Amid talk from both Steven Tyler and Joe Perry that Tyler might be quitting Aerosmith, Tyler took the stage this past Tuesday to sing “Walk This Way” with the Joe Perry Project during its encore at New York’s Fillmore at Irving Plaza.
Tyler told the crowd, “I just want New York to know, I am not leaving Aerosmith. Joe Perry, you are a man of many colors. But I, mother******, am the rainbow!”
Many Aerosmith fans took this as a sign that the band had mended fences and decided to forge on together. But Perry told Rolling Stone that the band’s problems are far from over, despite that its 40th anniversary isn’t too far off.
Of Tyler’s cameo during his band’s recent encore, Perry says, “There was all this commotion during our encore break and somebody said, ‘Steven is here.’ And I was like, ‘What?’”
Tyler then asked Perry if he could join his band for a rendition of “Walk This Way.”
“Being an acquaintance of 40 years, I said, ‘Why not?’” Perry said. “So he came up and sang and that was the last I saw of him.”
In another interview, this one with the Associated Press, Perry revealed, “As it stands, Steven wants to take a couple years off and do some of whatever he wants to do and the rest of the band wants to keep working. The band is a really well-oiled machine and we’re going to work one way or another and I don’t know what form that’s going to take.”