An Older Aerosmith Still Groping Through Tensions
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lifestyle THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2014 Music & Movies An older Aerosmith still groping through tensions he rock music world is notorious for its bick- just fighting all the time, to put the personal stuff ‘Walk This Way’ ering but Aerosmith belongs to another cate- aside, and let our differences as far as the music go Aerosmith enjoyed a career renaissance starting Tgory altogether-a band with constant and work for us, instead of being a point of contention,” in the mid-1980s with songs such as “Janie’s Got a open tensions that has nonetheless managed to Perry said. Perry isn’t sure whether he and Tyler will Gun,” “Love in an Elevator” and “Dude (Looks Like a stay together. The friction between guitarist Joe ever talk about the guitarist’s book. But, Perry said, Lady).” The resurgence started through a then Perry and singer Steven Tyler shows no signs of he expects it will be “business as usual” the next unlikely source-the 1986 collaboration “Walk this mellowing with age, with the two Boston rockers time they meet. Way” with Run-DMC, one of the earliest hip-hop both releasing tell-all books that portray each oth- groups to enjoy mainstream success. Perry said er in a less than flattering light. Since his memoir Not just sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll that the famed producer Rick Rubin persuaded “Rocks” came out in October, Perry says he has only Perry, raised in a small town in Massachusetts, Run-DMC to work with the hard rockers after initial exchanged text messages with his bandmate of 40 said he generally stayed with one woman at a time. hesitation. years. “That’s what I saw when I was growing up and it “They weren’t jumping up and down about this,” “It kind of bounced back and forth a bit. He got just seemed natural to me. I didn’t really have this Perry said of Run-DMC. “They were keen to be get- about a third of the way through the book and said need to prove myself, to bring more notches to my ting away from electric guitars, and they were he liked it, and then I didn’t hear from him, but pistol so to speak,” he said. “I was the odd man out working with a whole different paradigm.” But obviously he finished it,” Perry told AFP. Perry said because I wasn’t into that kind of lifestyle. But I was Perry hailed the lasting influence of “Walk This Way.” he had fully expected Tyler, who criticized his always a loner anyway, so it didn’t bother me Through the video, Run-DMC became one of the bandmate in his own book in 2011, to take excep- much.” Perry returns to his family roots on a new first hip hop acts to enjoy prominence on MTV, tion to parts of the memoir that portray the singer solo EP of Christmas songs, performing holiday where white artists had dominated. The song’s as controlling and self-promoting. classics that he enjoyed as a child. combination of rap and rock guitars is now itself a Among the allegations, Perry says that Tyler The Hollywood star Johnny Depp lent him a stu- mainstream sound favored by many hip hop and used to make a habit of stealing and that several dio to record “Joe Perry’s Merry Christmas” and electronic artists. “If there is anything we have done years ago he quietly tried out-unsuccessfully to wound up joining on rhythm guitar for a version of over the years that has contributed to the legacy of sing for a reunited Led Zeppelin. Perry said he Chuck Berry’s “Run Run Rudolph.” Perry said that music... that collaboration is one of them that I’m knew from the first time they met that he and Tyler Depp “really added some flavor” both artistically most proud of,” Perry said. — AFP had differences but that they had found a way to and by allowing a live recording of the song, as work together after splitting in the late 1970s. Perry would otherwise have played both guitar This September 28, 2013 file photo shows US singler Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of “We had to figure out a new dynamic instead of parts and mixed them. Aerosmith as they perform during a concert in Caracas, Venezuela. — AFP Hungarian Roma sues Beyonce over smash hit Hungarian singer from the Roma community is lawsuit did not set an amount, Mitsou estimated that her suing Beyonce over the smash hit “Drunk in Love,” voice was present on 29 percent of the song by the couple, Asaying the superstar sampled a folk tune without who are multimillionaires. permission. The song off Beyonce’s Grammy-nominated Mitsou has developed a niche following among fans of self-titled album begins with an Eastern-sounding a cap- Roma music, including as a member of the band Ando pella voice that gradually fades out after around 40 sec- Drom. The lawsuit said her voice was “widely considered onds as a pop beat, keyboards and Beyonce’s voice come unique and ethereal.” Mitsou has collaborated on the films in. In a lawsuit filed in a New York court, Monika Juhasz of Tony Gatlif, a French director of Roma heritage, including Miczura-who performs under the name Mitsou-said that on “Gadjo Dilo” which in 1999 won France’s Cesar national the snippet was a digitally altered version of her 1995 film award for music. Beyonce and Jay-Z did not immedi- recording of “Bajba, Bajba Pelem,” a song that she learned ately comment on the lawsuit. Beyonce suddenly released from her grandmother. the album and accompanying videos in December 2013 on The suit said that the song was traditional to the Roma, iTunes with no previous publicity. “Beyonce” has since sold also known as Gypsies, and was “about hopelessness, when some five million copies worldwide and is nominated for one can no longer trust anyone but her own mother and the Grammy Album of the Year. — AFP God.” By contrast, “Drunk In Love” features Beyonce and her rapper husband Jay-Z as they sing of their marital bliss. The lawsuit said that Beyonce and Jay-Z did not seek permis- sion and exploited the Roma song “to evoke foreign eroti- cism alongside the sexually intense lyrics.” Mitsou, who said she learned of her song’s alleged use on the year-old album when friends contacted her, charged in the lawsuit that the “blatant unauthorized use” of her voice is “causing irreparable harm and emotional dis- tress.” The lawsuit seeks an injunction on further “exploita- tion” of Mitsou’s voice as well as compensation. While the Beyonce Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel Gov’t Mule covers Pink Timberlake, Biel Floyd on new live album hen you’re playing music for 20 years with 14-minute blocks. the caveat that no two shows will ever be The magic with this collection lies in how well it expecting first child Wthe same, you had better write a lot of honors the original material, without sounding like music, or cover some great songs. Gov’t Mule does a bunch of tired old covers. Thank guitar virtuoso eartthrob couple Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are both pretty well, most notably during a Halloween Warren Haynes, and the tight unit behind him for expecting their first child, Timberlake’s former band- concert in Boston back in 2008. For that marathon holding their own with Floyd’s rich soundscapes. Hmate says. Joey Fatone, who performed with show, the jam band played some of their own The band stays faithful to the arrangements, with Timberlake in the boy band ‘NSync, confirmed Biel’s long- songs, then covered Pink Floyd in the next two sets. Haynes showing deep respect for David Gilmour’s rumored pregnancy in an interview released yesterday. “He The album title is a play on words, obviously refer- guitar work, though he does occasionally go off on told me a while ago, and I kept my mouth shut,” Fatone told In ring to Pink Floyd’s seminal 1973 album, “Dark Side some bluesy interludes of his own. Given the fact Touch Weekly. “Jessica is awesome, and Justin is a kid at heart,” of the Moon,” and while that record is nicely repre- the band doesn’t like to repeat shows, this live he was quoted as telling the magazine. sented here, the 14 songs of varying lengths include recording may be the closest you get to hearing Timberlake, 33, made his start as a child television star an abbreviated version of the “Dark Side” album that them cover Pink Floyd. — AP before joining ‘NSync. He more recently has become one of goes from “Breathe (in the Air)” to “Money,” but it’s the music industry’s most popular solo singers and has starred the more intense versions of “Comfortably Numb,” in movies including the Facebook-themed drama “The Social and “One of These Days,” and even the more Network.” Timberlake in 2012 married Biel, 32, who has found obscure, “Fearless” that stand out. And they even success both on television and in film. — AFP play the epic “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” in two ‘Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ commands $11.2m he Hobbit: The Battle of the Five “An Unexpected Journey,” kicked off to $84.6 Armies” marched into theaters million in 2012 and the second chapter, “The “TTuesday night, picking up a formi- Desolation of Smaug,” earned $73.6 million in dable $11.2 million in pre-shows.