Steven Tyler New Album: Aerosmith Lead Singer Says He Has ‘Itch’ To Create Solo Record, Soon Inducted Into Hollywood Bowl Hall Of Fame
Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry will be inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame on Saturday and in an interview with Rolling Stone about the honor, Tyler said he would soon get to work on the first solo album of his career.
Tyler put out a single, "(It) Feels So Good," in 2011 but he has never done a full-fledged solo record. Apparently, that is about to change.
Here's what Tyler said to Rolling Stone about the endeavor:
"You have a few U.S. dates on the horizon. Where does Aerosmith go from here?
Joe has done, like, four solo albums. I never have, though with lyrics and arrangements and so forth a lot of Aerosmith albums are just fine for me. It's cathartic. But I had a lot of fun doing '(It) Feels So Good.' I wrote that with Marti Frederiksen. I've got this itch in me to do a solo record, and that's what I'm gonna do next. I've got some great people that want to get involved in it. It's early on right now, but that's the itch I got. I got that itch to do something that's a lot different than Aerosmith. Aerosmith's never been better, but we did that album. This last album was an Aerosmith all-for-one-and-one-for-all. But my heart is in stuff like that weirder, off-the-cuff stuff that I'm not sure Aerosmith would like. I'm into electronica - I was when I used to listen to Stockhausen in '65. So there's just a lot of stuff - good, weird f*cking music that I want to get off my chest. The band will be playing, and we're going to China and Singapore. It's gonna open up a whole new world for Aerosmith. So Aerosmith will always be around, but I got this itch and I know how to scratch it."