Can we dream on?
Aerosmith producer Jack Douglas — who was behind the boards for the band’s best-selling album, 1975’s “Toys in the Attic” — remains to be holding out hope that it’s not the tip for the group after Steven Tyler’s vocal-cord harm pressured them to cancel the rest of their Peace Out: The Farewell Tour in 2024.
He’s nonetheless wishing that the Rock & Roll Corridor of Famers can exit with a bang.
“I hope so,” Douglas informed The Put up. “I don’t know, I hear rumors. But I’m sure that they would love to, you know?”
Final August, Aerosmith introduced that they have been retiring from touring due to Tyler’s vocal harm, with the singer fracturing his larynx throughout an early present on the farewell trek in September 2023 at Lengthy Island’s UBS Enviornment.
“As you know, Steven’s voice is an instrument like no other,” Aerosmith wrote in an Instagram put up. “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 assertion continued. “We have made a heartbreaking and difficult, but necessary, decision — as a band of brothers — to retire from the touring stage.”
However Douglas, who started producing Aerosmith on 1974’s “Get Your Wings” LP and continued by way of 1982’s “Rock in a Hard Place” album, refuses to imagine that that candy emotion is gone without end — even when Aerosmith isn’t taking part in collectively as a band anymore.
“I mean, Joe [Perry] is gonna keep rocking,” he stated of the Aerosmith guitarist who continues to carry out solo and with the supergroup Hollywood Vampires.
Likewise, Tom Hamilton — who co-wrote “Sweet Emotion” on “Toys in the Attic” — remains to be plucking that bass. “Tom’s got a band, Close Enemies,” stated Douglas.
“I mean, these guys want to keep playing.”
And the spirit of Aerosmith can be alive within the subsequent technology.
“I’ve been doing records recently with [drummer] Joey Kramer’s son, Jesse Kramer,” stated Douglas. “I mean, he’s incredible, an amazing drummer. I’ve been working with a group called SilverPlanes, and he’s in the band.”
And Douglas’ personal son, John, performed with Aerosmith in the course of the band’s Deuces Are Wild Las Vegas residency from 2019 to 2022.
“I’ll tell. you, the residency that they did in Vegas was really amazing,” he stated. “It was fun going to the gig.”
However the actuality is that Aerosmith — which launched “Toys in the Attic” 50 years in the past on April 8, 1975 — simply doesn’t exist with out Tyler.
“There is no Aerosmith without Steven,” stated Douglas. “So if Steven can sing, believe me, he’ll want to be out there.”
