Billy Idol rumored to sing for Aerosmith

XHonusWagnerX - 1-29-2010 at 05:45 PM

Veteran rocker Billy Idol has become the latest big name rumoured to be in the running to replace Steven Tyler as frontman of Aerosmith.

The band revealed they will be hosting auditions to find a new member while Tyler takes a hiatus, with guitarist Joe Perry insisting the star won't be ready to tour with them until he recovers from a recent stint in rehab and a series of operations.

Lenny Kravitz was the first singer linked to the role, but admitted he would never take over from Tyler, while reports have also suggested former Queen star Paul Rodgers.

Now Idol is rumoured to be in contention, with Classic Rock magazine reporting he was due to meet with the musicians but pulled out after falling sick.

A source tells the publication, "Joe said he wanted to talk to Billy about joining Aerosmith, because the band were having problems with Steven. As far as I know Idol did not show up due to having a cold."

Perry recently admitted they have already talked to a number of singers about replacing Tyler, but refused to divulge any names. He said, "(There's) a few people we've talked to, and we'll see how it goes... As far as auditions go, we'll probably just sit around and have a couple of drinks and see if we get along - because we're already gonna know that they can sing."

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2010/01/29/12665141-wenn-story.htm...

MikeResist - 1-29-2010 at 05:49 PM

Is Aerosmith really Aerosmith without Steven Tyler?? I mean really....

XnMeX - 1-29-2010 at 07:10 PM

Yeah, whats the point?

wez138 - 1-29-2010 at 07:35 PM

Money money money........................ MONEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

clevohardcore - 1-29-2010 at 08:58 PM

WHat happened to S Tyler?

wez138 - 1-29-2010 at 09:10 PM

He busys doing a re-make of he-man.

He'll make a great skeletor.

JawnDiablo - 1-29-2010 at 09:28 PM

stuuuupid

DaveMoral - 1-29-2010 at 09:49 PM

I can't even imagine going to see Aerosmith without Steven Tyler. Would people seriously pay for that? That's like the Stones without Jagger. A good portion of the Stones image is Jagger, all of Aerosmith's image is Tyler.

barc0debaby - 1-29-2010 at 09:51 PM

It brings me joy knowing that I will watch all these rockstars die off during my lifetime.

Mark Lind - 1-30-2010 at 12:07 AM

I wouldn't mind Billy Idol singing for Velvet Revolver. Actually my first pick for that would be Keith Caputo from Life of Agony.

wez138 - 1-30-2010 at 12:48 AM

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I can't even imagine going to see Aerosmith EVER!

M.Alki - 1-30-2010 at 12:49 AM

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Originally posted by Mark Lind
I wouldn't mind Billy Idol singing for Velvet Revolver. Actually my first pick for that would be Keith Caputo from Life of Agony.

I think he actually was asked to audition for that a while back.
I cant remember if was last year or the year before but one of my friends was asked to audition for Velvet Revolver, and a lot of the other people he told me were also asked are a lot of the names being thrown around for this such as Idol and Kravitz.

morgan - 1-30-2010 at 03:43 AM

Fuck Aerosmith.

DaveMoral - 1-30-2010 at 03:46 AM

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I can't even imagine going to see Aerosmith EVER!

Well, yeah, there's that. But for someone who is a fan, why the hell would that hypothetical "you" pay 50-100 bucks to see a band that's not really the band because Tyler isn't there? Makes no sense at all.

wez138 - 1-30-2010 at 04:25 AM

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I can't even imagine going to see Aerosmith EVER!

Because people are morons.

wez138 - 1-30-2010 at 04:26 AM

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Originally posted by morgan
Fuck Aerosmith.

I always wonder how he is liz's dad.

The mind boggles.

DaveMoral - 1-30-2010 at 12:19 PM

It's kind of like all the people that go see the Wailers 30 years after Marley died. I can't imagine going to see them simply because it's going to be someone else singing Bob Marley's songs, and it's not even one of his kids singing it. Or when people were going to see that Doors tour a few years back. What's the fucking point? Some of these bands need to shed the illusion that they mattered as much to the public as their front men.

Even some hardcore bands are in that category now. I can't imagine AF without Miret, for instance.

BKT - 1-30-2010 at 02:33 PM

Who cares Aerosmith is one of the most overrated bands ever. Other then Sweet Emotion I was never really moved by them.

BKT.

panzerkreuzer - 1-30-2010 at 02:39 PM

who cares about aerosmith when the scorpions told that they will quit after the next tour!

DaveMoral - 1-30-2010 at 04:01 PM

I was only ever moved by Rock You Like A Hurricane, so... I don't really care about them either. I'm just more fascinated by the stupidity of people that would go see a band, any band, that basically is embodied by the front man even though said legendary front man is not doing the tour.

I wouldn't go see H2O without Toby, or AF without Roger, or Earth Crisis without Karl, or could you imagine a Warzone "reunion" in a few years??? A tour, no less? Without Raybeez? That wouldn't even be Warzone. The competing Cro-Mags reunions are bad enough.

wez138 - 1-30-2010 at 04:46 PM

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I was only ever moved by Rock You Like A Hurricane, so... I don't really care about them either. I'm just more fascinated by the stupidity of people that would go see a band, any band, that basically is embodied by the front man even though said legendary front man is not doing the tour.

I wouldn't go see H2O without Toby, or AF without Roger, or Earth Crisis without Karl, or could you imagine a Warzone "reunion" in a few years??? A tour, no less? Without Raybeez? That wouldn't even be Warzone. The competing Cro-Mags reunions are bad enough.

I understand the whole front man thing,but harley as great and integral he was to the cro-mags was just the bassist in black and white.

But yeah I would not go to a show when there claiming to be whoever and theres 1 real member left,like discharge are playing tonight the only origianl member left is the drummer.

XHonusWagnerX - 1-31-2010 at 10:49 AM

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Originally posted by DaveMoral

I wouldn't go see H2O without Toby, or AF without Roger, or Earth Crisis without Karl, or could you imagine a Warzone "reunion" in a few years??? A tour, no less? Without Raybeez? That wouldn't even be Warzone. The competing Cro-Mags reunions are bad enough.

I agree with pretty much all of that, but I bet that a lot of people would go to see those bands without the right singers. Like you said it works for the Cro-Mags and it worked or Bad Brains too.

Jason the Magnificent - 1-31-2010 at 01:11 PM

People went to see the DK reunion shows w/o Jello...as far as I'm concerned you should have you punk card revoked if you went to that shit. That's the worst out of all the ones mentioned here x1000.

newbreedbrian - 1-31-2010 at 03:18 PM

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People went to see the DK reunion shows w/o Jello...as far as I'm concerned you should have you punk card revoked if you went to that shit. That's the worst out of all the ones mentioned here x1000.

Agreed. That's beyond ridiculous.

wez138 - 1-31-2010 at 03:53 PM

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Here's my card............

Dublin 2004.

I enjoyed it.

Kiss my arse.

JawnDiablo - 1-31-2010 at 05:09 PM

DK without Jello is like drinkin O'Douls on St Patty's day...it's gay.

Jason the Magnificent - 1-31-2010 at 06:26 PM

Glad you had fun w/ your punk rock cover band. Hopefully soon they'll be on guitar hero so we can all rock out with out cocks out.

Discipline - 1-31-2010 at 06:27 PM

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Originally posted by wez138

I wouldn't go see H2O without Toby, or AF without Roger, or Earth Crisis without Karl, or could you imagine a Warzone "reunion" in a few years??? A tour, no less? Without Raybeez? That wouldn't even be Warzone. The competing Cro-Mags reunions are bad enough.

I understand the whole front man thing,but harley as great and integral he was to the cro-mags was just the bassist in black and white.

Harley did all of the vocals on the "Best Wishes" and "Revenge" albums.

wez138 - 1-31-2010 at 06:57 PM

1)I know, I had a good time because i knew what a big joke it was,and also celebrating st pats day when your not infact irish is gay,because 1 your not irish and 2 YOUR NOT IRISH. Plastic paddys aye.

2)I don't own any guitar hero's games because its a rubbish concept for a game and also i have a girlfriend and know what the outside world looks like.

3)I only own cro-mags albums. (the ones that jj sang on) with it being the real cro-mags.

Jason the Magnificent - 1-31-2010 at 07:08 PM

Got tangents?

DaveMoral - 1-31-2010 at 08:55 PM

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Yeah, that's pretty atrocious.

barc0debaby - 1-31-2010 at 11:13 PM

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2)I don't own any guitar hero's games because its a rubbish concept for a game and also i have a girlfriend and know what the outside world looks like.

Girls love guitar hero....especially drunk ones :thumbup:

clevohardcore - 1-31-2010 at 11:25 PM

first 2 cromags = awesome. The rest not so much.

JawnDiablo - 1-31-2010 at 11:27 PM

I never really even like cromags all that much.
2 songs tops.

BDx13 - 2-1-2010 at 01:13 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_aerosmith

wez138 - 2-1-2010 at 12:50 PM

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Got tangents?

No A.D.D,whats your excuse?

wez138 - 2-1-2010 at 12:59 PM

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2)I don't own any guitar hero's games because its a rubbish concept for a game and also i have a girlfriend and know what the outside world looks like.

Girls love guitar hero....especially drunk ones :thumbup:

Drunk guitar heros?

Vanilla Gorilla - 2-1-2010 at 01:41 PM

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Drunk guitar ho's?

MyOwnWay - 2-3-2010 at 03:35 PM

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like drinkin O'Douls on St Patty's day...it's gay.

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