Aerosmith‘s Joe Perry has seemingly confirmed that Aerosmith will undertake a Las Vegas residency next year to mark their 50th anniversary.
The iconic band, led by Steven Tyler, will celebrate 50 years together in 2019 – having first joined forces in 1970. [Dana’s note: I think this only adds up to 49?]
Appearing on SiriusXM’s Beatles channel earlier this week, guitarist Perry confirmed that they’re gearing up for a lengthy Vegas stint next year.
“We’re going to be doing a residency in Vegas starting next spring”, Perry said. “What we want to do is something that I haven’t seen before… just downsizing our live show, just playing in a smaller place. We want to do something different. We’re in the middle of the production now. What we’re talking about is having an experience that you wouldn’t be able to see on a regular Aerosmith tour.”
Describing what to expect, he explained, “I feel like we’ve been out of the wind for a while and it seems like it would be a really cool thing to bring some of the history back.
The production is gonna look like that. But without losing what we are: a hardcore rock and roll band. We’re having almost weekly conversations about the production and how we’re gonna keep it true and honest to the heartbeat of the rock and roll that we play but still add an element that people will want to see.
I haven’t been this excited about a project with Aerosmith in quite a while.”
It’s expected that the full details of the Las Vegas residency will be revealed next Wednesday, August 15 when Aerosmith perform on the Today show.
additional source: nme.com
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“The iconic band, led by Steven Tyler, will celebrate 50 years together in 2019 – having first joined forces in 2019.”
Has anybody else seen the mistake? What do I win?!
Thank you, David.
That is all on NME, not me. I will fix it.
D 🙂
Dana
Never doubted you were the problem in the writing of the original article!
Thank you, D
D too 🙂
Enough with these acts doing “residencies” where you can only see them in one place. Does this mean no world tour? It’s been way too long.
If they joined forced in 1970, and you count the year 1970, “50 years” is 2019.
1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979…. that’s 10
1989 is 20
1999 is 30
2009 is 40
2019 is 50
that’s an odd way of doing it (and not really conventional) but the math works out.
Thank you, Bill.
Are you an accountant or a mathematician?
D 🙂
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