Aerosmith Calling it quits? Here is Steve and Joe on ANN!
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From: UltimateClassicRock
Aerosmith‘s next tour might be the beginning of the end.
The band has announced a run of European dates for the spring and summer of 2017 — a series of shows they’ve dubbed “Aero-Vederci Baby!” and are billing as their “farewell” tour. The news comes several months after singer Steven Tyler publicly suggested that it was “time” for the group to start thinking about getting off the road — although Tyler’s longtime foil and creative sparring partner, guitarist Joe Perry, seemed to disagree.
“It’s one of many things we’ve talked about as a band, but I don’t know if it’s the end,” Perry shrugged in response. “There are still a lot of places we haven’t played yet that we want to play. More to follow – let’s just put it that way.”
It’s worth noting that in the press release announcing the “Aero-Vederci Baby!” dates, the word “farewell” is always surrounded in quotes, and neither Perry nor Tyler seemed to be in a hurry to say goodbye in their quotes for the tour.
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Paul Simon done? Say it isn’t so
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This guy has written so many classic songs and many are considered “standards” now. Songs that are used at weddings to funerals to Divorce parties…”Bridge Over Troubled Waters”, to “50 Ways to Leave your Lover”.Not to mention “Sounds of Silence” and many others. The guy is a genius.
From: UltimateClassicRock
Paul Simon is riding the coattails of a well-received new album, but that doesn’t mean certain realities haven’t become clear for the 74-year-old.
“You’re coming towards the end,” he admits in a new talk with the New York Times. And, to a large degree, Simons seems okay with that. “Showbiz doesn’t hold any interest for me,” he added. “None.”
Simon said his voice, though still strong, often needs days of rest, and the songs don’t come as easily as they used to. He recognizes the changes brought on by age and by celebrity. “I’ve seen fame turn into absolute poison when I was a kid in the ’60s,” he noted. “It killed [Elvis] Presley. It killed [John] Lennon. It killed Michael Jackson. I’ve never known anyone to have gotten an enormous amount of fame who wasn’t, at a minimum, confused by it and had a very hard time making decisions.”
Should he decide to end it here, Simon’s current tour would provide a nice moment of symmetry. His North American dates conclude with a two-night stand on June 30 and July 1 in Queens, where Simon grew up and met another boy named Art Garfunkel along the way.
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