Aerosmith producer weighs in on band future after…
Can we dream on?
Aerosmith producer Jack Douglas — who was behind the boards for the band’s best-selling album, 1975’s “Toys in the Attic” — remains to be holding out hope that it’s not the top for the group after Steven Tyler’s vocal-cord damage pressured them to cancel the rest of their Peace Out: The Farewell Tour in 2024.
He’s nonetheless wishing that the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers can exit with a bang.
Steven Tyler launched Aerosmith’s Peace Out: The Farewell Tour in Philadelphia in September 2023. Amy Harris/Invision/AP
“I hope so,” Douglas advised The Post. “I don’t know, I hear rumors. But I’m sure that they would love to, you know?”
Last August, Aerosmith introduced that they have been retiring from touring as a result of of Tyler’s vocal damage, with the singer fracturing his larynx during an early show on the farewell trek in September 2023 at Long Island’s UBS Arena.
“As you know, Steven’s voice is an instrument like no other,” Aerosmith wrote in an Instagram post. “He has spent months tirelessly working on getting his voice to where it was before his injury. We’ve seen him struggling despite having the best medical team by his side.”
“Sadly, it is clear that a full recovery from his vocal injury is not possible,” the assertion continued. “We have made a heartbreaking and difficult, but necessary, decision — as a band of brothers — to retire from the touring stage.”
But Douglas, who started producing Aerosmith on 1974’s “Get Your Wings” LP and continued by 1982’s “Rock in a Hard Place” album, refuses to imagine that that candy emotion is gone endlessly — even when Aerosmith isn’t enjoying collectively as a band anymore.
Steven Tyler rocked out with Joe Perry during the UBS Arena show the place he fractured his larynx in September 2023. Getty Images
“I mean, Joe [Perry] is gonna keep rocking,” he mentioned of the Aerosmith guitarist who continues to carry out solo and with the supergroup Hollywood Vampires.
Likewise, Tom Hamilton — who co-wrote “Sweet Emotion” on “Toys in the Attic” — remains to be plucking that bass. “Tom’s got a band, Close Enemies,” mentioned Douglas.
“I mean, these guys want to keep playing.”
“There is no Aerosmith without Steven,” mentioned Jack Douglas of the band’s lead singer, who attended the Jam for Janie Grammy viewing get together in February. Getty Images for Janie’s Fund
And the spirit of Aerosmith can be alive in the following era.
“I’ve been doing records recently with [drummer] Joey Kramer’s son, Jesse Kramer,” mentioned Douglas. “I mean, he’s incredible, an amazing drummer. I’ve been working with a group called SilverPlanes, and he’s in the band.”
And Douglas’ own son, John, performed with Aerosmith during the band’s Deuces Are Wild Las Vegas residency from 2019 to 2022.
Jack Douglas produced Aerosmith’s best-selling “Toys in the Attic” album, launched 50 years in the past on Aug. 8, 1975. Getty Images
“I’ll tell. you, the residency that they did in Vegas was really amazing,” he mentioned. “It was fun going to the gig.”
But the fact is that Aerosmith — which launched “Toys in the Attic” 50 years in the past on April 8, 1975 — simply doesn’t exist with out Tyler.
“There is no Aerosmith without Steven,” mentioned Douglas. “So if Steven can sing, believe me, he’ll want to be out there.”
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