Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry says the U.S. rock band is looking for a replacement singer because Steven Tyler is being treated for drug addictionAerosmith guitarist Joe Perry says the U.S. rock band is looking for a replacement singer because Steven Tyler is being treated for drug addiction.   Bookmark and Share

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Aerosmith To Audition Singers To Replace Steven Tyler was a top story for this week. Here it is again: The Toronto Sun has an in-depth interview with Aerosmith's Joe Perry.

As the guitarist tours his solo project through Canada everyone wants to know the future of Aerosmith, while Perry did recently did an interview when he confirmed the band is moving forward and want to find a established singer who can headline on their own, he has expanded on their singer search and also explained just where Steven Tyler stands with the band.

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''We're already getting the word out there. The word's been out there for a while. After my tour, we'll start having some auditions, making some phone calls,'' he told Darryl Sterdan of the QMI Agency: ''Hopefully, we'll have found a new singer by the summer, and Aerosmith will be able to go back out on the road.'' That was followed by a Q&A, here are a couple of the exchanges:

So what's the status of Aerosmith now? Is Steven in or out?

Perry: From what I've heard, he hasn't left the band. As far as I'm concerned, he hasn't left the band. He's never said he was going to leave the band. It's just that he wanted to go off and do some of his own things. He just never told anybody in the band about it. And so far, he hasn't talked to anybody in the band. But his manager has told our manager that he wants to take some time off. And then lately he's been saying he wants to come back. And what his lawyers and his managers have been telling our lawyers and managers is different than what he's been telling the press. So it's kind of hard to get a straight answer about what's going on. But he has to have leg surgery and foot surgery and it's basically going to take him out of the picture for about a year, year and a half. So, in the meantime, the rest of the band wants to play. And I want to play with the other guys in Aerosmith. So the four of us are just making our plans. We're gonna find somebody to get in there and fill that spot. Just like when Tom was sick -- we got David Hull to come in and play bass. When Brad was sick, we got somebody else to come in and play for him. That's basically how I look at it; we need another singer to fill in.

Are you going to have auditions?
The people we're talking about, as far as auditions go, we'll probably just sit around and have a couple of drinks and see if we get along. Because we're already gonna know that they can sing.


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