Sweet Emotion! Joe Perry Celebrates Birthday With Aerosmith, Slash at Yahoo Live Gig Ageless Aerosmith axman Joe Perry incredibly turned 64 Tuesday evening at midnight, and he rang in his big birthday in a rockin manner that men a third his age could only dream [on] about: onstage at Detroits DTE Energy Music Theatre, getting serenaded by Steven Tyler and Slash, during a concert streamed worldwide on Yahoo Live. Heres to hell — may we have as much fun there as we had getting there! Tyler declared to his fellow Toxic Twin of 44 years, as a rock n roll cake was wheeled out for the occasion. The celebratory moment was reminiscent of the time when Perry surprised Tyler with a Happy Birthday singalong on American Idol Season 11 — proving that, despite the notorious rock twosomes many ups and downs over the decades, there is still a lot of sweet emotion between them. But then, it was back to rockin, as Slash (Aerosmiths opening act on this years aptly named Let Rock Rule tour) joined in for a ferocious performance of Aerosmiths 1973 barnstormer Mama Kin. This too was a nostalgic moment of sorts, as Mama Kin was an early cover-song favorite of Slashs old band, Guns N Roses; it appeared on their 1986 indie concert EP Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide and was re-released on 1988s hit compilation GNR Lies. The entire concert was one big nonstop party of hits, hits, hits, from 70s classics (Toys in the Attic, No More No More, Walk This Way); to 80s hair-metal jams and power ballads (Love in an Elevator, Rag Doll, Livin on the Edge, Cryin); to a couple well-chosen cover songs of their own (Fleetwood Macs Stop Messin Around and the Beatles Come Together). And through it all, Tyler too was a great ageless wonder. All gussied up in feathers n leather (and a codpiece that could make Cameos Larry Blackmon blush), the 66-year-old Demon of Screamin belted, belched, and worked the Yahoo Live camera lens so aggressively, he couldve taught even Tyra Banks a thing or two about smizing. As the show neared its epic ending and he banged out Dream On on his white piano, he may have been singing about all these lines on my face getting clearer, but he did so with the same vitality he had when he first wrote and performed the ballad in his mid-twenties. The party train kept a rollin even as the show finally ended, as Tyler and Perry strutted side-by-side to the backstage area, Tylers face warpainted with what looked like Day-Glo birthday cake frosting as he continued to work the camera and lip-synch to Muddy Waters Mannish Boy. It truly was the perfect exit music for such perpetually youthful band. https://music.yahoo/blogs/live/sweet-emotion--joe-perry-celebrates-birthday-with-aerosmith--slash-at-yahoo-live-gig-035426054.html
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 11:46:29 +0000
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