John Watt
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There's been some hot flashes of more sensational rock news,
news that bumps Michael Jackson out of the controversial category.
Aerosmith, the videos I saw now gone... all of them.
In Toronto recently, Joe Perry, guitar, pushed Steve Tyler off the stage into the audience,
quite a fall, but he got back up and shouted "That won't happen again".
The next gig in New York while swinging his mike stand he whacked Joe in the head.
He staggered, straightened up, dropped his guitar on the stage and walked off.
Now they're saying Steve Tylers' previous fall six months ago, breaking his collarbone,
was the same thing.
If the American Federation of Musicians Union was still an effective organization,
they would have called them in and pulled their cards until they got it together.
Months ago, Rolling Stone magazine featured an article with Steve Tyler's daughter.
She talked about his descent into drugs again, with heroin, and other sad disappointments.
She said he disappeared as a father and grandfather, being a dead-beat dad.
All this publicity now has him hired as a judge, a judge, on American Idol.
What kind of message is this sending to young musicians and the world?
I called this montage Inuit stone, yes, an obvious pun, looking like their visual markers,
a touchstone like this article about Tila Tequila, reality t.v. star and stage performer.
It's hard to imagine two friends, friends since they were teenagers,
being in Aerosmith, the only band they've been in all their lives.
And they're over sixty and wounding themselves onstage.
They've been at it so long the toys in the attic are all that's left.
Some times, just some times, I feel proud to be a Canadian.
The other article shows why.
news that bumps Michael Jackson out of the controversial category.
Aerosmith, the videos I saw now gone... all of them.
In Toronto recently, Joe Perry, guitar, pushed Steve Tyler off the stage into the audience,
quite a fall, but he got back up and shouted "That won't happen again".
The next gig in New York while swinging his mike stand he whacked Joe in the head.
He staggered, straightened up, dropped his guitar on the stage and walked off.
Now they're saying Steve Tylers' previous fall six months ago, breaking his collarbone,
was the same thing.
If the American Federation of Musicians Union was still an effective organization,
they would have called them in and pulled their cards until they got it together.
Months ago, Rolling Stone magazine featured an article with Steve Tyler's daughter.
She talked about his descent into drugs again, with heroin, and other sad disappointments.
She said he disappeared as a father and grandfather, being a dead-beat dad.
All this publicity now has him hired as a judge, a judge, on American Idol.
What kind of message is this sending to young musicians and the world?
I called this montage Inuit stone, yes, an obvious pun, looking like their visual markers,
a touchstone like this article about Tila Tequila, reality t.v. star and stage performer.
It's hard to imagine two friends, friends since they were teenagers,
being in Aerosmith, the only band they've been in all their lives.
And they're over sixty and wounding themselves onstage.
They've been at it so long the toys in the attic are all that's left.
Some times, just some times, I feel proud to be a Canadian.
The other article shows why.
