When Aerosmith embarks on their 50th anniversary and farewell tour later this year, the one thing they won’t be doing is playing any of their albums in their entirety.
Asked about in Kerrang, Joe Perry says, “The closest we ever got to that was doing a version of Toys in the Attic front-to-back, but after we tried it a couple of times live, we realized that to maintain the energy of the show we’d have to drop a couple of songs out. It wasn’t exciting enough, for me.
“There are other songs that people would rather get to hear than being able to say they saw that album played in full. Any time you perform, you’ve got to treat it as the one time you get to play in front of that audience. You don’t know when you’re going to be back.”
Aerosmith start their Peace Out tour on September 2nd in Philadelphia.
Among the artists who have performed albums in their entirety are Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers, Styx, Bruce Springsteen, Cheap Trick, John Fogerty and The Moody Blues.
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