Aerosmith has rolled out the initial 40 dates to their final trek, which has been dubbed their "Peace Out Tour." The dates, featuring special guests the Black Crowes, kick off on September 2nd at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center and, as of now, wrap on January 26th at Montreal's Bell Centre. General on sale begins Friday, May 5th at 10 a.m. local time on ticketmaster.com. Guitarist Joe Perry told us that he and the rest of the guys in Aerosmith realize that age is a tremendous factor in the professional decisions they make: ["You realize you're not an immortal, and you don't have this 22-year-old feeling of 'this thing can go on forever,' and y'know, 'I can do whatever I want, I can go for three nights without sleep and everything will be fine.' You start to realize that it's a very delicate thing, life is a delicate thing, and being able to perform at the top of your game is a delicate thing. And it's one of those
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has named Pantera the "Greatest Heavy Metal Band'" in a new video list for Revolver.com. Corgan listed Judas Priest at Number Two and Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow at Number Three. Corgan also went deep by including Merciful Faith, Savatage, and Meeker on his list. Billy Corgan explained to Revolver why Pantera was Number One for him: ["Pantera was one of those bands in the early-'90s that not everybody on the alternative side of the equation understood right away because they were seen as just a straight-up metal band. But eventually a lot of people in alternate music recognized that Pantera was one of those bands that, sort of, transcended genres. I think thematically and the way they changed metal and the way people played metal ever afterwards, I think it almost puts them in too small a category. And like the great metal bands, y'know, they tend to almost create their own category of music."] SOUNDCUE (:2
With the news about Aerosmith's upcoming tour about to be announced, Joe Perry spoke candidly about his over 50-year partnership with fellow "Toxic Twin" Steven Tyler. Blabbermouth transcribed some of Perry's chat with Boston's WCVB Channel 5, in which the guitarist explained, "We've had our ups and downs. And like everything, there's a balance; there's the good and the bad. So, it was as bad as it could get, and it's also been as good as it can get. And I have to say right now, it's about as good as it can get. I think we've paid our dues on the other end. So, we're due some good times." Perry went on to say, "There are families out there who don't talk to each other for 10 years. There are brothers out there that don't talk to each other because they're no use to each other or for whatever reason. I mean, if we operated like that there would be no band and we wouldn't be able to make the mu