?
    
    -Ed
    

    Most likely - but since the band was born and raised in Mass they could
    have been visiting family before their Thursday and Friday night shows
    at Greatwoods.
    
    Joyce

Aerosmith shows at the Boston Garden:

Dec. 31, 1993
Jan.  1, 1994

Tix on sale this Saturday (11/13) at 10 AM.  I assume this is TicketPro, since
they handle the Garden (I have not heard which one it is).  Please correct me
if I am wrong.

adam

    
    Yowza! just a short trip report on the New Years eve festivities at
    the show:
    
    Being a veteran concert goer since the 60's, I have to say this was
    one of the best performances I've attended in a while, especially the
    theatrics! the peak had to be when old man time rode down from the
    ceiling on a Harley revving it up all the way across the garden,
    what a site 8^) immediately followed by a shower of balloons and 
    confetti all while Jammin' Good show guys, keep on keepin!
    
    DaveG
    

    A brief mention in the Boston Phoenix that on Aerosmith's current
    Japanese tour, David Minehan (ex-Neighborhoods) subbed for Brad
    Whitford on a few shows when Brad had to return to the USA for an
    undisclosed family emergency.
    
    							Brian

Just reading this topic for the first time and noticed in .18 that Joyce
mentions that Tyler was born and raised in Mass. I was under a different
opinion that Joe Perry and Steven Tyler grew up together in Sunapee N.H. ?

I'm just going from what I've heard from different sources, anyone know
the real story ?

Another question, will one be able to purchase a cold beer at their Great
Woods shows in August ??

Randy

    Hmm could be - Sunapee NH that is.
    
    Jt

    I thought Tyler was originally from Long Island ??  and Joe Perry from
    Milford MA ??
    
    since we're talkin' about Perry, a minor connection...my friend Tom's
    band "Group Therapy" will be openin' for Charley Farren on June 11 at a
    place called Chooche's (sp?) in Brookfield, MA

    Joe Perry is from Hopedale, just outside of Milford, MA.
    
    Mark.

     Joe Perry sat in with Lettermans' band the past three nights. He
     was playing an OUTRAGEOUSLY flamed ('59 Reissue?) Les Paul through
     a Fender Tone Master or two.

     Btw, Dave noticed a couple of sailors in the audience (one is from 
     Wilmington, MA) and led them to a Times Sq strip joint where he told
     them they SHOULD be on their first night back in port. He even bought
     them beers. At the end of the show, the credits rolled past the two
     sailors passed out on the table.
    
     Neal

    Joe Perry's in Europe on tour, must have been a repeat.
    Peter

    Many of you may have heard this already, but Aerosmith will be the
    first artists to release a new recording *online*.  For one week,
    CompuServe will allow *free* downloads of the new Aerosmith single
    (download time is estimated at 90 minutes!).  It will run on Windows
    systems with "sound card" (which one?  arrgggh I hate Intel boxes).
    
    The new world is here, folks.  Shoot your radio, etc.
    
    						Brian

    Wow,  one week I send mail to Steve Morse on-line, the next week
    I download a new song.
    
    I love this electronic age!
    
    	db