Joe Perry
Joe Perry
Anthony Joseph Pereira, better known by his stage name Joe Perry, is the lead guitarist, backing and occasional lead vocalist, and contributing songwriter for the American rock band Aerosmith. He was ranked 84th in Rolling Stone's list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. In 2001, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Aerosmith, and in 2013, Perry and his songwriting partner Steven Tyler were recipients of the ASCAP Founders Award and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth10 September 1950
CountryUnited States of America
I think one of the most valuable things Aerosmith has is the energy we produce when we all play together.
I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.
I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.
I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.
There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.
I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back.
Sometimes when a record's done, I'm satisfied and I won't listen back to it for a while 'cause I'm usually pretty tired of the songs. Then I've got to learn them again to play them live, and sometimes it takes a while to realise it's a really good record.
A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.
Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive.
Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.
For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.
Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.
I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.
I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.