Since its October 7th release, Joe Perry’s Rocks: My Life In and Out of Aerosmith (Simon & Schuster) has spent its initial two weeks on the prestigious New York Times bestseller list. Rocks entered the charts at #8 and remained in the Top Ten (#10) in week two. In the book, Perry shares–with total candor and without apology–what life is like as the lead guitarist and co-head writer of Aerosmith.
Perry has been in high demand, completing a cross-country book tour with multiple nights in New York, his Boston hometown (three in-stores), Chicago, San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles and a stop at The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland. He has been equally busy with top-tier broadcast appearances on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Conan, CBS This Morning, Fox & Friends, Tavis Smiley, and Larry King alongside popular national radio including Howard Stern and Imus In The Morning.
Joe Perry will be Eddie’s guest this Friday (October 31st) on his 104.3Q FM show. Audio will also be available through Eddie’s podcast on iTunes and PodcastOne.
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Good for Joe, good guy, great musician. 🙂
Joe F ing Perry.
The only guitarist cooler than Slash is Anthony Joseph Perry…
Just got done reading it and it was a good read! I hate to say this though but his CONSTANT praise of his wife got too gooey and sugary and kinda made you roll your eyes at certain points. I’ve always (in a goofing manner) said you can graph a band’s downfall by when they start getting married and writing crap songs for their wives and I immediately went to that reading Joe’s book! But hey, small complaint, he’s Joe F’ckn Perry!
I went to the friday san francisco book signing. It was great meeting the legend and he was cool enough to take pictures with us as well. I thought it was pretty cool how when he arrived inside the book store the first thing he did was crack open a becks and lit a smoke. The old ladies who were working the store stood there with there mouths open for a bit like what do we do,lol. The kindly asked him to put out the smoke but let him swig on his beer. They must not know who Joe f—ing Perry is,lol.