The question of whether Aerosmith will ever record again continues to provide different answers.
Last year, Joe Perry was more focused on archival reissues.
Well, it's still a matter of never say never. Now he tells Rock Candy magazine, "There's definitely a possibility. I know that Steven has got some stuff in his back pocket, so we'll see. I'm currently writing stuff for a new Hollywood Vampires album, but after that… What we are definitely doing is remixing some of the early Aerosmith stuff and finding some interesting outtakes, so it'll be fun to look at that stuff."
But also last year, Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford didn't see them ever recording again, telling Guitar World, "Maybe six or seven years ago...I said, ‘Let’s pick a city or studio, and we’ll book it for one day... Everybody can fly in Friday and Saturday morning; we have an open-ended session with one goal: to make a song and have one demo.’ I don’t even care if Steven just sings...
“I said that, and they just said, ‘Oh, we can’t do that.’ I was in shock; it’s not rocket science for us. It’s not impossible, and we’ve done it before. I don’t care if the song was a piece of [crap]; it was to be an exercise in creativity. But nobody wanted to do it. So I threw my hands up in the air, and that’s where my hands remain to this day.
“I cannot put my finger on it. I guess I’ll call it out-and-out laziness.”
So, if things don't change, 2012's Music From Another Dimension will remain their final studio album of new material, which doesn't sit too well with Whitford. He says it was "just a piss-poor record. It’s like…where is that certain something? I guess it got left behind somewhere."
But before Aerosmith can even get in the studio, they need to see if they can get through a tour.
They'll resume their Peace Out tour on September 20th in Pittsburgh, a year after starting and stopping it after three shows when Steven Tyler blew out his larynx.
The tour stops here on Saturday November 9th at Amercian Airlines Center in Dallas.