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Joe Perry Sees Aerosmith Making New Music

09/08/2014
. (Gibson) Aerosmith continues to rock with a vengeance even after 44 years, but Joe Perry feels rock and roll, in general, has lost some of the edge it had when the band was starting out. "The music really was a lot more than it is today, more of a statement," he tells Yahoo Music, in a wide-ranging interview. "It was more of an 'us-against-them' thing, kind of the background marching orders for the revolution, for the change that happened in the '50s and '60s. Bands would go out there and play just for the joy of being able to go out and play music, without this huge celebrity thing that comes along with it now."

That said, the veteran guitarist feels Aerosmith's last album, 2012's Music From Another Dimension!, was "one of the best records [the group] has done in years." "� Over the last 20 years, we'd get these requests, like, 'Why don't you make a record like the old ones?'" he explains. "I think we got back to the real deal with the last record, but � it never got the push it should have from the label."

Perry, whose autobiography, Rocks: My Life in and Out of Aerosmith, hits stores October 7, nonetheless remains confident Aerosmith will record new material in the not-too-distant future. "I have to think we're going into the studio again, just to lay out some new songs," he says. "I don't know how it's going to go as far as sales, but as far as us as artists, I think we're gonna have to go in." here.

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