Musician returning to the countryside for two shows with old companions and the challenge of always looking for something new
In the video call, guitarist Joe Perry can’t stop looking to the side. The conversation takes place during a break in rehearsal for the new tour. But it’s as if the music doesn’t stop asking for your attention. There is still a lot to decide, prepare the lineup, find the best versions. “Music is one of those rare art forms that there is a moment and then there isn’t. That’s why playing live is different from the experience of a record or a YouTube video. And it becomes a challenge to find something new every time. ” he says.
Perry will play on Friday 15 in Porto Alegre and on Sunday 17 in São Paulo, in the Samsung Best of Blues & Rock program. He comes to Brazil with the show The Joe Perry projectalongside Gary Cherone (Van Halen), Buck Johnson and Joe Pet (both from Aerosmith) and Chris Wyse (Hollywood Vampires).
“We would have finished a season in Las Vegas with Aerosmith by now,” recalls Perry, 71. But the performances were canceled due to Steven Tyler’s decision to check in for rehab. “I looked at the calendar and I thought: well, this is life. But we got the call to go to Brazil. We looked for the musicians who were available and everything fell into place, it was a bit like the stars were all aligned “.
Earlier in the week, the lineup was still being finalized, but Perry said it will be a mix of many facets. “It’s a blues festival and we wanted to do something instrumental. The show format allows for moments of improvisation and it’s exciting, new,” she explains. “And there are instruments that I never imagined playing live. I think the ones we chose will work well on stage, but of course the audience will tell.”
But Aerosmith songs won’t stay off the show. “I thought we’d be making fun of the audience if we didn’t play something from the band. And there are also things from my next solo work. It’s pretty exciting because we’ve all played together other times, other times, but this is a new adventure.” .
This is Joe Perry’s eighth time in Brazil. He was here with both Aerosmith and the Hollywood Vampires supergroup. The first times still date back to the 70s, when Aerosmith were still taking their first steps.
“The audience is incredible and the energy of the shows … In the ’70s, South America was a big incentive, to receive a band that was still unknown was incredible,” recalls Perry. “Before this trip, there were seven more in Brazil. And that wasn’t enough.”
Aerosmith have been on the road for 50 years since they played their first show at a middle school in Mendon, a small town outside Boston (the story is that Perry’s mother worked at another high school in the area and the received from a friend that the band plays in the gym, charging 75 cents for admission).
What moved the band in the beginning? “Dude, he was very small at first,” Perry jokes. “The only goal we really had was to find five guys who could play together and not kill each other after a month of living together. There were so many talented bands, with so much potential at the time, but they ended up breaking up after that. a little time because of the personalities of the members “.
Not that it was easy. “We managed to be together, but we went through difficult times. It was hard to stop being a group of teenagers in a garage and grow up, start a life outside the band, raise kids. I didn’t have a recipe to follow,” he recalls.
“Every band I’ve loved has ended up breaking up. Elvis didn’t make it. And we’ve lost a lot of people along the way, the 27-year thing. But our vision has stayed the same, and I think that’s why. we still have Steven and the other guys, they all want to be together, play, on stage. I’m playing next week with ZZ Top and I think it’s one of the few bands with the same guys, all of our same age. “
And do you think it’s possible for a new band to emerge that has the meaning Aerosmith had for rock? “There are always new bands, changes in pop music, but I think people still want to hear guitars play loud, drums, rock. Many people today learn by listening to records, but few have seen bands like mine play. live at the time. “
And it’s all, he says, a matter of context. “There may be a new pop song that captures people, artists who will become the most important thing in the world for a few years. But those were different times. We were science classmates that we saw. A hard day’s night on TV and we thought: these guys are having fun! Can’t we do it too? Will there be new Beatles? I do not think so. The setting was perfect. And the consequence of the Beatles were bands like ours “.
All this he says without nostalgia or a trace of criticism. How objective is it when it comes to the future. “We’re nearing the end. The Stones are still there. And people want to hear us live. I hate to say it, but we’re going to die soon.”
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Yohan Kisser
Son of the guitarist, musician and composer Andreas Kisser, of Sepultura, Yohan will perform both in Porto Alegre, at the Parque Farroupilha, and in Sao Paulo, in the external audience of the Ibirapuera Auditorium. he will play
from Frank Zappa and Pink Floyd to Jimi Hendrix and Rush.
Ian – The metal boy
A well-known character on TikTok, the multi-instrumentalist Ian – O Cara do Metal will perform in Porto Alegre at the 9th edition of the Samsung Best of Blues & Rock. He has become famous for bringing rock music closer to his 500,000 followers and will play with Diego Marinho (bass) and Gabriel Martens (drums).
Lan Lan
In San Paolo, in addition to The Joe Perry project and Yohan Kisser, percussionist Lan Lanh also performs at the Ibirapuera, who returns to the stage making the debut of a new solo project. It is an instrumental work inspired by Afro-jazz, in which he will be alongside Guto Menezes (guitar and bass), Toni Costa (guitar), Max Sette (trumpet) and Bidu Cordeiro (trombone).
Source: Terra
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