Aerosmith Bassist Still Hopeful Over New Album
Tom Hamilton says new record will still happen
Aerosmith’s Tom Hamilton has revealed that he is still hoping that he band will get together to record a brand new album.
Speaking to the Boston Herald Hamilton revealed that there are still plans afoot to record their long awaited follow up to 2004’s blues covers album Honkin On Bob, despite frontman Steven Tyler’s new job as a judge on US talent show American Idol.
"Steven's been very emphatic in saying that the way his time is arranged on the show leaves room to work on a record," Hamilton says. "He's been taking great pains to remind everybody of that, so hopefully that's the way it will come out."
Part of the delay in recording the new album is said to be due to a rift between Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry who have different visions for the album. Tyler is thought to favour making a more pop sounding record in the vein of ‘I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing’ and ‘Jaded’ while Perry wants to record a more classic rock record, such as Rocks or Toys In The Attic. This divide may go some way to explaining Tyler’s first ever solo single, ‘Love Lies’, a ballad recorded for a Japanese sci-fi action film.
Hamilton says that despite the conflict of interest, and the new time constraints Tyler will probably find a way to make it all work.
"There's a lot of not knowing what's going to happen, but that's how it's always been for us," Hamilton says in the Herald article. "I'm not sitting here thinking that it is not going to work for us. Steven is an incredible I-can-do-anything kind of guy. But he's taken a big bite, and I'm looking forward to seeing him chew it."
Hamilton’s interview comes just a week after Tyler told press that he believed his Aerosmith bandmates were "jealous” of his American Idol job.
"With the band, we've been married for 40 years now — five guys — which makes it even worse than women, and I could go for an hour and explain that. At first they were jealous, they heard it through the press and not through me. But then I said to them, 'Four months ago you were looking for another lead singer.' So things go up and down. I spent a stint in Betty Ford. But as the band goes, we live on the tail of a comet. And I've been on tour with these guys for 40 years, and they've been judging me every day. And sometimes it hurt — a lot of times — most times, I came out through the wormhole stronger. So it's a real journey with those guys and they would say the same about me. I'm sure they're real happy for me; I mean, this is gonna do nothing more than take it all up another step or two. And it's good; I like it."