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It wasn’t all that long ago that we were talking about the likely demise of the legendary Aerosmith. Vocalist Steven Tyler’s personal problems put the group on the road to ruin – at least that appeared to be the case at the time.

It all fell apart on stage at the Sturgis motorcycle event last summer when Tyler slipped off a rain-slicked stage, and was badly injured as a result. No stranger to struggles with substance abuse, the former “toxic twin” found himself in a vulnerable position following the accident, since pain medication is something most people in his position would not have refused.

After reports of bizarre behavior and estrangement from his band mates, it was finally revealed that Tyler had been struggling with addiction to pain medication, and admitted himself to rehab to confront his demons once again.

These days Tyler is back on track and currently on tour in Europe with plans to return home for a U.S. tour late next month. Tyler recently talked with the Associated Press about how he’s dealing with life back in front of Aerosmith.

“It’s been beautiful and I realized when I was taking care of my problems that the band is all I really care about,” Tyler said.

Although things got a bit nasty in the build-up to his realization that he needed to put himself in rehab, Tyler appears ready to put all the negativity behind him and get on with the business of being Aerosmith. It may have been the very public venting of frustration from some of his band mates that served as the wake up call he needed.

There was clearly a lot of frustration and disappointment on the part of the band after they were forced to cancel their 2009 tour due to Tyler’s accident. Guitarist Joe Perry was particularly outspoken about the problems that had developed between Tyler and the rest of the group.

Tyler seems willing to forgive, forget, and get back to rock and roll. “Everyone’s got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that’s really all I look at now,” he says.

Although Tyler is 62 years old, and some say that the group should call it quits, he sounds like a man that plans to keep on rocking as long as he is physically able. The group still has plans to finish up work on a new studio album, and Tyler has plans of his own, revealing that he has never stopped writing, and says: “I’ve got 12 songs I’m sitting on right now for a solo record.”

That sounds like an indication that he’s not given up on his plans to work on “Brand Tyler,” although he certainly does not sound like he has any intention of walking away from Aerosmith.

When asked if he could see himself working 10 or 15 years from now, Tyler responded by saying: “I’ll be doing this 20 years from now. I’ll be doing this as long as sound comes out of my mouth.”

The “Bad Boys From Boston” have done it again. Apparently, there are at least a few people in western Canada that are not too happy about the group’s decision to exclude the area from their summer tour.

Aerosmith had been scheduled to perform five shows in western Canada last summer, but after Steven Tyler’s fall from the stage at a show in South Dakota, the singer’s injuries prevented the group from continuing the tour. The group cancelled shows in cities that included Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver.

With the group now back on the road and finished with the South American leg of their current tour, they appear healthy enough to rock their fans once again – a development that did not go unnoticed by Keystone Entertainment Group, the company that Aerosmith reportedly had a contract with to perform last summer.

Documents filed in a Calgary court contend that the band’s failure to re-schedule the cancelled shows constitutes a breach of contract. The lawsuit is seeking $6 million in damages due to money the company lost on “financing charges; debt servicing; short-term capital costs; promotional, marketing and media expenditures; venue and security deposits and equipment rental deposits.”

The company also says that they lost what would have been more than $10 million in profits from ticket sales for the cancelled shows. Keystone claims they made repeated attempts to re-schedule the shows, but were not able to get a response from Aerosmith.

The suit was filed on the same day that the group announced their North American tour, which includes only one show north of the border in Toronto.

This all may seem a bit like déjà vu for Aerosmith and their handlers. They came under fire in 2007 after cancelling a show in Hawaii – a move that resulted in a lawsuit on behalf of angry fans that allegedly lost money on travel reservations and other expenses.

Although the wheels of justice often do turn painfully slow, most fans were probably pleased with the end result when the group agreed to a settlement and performed on Maui during the fall of 2009. The group also covered all expenses for the original ticket holders as well.

It may be a couple of years before this latest case is all worked out, but I suspect the outcome might be similar. This situation is a bit different, since the suit was filed in another country, and I don’t know what options Aerosmith have to choose from. Would ignoring it simply mean that they had better stay out of Canada for the rest of their lives?

That’s a question I don’t know the answer to, but it’s bound to be something we hear more about as time goes on.

Fresh off their South American tour, Boston rockers Aerosmith will soon hit the road again, this time for a European tour that will take them from Sweden to Italy. U.S. fans can catch them live when they return at the end of July to kick off their U.S. tour.

Although the news has all been pretty good for the past few months, some comments by guitarist Joe Perry may have fans wondering what the future holds for Aerosmith. Every Aerosmith fan remembers the off-again-on-again rollercoaster ride that threatened to break up the group, at least in the sense that iconic frontman Steven Tyler seemed poised to call it quits and do his own thing.

Although Perry now says he was confident that Tyler would return to the fold, something else he said puts the band’s future ambitions in question. When asked recently by The Guardian newspaper about the status of the group’s next album, Perry doubted that there was sufficient fan demand for new material.

“Actually, I’m not sure there is,” Perry says. “Until a couple of years ago, fans would ask for more records like the old records, but that’s all fallen off. New material is not that important any more. We’ve been at this for a long time. I think of some of the songs I’ve written or co-written and I think, why should I bother trying to top that? It’s like Leonardo Da Vinci painting the Madonna again. Why should I paint the Madonna again?”

Perhaps fan demand for new Aerosmith material really has waned. Maybe the group is just thinking they would like to do other things besides recording. After some four decades, it seems perfectly reasonable for them to kick back a bit and be satisfied with what they have already accomplished, if that’s what they want to do.

The group reportedly started working on the new album before the breakup drama emerged, and work on it has been kind of start-and-stop from the beginning. Perhaps that’s an indication that recording is just something they have had their fill of, and are satisfied with the touring side of the business.

Although Aerosmith seems to be healthy, fit, and rocking live audiences, the question that looms large for groups with the longevity of Aerosmith is: Will this be the final tour?

Aerosmith rolled into the South American city of Lima, Peru to perform for an estimated 30,000 fans. Living In Peru reports that frontman Steven Tyler opened the show with a few choice words in Spanish. “Buenas noches, mi gente del Peru,” Tyler said as he took to the stage.

Reports of Tyler “dancing without abandon, making serpentine and robotic movements with his slight body,” indicate that he has made a full recovery from the injuries he suffered during the group’s summer tour with ZZ Top last year.

The group is said to have enjoyed dining out at an establishment called Huaca Pucllana, and enjoyed traditional Peruvian dishes such as ceviche and lomo saltado. Tyler opted to skip the outing and remained in his hotel room.

The Boston-based rockers will continue their South American sojourn with shows in Chile, Brazil and Costa Rica.

In a record-breaking deal much closer to home, Aerosmith has inked a deal to perform at the New York State Fair for a whopping $1 million. It will be the highest amount ever paid to a act at the summer event. The previous record of $800,000 is held by country performers Rascal Flats and country-pop sensation Taylor Swift.

Tickets for the Aerosmith show at the fair range in price from $84 to $104, which sets a new record as well. A sell-out show could put an additional $300,000 in the pockets of the venerable bad boys. Not bad for a day’s work.

With Aerosmith set to wrap up its South American tour and set to hop the Atlantic to perform eleven shows for European fans, Boston’s Bad Boys have announced more details of their upcoming U.S. tour which will begin on July 23rd in Oakland, CA.

Aerosmith and their crew sound like they are ramped up and looking forward to bringing their Cocked, Locked, Ready to Rock tour home. Boston’s famed baseball stadium, Fenway Park, is set for a mid-August show, and tickets sold out in a record 23 minutes after going on sale. Fellow Boston rockers J. Geils will join Aerosmith for the Fenway show.

Sammy Hagar and The Wabos will be opening eleven of the sixteen shows scheduled with announcements to follow to announce opening acts for the remaining dates.

Frontman Steven Tyler is setting expectations high for fans planning to take in an Aerosmith show this summer.

Tyler is quoted as saying: “I thought it was time to get my MOJO back, by rockin South America and Europe with a little HOME RUN at Boston’s Fenway Park thrown in and then off to the rest of America to do what we do best!  We’re gonna rock you into the middle of next week!”

According to drummer Joey Kramer, “The band’s tighter than ever, America we’re coming to rock your World”

It appears as if all this activity is keeping Steven Tyler from devoting time to working on his Autobiography. According to the Boston Herald, the release date has been pushed out to November. The book, with the clever title, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? will be published by HarperCollins, which inked the $2 million deal with Tyler during 2008.

It began with the unexpected guest appearance of Steven Tyler at a Joe Perry gig in New York City last fall. After months of uncertainty about whether the group would ever be able to reconcile their differences with their troubled frontman, he announced to the audience that he was not leaving Aerosmith.

Things had turned a bit nasty following the disastrous and abrupt end to Aerosmith’s 2009 summer tour after Tyler slipped and fell from the stage during a performance at the Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota. His fellow band members suspected he had fallen back under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and after a period of public denial, Tyler finally entered rehab to beat an addiction to pain killers.

Disappointed over the sudden end to their tour, and baffled by Tyler’s unusual behavior leading up to the Sturgis event, the group began to make noises about replacing Tyler with another singer. Tyler responded by informing them that he would sue them if they tried. It may have been the low point of the whole saga. It seemed as if Aerosmith’s wings might have been clipped for good. Maybe they would have continued without Tyler, but would it really be Aerosmith without him?

During February, everyone seemed to realize what was at stake, and common sense seemed to take the place of threats, posturing and rock star egos. Perhaps the remaining members realized they needed Tyler and he realized he needed them. A meeting was scheduled.

As bass player Tom Hamilton tells the Boston Herald, everyone showed up at their rehearsal studio in a state that he described as “all lawyered up.” In time, it’s apparent that things loosened up enough for the serious discussions to begin, and for the assembled musicians and management personnel to realize that the best thing to do was put the pieces back together and become a band once again.

During the turbulent period of uncertainty that engulfed the band, they were reminded that their fans had not given up on them. “The phone was ringing. People wanted to see the band,” Hamilton said. That seems to have provided the much-needed incentive for the group to reconcile their differences and get back to work.

Dates have been set for a summer tour that will take the group to South America, Europe, and then home again to perform for two nights at Boston’s Fenway Park with fellow hometown rockers the J. Giels Band.

Things are looking up for Aerosmith, and there’s little doubt that loyal fans will fill venues to see the Bad Boys back together again. At the same time, many fans are probably hoping that good judgment and discipline will keep the group intact and rocking as far into the future as they care to.

It’s official. Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is back. Back in Boston to be more precise. Tyler took up the microphone at Boston’s famed Fenway Park to sing “God Bless America,” and open the season for the hometown team. Appropriately enough, the Red Sox were facing their arch rivals, the New York Yankees. The perfect way to start the season for many Red Sox fans.

Accompanied by his daughter Chelsea,  Sunday night’s appearance seems to have marked Tyler’s return to the spotlight after his battle with addiction to pain medication that became public after he injured himself badly by falling from the stage during the group’s tour last summer.

Although some reports indicated that Tyler did a respectable job helping to open the season for the Red Sox, some fans were not impressed, and clearly did not think he was the best choice for the occasion. He reportedly shrugged his shoulders after finishing his performance, and walked off the field smiling.

Although fan reaction seems to be mixed regarding Tyler’s opening day performance, he’s likely to find himself in front of a much more enthusiastic audience later this year if rumored plans to have Aerosmith return to Fenway this summer are true.

Boston Music Spotlight is reporting that Aerosmith is close to a deal with the Red Sox that would bring the Bad Boys to the ballpark with fellow hometown group J. Geils in August for two nights.

Aerosmith’s Tom Hamilton is scheduled to be on Boston radio station WZLX tomorrow morning at 8:05 to talk about his involvement in this year’s “Banned in Boston” benefit event. Perhaps he will drop some hints about the Fenway rumors or have something else to say about the band’s plans for the near future.

Aerosmith is also making news in Colorado with the announcement of a new lottery scratch ticket that offers players a shot at $100,000. The new tickets went on sale yesterday for $5 a pop.