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Rocks : my life in and out of Aerosmith / Joe Perry with David Ritz.

by Perry, Joe, 1950- author.

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New York : Simon & Schuster, c2014.

Perry, Joe, 1950-

Aerosmith (Musical group)

Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.

9781476714547 (hbk.)

1476714541 (hbk.)

xiv, 416 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Gestation. The water and the woods ; Sounds ; Prep ; Post-prep -- The birth. The commonwealth ; Shot in the dark ; Twinges of love ; Make it -- The classic albums. Toys ; Marriage at the Ritz ; Rocks ; All together and totally apart ; The ruts -- The project. Out ; Further out -- The second rise and fall (and rise again). Back ; John Kalodner John Kalodner ; Vacation in Vancouver ; Dinosaurs eating cars ; Cult ; Trying to get a grip ; How it worked ; The meltdown ; Brothers -- Rockin' in the Twenty-first Century. Push ; 9/11 ; Honkin' ; Confusion and pain ; Falling ; Idol ; Another dimension ; Vermont in the summer.

Joe Perry exposes his unrepentant, unbridled life as the lead guitarist of Aerosmith. He delves deep into his volatile, profound, and enduring relationship with singer Steve Tyler and reveals the real people behind the larger-than-life rock-gods on stage. The nearly five-decade saga of Aerosmith is epic, at once a study in brotherhood and solitude that plays out on the killing fields of rock and roll. With record-making hits and colossal album sales, Aerosmith has earned their place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But theirs is ultimately a story of endurance, and it starts almost half a century ago with young Perry, the rebel whose loving parents wanted him to assimilate, but who quits school because he doesn't want to cut his hair. He meets Tyler in a restaurant in New Hampshire, sways him from pop music to rock-and-roll, and it doesn't take long for the "Toxic Twins" to skyrocket into a world of fame and utter excess. From the mega-successful song and music video with Run DMC, "Walk This Way," to the realization that he can't pay his room service bill, Perry takes a personal look into the human stories behind Aerosmith, the people who enabled them, the ones who controlled them, and the ones who changed them.

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